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Short Adventures In Old Code
Apr 22, 2026I miss my code
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I have the privilege of updating (primarily) Rails applications from old, deprecated versions to new, shinier, supported versions. Maintenance like this falls lower down in priority as an application grows larger, gets more features, and needs to preserve stability, causing dependency updates and upgrades to stay in the nice-to-have or when we have time categories of work. Today I was working on updating an application from Rails 5.1 to 5.2.8.1 (the latest of 5.2.x at the time of writing), and i...
I use claude at work. I’m on a small team and my manager requested that I use it, so for now, I’ve started using it. One thing I’ve noticed with using an LLM is that with the frenetic pace of progress it pretends to provide, it makes you spend less time with your code. Deep understanding of the inner details of your code is much easier obtained while you sit among the code building it by hand. LLMs don’t prevent you from knowing whats going on. That knowledge, though, is now not built by experie...
yes it's mostly about blocks I meant to write my first post here about how I think using blocks in ruby is fun but then I got distracted thinking about how I get distracted. I forget when I need the & when using a block and when I don't, so I'm going to learn right now and post it here so I have a reference I can bookmark.