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How an hour prompting OpenAI Codex to keep making a piece of Ruby code smaller revealed some neat code golfing tricks and reimplemented an obscure trick from 1976. My dad was always bemused by the investigators in shows like CSI when they’d ask for an image to be enhanced beyond credibility. “Enhance!” “Zoom!” “Look around the corner!” Now, in 2026, I feel…
A complete look at what Spinel is, how it works, where it came from, what it can/can’t do, and where it might eventually fit into the broader Ruby ecosystem. What is Spinel? From the README : Spinel compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables. It performs whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code, achieving significant speedups over CRuby. Spinel is…
Twenty years ago – on May 13, 2006 – I said “Hello world” on this blog, which ran non-stop through to October 2014 whereupon I devoted my efforts to Ruby Weekly instead. Well.. Ruby Inside is coming back! I have lot of Ruby related things I want to blog about, but I kept putting it off as I didn’t have a good venue to use.. so why not bring Ruby Inside back?