Weeknotes: 14 August to 18 August 2023

What I have found gripping

• Writing integration tests in Rails is a fantastic way to try out different use cases for applications

• Solving a technical challenge in fewer lines of code makes a difference

• Running a test suite and working through error messages before tests pass is fascinating

• There isn’t an equivalent to the Ruby switch statement in Python. From version 3.10.0, the Match Statement in Python is all I could find

What I have read

• Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

• How to Use the Match Statement in Python, Matteo

• Little factories, Joel Drapper

• Aria-describedby, Mozilla

• Using the aria-describedby attribute, Mozilla

Featured quote

Write not what you know, but what you want to know.

What I have listened to

Rooftop Ruby Podcast

19: CSS, Stimulus, PhlexUI?

What I have watched

RubyConf Mini 2022: Empathetic Pair Programming with Nonviolent Communication by Stephanie Minn

Further reading and resources

In English

• Managing Multiple Python Versions With pyenv, Logan Jones

In French

• Intelligence artificielle : prendre en compte ses risques concrets, plutôt que de potentielles menaces existentielles, Nuria Oliver et al.

• Pourquoi continuer d’apprendre à écrire à la main dans un monde d’IA, Lucinda McKnight & Maria Nicholas

• Les compétences relationnelles, une lacune à combler pour les chatbots, Shirish C. Srivastava, Anuragini Shirish & Shalini Chandra

In Spanish

• Inteligencia artificial: riesgos reales frente a amenazas hipotéticas, Nuria Oliver et al.

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