Today I learned that the “~>” operator used in Gemfiles is called “twiddle wakka”: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/123 , and used to be called “spermy operator”.
My day, it is made 😀
Now I’ll be off to check if our Gemfile is spermy enough…
Have a look at this: https://medium.com/carwow-product-engineering/emoji-driven-development-in-ruby-2d54264f7b08
Isn’t that just grand? 😀 It’s been quite a while (it might be 15 years or so) since I stumbled upon this little unusual programming language from Japan, which I soon fell in love with. Matchmaker was the weird, quirky, clever code-art that _why the lucky stiff made. Sadly he just up and info-suicided all his online stuff and was gone. This reminds me of his stuff 🙂
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