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Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/amazon-backs-program…

Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive | TechCrunch
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.

Wisconsin Public Radio is being destroyed by the current administration…
➡️ https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-public-radio-layoffs-cut-programs-federal-funding

Citing budget concerns, WPR lays off staff, cuts programs
Amid ongoing budget shortages and facing potential federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio has notified at least 15 staff members that they will be laid off.

Vance says U.S. 'not at war with Iran, we're at war with Iran's nuclear program' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-says-us-not-war-iran-re-war-irans-nuclear-program-rcna214329
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p24#a250622p24

Anti-graft agency charges SBU officer with bribery amid mounting pressure on anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/antigraft-agency-charges-sbu-officer.html

"O News Program, When Art Thou On?" Using the announcement of a single serving site to teach about the history of public broadcasting in Germany, well done @…!
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-when-art-thou-on/

Investigation: pages affiliated with RT, Sputnik, and other entities remained part of Facebook's ad revenue program months after being subject to EU sanctions (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sanctioned-russian-med…

Sanctioned Russian media still partnered with Facebook
Sanctioned pro-Russian media are still part of Facebook’s advertising revenue program, new research out Friday showed. Russian state broadcasters, including Rossiya Segodnya — the organizatio…

from my link log —
Optimizing a simple expression parser in Rust.
https://rpallas92.github.io/math-parser/
saved 2025-07-10 https://

DNC leader faces growing scrutiny amid party turmoil (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5361504-dnc-chair-ken-martin-pressure/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p15#a250622p15

As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth (Anthony Faiola/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/20/spain-immigrants-economy-progressive-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p107#a250620p107