The Ruby Developer Experience team at Shopify has just launched Rubydex, a building block for indexing and (semantically) querying your Ruby codebases.
@vinistock.bsky.social has a write up explaining what it is and how it works here: railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-o...
I realized it has been ~1.5 years since I concluded my series of post on JSON optimization. So I got curious how much faster it became since then.
2.7.2 was the last version before I took over maintainership.
2.9.0 was the version I released at the end of the blog series.
Bundler supports cooldowns now! Really great work from the RubyGems and RubyGems.org teams!!
The confidence with which LLMs can explain a concept to you but be wrong needs its own concept.
I propose "llmsplaining"
Introducing Rubydex — a portable static analysis engine powering Ruby LSP, Tapioca, Packwerk, and more. One foundation, compounding benefits for the whole ecosystem.
railsatscale.com
With the new job, I didn't get much time or energy to blog lately, but I figured I'd use the various downtime while traveling to Ruby Kaigi to write about some of the things I worked on recently: byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...
Ever since NovaLauncher changed hands and started showing ads, I wanted to move to an alternative launcher on my Pixel, but was procrastinating since I didn't want to set up my icon/folder layout as I've grown used to it in Nova.
So today I asked Claude to fix it: gist.github.com/paracycle/2e...