rdoherty

2026-03-13 10:22

Submitted: "Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations"

1 points0 commentssimonwillison.net

PR from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke against Liquid, Shopify's open source Ruby template engine that was somewhat inspired by Django when Tobi first created it back in 2005. Tobi found …

2026-03-13 3:55

Submitted: "Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues"

2 points1 commentsgithub.blog

We understand the impact outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.

2026-03-12 4:31

Commented: "Returning to Rails in 2026"

It's not just the untyped problems, the runtime definitions of functions, properties, etc make it nearly impossible to debug unless you have the state of your production data locally. (Or you ssh into your prod server and open up a REPL, load the state and introspect everything there). Good luck debugging locally in a nice IDE. It's a horrific nightmare. I use to love Ruby until I had to debug it live.

2026-03-11 3:11

Submitted: "Chasing Boring at Just the Right Speed"

2 points0 commentslog.andvari.net

Asking the Right Questions A while back when I was looking for a fulltime gig (and when I was contracting, of course), I had the opportunity to do a bunch of interviews (including the kind of...

2026-02-26 9:34

Submitted: "Block to lay off nearly half its staff in 'deliberate and bold' embrace of AI"

9 points2 comments

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Submitted: "Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations"

Submitted: "Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues"

Commented: "Returning to Rails in 2026"

Submitted: "Chasing Boring at Just the Right Speed"

Submitted: "Block to lay off nearly half its staff in 'deliberate and bold' embrace of AI"

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