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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2025-01-24 at 07:27

When I say a long time, I posted a PR to Crystal 6 years ago for it. 😄

If my library works as well as I hope, I'll pick that original PR back up.

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/7454

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2025-01-24 at 07:25

Finally published a library I've wanted for a long time: a Crystal type for dealing with both calendar and monotonic durations in the same object.

https://github.com/jgaskins/duration

[#]Crystal #CrystalLanguage

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2025-01-01 at 00:57

The only surprising thing to me about this is that the number is that low. I assumed a popularity metric would be gamed so much harder than that.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings/

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-22 at 00:42

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-22 at 00:23

Today is the winter solstice. Season's Greasons, everyone!

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-15 at 23:47

No acknowledgement that two immutable objects with identical state being unequal doesn't make sense, which is what I went in there to fix.

All I got was judgement of my use case despite the fact that it not working for my use case is almost certainly an accident. All the while the maintainers were patting each other on the back in emoji reactions.

That doesn't leave me with a good feeling.

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-15 at 23:34

Here's an example of this in action, with myself as the contributor. Responses from 3 maintainers in the thread:

• one says "you shouldn't use it this way" with no acknowledgement that the documentation doesn't say this

• another makes a vague claim and ignores my request for clarification, despite responding to another maintainer afterward

• one posts a lot of code that proves the wrong points and then "whatever, still no"

🙃

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/15270

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-07 at 19:19

My headcanon is that POTUS called the hit and there are more coming

https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/DDSVJdEtn4g

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-07 at 02:04

Desperate people will do desperate things. Unfortunately, they often do them to similarly desperate people.

But when enough people are desperate, some of those that made it that way will find themselves on the receiving end of those desperate actions.

So don't harm large groups of people to make yourself rich. No amount of wealth makes your flesh impervious to weapons that are widely accessible in this country.

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-07 at 01:50

FWIW, I think violence is bad, but healthcare in the US is awful because people like that guy get rich by denying others lifesaving medical care.

When powerful people create conditions where the only voice regular people have is violence, they can't be surprised when that voice is invoked. The people will speak, one way or another. Those in power need to make sure they're listening when peace is still on the table if they don't want the alternative.

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-07 at 01:41

Some of the responses I've seen from people about that UnitedHealth CEO being killed are incredible:

• "They refused to cover eye exams and glasses so I didn't see anything"

• "Empathy for rich people is out of network"

• The Jack Reacher scene where other citizens help him blend in when the cops show up

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-01 at 19:09

Usually when things go wrong on my computer, it's one of these things. They're all safe to restart, so I literally just write plzwork in a terminal and things generally start working again.

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-12-01 at 19:05

Just in case folks need it, here is the shell function I use when basically anything stop working in macOS. It restarts all of these things:

• Dock

• Spotlight

• Universal Control

• Bluetooth

• Audio

… and flushes the DNS cache.

plzwork () {
	killall Dock corespotlightd "Universal Control"
	sudo killall -9 -e bluetoothd coreaudiod
	sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
	sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
}

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-29 at 22:41

The hard part is there are more than enough anecdotes on both sides to support either case:

• maintainers shutting down (or even attacking) a contributor because their contribution isn't exactly what they want or the contributor didn't show sufficient deference or whatever

• contributors demanding that maintainers build shit for them for free — every maintainer has heard something along the lines of "this is stupid, how is this still not fixed?"

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-29 at 22:30

Someday, I want to write about how OSS fosters an us-vs-them mentality, pitting project maintainers against external contributors. It happens on both sides.

The TL;DR is that the maintainers have a rapport with each other and an intimate understanding of the project. Contributors are usually trying to scratch their own itches.

Contributors often think maintainers don't care about their use case and maintainers often see contributors as ignorant of the effort req'd to maintain it.

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-24 at 05:45

Tired: "bike is short for bichael"

Wired: "mike is short for micycle"

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-24 at 01:18

I have the Knight Rider theme stuck in my head

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-22 at 22:50

when 22-year-old techbros come into the conversation acting like they know everything

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-16 at 18:26

Someone asked a Postgres question about timestamps as generated columns. I responded with a GitHub gist and now my name will be mentioned at a PHP conference.

https://gist.github.com/jgaskins/41719f1dff8eaf09855dd6af1c247d3b

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Written by Jamie Gaskins on 2024-11-13 at 23:46

Google says I am required to abuse their monitoring of first-party model prompts

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