Justin Searls, a Ruby and Rails developer, writes about testing, developer tooling, AI assistants, and Xcode.
HN links his posts on the RubyGems dispute and his ChatGPT self-doubt prompt, and commenters discuss his Xcode and Swift tooling experience.
I love when friends do this. It's hard to keep up with people and what they're up to. Publishing and letting people subscribe to me is a great way to share things. A few examples of some friends who are doing this:
Justin Searls (fairly known in Ruby and Rails community) mostly quit a lot of various social channels though publishes on some of them one direction. He started a podcast that wasn't meant to be guests of some specific topic, it's just him updating you on things. What he's working on, what he's learning, random stories, etc. - https://justin.searls.co/casts/
Brandur who I've worked with at a couple of places (Heroku previously, and now Crunchy Data) who writes great technical pieces that often end up here also has more of a personal newsletter. While there are technical pieces in there at times he'll also talk about personal experiences my favorite one is some of the unique experiences hiking the Pacific Trail (https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/039-trails).
This is true of the CLIs that start with `xcode` but not of the CLIs that start with `swift`. As `swift-format` and `swift-test` have come into their own, they're just as reliable as any other language ecosystem. And the difference is indeed staggering. I wrote this guide last summer on extracting all your app's code into a (nonsensically necessary) Swift package dependency simply so you can test it with Swift Testing https://justin.searls.co/posts/i-made-xcodes-tests-60-times-faster/
Given some of the ways Andre Arko gets described (See https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-sides-in-the-rubygems-fiasco/ for a recent overview) I'm a little wary of what the motivation behind this is.
Take the text and send it to ChatGPT. Then, use this self doubt prompt and you get some alarming results.
https://justin.searls.co/posts/sprinkling-self-doubt-on-chatgpt/
Anyone know the type of mouse being used in the photo? https://justin.searls.co/uploads/egpu/IMG_4122.jpg