byroot’s blog
Various ramblings.
- Posts
- 27 from 15 Dec 2024 to 13 Aug 2026
- Posting
- now and then (5 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
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2026 5
2025 18
- Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?
- Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy
- Unlocking Ractors: generic instance variables
- What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?
- Unlocking Ractors: class instance variables
- Unlocking Ractors: object_id
- Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
- The Pitchfork Story
- What's The Deal With Ractors?
- There Isn't Much Point to HTTP/2 Past The Load Balancer
- Guardrails Are Not Code Smells
- So You Want To Remove The GVL?
- Why Does Everyone Hate fork(2)?
- The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
- Instrumenting Thread Stalling in Ruby Applications
- Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 7
- Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 6
- Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 5