Having the productivity of Ruby + the static typing and LSP integrations is a wonderful combination. Sure, it might be less aesthetic than some might like, but at least in my experience, it works very well in practice and supports most of the needs I have from a type system for writing and understanding conventional software.
I'm rooting for further developments in this space because I love language and systems that can leverage it's strengths and layering on a type system makes it a very formidable technology for building real world products.
I have not used Rails in a few years, but I can also say that the Sorbet typing support for the framework is definitely there too -- to great credit to the folks at Shopify allowing users of the framework to benefit from this tooling.
I would happily work on a Rails system today too. It's an amazing testament to the community how the design has been able to continue to develop to meet the needs of the many developers building with it up to this point. I hope more people feel the same joy I do discovering the kinds of things they can make with the language and frameworks like Rails.
With the amazing advancements with the AI tools we have now the only real limits are with how big our imaginations and ambitions can get.
Too bad government devs will have a much harder time using some of the best tools out there.
I've also used mostly a light theme (that's pretty stripped down too) for the last ~7 years, https://github.com/liamgriffiths/vim-colors-plain - it's a fork of another color scheme that I've adapted a little for the languages I work with more often. It uses bold for keywords, muted/italics for comments, and a color for constants (strings, numbers, "symbols"). It's super simple to maintain. Shout out to the original author (thank you!)
I quite like not having so much noise and it helps me focus on reading and understanding the code instead of getting distracted or mislead by the colors.
The bold is helpful to get the "outline" of structure and easily see the reserved words and it helps to not accidentally use one as a function or variable name. The colored constants are nice to stand out a little more from regular code and track them down. And at least for me the code I work in has so few comments that it's just very obvious when they appear.
Since I tend to work in relatively brightly lit environments using a light theme is just easier for me to read and switching back and forth between websites and other things it's not so jarring since most interfaces are light-themed as well.
Reading through this article made me think a little bit more though about whether there might be some new improvements I could make that would help. I hadn't given my color-scheming much new thought in a long time. I liked the idea of giving some background color to text colored on a background where the contrast would impair legibility. Given so many of us here spend an incredible amount of time reading text on a screen I think it's worth making it something a bit more enjoyable whether that's the typography or colors - it makes a difference!
https://github.com/SubstrateLabs/chatbot-demo
We've been building Substrate for a while now and are sharing out some examples of how we're using it. This is a little chatbot that can be used as a starting place for one of your own. We're hosting dozens of models that can be easily used to allow a chatbot to be tailored toward more specific use cases too!
For garments you can't sell like underwear you could also look into recycling them through places like https://knickey.com/pages/recycle
I loved this one because it covers a lot of ground and includes a lot of fascinating detail around the human factors and personalities involved.
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We're a startup building community-based marketplaces in the fashion space and looking for smart engineers, marketers, and product people.
Hit us up at [email protected] if you have any questions!
Grailed is a small team that has a vision to build a company that creates second hard marketplaces for enthusiasts of luxury products. We've had a lot of traction building out grailed.com - a menswear focused site and are currently building a similar site for womenswear. We have quite a few more ideas for marketplaces after that. We like to work on things we ourselves have a deep interest in and care a lot about building things we're proud of. Currently we're looking to expand our current engineering team of 8 people with either generalists or specialists. Our product and design team of 2 - is also looking out for experienced designers.
Hit us up at [email protected] if you have any questions or have an interest in applying.
Grailed is a small team that has a vision to build a company that creates second hard marketplaces for enthusiasts of luxury products. We've had a lot of traction building out grailed.com - a menswear focused site and are currently building a similar site for womenswear. We have quite a few more ideas for marketplaces after that.
We like to work on things we ourselves have a deep interest in and care a lot about building things we're proud of. Currently we're looking to expand our current engineering team of 8 people with either generalists or specialists. Our product and design team of 2 - is also looking out for experienced designers.
Hit us up at [email protected] if you have any questions or have an interest in applying.
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When icons fail to be understood, they can fail hard. I spent a lot of time frustrated with the new gmail design until I changed the icons to text.
Thanks to kien for making it!