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6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers - Earthly Blog
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surprised at the number of complex tasks that can be done using just the POSIX standard command-line tool...

Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby · Sorbet
For the past year, the Sorbet team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we’re sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in t...



Open Source Thursdays Expert Session with Rafael França on Aug 5th | hexdevs
Open Source Thursdays is a project from hexdevs. We’ve been making Open Source contributions more inclusive.On August 5th at 5 PM EST, Rafael França will join us as our expert guest. Rafael França is a Rails Core team member and Principal Engineer...

Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith — Development (2021)
Ruby on Rails is a great framework for rapidly building beautiful web applications that users and developers love. But if an application is successful, there’s usually continued investment, resulting in additional features and increased overall sy...