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Re:Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:24AM (#46402491)
Noteworthy in the MRuby universe, which is all about lightweight Ruby implementations is picoruby. You can get an integrated ruby shell on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJC_v5Lus8 https://picoruby.org/

Re:F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:53AM (#45412575)
It's sad, that android is the only system that can be used to code on the device thanks to termux and now google wants to end this.
Re: on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:25AM (#45198193)
PHP Maintainer Joe Watkins aka krakjoe story.
I followed Thor's journey over the years. Great dude and a incredible achivement. Imagine planning for 4 years but hanging on for 10! He also had bad luck being stuck during covid.
Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor on Friday April 25, 2025 @10:19AM (#43793847)
It's something I ran into quite a few times in my career. It's a weird call to get if the client can't save their cms site, due to typing something harmless. I think worst was when there was a dropdown that I defined which had a value in the mod rules that was not allowed.
I saw a child chat with an AI Tom Felton on the bus using her smartphone. I'm not sure if that is healthy.
picoruby is a lot of fun. It's a reimplementation of mruby/c which is even smaller. You might be interested in my friend and creator HASUMI Hitoshi's presentation. He shows off his Ruby REPL that runs on the Raspberry Pi pico. Recently he ported picoruby to other microcontrollers.

https://youtu.be/WxZNE5zTAjg?si=7DQUcQg80RMZoU0b

Re:Body Doubling on Saturday March 08, 2025 @06:04PM (#43304399)
See also https://adhdactually.com/membership Basically moderated by a small team zoom sessions to body double.
Re:10 Years of HexaPDF on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:02AM (#41962332)
Note: This is by the author of the popular kramdown markdown library.
I would be happy to just get the old PWA mode back. Turn a webapp into a window.
Re:Short Ruby Newsletter – edition 99 on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:44AM (#40967846)
Just read this one. Always a good overview about what happens in the ruby world!
Because you can expect the food to taste a certain way.
Every grandpa in the japanese country side needs a kei truck. It's very practical. I moved apartments using one. The bed is hip height and opens quickly. The safety concern is someone else hitting you. I just got back from the McDonalds drivethrough and there was a lady alone in an american truck blocking everyone. I don't understand why anyone needs a car like that, they seem very dangerous.
I have the same, it's hard for other people to understand.
ATMs closing must be mostly because of the scams
look at the examples they made why it should be in CSS grid. I totally agree it should be in that. It's a form of grid. It should be part of CSS grid.

This is one of the layouts that were just impossible in CSS and we really need it soon. I also needed the feature they talk about with the background colors for css grid tracks in 2012. I solved that with DIVs, but it was hard to make it responsive.

I absolutely want this. I have wanted this for years. This is a form of grid so it should be in CSS grid. Especially since it has tracks. Browser makers, please just ship this.
Re:RubyJS-Vite on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:43PM (#40067859)
Ruby.wasm is here now, so you can run ruby in the browser. It still a bit big, but it even supports many regular gems. I met up today with a friend who is working on much smaller mruby version. He'll be giving a talk at rubykaigi next month.

I use Ruby.wasm with my own patch. [1][2] You can use the Javascript API and the syntax is a joy. I used it to make an electron app with videoplayer.[3] I also ported the rubykoans[4]

Lots of ruby.wasm talks at rubykaigi next month.

[1] https://github.com/largo/ruby.wasm

[2] https://github.com/largo/ruby.wasm-quickstart.

[3] https://github.com/largo/PsychometricStudyVideoPlayer

[4] https://koans.idogawa.com

Re:When Nostalgia Was Deadly on Sunday April 14, 2024 @01:21PM (#40032663)
As Swiss abroad in far away Japan "Kühreihen" didn't make me deadly nostalgic. I guess the soldiers lived in the alps. I miss my family more than mountains.
Re:Glory is only 11MB/SEC away on Sunday April 07, 2024 @09:03AM (#39960481)
Japan. First TLS+DNS felt like 3 seconds. Further loads are almost instant. I think it's totally fine.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:10AM (#39902843)
Location: Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Europe, Switzerland

Technologies: Ruby, Python Frontend, Backend, Linux

Résumé/CV: idogawa.com

Email: andi idogawa com

My biggest complaint is that they don't even let you send photos over bluetooth to a non-apple device! There is no way to share files wirelessly.
As a Japan resident, I am very sure that this is not happening on a big scale, considering the logistics involved in such a deception.
Oh hey! Just want to say thanks for obsidian. Just opened your app a second ago to write my notes about Miyazaki Airport, where I'm at. Works great on mobile.
Good. In practice the old system was taught in schools, but not really used officially. Except for people giving their names, where someones name is definitely pronounced as Shota, they would write it Syota. I just checked facebook and found quite a few people like this.
Re:Ocra: One-Click Ruby Application Builder on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:54PM (#39612107)
I and shinokaro maintain a working fork at https://github.com/Largo/ocran/
JRuby is very cool. For CRuby I can recommend glimmer libui which works on Windows, Linux and OSX For windows packaging, check out ocran.

Show HN: Ruby Koans in the Browser

https://koans.idogawa.com/

Hi HN! I spent the last two weeks exploring and extending Ruby.wasm. There was a lot of good work done recently making it possible to include files and gems. So I ported the Ruby Koans to the web. Today it's been exactly 10 years since we lost Jim Weirich, the inventor of Rake and Ruby Koans, so I'm happy to present this project in his memory.For Rubykoans see rubykoans.com. It's a way to learn...

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