Ruby: for the love of god, stop using sudo

A summary of all the discussions about ruby bundle using sudo to install gems without asking the user.

Fixing Ruby gems installation once and for all

ruby bundle by default installs gems into system directories calling sudo without asking the user, let's fix that.

My tone doesn’t make me wrong, or how I convinced the Ruby project to fix an inconsistency

Back in 2012 I stumbled upon an inconsistency in Ruby's handling of time zones which took me a lot of discussions to get fixed, but eventually I managed to get it done. Essentially this didn't work: DateTime.strptime('0 +0100', '%s %z') The time zone part (+0100) was ignored. If you are not familiar with strptime/strftime, the …

Good taste

I finally managed to write my illustration of what good taste in code looks like based on an example Linus Torvalds presented in his TED interview

Matemáticas de la revocación de mandato

Para la revocación de mandato el INE redujo el número de casillas necesarias un 70%, sin embargo no redujo la lista nominal. ¿Cómo? Incrementando la capacidad de todas las casillas al triple. Como poner a nueve mujeres a hacer un bebé en un mes.

dot-team: a new way of managing dotfiles

dot-team is a new project with the aim of sharing configurations in a distributed and collaborative way

xfce-config-helper 0.1 released

Over the years I've tried many ways to store my Xfce configuration in a way that is easier to read and maintain, and ultimately I ended up creating my own format and developed a tool to make use of it. Xfconf Xfce's configurations are handled with Xfconf, a hierarchical configuration system. Essentially configurations are grouped …

Refactoring JavaScript promise tests

I've been writing some tests for promises in QUnit, and I noticed many areas of opportunity to simplify the code. Tests in QUnit are simple: test('error check', assert => { const error = 'Bad Request'; assert.equal(error, 'Bad Request'); }); Not so much when promises are involved: test('promise', assert => { const done = assert.async(); /* …

Cambios en la distribución del ingreso en México (2018-2020)

El Producto Interno Bruto suele ser la única métrica en la que muchos se enfocan para medir el progreso económico de un país, pero cualquier análisis a cualquier nivel demuestra que no es suficiente, incluso para medir un pantalón necesitas al menos dos números. Por si fuera poco, cuando ésta métrica disminuye, muchos tienden a …

How not to ban a prolific git developer

My defense of presumed code of conduct violations.