# science history (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover science history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Getting started with Claude Code, on MacOS, with chruby and rspec](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/getting-started-with-claude-code-on-macos-with-chruby-and-rspec/) _2026-06-29 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ I ve been writing ruby and rails for nearly 20 years. A couple weeks ago, I had gotten code snippets from copy-paste in a chat window, but I hadn t even experimented with Claude Code or similar can write code to your file system tools. I know some people are now using LLM s to write all their Continue reading Getting started with Claude Code, on MacOS, with chruby and rspec ## [ActiveRecord neighbor vector search, with per-document max](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/activerecord-neighbor-vector-search-with-per-document-max/) _2026-02-18 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ I am doing LLM RAG with rails ActiveRecord, postgres with the pgvector extension for vector similarity searches, and the neighbor gem. I am fairly new to all of this stuff, figuring it out by doing it. I realized that for a particular use, I wanted to get some document diversity so i wanted to Continue reading ActiveRecord neighbor vector search, with per-document max ## [Help fund attorney for artist charged with transporting zines(?!?)](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/help-fund-attorney-for-artist-and-organizer-charged-with-transporting-zines/) _2025-12-04 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ i know Des Revol, and know them to be an incredibly kind, solid, reliable person. For real he s facing federal charges and threat of deportation because of subversive political pamphlets found in his trunk. Des was not at the Prairieland demonstration. Instead, on July 6, after receiving a phone call from his wife in jail Continue reading Help fund attorney for artist charged with transporting… ## [Whisper-generated transcripts used in presentation of archival video](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/whisper-generated-transcripts-used-in-presentation-of-archival-video/) _2025-07-16 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ Here at the Science History Institute, we have a fairly small, but growing, body of video/film in our Digital Collections, at present just over 100 items, around 70 hours total. We wanted to add transcripts/captions to these videos, for accessibility to those who are hearing impaired, for searchability of video transcript content, and for general Continue reading Whisper-generated transcripts used… ## [Using CloudFlare Turnstile to protect certain pages on a Rails app](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/using-cloudflare-turnstile-to-protect-certain-pages-on-a-rails-app/) _2025-01-16 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ I work at a non-profit academic institution, on a site that manages, searches, and displays digitized historical materials: The Science History Institute Digital Collections. Much of our stuff is public domain, and regardless we put this stuff on the web to be seen and used and shared. (Within the limits of copyright law and fair Continue reading Using CloudFlare Turnstile to protect certain pages… ## [Accessing capybara-screenshot artifacts on Github CI](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/accessing-capybara-screenshot-artifacts-on-github-ci/) _2024-12-05 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ We test our Rails app with rspec and capybara. For local testing, we use the capybara-screenshot plugin which Automatically save screen shots when a Capybara scenario fails , even when the tests were running in a headless browser you couldn t see at all. This can be very helpful in debugging tricky capybara failures, especially ones that Continue reading Accessing capybara-screenshot artifacts on… ## [Getting rspec/capybara browser console output for failed tests](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2024/10/08/getting-rspec-capybara-browser-console-output-for-failed-tests/) _2024-10-08 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ I am writing some code that does some smoke tests with capybara in a browser of some Javascript code. Frustratingly, it was failing when run in CI on Github Actions, in ways that I could not reproduce locally. (Of course it ended up being a configuration problem on CI, which you d expect in this case). Continue reading Getting rspec/capybara browser console output for failed tests ## [keyword-like arguments to JS functions using destructuring](https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/keyword-like-arguments-to-js-functions-using-destructuring/) _2024-10-02 · jrochkind · Bibliographic Wilderness_ I am, unusually for me, spending some time writing some non-trivial Javascript, using ES modules. In my usual environment of ruby, I have gotten used to really preferring keyword arguments to functions for clarity. More than one positional argument makes me feel bad. I vaguely remembered there is new-fangled way to exploit modern JS features Continue reading keyword-like arguments to JS functions…