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Kerrick Long (code)

@kerrick@ruby.social

This account is for code & technology! I post my own code/tech-related posts here, and I boost others' code/tech-related posts here.

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Joined September 22, 2024

My Blog:

https://kerrick.blog

Build TUIs in Ruby:

https://www.ratatui-ruby.dev

Ruby TUI Framework:

https://www.rooibos.run

Ruby Desktop Apps:

https://www.tokra.app

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Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @camertron@ruby.social

@camertron You're welcome, and thanks for letting me know you like it! The more specific situation you mentioned reminds me a lot of this classic: https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-internet

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Apr 24, 2026

Wow, this spring really disappeared on me. We went straight from spring break to college visit season for the high schooler in the house, into tax season. I caught up with my email (triple digits!) and started getting back into open source, and then I got sick. Here's hoping the chaos has subsided and I can do plenty this weekend.

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @camertron@ruby.social

@camertron It is important to realize both "I paid Anthropic to write x for me" and "I made x with Claude" exist, and there is a significant difference. The former creates poor quality code and leaves you with no Theory of the Program... but it's easy. The latter is somewhere between guiding an intern and pair programming in creativity, difficulty, and time spent, but it pays off. It's the difference between https://github.com/setdef/RatatuiRuby/blob/stable/tasks/doc.rake and https://github.com/setdef/RatatuiRuby/blob/stable/tasks/bump.rake

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @chris__martin@functional.cafe

@chris__martin@functional.cafe DWIM is love. TIMTOWTDI is life. And I put my money where my mouth is: https://github.com/setdef/RatatuiRuby/blob/41d6f5a93a8b688428ca147f04d5baaa03bb6ce5/test/ratatui_ruby/event/test_key.rb#L251-L275

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Mar 12, 2026

Have you heard about the recent controversy of copyleft-washing? Some folks are making alternatives to free software and releasing them under a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license. In order for this to be legal, it must not be a derivative work, so the publishers will often claim it is a "clean room" re-implementation.

By way of example: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Now somebody has packaged up that process as a delightful satire website. https://malus.sh

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No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Mar 07, 2026

I am always shocked and dismayed to be reminded why Congress had to enact the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Feb 21, 2026

Replying to @timriley@ruby.social

@timriley FWIW, I've found providing a mix-in module to be a reasonable alternative to struggling with base class names. For example: # frozen_string_literal: true require "test_helper" class TestHelloWorld < Minitest::Test include Rooibos::TestHelper def test_it_exits_with_ctrl_c with_test_terminal do inject_key(:ctrl_c) Rooibos.run(HelloWorld) assert true, "Should reach this point without hanging." end end end

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @knowmadd@mastodon.world

@knowmadd@mastodon.world It's interesting to see different "levels" of Gemini respond in different ways.

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Feb 06, 2026

Replying to @christine@ruby.social

@christine@ruby.social My interpretation: "We are in maintenance mode now. Keep paying us the same money, and we'll keep giving you the same service. Don't expect new features, though."

Kerrick Long (code) @kerrick@ruby.social · Nov 19, 2025

"There is a space between features, should we choose to perceive it." --@kentbeck@hachyderm.io

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/why-does-development-slow

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No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

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