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February 8, 2024 I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years. While I previously wrote about leaving GitLab to work on Inko, I never discussed what it was like working for GitLab between 2015 and 2021. There are two reasons for this: I was suffering from burnout, and didn't have the energy to revisit the last six years of my life

In 2013, I had an idea: "what if I were to build my programming language?". Back then my idea came down to "an interpreted language that mixes elements from Ruby and Smalltalk", and not much more. Between 2013 and 2015 I spent time on and off trying different languages (C, C++, D and various others I can't remember) to see which one I would use to build my language in. While this didn't help me fi

November 27, 2011Pry is a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) that was written as a better alternative to IRB. It comes with syntax highlighting, code indentation that actually works and several other features that make it easier to debug code. I stumbled upon Pry when looking for an alternative to both IRB and the way I was debugging my code (placing puts all over the place, I think it's called "Puts Dri