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Tim Fischbach

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Software developer. Building @pageflow.io / https://www.pageflow.io/

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Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

Wonder what this classic means for the constant code review we do when working with AI and the push towards having agents make larger changes on their own.

Screenshot of tweet from @iamdevloper from Nov 5, 2013:

10 lines of code = 10 issues.

500 lines of code = "looks fine."

Code reviews.

June 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

To easily restore a consistent setup, I've defined a couple of project specific commands that open a predefined set of terminal buffers in certain working directories, give the buffers helpful names and store them in registers.

github.com/tf/prelude/b...

Code screenshot from https://github.com/tf/prelude/blob/personal/personal/preload/worksspaces.el#L20-L33

December 21, 2024 at 11:26 PM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

Yeah, with the above I tried to approximate something like this:

module M
def mm
ppp
end

local

def ppp
puts "ppp in M"
end
end

December 20, 2024 at 9:50 AM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

For reference, this is the problem the above idea tries to "solve" 😉

module M
def mm
ppp
end

private

def ppp
puts "ppp in M"
end
end

module N
def nn
ppp
end

private

def ppp
puts "ppp in N"
end
end

class C
include M
include N
end

C.new.mm # => prints "ppp in N"
C.new.nn # => prints "ppp in N"

December 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

I think I may have come up with the most cursed way to implement that in userland 😅

module Locals
def self.extended(m)
m.module_eval do
refine self do; end
end
end

def local(&block)
refine self do
class_exec(&block)
end
end
end

module M
using extend Locals

def mm
ppp
end

local do
def ppp
puts "ppp in M"
end
end
end

module N
using extend Locals

def nn
ppp
end

local do
def ppp
puts "ppp in N"
end
end
end

class C
include M
include N
end

C.new.mm # => prints "ppp in M"
C.new.nn # => prints "ppp in N"

December 20, 2024 at 8:24 AM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

This then pairs well with something like github.com/charkost/pro... to find N+1 queries. I especially like how this black-box testing approach gives us the freedom to use the full expressive power of the preloading API.

Screenshot of https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/4eccad2cd111d187fbd601f53545fa478b2fdb2d/spec/helpers/pageflow/hreflang_links_helper_spec.rb#L31-L33nplus

Screenshot of https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/4eccad2cd111d187fbd601f53545fa478b2fdb2d/spec/support/config/prosopite.rb#L15-L19

December 13, 2024 at 1:11 PM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

Let the query method take a proc as parameter and apply it to the right association chain via `instance_exec`. This gives you a flexible chaining API to adapt the query as needed.

Screenshot of https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/4eccad2cd111d187fbd601f53545fa478b2fdb2d/app/helpers/pageflow/hreflang_links_helper.rb#L12

Screenshot of https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/4eccad2cd111d187fbd601f53545fa478b2fdb2d/entry_types/scrolled/app/views/pageflow_scrolled/entry_json_seed/_entry_translations.json.jbuilder#L2

December 13, 2024 at 1:11 PM

Tim Fischbach

@tfischbach.bsky.social

#RealCodeFriday When building query objects or methods that perform more intricate queries, I often find myself wanting to preload different data based on where the query is used. Here's one approach that has been working well for me: