Blake Williams

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[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

For anyone curious, https://t.co/8Jq4mwPisw

I really wanted a tool that avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding and prompting without line level context. I can review the code, ask questions, and prompt changes. All while easily staging/ignoring anything inconsequential.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

Hacking on a tool to bridge the gap between "agent finished iterating on a plan" and "committing+pushing my changes for review"

It's basically `git add -p` with super powers, letting you prompt+polish as you go. Experimental and still lots of jank, but fun so far!

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@whatisakatie High Performance MySQL like mentioned above is great, I reference it all the time. I just started reading https://t.co/ZAMW1fzghT too and so far it's been helpful a time or two (I've jumped around chapters though).

Use the index https://t.co/3n3UhzO2TF goes pretty in depth too.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

do you work primarily in a terminal via SSH or a codespace? I made a tool that you may be interested in! it provides clipboard access and `open` support through ssh so it’s almost like working locally.

https://t.co/OhMDveq2JD

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@IanCAnderson I feel like todays word threw a bit of a curveball in there that I didn't expect.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

tl;dr this function can give you a simple, type-safe view layer in express using React.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

I've been using TypeScript on a side project and I'm really loving how much type safety you can achieve with a bit of effort. I ended up migrating from hbs to JSX/React to get even more type-safety and wrote a post about it.

https://t.co/KfqVNglyvk

[Kevin Murphy @kevin_j_m]

Today is the final 2021 performance on the "Ruby's Got You Covered" tour. I'll be Zooming over to London for the show. See you there?

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

the issue is that the formatter turns the with parens version into the without parens (and breaks things). there's only one quick fix I can think of and that's to make all method calls add `()`, which seems not great.

Imagine `foo().bar().baz() unless some_method_value().nil?()`

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

Hacking on a code formatter for Ruby and learned about this fun shadowing edge case:

With explicit parens calls the method defined on the class, without returns nil.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@Randemonium 🤞Really makes me wish I was better at attending them. 😬

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

My super WIP Ruby formatter just got to the point where it can format itself and the tests still run/pass! 🎉

https://t.co/eHHZ5ktlVu

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@Mongeyc Woah, 10x faster? I might have to give that a try. 👀

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

Added `set -g status-right '#(cd #{pane_current_path}; git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)’` to my `~/.tmux.conf` and got rid of RPROMPT to show the current git branch and it’s been great.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@kddeisz @penelope_zone will do! It’s a super interesting problem so I’d love to see how they tackled it.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@Randemonium @kddeisz Lots of trial and error, not production ready yet but I’m feeling pretty good about the underlying approach now in terms of consistency.

Just needs more time invested in widening AST support, tightening up indentation rules, code cleanup, etc.

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@Randemonium thanks!

I had no idea prettier worked with Ruby, that’s rad. I wonder if anyone is using it in production? 🤔

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@silvacristina_ time travelers, or spending all your free time selling bugs and fish 🐛🐟➡️💸💸💸

[Blake Williams @blakeorwhatever]

@joshuaclayton I brought mine in a few months back and they told me it would be about a week which means I didn’t get my keyboard fixed yet. 😬