Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Just went two streets away, my eyes are literally burning.🥵 180
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I 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. 3498
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026This one feels good. No more stupid comments at the top of files. At least in one repo. 1170
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Hacking on Rails, with a pint of “Hakodate Ruby on Ale” 2270
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026What are the odds to find a beer from your favorite Québec brewery in a random Hakodate bar ? 1110
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My face when I see a gem with rb-sys in its dependencies 041
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Happy to share that today I'm starting as senior principal at Intercom! 20950
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I found some relic while emptying my father’s house. 3370
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025We've reached the point where "security researchers" now unironically answer on Hackone with "ChatGPT said:" 4300
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025I keep receiving that same recruiter email every couple weeks... 1220
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 19/09/2025It adds a translation button for people with a different language. 230
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 13/06/2025The part about "corporate cultures shift" feels close to home 😢 0121
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This seemingly pointless change made a very significant performance difference. Can you guess why? The answer is in the PR: github.com/okuramasafum... 3493
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Alright, I think I'm about done with it, just above 10k words, or 1/6th of my entire blog... I "just" need to fix all the typos and grammar, thank god for grammarly. 1190
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025@github.com recently changed their notification email in a way that breaks dark mode in Apple mail. I can't seem to find a place to report it though, aside from the dumping ground that is the community discussions. 😢 130
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 04/11/2024If you don't use a literal value that can be optimized out, it then behave as you expected: 000
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 04/11/2024The trick is that from the Ruby compiler point of view, this regexp isn't actually dynamic, because (I assume) the peephole optimizer see the interpolation can be resolved statically, and just eliminate it. 110
