@tomstuart

The wind of nothingness blasts, unhindered, from every page. @tom@tomstu.art

 London
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Joined February 2007
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El Rug@lrug27 Jan 2023
Lined up so far we have @tomstuart talking about his experience live-streaming a project to build a Ruby implementation of web assembly.
 We have a few more talks waiting to be confirmed but we definitely need more. Get in touch with us on [email protected] to volunteer 🙏.
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#OnThisDayInNTK:1997 ntk.net/1997/12/29/?arc year-in-review more upbeat re Psion Series 5 than 56Kbps modems or Virtuality's Amiga-powered VR en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua… & "reader's sites" from @tomstuart @robsedgebeer @charltonbrooker - though few pics at web.archive.org/web/19981206…
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I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton.
Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

ALT Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

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When you work with code you don't need to make assumptions [if the code is available to you]. You can follow the code. Follow the changes that were made. Make changes to it and see how it behaves.
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Here's my latest project: ooh.directory , a collection of hundreds of blogs. I was tired of hearing "no body blogs any more" and wanted to show that there are so. many. blogs! I have loads more blogs and features to add yet, and I hope you find something interesting.

ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 2,433 blogs about every topic

ooh.directory
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Tom Stuart retweeted
Succession
@succession1 Nov 2021
We get it.
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Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar12 Sep 2022
Since the Queen died, racist abuse on here has been literally incessant (mostly of the "go back" variety, but also explicit slurs). And it's not just me. Despite all the scolding of the left for not being mournful enough, few journalists seem at all troubled by this!
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Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar5 Sep 2022
This is it, isn't it – Tories surveying the multi-car pileup of their time in office, insisting that "we may have been in government for over a decade, but it's the people who do the casting for Netflix shows who have all the real power."
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Tom Stuart@tomstuart16 Jun 2021
mega petrichor waft
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Tom Stuart@tomstuart4 Aug 2017
“Summer” yes, good “Bank Holiday” keep em coming “(Scotland)” no
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👋 Hello, world!! We can't wait to have you all with us in Providence! We'll be releasing updates and additional details soon
RubyConf@rubyconf27 Jul 2022
We're happy to announce #RubyConfMini :partying_face: Taking place in Providence, RI on Nov 15-17 @rubyconfmini will be another option for rubyists who don't feel comfortable traveling to #RubyConf2022 in TX. Learn more here rubyconfmini.com/
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Wrote an article on fast method lookup and execution in Ruby over at mattalp.com/blog/dispatch-ch…

On Dispatch Chains

I infrequently write about code.

mattalp.com
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Andy Croll@andycroll19 Jul 2022
If you're a Rubyist who wants to "give back" by offering six 1/2 hour calls to an early (or pre-) career developer you could do worse than sign up to this new thing I made. firstrubyfriend.org

Find a mentor in the Ruby community

Matching early career developers with friendly volunteer mentors from the community

firstrubyfriend.org
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liking the last of us is a red flag. it's also an orange flag. and a yellow flag. and a green flag. and a blue flag. and a purple flag. liking the last of us is gay. YOU are GAY.
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Replying to @tomstuart
Right in the sweet spot of "Is this a Tom Stuart bit? Or is this a Stewart Lee bit? Or is this a Tom Stuart doing a Stewart Lee bit? Or is this a Stewart Lee doing a Tom Stuart bit? Or..." 👨‍🍳👌
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hasanabi
@hasanthehun1 Jul 2022
jordan peterson making a 15 minute video with two different cameras crying about being suspended on twitter for straight up being transphobic about elliot page is hilarious. "intellectual giant" crying and debating twitter tos with the absolute worst arguments i've ever heard.
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Hey man sounds fun but I'm actually not around that weekend... me and my gf are starting a new life in the offworld colonies. We heard about it from a blimp.
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.@tomstuart showing us regex for ruby data structures at @brightonruby
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Adam Butler@labfoo30 Jun 2022
Stop ignoring pattern matching by @tomstuart from @Shopify at @brightonruby I'm totally guilty of this, this talk provided some fantastic real-world cases where pattern matching in Ruby is expressive and helpful. #brightonruby #rubyfriends
Tom Stuart on stage at Brighton Ruby conference talking about pattern matching.

ALT Tom Stuart on stage at Brighton Ruby conference talking about pattern matching.

Tom Stuart on stage at Brighton Ruby conference talking about pattern matching.

ALT Tom Stuart on stage at Brighton Ruby conference talking about pattern matching.

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Over the weekend I became a maintainer of Rubygems.org. 🥳🚀 I'm excited to continue working w/ the community to make this amazing ecosystem even better & more secure. 🎉 Along with this we're launching the first phase of our new MFA policy today 🎉🥳!
RubyGems Status@rubygems_status13 Jun 2022
To better secure RubyGems, today we're introducing a new policy. - Popular gem maintainers will see prompts to enable multi-factor auth. - Starting Aug 15, MFA will be enforced. This move will help us build a safer community inline with other ecosystems. blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13…

Making popular Ruby packages more secure

News and updates from the RubyGems team — releases, security advisories, and project announcements.

blog.rubygems.org
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