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Introducing ractor_queue: A Shared Queue for Ruby Ractors Ruby’s Global VM Lock (GVL) — also called the GIL — has shaped how Ruby developers think about concurrency for decades. Threads share memory and run concurrently in I/O, but only one thread executes Ruby bytecode at a ti...
Read article →“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” — Revelation 3:2...
What Preachers Mean When They Use Them Preachers have a habit of tossing around long, complicated words like they’re handing out candy. Most people in the pew...
Geodetic: One Gem to Convert Them All Geodetic 0.8.0 is now available. This release brings production-tested GIS coordinate conversion to Ruby, with 20 years ...
AIA (AI Assistant) hit version 1.0.0 on February 22, 2026. It started in 2023 as a Ruby script called aip.rb that piped prompts into mods. Three years later, ...
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