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Recently I was asked to complete a questionnaire, and one of the questions was broadly: On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is “Worse” and 5 is “Better” what is the world getting?

It’s only about 5 months later than I intended it to be, but this is the promised second article about Guix, after I gushed about it at the end of last year.

5 4 more working days left of 2025.

Guix, pronounced “geeks”, is a package manager for Linux systems.

Busy week of Christmas and end of school shenanigans which has kept us on our toes.

After writing rccgen last week.

I decided that instead of replacing my AirTags I’m just going to keep using them.

I found a few hours free this week and did some tinkering.

As predicted, it’s been a busy week.

I am sick, again.

We leave daylight savings time in the UK for another year.

I updated this side to use latest Bridgetown release.

Long time no see.

This is actually a combination of weeknotes for week 14 and week 15.

The clocks went forward this week.

I pushed a Feature Request into Ruby for the new modular GC feature we’re starting to work on.

Not a lot to report this week.

I arrived back home from Washington DC this Sunday.

I spoke about Ruby at the University of Sheffield on Tuesday this week.

The Armed popped up on my Discover Weekly this week with this banger of a song.

It’s been half term this week.

I finished the Prism eval work!

I wrote in my weeknotes recently that I wanted to rebuild my dev machine.

I’m tired.

I added tracking to this website.

My team and I are continuing to focus on getting the Ruby bootstrap tests (make btest in the CRuby repository) passing with Prism and it’s new compiler.

Starting to get back into the flow of work again.

I don’t normally worry about signal handling in lldb.

I got nerd sniped a little by a bug on the Ruby bug tracker recently.

So, Ruby, for whatever reason, has a bunch of easter eggs hidden in its VM.

Back in my retrospective on 2020 I mentioned that I’d picked up brewing beer as a pandemic hobby.

Introduction This is the second part in a series.

Measuring memory reads with perf mem Introduction to the different levels of memory One of the performance gains that’s been relevant to me in my work recently is data locality and cache performance.

Introduction (and raison d’être) Part 2 (a) of this post is now live here, where we move on to discussing our first GC algorithm My working life is currently spent working on the internals of Matz’s Ruby Interpreter(MRI) as part of the Ruby Infrastructure…

I’ve been listening to a lot of music this week.

Not much to report again this week.

Well.

It’s snowing.

4 weeks in and I broke my self-imposed rule of publishing weeknotes by Sunday night.

At some point this week Phoebe wanted to watch videos of Volcanos and Thunderstorms.

I failed to take many notes this week so I’m going to be doing this from memory.

First day back to work after a couple of weeks off and Slack dies as soon as the East coast wakes up.

I am jumping on the weeknotes bandwagon.

I’ve not written a post like this before but 2020 has been a year of firsts so let’s give it a go.

My monitor went bang last week, so I’ve been working on my laptop screen propped up on a pile of books.

In my last post about mechanical keyboards, I was getting ready to dip my toe into the weird and wonderful world of custom ergonomic keyboards.

Introduction Recently I’ve been getting some recurring pains in my back and arms.

The Every Day Carry (EDC) community is an internet subculture that seems to have originated with firearms enthusiasts in the USA and has slowly been spreading out to the rest of the internet.

I originally started my first personal site and blog in 2009 on the now defunct domain theshadowaspect.com (NSFW: I didn’t link this as it’s been taken over by a domain squatter who’s hosting porn).

I spend a lot of time using both OSX and Linux.