The 31st edition of Ruby AI News is here! This edition features app builders and skills that turn a single prompt into a full Rails prototype, benchmarks making the case for Ruby’s token efficiency, and much, much more🔻
The 31st edition of Ruby AI News is here! This edition features app builders and skills that turn a single prompt into a full Rails prototype, benchmarks making the case for Ruby’s token efficiency, and much, much more🔻
spent my 11-hour flight back from europe working on a very long report. started as a slack message but morphed into a several pages long doc. wifi was as shitty as it gets. after finally making it home i realized that the computer had forcefully restarted. opened slack: draft was gone :(
hail mary: claude pls save me, no clue how but pls try
it checked APFS snapshots, time machine, slack indexeddb, write-ahead logs, service worker / http caches, local storage, app logs, hibernation image... nothing. all gone
but then... it realized i have alfred installed. so it checked the clipboard snapshots alfred keeps in sqlite. sad news: alfred clipboard memory gets deleted after 24h. aggressive retention policy. however! when sqlite runs DELETE, nothing gets actually deleted. it only marks pages as reusable, but it doesn't override the physical bytes. so claude decided to do a raw-scan of the db, reverse eng alfred data format, figure out the portion containing the timestamp, stitched everything back together across overflow pages... and handed me the exact final version of my report, the last one i cmd+C'd
all this, in a single shot
... day 200 of "what if you had an elite hacker you can ask anything to"
Ruby AI Newsletter will be out on Monday morning. Needed a few extra days to prep for NY Tech Week, let me know if you're going to be in town for any events - you definitely don't want to miss Artificial Ruby on June 4th! 🔻