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A deep, practical guide to reading flame charts in Chrome DevTools, spotting expensive functions, and validating performance improvements.

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Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #​788 — February 19, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The Outcomes of Last Week's Ru... Read more Originally appeared on Ruby Weekly. #​788 — February 19, 2026 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly The Outcomes of Last Week's Ruby 'Dev Meeting' — Last week I mentioned a meeting was taking place where lead core team members would answer questions around proposals, features, and bugs. Here are the rough notes of what happened, but a few quick highlights: Matz gave the thumbs up for allowing trailing commas in method signatures. autoload_relative was accepted as a way to auto-load relative files. Dir.scan is coming as a way to more efficiently scan directories. The Ruby Core Team AI Should Be Actionable: Outcomes Over Hype — Pragmatic AI… Show less