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Ruby 4.0!

Ruby 4.0 was released[1] on Christmas day! They also re-designed the Ruby website[2] and it is beautiful. You can tell a lot of love went into the new design. I’m not sure how they do it but the language continues to bring joy with each release.

# Output "I love Ruby"
say = "I love Ruby"
puts say

# Output "I *LOVE* RUBY"
say = say.sub("love", "*love*")
puts say.upcase

# Output "I *love* Ruby"
# five times
5.times { puts say }

References

  1. ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
  2. ruby-lang.org/en/

Published on 04 Jan 2026 at 12:15AM under . Tags

New Book for Christmas

I received a new book for Christmas, Disciplines of a Godly Man[1] by R. Kent Hughes. It has a lot of Godly wisdom and reminders about what men are called to, and it’s given me a fresh perspective. I’m only a few chapters in and already have a lot of work to do. Each chapter ends with a reflection. I need to go back and re-read each chapter at least twice to gather and internalize all of the wisdom.

It has been nice to take a break from the computer and dive deeper into this book. This season has been filled with many advancements in AI, which has made my life interesting and a little busier than usual for December (I’ll share more about that later). In the meantime, I wanted to get my first post for 2026 out. Here’s to many more.

References

  1. amazon.com/dp/1433569043

Published on 03 Jan 2026 at 04:08AM under . Tags