eightbitraptor.bsky.social
@eightbitraptor.bsky.social
Ruby core committer. Builds Keyboards. MiniDisc, Fountain Pen and Void Linux enthusiast. Drinks too much coffee.

日本語を勉強しています。でもまだ上手じゃないです。助けてください!😅
Hope it's a great gig! They're lucky to have you.

Will you be at Kaigi next year?
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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How glib and superficial and frankly ignorant can you be to dismiss this. How dare you suggest that France and Germany being close allies and friends is a small or even (in the words of many British colleagues) “weird“ and dispensable achievement.

I have had enough of it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Super looking forward to joining you at BelfastRuby at somepoint Nick ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Hi @ufuk.dev, The article is live here: dev.to/hinokami_dev...

Thank you @byroot.bsky.social for the detailed feedback. Your insights on interning and hashing made it much stronger.
Why Ruby Devs Keep Mixing Up Symbols and Frozen Strings; and How to Tell Them Apart
Every time Ruby developers start talking about # frozen_string_literal: true, someone inevitably...
dev.to
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm not familiar with Kotlin or it's docs, but kotlinx-knit makes me think of org-babel and literate programming. And I am very much in favour of the literate approach, especially for documentation and config.

github.com/eightbitrapt...
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The most valuable part of docs is the example. The worst part of an example is if it is wrong.

A doc test solves both these problems.

I want a default gem that all libraries can use. A standard for shipping examples with docs that are guaranteed to work
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Hugely deserved Stan 👏
October 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM