Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan

Freelance Ruby on Rails Backend Developer. Loves maintenance and fixing technical debt. Pragmatic idealist. He/him. Business email: [email protected]

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@websymphony @dhh I think some folks have a lot of ego tied up in external things, such as cloud computing. When someone such as DHH makes noise about things that makes sense for him, those folks will see this as an attack on something their ego is wrapped up in, and thus they get triggered hard.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@bexsayswords I loved Exilecon 2019 as attendee. This time I’m staying home and I’m loving the production quality of the streams for this one. Thanks to the team for nailing it.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@BretDevereaux What is or is not done on a CV on average is based on average folks. Average folks don’t run a successful blog with crowd funding. I’d say the average rules simply not apply to you in this regard. List it, maybe even for multiple years to indicate this is a consistent thing.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@forrestbrazeal VBA I think, as part of a MS Access tool to automate the invoicing for my parents’ company back in ‘99. Got to pick a new book as a reward, which got me started with Linux. Learned a lot of fundamentals that helped me in my career since then.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@ericqweinstein @searls That sounds like a seriously bad idea. That guy should not have a platform.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@Soldak This definitely works and is fun. Older Elder Scrolls games allowed this. @pathofexile does some of this with passive skills mutating active skills. @NollaGames Noita has it as a core component of spells.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@danielriversuk @luca_cloud Probably omits taxes and healthcare, social security and pension costs.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

“Tests slow me down” he says as he refreshes his browser and fills the form in again for the 15th time today.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

You think that after about 15 years of using git, you can easily make it NOT ignore a file... right? Well, if the file is nested inside an ignored subdirectory you can't just directly add it with "!/path/to/file". Real life events inspired my blog post: https://t.co/hsGh1ru5Pk

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@gregorywitek I wonder if it needs to become even harder to hire new folks: then losing the people you have will become more painful. Companies that have good retention policies will likely set the trend for future generation of companies. Without a hiring crisis… you’re left with idealism.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@jeremysmithco @joemasilotti One of my “I should really look into this one day” things has been to see if fixtures can serve as a reliable pre-seeded DB setup, with factory bot then facilitating the reliable creation of one or two objects specific for the test.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@JasonSwett I’m a bit torn on this one. Doing research yourself for 15-30 minutes is fine, but it’s usually better to ask a colleague who has a large shared context with you than to pose questions that require more context on the public internet. I’ve seen juniors copy private code to SO 😅

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@strzibnyj Yes, the moment I add a http library I add VCR. I definitely don’t want to make love HTTP calls during my CI runs, and recording + adjusting cassettes allows me to test multiple responses when manipulating a remote server state to obtain them would be much harder.

[Ruby Inside @RubyInside]

Making Popular Ruby Packages More Secure: https://t.co/5cRublnRIq

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@smeevil @Blizzard_Ent Blizzard chose to not give you that option by not selling in NL and BE, rather than toning it down (sensible option) or adding verification and complying with gambling law (I suspect too honest for them).

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

Groupie v0.6.0 has been released! 🎉
https://t.co/C7q8uoKw4U
🤔 What is it? A ruby gem to do text classification using a Bayesian approach.
📢 What has changed? Dropped Ruby 2.6 support (it's EOL) and improved tokenization of URLs.

[Wes "Narnach" Oldenbeuving-den Haan @Narnach]

@andy_matuschak This plus the earlier points (feeling pressure to move on, to perform) is why I chose producing YouTube videos over live streams. Async access to video is great. With video you can hit pause, go on a walk, return and continue recording. You can edit out what doesn’t work.