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@tisba@ruby.social @zenspider@ruby.social Mocha is alive! I jjust haven’t felt the need to make many changes of late. Is there something it doesn’t do that you need…?
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Member of Go Free Range software coop; Ruby developer; author of Mocha Ruby library.
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Just listened to an interview on Pod Save the UK of Hettie O’Brien about her book: “The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself”.
I hadn’t previously fully understood the mechanics of a leveraged buy-out. How can it possibly be in society’s interest to allow that? Especially for things like water companies, care homes, children’s homes, etc?
https://youtu.be/neY1MibfkuE?si=D4fSDCKES8oLHiTo
Another lovely morning swim at the Cambridge Lido. ☀️🏊
I can’t believe the water is 10 degrees C warmer than when I started swimming there 4 weeks ago! 🤯
Lewis Goodall, one of my favourite journalists, interviews Karen Hao, author of “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI”.
In it she talks about how AI is threatening democracy and creating a new colonial world.
I've written up how I've configured git and GitHub to use organisation-specific SSH keys to authenticate with GitHub and sign my commits. I store my SSH keys in 1Password and I'm using MacOS.
https://jamesmead.org/blog/2026-04-19-organisation-specific-git-authentication-and-commit-signing
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It was
Interesting!
Not mocking is better than mocking for 80-90% of all tests.
I'm not going to bite! 😃
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@timriley I’m not sure that’s true - Minitest used to come with a simple mock implementation although it looks like it’s been split out in into minitest-mock now.