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“Gilded Rose” refactoring kata in Ruby — as if it is 2024
A “stories-first” approach to refactor a small yet complicated piece of business code
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

July 2024

How it became like this? Ruby’s Range class
Understanding the core class design and usage via its evolution
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

June 2024

Vignettes on language evolution: discovering an old syntax feature history
One Ruby thing I never noticed before
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
The design decisions and evolution of a method definition - Ruby case study
Episode 01 of studying Ruby programming language design decisions, how they evolved with time, and how they look in a wider context.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

May 2024

The things I haven't wrote, and the things I want to write (back to Ruby
On getting back to writing technical texts after three months of silence
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

February 2024

ChatGPT have killed my passion project and I am fine
Part 1: Welcome to reality
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

January 2024

The end of “Useless Ruby sugar”: On intuitions and evolutions
I wrote the analysis of “useless sugar” features of Ruby for two months, and I regret nothing.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
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December 2023

The making of Ruby Changes: A boring advent
A diary of preparing Ruby 3.3's annotated changelog throughout the December of 2023.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
Advent of Ruby Changelog: Week 2
A diary of preparing Ruby 3.3's annotated changelog.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
Advent of Ruby Changelog: Week 1
A diary of preparing Ruby 3.3's annotated changelog.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
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“Useless Ruby sugar”: Endless (one-line) methods
Or, about the virtue of exactly one phrase.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

November 2023

“Useless Ruby sugar”: Argument forwarding
Or, how the feature that allows to write less names might make the code more explicit.
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