Archive: 2007-05-19
Spooky action at a distance in Ruby
I spent some time on Friday trying to get to the bottom of a particularly strange effect in Ruby. Changing completely unrelated lines of code elsewhere in the project would change the behaviour of YAML and cause a test to fail.
Free the Windsors!
There’s something inherently absurd about the idea of hereditary rulers, but in a world where millions of people still believe in flying zombies it’s certainly not the most peculiar of the beliefs out there.