Two scales can be identical in construction yet different in musical behavior. Why modes aren't just rotations of a major scale.

I caught up briefly with Blue Ridge Ruby organizer Jeremy Smith to talk about speaking, blogging, conferences, and why you should come to Blue Ridge Ruby.

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Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #​790 — March 5, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly ruby-prof 2.0: The Tracing Profile... Read more Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #​790 — March 5, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly ruby-prof 2.0: The Tracing Profiler for CRuby — Now celebrating its 21st birthday(!), ruby-prof remains a great way to figure out what’s slowing your app down, particularly if you want to see exact call counts and precise timings that tracing profilers offer (as opposed to sampling profilers - see a comparison here). v2.0 adds Ruby 4.0 support, flame graph visualizations, improved docs, and more. Savage, Kaes, Maeda, et al. 💡 As ruby-prof's 'comparisons' page shows, tools like Stackprof, rbspy, and Vernier are also useful for profiling, each with their own… AI Is Only as Good as Your… Show less

You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit that the oil companies have been working hard to abolish ICE since before most of them were born

Use Watchtower on Ubuntu to automate Docker image updates and keep running containers automatically redeployed and up to date.

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One of the biggest problems for modern development teams is securely storing credentials. As organizations scale to manage hundreds or thousands of API keys, passwords, tokens, and certificates acr... Read more One of the biggest problems for modern development teams is securely storing credentials. As organizations scale to manage hundreds or thousands of API keys, passwords, tokens, and certificates across distributed cloud environments, secrets management best practices are a prerequisite, not an option. It’s a key pillar of application security, compliance, and ultimately preventing a potentially ... Read more The post Secrets Management Best Practices and Guide appeared first on Cycode. Show less

In this tutorial, we examine the powerful, new Qwen3.5 model suite from Qwen Team. We will discuss it's characteristics, and show how you can access Qwen3.5 today with Ollama on a Gradient GPU Drop... Read more In this tutorial, we examine the powerful, new Qwen3.5 model suite from Qwen Team. We will discuss it's characteristics, and show how you can access Qwen3.5 today with Ollama on a Gradient GPU Droplet! Show less