Jake Zimmerman

blog.jez.io

A collection of blog posts about programming, software, types, programming languages, Sorbet, Vim, Markdown, and more.

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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

2024434 points271 comments Career & Management details

I love bug squash interviews.

Code Review from the Command Line

2021169 points34 comments Software Engineering details

I do the bulk of my code reviews from the command line, especially when reviewing larger changes. I've built up a number of tools and config settings that help me dig into the nuances of the code I'm reviewing, so that I can understand it better than if I were just browsing online.

Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax

2025136 points89 commentscited by 5Programming Languages details

A discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve.

Ruby's private keyword is weird

2023109 points38 comments Programming Languages details

Ruby's `private` keyword means something different compared to basically all other object-oriented languages. Most other languages don't even have a feature matching what Ruby calls `private`, but incredibly, Scala does, which it calls `protected[this]` (meaning