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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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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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Advent of Ruby Changelog: Week 2
A diary of preparing Ruby 3.3's annotated changelog.
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Advent of Ruby Changelog: Week 1
A diary of preparing Ruby 3.3's annotated changelog.
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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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Language, perception, and empathy: Ukrainian's gaze
(Notes to the talk rejected by RubyConf)
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“Useless Ruby sugar”: Keyword argument and hash values omission
How the small syntactical simplification of allowing to omit values when they names are the same as keys affects code design and structure.
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“Useless Ruby sugar”: Pattern matching (Pt. 3/3)
The final part of the article about pattern matching in Ruby, putting it in a broader context of the industry state, possible future usages, and a…
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Victor Shepelev aka zverok

October 2023

“Useless Ruby sugar”: Pattern matching (Pt. 2
...or, “but mah polymorphism and encapsulation!”
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“Useless Ruby sugar”: Pattern matching (Pt. 1)
They said “...just switch to the language that already has it, would you?”
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