James Adam lazyatom

Hey folks.

Firstly, thanks for being here.

Secondly, while you read this, I want to be totally clear that I am not asking you for money, just your thoughts.

Ruby.social has been running for 6 years, and for that whole time we've been hosted by Hugo at https://masto.host. This was one of the best decisions I made in the early life of the instance; we've had almost no issues at all, and any time we've needed help, Hugo has been right there.

All that great service doesn't come for free though (nor should it!); right now the instance hosting costs about $300/month. Even though their numbers are gradually decreasing, our existing patrons and sponsors easily cover this (thank you!) so there's no financial cliff looming.

this is a test

item one
item two
item three

test complete! but what about normal lists?

thing
another thing

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am lazyatom on github.
I am lazyatom (https://keybase.io/lazyatom) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is BE7C E844 BBAA 3308 53A6 63B5 13FD BF1B D9DA 2B35

To claim this, I am signing this object:

If you'd like a taste of Docker, here's how to get my silly Taco app running under Docker on your machine.

First, install docker-osx

... using instructions from https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx

curl https://raw.github.com/noplay/docker-osx/0.8.0/docker-osx > /usr/local/bin/docker-osx
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-osx

Then start the docker VM

How Should We Use Struct?

The Choice

It's common in Ruby to see some code setup a Struct like this:

class Specialized < Struct.new(:whatever)
  # ... define custom methods here...
end

	Fedifeed implementation notes

	Two components

	Server implements a few endpoints
	/reblogs — returns accounts that you reblog the most
	/core_servers — returns the instances who host most of the accounts you follow
	/favourites — returns users that you favourite the most

	Client hits those endpoints, and then:

	$ ruby huffman.rb this is a test of compression
	input length in bits 232 (29 * 8)

	Binary 1111100000100011001000110100101101111101000111111001111100110111010111001110001101111010000001001110110
	Encoded string length in bits: 103
	Compression: 44.396551724137936%

	Decoded: this is a test of compression

	module Refinement
	refine Object do
	def new_method
	'new method!'
	end
	end
	end

	class Thing
	using Refinement

	/--------------------- Layout and Typography ----------------------------/
	body {
	font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, FreeSerif, serif;
	font-size: 15px;
	line-height: 22px;
	color: #252519;
	margin: 0; padding: 0;
	}
	a {
	color: #261a3b;

	# Some userland app code

	$LOAD_PATH.unshift "."

	require 'lib'