Aaron Patterson

It looks like finding an encoding by name [is just a hash lookup](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/eb4b2b96d048920258bd1f00622e60af25d8e1d6/encoding.c#L634-L644) (given the encoding has been loaded once already), so I don't think we need to worry about...

@piki do you know if payloads usually have homogenous encodings? If stuff is usually UTF-8, maybe we could only add extra encoding information if it's _not_ UTF-8. If strings are...

Ok, I added two new types to the protocol. One type is for UTF-8 strings, and one type is for "other" encoded strings. Strings tagged as ASCII-8BIT will use the...

@fredizzimo wow! I can't wait! I'll have 2 Infinity ErgoDox soon, so I can test with chaining and add support (following your examples of course).

Also it should definitely crash. MySQL2 isn't compaction friendly yet, we need to introduce this PR: https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1192 and possibly other changes

Actually I'm totally wrong. We just pin references in mysql2, so everything should work correctly. 🤔

Looks like there might have been a problem installing mysql2. Can you try re-bundling and see if that fixes it?

@mireksawicz are you able to do `gem install mysql2 -v 0.5.4`? This error is due to the C extension not being built, but you should have seen an error when...

I was reading through the code, and I can see how this would be an issue. I'm just going to dump some thoughts here, but I don't have any ideas...

I don't think the bell was previously available via the Python API, but they made it available here: https://github.com/tenderlove/analog-terminal-bell/issues/4 I think it's possible via the nightly build now so we...