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A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
…that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
February 2023
Participating in programming languages evolution during interesting times
What it takes to be a Ruby core member during the war in your country, and why I am still doing it
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
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January 2023
It is not what you expect, but it is what you want: how Data#initialize is designed
A curios core class design decision made for happier coding
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
December 2022
What not to forget when implementing a pattern-matching in Ruby for custom objects
Trivial yet easy to mess up a set of things to consider, demonstrated on the latest core classes Time/Date.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
July 2022
February 2022
How I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed (because the old one worked fine)
A slightly unusual story of a fail I am not too angry with
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
January 2022
Wikipedia and irregular data: how much can you fetch in one expression?
Using the idea of a phrase-level expressiveness to design a succinct and unobtrusive query language
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
Programming language evolution: with all that, we are still flying
Final part of adventures in understanding, explaining, and challenging the facts that should be obvious.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally
Further adventures in understanding, explaining, and challenging the facts that should be obvious
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
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What you can learn by merely writing a programming language changelog
Adventures in understanding, explaining, and challenging the facts that should be obvious
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
December 2021
Grok {Shan, Shui}*: second attempt
With links working this time!
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
I spent 24 days digging into the code of {Shan, Shui}* Chinese painting generator and lived to tell the story.
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok
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