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• Ruby Insights, Learning Journey, and Cultural Exploration

  While reading the Advent of Prism about the new Ruby parser that’s now been integrated into runtimes and tooling I came across something that I had overlooked:

  Numbers such as 010 are treated by Ruby as Octal by default

• Blocks Procs and Lambdas

  Ruby has three types of anonymous functions: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas.

• The Sacred Graal of Editors

  In my last post I said that I wanted to be more technical and so be it. But in a different way and not “so technical”: I won’t talk about classes, methods, modules, mixin or some other Ruby related stuff. I’m going to write about my journey in search of my “almost perfect” editor.

• A few misses

  It’s been a while since the last post but I had a couple of things that took me away from writing: A Christmas concert with the choir and my job which is highly demanding in this period. More, I was finding difficult to find a good subject so I guess that sometimes is it ok to put out something that I found interesting? I guess so even if I’m not that sure about it, but at least it keeps the flow going.

• To Feed or not Too Feed

  Recently I started reading about the Indie Web movement, which is a people-focused alternative to the corporate owned one, and it really struck a chord.
  Principles like owning your content and being in control of what gets published are the things that got me started trying to understand how to build websites and to become a web developer.
  And after many years trying to use different platforms such as Wordpress, Medium, Dev etc. I went back to the most simple stuff: HTML, CSS and a simple RSS Feed - Atom to be honest.