GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."
I feel like all new AI tools only integrate with GitHub though, like Claude Code. We're actually thinking of moving from GitLab to GitHub, just for this reason.
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All these tools seem to be GitHub-centric. Any tips for teams using GitLab to store their repositories?
yoran commented on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 blog.appsignal.com/2024/1... · Posted by u/amalinovic
I'm curious what the state of Sorbet + Rails is these days. I've been out of the ruby game for a little while now.
Last I recall: sorbet itself is quite good once it is well established in a project, but adding type checking to a project (especially a Rails project) is a lot of work.
We use it extensively in our codebase. We started without any types, and added Sorbet later. It's similar to Typescript as that you can gradually sparkle your code with types, building up the typing coverage over time.
I just completed a big refactoring. We have a good suite of tests. But Sorbet has provided an added layer of confidence. Especially when it comes to the treatment of null values. Sorbet will raise an error if you try to call a method on an object that may be null. So it forces you to think through: what should happen if the object is null?
So the tests combined with Sorbet typechecking made that we could just almost blindly deploy refactoring after refactoring, with only a handful of bugs for several 1000s of lines of code changed.
Useful resource!
yoran commented on Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors arstechnica.com/cars/2024... · Posted by u/velmu
When Tesla entered the fortune 500 and my SPY stock bought it, I was enraged that someone could swindle their way into auto-buys.
Genuinely not sure what to think of the stock market/index funds since that happened. I'd like to get some sort of compensation that is GREATER than my cost.
Seems far-fetched. No one is forcing you to buy an S&P 500 fund. And you could have sold your S&P 500 shares the day Tesla entered the index.
"Every industry that has enough political power to utilise the state will seek to control entry." - George Stigler, Nobel prize winner in Economics, and worked extensively on regulatory capture
This explains why BigTech supports regulation. It distorts the free market by increasing the barriers to entry for new, innovative AI companies.
yoran commented on 100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects? theguardian.com/artanddes... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
He only really excelled at creating inhumane structures that only serve to impress the intelligentsia. It's not like you'd ever want to live in his austere glass boxes.
Agree. I can't stand the coldness of brutalist architecture, it's dystopian. It's disagreeable in summer, let alone on a grey winter day.
What did they spend their $25 million on? What's the tech they have that costs this much to build? Their hard problems are a building a CMS or are otherwise solved by using fastly and sendgrid?
For most startups that raise money, tech is hardly a big cost. Most of the money goes towards fueling growth through paid marketing and so on.
yoran commented on What to expect from your framework johan.hal.se/wrote/2023/0... · Posted by u/hejsna
There is quite a lot of inherent complexity of web as a platform. If frameworks were any more abstracted they would be too brittle for a lot of use cases.
Btw, use Sorbet for Ruby static typing. It's very ergonomic.
We adopted Sorbet for our codebase a couple of months ago, and I couldn't be happier with that choice. Sure, it's not as powerful as Typescript (e.g. no way to specify a union of constants like `type Result = 'ok' | 'error'`), but it's worth it just for the nil-check alone. And it's great for documenting too. It's easy to forget what type a method expects for its parameters.