My time at #devnexus has been incredibly rewarding. Hard to believe it's the first time I've made this trip. I'm energized and super excited about doing talks at local Java user groups, so if you are in charge of such a group, please DM me and let's figure out how I can visit.
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JRuby guy. Java Champion and Ruby Hero. King of Nutters. Linguistics, games, travel, beer.
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Woot! The JVM Language Summit is back! I'll submit a talk rounding up the past 15 years of JRuby and how we finally have all the features I requested at the earliest JVMLS events. openjdk.org/projects/mlvm/
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No snow but I’ll take any opportunity to hang with - missing our peeps
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I will have four nights in Tokyo before heading up to Matsumoto for . I usually stay in the Shibuya area, but I'm interested in other areas to stay with good food, beer, sights. Suggestions? Hoping to hang out with lots of local friends too!
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MSP's main terminal is one of my favorite airports, which is convenient because it's my local airport. Tons of food options, all concourses open to everyone, clean and bright and open. Really takes the edge off of starting a journey. 👍🍻🍳🍜🛫
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I'm going to Japan! My talk was accepted for and my flights are booked. I'll arrive on May 6th, connect up with local Java and Ruby folks in the Tokyo area, and then head up to Matsumoto around the 10th. Looking forward to visiting after so many years away!
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Rubyists! Loofah v2.21.0.rc1 is out with:
- HTML5 parser support
- official JRuby support (finally)
Check out the README at github.com/flavorjones/lo for info on HTML5 support.
Release notes at
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Fun night watching TNG with , and friends. We made Cardassian Kanar in a proper container and tried a recipe for Romulan Ale. Love my Star Trek friends!
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Come on Minnesota, a blizzard on March 30th? And then 50F next week? Make up your damn mind!
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Gonna need some big batteries to haul those monster artichokes.
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Next week I will speak at for the first time! This will be the largest Java conference I have attended since pre-pandemic days. My talk on how JRuby is using projects like Loom and Panama is one of twelve(!) at 11:30 on the 5th. Come say hi!
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I'm strongly leaning toward the next major JRuby requiring Java 17 at a mininum. There's so much new stuff we could take advantage of, and it runs JRuby code much faster than 8 and 11.
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I know that SportRadar used JRuby to leverage AMQP messaging JAR files to handle thousands of requests asynchronously and Ruby’s method_missing to synthesize the correct class for a particular sport’s parser. It wasn’t Rails, but it was enterprise. #JRubySavesTheDay
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Hello, what's this? RailsConf EU coming back in 2023? I would love to see this happen!
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Hopefully, Europe is an option for you, and you will submit the same talk to the European RailsConf this year, and they will accept it because we need more diversity in our options to run a Rails app for sure.
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So apparently my JRuby on Rails talk was rejected for 2023. The first RailsConf where we have a fresh new JRuby release with support for Ruby 3.1 and Rails 7...with production JRuby on Rails deployments dating back over 15 years. I guess I don't know what they want.
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Good news everybody! JRuby co-lead just released the PostgreSQL driver for Rails 7 ActiveRecord on JRuby 9.4! It took a few months to work the kinks out, but it's passing 99.8% of AR tests. Nothing stopping you from trying JRuby on Rails now!
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How are other Java library maintainers dealing with the "deprecated for removal" security APIs? I can't just remove all references since there's checked exceptions involved, but I don't want to SuppressWarnings all over either.
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JRuby 9.4.2 is released with another round of compatibility fixes, some performance work, and quality-of-life improvements like color backtraces! Updating is recommended. Let us know if you have any new issues!
jruby.org/2023/03/08/jru
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I have a conundrum. The JFFI library JRuby uses for native calls must link to glibc on Linux. If we ship automatically built ext from GHA workflow, it binds to a newer glibc than is present on RHEL 7. I want to automate building on an old glibc on GHA, but not sure how.
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First leg of our driving trip to Florida and we made it to Nashville in time for ! Looking forward to punishing myself with their Shut the Click Up extreme chicken. I hope it's as painful as I remember!
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OH: "Yes... the holy spirit *does* give me crippling anxiety."
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It's the little things that keep you going.
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For JRuby 9.4.2 we're enabling colorized output of our IR and backtrace printers whenever the controlling terminal is a TTY. This feature has existed for years (I love it!) but most folks never knew about it.
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RT @rsim@ruby.social
headius Thank you for JRuby that I use every day for more than 12 years! Ruby / Rails / JRuby has changed my professional life as well.
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This year, is in Atlanta, in April, two weeks after . Same city, same month, and they even use the same CFP app. My talk was accepted for , so logically...
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Wow, the Ruby language came into being on this day 30 years ago. I only got to know Ruby about 19 years ago, just before Rails happened. Two years later I started full-time work on JRuby, which makes this my 16th year on the project and doing OSS for my job. Ruby changed my life!
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Beginner Go lessons at the Nutter residence! I almost never get to play, because I just can't get into online Go, so hopefully these guys will learn fast.
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What's more likely: Trump gave generously with no thought for himself; or he dumped palettes of expired Trump Water on Ohio so he could look the hero and take an overvalued deduction for donating a bunch of leftover crap from his failed bottled water company? Always a grifter.
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It's time again for Google's Summer of Code and the JRuby team is hoping to mentor a few projects this year! We've got everything from compiler work to cryptography to general Ruby compatibility. Stop by our Matrix chat or add your own ideas here!
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Chalk one up for the good guys! "Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI"
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Once in a while, in moments of weakness, I get the urge to finally implement Ruby's flip-flop operator. But I stay strong.
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Looking to do a quick flip JRuby 9.4.2 release very soon. If you have unaddressed issues blocking you, let us know. If you haven't tried updating to 9.4, now's the time to help us find undiscovered problems.
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Starting some discussions about bringing back the VM Tech Summit for 2024 (aka JVMLS Europe). Anybody interested? Doesn't have to just be JVM stuff either! CLR, JS, Ruby, Python, Rust, webasm, Erlang/Elixir... we'd like to cross-pollenate tech and ideas.
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Friends are people who make you take a selfie at 10pm on Sunday on the subway with a bit smile. Love you all folks :)
#jfokus
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Fun night watching the Superbowl at Stockholm! Lots of expats and Swedish NFL fans plus a new friend, Minnesota-native fan "Bradley" who turns 70 soon. Thanks to for joining me!
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I won't go into details but I just experienced my own "is it beets?" moment. So it really does happen!
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