Finished my second week at Shopify. Exhilarated and exhausted. I need to slow down. Yes, I'm running Roundhouse against Shopify Core and making progress. Shopify is now sponsoring CI runners for Roundhouse.
youtube.com/watch?v=kSj6y5…
youtube.com/watch?v=kSj6y5…
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Sam Ruby retweeted
A manager once told me to quit.
Today, I'm an official collaborator on roundhouse-rb with @samruby.
I’m not a programming genius. But I embraced AI, dropped the ego, and focused on progress.
Believe in yourself. Build. Create a better world.
Today, I'm an official collaborator on roundhouse-rb with @samruby.
I’m not a programming genius. But I embraced AI, dropped the ego, and focused on progress.
Believe in yourself. Build. Create a better world.
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Sam Ruby retweeted
more true than ever
A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.
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New site for Roundhouse: roundhouse-rb.dev
Not a fan of the AI-generated prose? As ESR put it, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." Consider this yours. PRs welcome: github.com/rubys/roundhou…
Not a fan of the AI-generated prose? As ESR put it, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." Consider this yours. PRs welcome: github.com/rubys/roundhou…
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I've been a casual contributor to @yukihiro_matz’s Spinel project, so I made a single page intro to the parts I found most interesting:
- What it does
- How it performs
- Its development pace
st0012.dev/spinel?v=1
- What it does
- How it performs
- Its development pace
st0012.dev/spinel?v=1
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A little fun on the dance floor: Witchcraft youtu.be/CXJuBtr7aOg?si…
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This weekend I plan to move github.com/rubys/roundhou… to github.com/roundhouse-rb/ ; once done, I'll file the internal paperwork so that Shopify will sponsor GitHub hosted premium runners for CI.
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Trust me, it is even more surprising when YOUR random project on GitHub is on the receiving end of a @tobi PR or issue comment. github.com/rubys/roundhou…
Always surprising to see @tobi's name pop up in the contributors list of some random project on Github. One of the few public CEOs clearly in it for the love of the game.
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A cache that hits on every request in a benchmark can hit on almost none in production - Benchmarking Campfire with Many Users - intertwingly.net/blog/2026/10/2…
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Sam Ruby retweeted
Heaven is where the compile speed is from Go, the safety from Rust, the performance from C++, the libraries from Python, the macros from Lisp, the stability from Java, the types from Haskell, the ubiquity from JavaScript, and the error handling from Elm.
Hell is where the compile speed is from Rust, the safety from C++, the performance from Python, the libraries from Lisp, the macros from Java, the stability from Haskell, the types from JavaScript, the ubiquity from Elm, and the error handling from Go.
Hell is where the compile speed is from Rust, the safety from C++, the performance from Python, the libraries from Lisp, the macros from Java, the stability from Haskell, the types from JavaScript, the ubiquity from Elm, and the error handling from Go.
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What the Campfire Benchmark Measures: intertwingly.net/blog/2026/10/2…
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Sam Ruby retweeted
Transpiler update:
Compiling an internal Rails API into a single native binary with #roundhouse + #Spinel.
Today: 16 PRs merged upstream, 6 issues filed.
• Binary builds ✅
• Gaps the compiler can't model: 39 → 25 (−36%)
• 111/173 routes answer like Rails
• Mastodon as a 2nd test app: 65 → 60 gaps
Compiling an internal Rails API into a single native binary with #roundhouse + #Spinel.
Today: 16 PRs merged upstream, 6 issues filed.
• Binary builds ✅
• Gaps the compiler can't model: 39 → 25 (−36%)
• 111/173 routes answer like Rails
• Mastodon as a 2nd test app: 65 → 60 gaps
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Sam Ruby retweeted
Just released Prism v2.0.0.
For the first time ever, Prism has no open issues, PRs, discussions, or redmine tickets.
A couple of highlights below.
For the first time ever, Prism has no open issues, PRs, discussions, or redmine tickets.
A couple of highlights below.
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I did a thing.
Sam Ruby has helped shape the web for decades, and @GregMolnar and I got an hour with him on episode 3 of the @PingbackPodcast.
I'm extremely honored. Thanks, @samruby.
pingbackpodcast.com/episodes/episo…
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You can find the Dockerfile that can be used to deploy Campfire here: rubys.github.io/roundhouse/app…
We talked about Roundhouse and Spinel on the pod last week with @joelga and @RaulOnRails. Spoiler alert, we will be talking about it again tomorrow! Stay tuned!
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