The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think. -— Bill de Blasio https://r.eali.st/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z https://r.eali.st/hello-world/ 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z <p>This post appears on all three sites. The <code>sites:</code> line at the top decides where a post shows up.</p> https://r.eali.st/why-i-still-write-ruby/ 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z <p>Every few years someone tells me Ruby is finished. Every few years I keep using it anyway, mostly for small tools like the one that builds this site.</p> <h2>The short version</h2> <ul> <li>It reads like prose, which matters when you come back to code months later.</li> <li>The standard library covers most of what a small script needs.</li> <li><code>ERB</code> and <code>YAML</code> are built in, so this whole blog needs one gem.</li> </ul> <pre><code class="language-ruby">posts.select { |post| post.sites.include?(site.key) } </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>Boring tools are a feature, not a bug.</p> </blockquote> <p>That one line above is the whole trick behind serving three blogs from one folder of posts.</p>