zverok on lucid code

Notes on code, text, and war. Week 2: If code is text, then what?

Last time, I’ve highlighted “treating code as text” idea as something that I want dedicate a few posts to. Let’s talk in generalities some more this…

Jun 21 • 

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Notes on code, text, and war. Week 1: Believing in text

Writing texts is the most useful and fruitful metaphor for software development.

Jun 11 • 

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January 2025

Seven things I know after 25 years of development

The transcript of the talk given at EuRuKo'24

Jan 27 • 

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The short outburst of activity during Ruby Changelog preparation—2025 edition

On making the Ruby Changes, and some consequences of this work

Jan 6 • 

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November 2024

Elixir-like pipes in Ruby (oh no not again)

On a new approach to implement that long-envied feature

Nov 16, 2024 • 

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October 2024

There is no such thing as a global method (in Ruby)

What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced

Oct 20, 2024 • 

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On programming and poetry (not Python’s tool)

Some thoughts on how programming’s unlikely relations to poetry, and some implications of those relations

Oct 5, 2024 • 

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September 2024

“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

Sep 18, 2024 • 

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July 2024

How it became like this? Ruby’s Range class

Understanding the core class design and usage via its evolution

Jul 25, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Vignettes on language evolution: discovering an old syntax feature history

One Ruby thing I never noticed before

Jun 30, 2024 • 

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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.

Jun 13, 2024 • 

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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

May 12, 2024 • 

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