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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · 1d

A Philosophy of Software Design

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Fantastic talk by John Ousterhout about software design. Looking forward to reading the book of the same name.

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Sep 6

Also interesting to see that this is taking off just as Rails 8.1 is recommending mise.

I use mise, and love it, but having a uv-like experience for #ruby is a big selling point, so won't be surprised if #rails 8.2 recommends this instead!

Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Sep 6

rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

This is inspired by python's uv, so really excited for this project, having seen how much uv has influenced the python ecosystem in a short while.

rv doesn't support Intel macs yet, so I'll have to wait a bit to try it. #ruby

rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’...

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jul 11

Stop memoizing Hash lookups in Ruby

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#ruby

Stop memoizing Hash lookups in Ruby

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jun 26

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

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#ai #llm

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · May 31

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby

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"ZJIT is a new just-in-time (JIT) Ruby compiler built into the reference Ruby implementation, YARV, by the same compiler group that brought you YJIT."

#ruby

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby

ZJIT has been merged into upstream Ruby. Learn about its architecture!

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · May 27

Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

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Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5

Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · May 22

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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · May 1

My teammate Alexandre Terrasa wrote a great post about using inline RBS with Sorbet.
We’ve been slowly adopting it at Shopify. And while we’re still improving Sorbet and all the supporting projects, it’s already working well!

railsatscale.com/2025-04-23-r...

Inline RBS comments support for Sorbet

How Sorbet and RBS can work together to elevate your Ruby development experience

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · Mar 5

One benefit of #Sorbet is that it can make VSCode and Neovim almost on par with RubyMine's excellent behavior of being able to go to definitions and references from almost anywhere to anywhere. It helps so with debugging and refactoring.
This is amazing in a dynamically typed language like #Ruby

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Feb 26

... RBS can be the syntax for types and sorbet, steep, typeprof etc can be the frontends for it.

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Feb 26

I agree that type annotations are too fragmented, which is why I'm excited about this change. Sorbet is miles ahead of other type checkers right now in terms of speed and usability, so it adopting RBS can only help consolidate things in the community. ...

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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · Feb 25

Forgot to mention: the 2 main drivers behind this work: Alexandre Terrasa and Alexander Momchilov, will both be speaking at this year's RubyKaigi.

So definitely come to their talks and ask them questions to learn more about the challenges and visions behind it 😉

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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · Feb 25

It's an idea my colleague Alexandre Terrasa and the team explored way back in 2020. But due to various challenges we couldn't make it work at the time.
Maybe 2025 will be the year to finally make it happen?

- 2020 PR: github.com/sorbet/sorbe...
- 2025 PR: github.com/sorbet/sorbe...

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Feb 25

Sorbet now has (experimental) support for RBS comments for adding types to methods. Now the major type checkers for ruby are all converging towards RBS for annotations, and this could be huge for the future of types in Ruby!

sorbet.org/docs/rbs-sup...

#ruby #sorbet

RBS comments support · Sorbet

> This feature is experimental and might be changed or removed without notice.

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Feb 12

"My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase" 😂😂😂

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From the csMajors community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the csMajors community

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 31

So You Want To Remove The GVL From Ruby?

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#ruby

So You Want To Remove The GVL?

I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few t...

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 15

A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator

joyofrails.com/articles/sim...

Beautiful visual demo of how lazy enumerators help avoid unnecessary work.

#ruby

A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator

Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 10

Favorite books of 2024

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#books

Favorite books of 2024

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 3

Admittedly, these are small apps (largest is < 3k LOC) and I kinda cheated by having a script that does the version bumps, but even then it's a good sign about how stable things are right now!

nithinbekal.com/posts/bump-r...

#ruby #rails

Script to bump Ruby version in Rails app

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 3

Ruby upgrades are so incredibly smooth these days!

I have 3 small hobby rails apps that I wanted to upgrade to Ruby 3.4, and it took me 20 minutes to upgrade and deploy them all! And 5 of those minutes were spent downloading the latest ruby.

#ruby #rails

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Jan 3

Rails for everything

literallythevoid.com/blog/rails_f...

#ruby #rails

Rails for everything | Literally the Void

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Dec 18

What's new in Ruby 3.4

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The next release of Ruby is just a week away. Dive into the latest features, including the new it block parameter, chilled strings, the Prism parser, and modular GC.

#ruby

What's new in Ruby 3.4

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Nithin Bekal @nithinbekal.com · Nov 6

avante.nvim: AI copilot in Neovim

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#neovim #ai

avante.nvim: AI copilot in Neovim

Nithin Bekal's blog about programming - Ruby, Rails, Vim, Elixir.

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