Elegant types in Ruby. Contribute to low-rb/low_type development by creating an account on GitHub.

Loved this post from Joan Westenberg (https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/smart-people-don-t-chase-goals-they-create-limits), about the limitations of goals: The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning. That makes it wildly appealing to organizations, executives, and knowledge workers who want to feel like they're doing something without doing anything unpredictable. And the liberation of constraints:

The following is an excerpt from Executive Engineering.   “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in The Little Prince   Each company draws its own ...

To make sure your team isn’t constantly alerted for conditions it can’t correct, start talking about unit vs integration SLOs.

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software...

Programs are more complicated than projects which are more complicated than milestones. Instead of projects, focus on milestonesMost engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. You can…

This post describes the new modular garbage collection feature in Ruby 3.4: The ability to override Ruby’s GC at runtime. We also introduce our first concrete alternative GC implementation, based on t...