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@jer@hachyderm.io @blinry@chaos.social That's a really good one! One liners are well and good, but the real tip is using $_ when golfing to avoid the chars of saving the output of gets to a variable 😆

There are also a bunch of similar global variables for anyone wanting to go down a rabbit hole, especially relating to regex in ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/UsersGuide/rg/globalvars.html

@blinry@chaos.social Due to sheer practicality, I'd give up an entire month's salary before I give up on the Network tab. If I was a better person, I'd know something about the accessibility tab. If my work let me prioritize the way I wanted I would spend all my time on the performance tab. The Firefox profiler and their flame graph is so good, that there's a ruby gem called Vernier (also very good!) whose profile viewer is forked from Firefox: https://vernier.prof/

@blinry@chaos.social ruby's irb and python have the same feature with the _ variable! IRB: irb(main):001> 5 + 2 => 7 irb(main):002> _ => 7 Python also seems to avoid overriding _ when your statement returns None: >>> 5 + 2 7 >>> _ 7 >>> print("hello world") hello world >>> _ # still 7! 7 >>> None >>> _ # still 7! 7

@amartya@fosstodon.org Looking forward to more from your blog! Judging by the URL it seems to be just a HTML file, but if you ever decide to make posting more automated, please consider providing an RSS/Atom feed.

@amartya@fosstodon.org It's unfortunately getting easier to make this argument with events like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil I think the key is to use examples as close to the person you are talking to as possible. A lot of people believe that what happens in China can't happen to "us", data used to show ads can't be used for oppression, historical examples of discrimination or suppression based on beliefs can't happen again, etc. Another somewhat effective strategy is posting online anonymously.