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New comment by nithinbekal in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

nithinbekal — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:35:58 +0000

A Ruby-inspired typed programming language called Sapphire: https://github.com/sapphire-project/sapphire

I was reading the fantastic Crafting Interpreters book, and been wondering what it would be like to design a language from scratch. I really enjoy using Sorbet with Ruby, so wanted to design a small language with Ruby's object model, and a gradual type system.

Despite not knowing much programming language theory, I was able to make a surprising amount of progress over a couple of weekends using Claude Code, including building a simple version manager for the language - https://github.com/sapphire-project/facet

New comment by nithinbekal in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nithinbekal — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:50:53 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by nithinbekal in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nithinbekal — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:44:32 +0000

Blog: https://nithinbekal.com/

Photography: https://photos.nithinbekal.com/

Directory of free technical books: https://devlibrary.org/

New comment by nithinbekal in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

nithinbekal — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:14:00 +0000

> Four hundred and sixty books is not a scale problem. Knowing when to delete working code is not something an AI can decide for you.

This is such a key thing I remind myself when I build apps like this for myself. I have a similar app that has a page with 900-odd ratings, and another with 550 owned books. I decided that I won't bother with infinite scroll or complex search and filtering until my browser can no longer handle rendering that data. "Find in page" works well enough for me for now.

What's New in Ruby 4.0

nithinbekal — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-4-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382195

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

What's New in Ruby 4.0

nithinbekal — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:02:13 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-4-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298753

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nithinbekal in "Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)"

nithinbekal — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:54:24 +0000

Sorbet now supports inline RBS signatures, which I find a lot more readable. If you use VS code with Ruby LSP, the syntax highlighting is pretty great for the signatures too.

https://sorbet.org/docs/rbs-support

New comment by nithinbekal in "Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?"

nithinbekal — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:51:03 +0000

I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just has the features of Pocket that I was using.

https://bukmark.me/

What's New in Ruby 3.4

nithinbekal — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 02:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42512729

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What's New in Ruby 3.4

nithinbekal — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450728

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rails 8.0.0.beta1 Released

nithinbekal — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.0.beta1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664683

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nithinbekal in "Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby"

nithinbekal — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:01:55 +0000

Wouldn't that be too similar to NoMethodError? I recently came across the idiom in Smalltalk, where you would call subclassResponsibility:

    someMethod:
      self subclassResponsibility

I've suggested the name in the ruby bug tracker issue here:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18915

Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError in Ruby

nithinbekal — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 02:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/abstract-methods-notimplementederror-ruby/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40008934

Points: 52

# Comments: 25

Numeric operations on value objects in Ruby

nithinbekal — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/numeric-operations-value-objects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086701

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Long exposure images from videos

nithinbekal — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/long-exposure-video/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39005810

Points: 23

# Comments: 3

What's New in Ruby 3.3

nithinbekal — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-3-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38767769

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by nithinbekal in "Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL"

nithinbekal — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:25:13 +0000

That's from 6 years ago. Shopify has used Rails' main branch since 2019.

https://shopify.engineering/living-on-the-edge-of-rails

New comment by nithinbekal in "Ruby Tip – Interactive debugging without the need for gems"

nithinbekal — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:21:32 +0000

Yes, you can with irb:debug, which you can enter by typing debug one you're inside a binding.irb session.

New comment by nithinbekal in "Ruby Tip – Interactive debugging without the need for gems"

nithinbekal — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:25:57 +0000

While this was true for a long time, Ruby's built in irb and debug gems have improved dramatically in the past couple of years. To the point that I've switched to them from pry+byebug that I've been using for years.

Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster

nithinbekal — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://railsatscale.com/2023-09-18-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-runs-shopify-s-production-code-15-faster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579926

Points: 175

# Comments: 154