@thehale.dev - Joseph Hale

14 Apr 2026 00:18 +0000

My latest delightful discovery is #Ruby's `retry` keyword. Use it in an exception handler to re-run the entire begin clause *chef's kiss* Docs: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/language/exceptions_md.html#retrying

01 Apr 2026 17:50 +0000

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11 Feb 2026 20:18 +0000

`frozendict` has officially been accepted as part of #Python 3.15! https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-814-add-frozendict-built-in-type/104854/121 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

27 Jan 2026 19:06 +0000

DRY code is pretty good. DRY teams, not so much. Open source is just as much about the people it builds up as it is about the projects/code those people then build and share. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

19 Jan 2026 18:42 +0000

Happy #Epochalypse Day! It's T minus 12 years until the world faces new set of Y2K-type issues. Why?

17 Dec 2025 00:18 +0000

It's fun when framework/library APIs make me smile. Check out `ActiveRecord.forty_two` https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/FinderMethods.html#method-i-forty_two

01 Dec 2025 18:51 +0000

Looks like #Python 3.15 will include a built-in, immutable `frozendict` type. "Using an immutable mapping as a function parameter’s default value avoids the problem of mutable default values." There are other benefits too (e.g. `frozendict`s are hashable).

03 Nov 2025 19:18 +0000

And it's now part of Mona OS, the badge's operating system! https://github.com/badger/home/pull/65 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

29 Oct 2025 18:38 +0000

If you're at #GitHubUniverse, I just wrote a custom filesystem app for the hackable badges!

14 Oct 2025 17:22 +0000

#atproto app idea: Sharing personal context between AI model providers...

20 Sep 2025 07:13 +0000

My "Habit Sync for @todoist.com" app is about to get a significant update, so here are some "behind the scenes" of what it took. - 9 major version upgrades of #ReactNative - Writing my own component library - Translating #Java to #Kotlin @github.com #ZeroToMergedContest

15 Sep 2025 14:43 +0000

"It felt a bit like the opening of 'A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy' ..." #RailsWorld 2025

13 Sep 2025 23:10 +0000

"The message was clearly that individuals, like you and me, have the power to build things to improve the world – we don’t have to wait for someone else" #RailsWorld 2025

08 Sep 2025 21:33 +0000

@thehale/react-native-keep-awake is now in the #ReactNative Directory!

08 Sep 2025 16:41 +0000

"Thank you for existing", "I'm 11 years old and ... your library made it possible" It's amazing how far a single kind gesture can go.

06 Sep 2025 10:55 +0000

This thread reminds me of Excel's formula evaluator, which lifts the values of each expression into the current context. It's so helpful for the debugging to come to me, where I retain full context. Picture Source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/6470263/14765128 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

12 May 2025 15:16 +0000

"Error: Invalid file name. Only characters on the basic multilingual plane are supported." What do you think this error message means? I ran into it recently while #debugging a migration of several hundred thousand documents. Here's what I learned: (1/4) https://jhale.dev/posts/detecting-basic-multilingual-plane/

01 May 2025 13:22 +0000

It's officially #MaintainerMonth! To celebrate, I just published psas.dev which has README badges maintainers can use to communicate boundaries for their #opensource projects. https://psas.dev

02 Apr 2025 14:19 +0000

Explore an interactive report of who wrote each line of code in a #git repository! Git Authorship now supports .𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚊𝚙 and .𝚐𝚒𝚝-𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎-𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎-𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚜 files to provide even cleaner and more organized reports.

22 Mar 2025 17:14 +0000

New type of post for me... New type of music for my friend @DHeusta... I had a blast recording the intense Latin chorus! If you've ever felt constrained by others' expectations, Against the Grain is for you! #AgainstTheGrainSong #DHeusta #BillboardTop100 <-- coming soon 😜

19 Mar 2025 14:43 +0000

Forgetting the --𝚛𝚖 option when running throwaway #docker containers can clutter your computer. But there is a short #bash command to remove all those stopped containers docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep Exited | cut -d " " -f 1) How it works: https://jhale.dev/posts/remove-stopped-docker-containers/

14 Mar 2025 18:53 +0000

Have you heard of the 𝚐𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚠𝚎𝚋 command? It creates a live website to explore any #git repository on your computer. It's #GitHub from before there was GitHub. Here's how to set it up: https://jhale.dev/posts/gitweb-on-ubuntu-wsl/

10 Jan 2025 06:56 +0000

If the test suite crashes locally, it's hard to convince someone to write tests... Ran into exactly this recently. We have a major test suite which executes inside a Docker container to match our production environment, but those tests stopped booting on a coworker's laptop.

09 Jan 2025 01:27 +0000

Solved a really involved bug today... Some of our B2B customers were unable to email invoices to their clients, delaying incoming payments.

11 Dec 2024 01:04 +0000

Well, I'm officially a publisher on #NPM! Over the weekend I upgraded a #react-native app to the New Architecture, including a custom native module I wrote circa React Native 0.68 https://github.com/SpeedcuberOSS/react-native-location-status

05 Dec 2024 22:36 +0000

There's something beautiful about watching #playwright auto-click across a browser. Or maybe I'm simply grateful that I don't have to personally click thousands of buttons to export data from an old application that doesn't provide an API...

04 Dec 2024 16:42 +0000

Try googling "code" XD The programming language I wrote a few years ago uses a `.code` extension XD https://github.com/thehale/codeable [contains quote post or other embedded content]

04 Dec 2024 05:22 +0000

Just updated my open-source LaTeX resume template "Expressive Resume". Now with dedicated commands for promotions to a new \𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚎, an academic \𝚍𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎, an \𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍 or accolade, and a personal \𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝. Spacing and formatting has also updated for better readability. https://github.com/thehale/expressive-resume