A Tale of Three Gems & Other News
But first… I bought an Apple Neo laptop. Why? I had a perfectly cromulent 17″ Linux laptop running all of my software and development tools etc. I had more than…
Loose Threads
Ruby 4.0 and the Unraveling of a Virtual Sweater The latest major iteration of the Ruby language was released on 25-Dec-2025 and I decided to ignore it. I had been…
Docs: A Documentation Repository
Documentation is the neglected side quest of software development. Programmers and software engineers like to build logical solutions to digital problems. They don’t like describing their work, especially considering that…
Gemz: A Ruby Gem Repository
Welcome to the grand unveiling. My repository is functionally complete, at least as far as Phase One is concerned. The first phase of this project is to replace the old…
Turning 60: The Curtain Opens on Act IV
During this past Halloween weekend, I was in a Montréal pub with my friend, Marc Guenette, celebrating the second half of my birthday travels and rooting for the Toronto Blue…
Flux Time: Back to the Future
flux /fləks/ n. :: the action or process of flowing or flowing out. “the flux of men and women moving back and forth” Things are in a great state of…