Garbage collection ebook available on gumroad

August 25, 2023

Hi! Exciting news to share—I recently put the ebook I wrote about Ruby garbage collection up on Gumroad. You can get your copy here. It dives deep into the...

Last day for ebook preorder!!

September 23, 2021

Thank you to all of you who have already preordered the ebook. I can't wait to share it with you soon! For any who haven't preodered it yet, today is the...

ebook available for preorder!!

September 17, 2021

Happy Friday! Ruby Garbage Collection in Under Two Hours is now available for preorder!! As a thanks for following along, please use the discount code...

GC.stat Mini Series Part Three: Pages

September 9, 2021

Happy Thursday! We’ll continue this mini email series with the next piece of the GC.stat hash: learning more about pages. As we discussed last time when...

GC.stat Mini Series Part Two: Slots

August 31, 2021

Hi! We’re continuing this week with learning about another bit of the output of GC.stat. GC.stat is a hash Ruby exposes that can give us incredible insight...

GC.Stat Mini Series Part 1: Counts

August 24, 2021

Hi! If you’ve ever run GC.stat before, you’ve likely seen output that looks something like this: { :count=>3025, :heap_allocated_pages=>347,...

What stops people from writing?

May 14, 2021

Hi! I’m trying a slightly new format for this newsletter, let me know what you think. Recent GC work I have two recent blog posts out in the GC Deep Dive...

Ruby GC Deep Dive: Generational GC

March 3, 2021

Hi! I just published the third blog post in the Ruby GC Deep Dive series about Ruby’s Generational GC if you’d like to read it. As always, feel free to...

Ruby GC Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep

February 17, 2021

Happy Wednesday! I've written the second blog post in the Ruby GC Deep Dive series, and I'd love for you to check it out. It talks about the main algorithm...

Ruby GC Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS

February 3, 2021

Hi! First and foremost, thank you for subscribing to this email list. I'm incredibly excited to share my work with you. I'm always open to feedback -- just...