## Notes and Corrections Before we get fully started here, a couple of notes on [Better Know Singleton Classes](https://noelrappin.com/blog/2025/01/better-know-a-ruby-thing-singleton-classes/), which, among other things, got mentioned on Hacker News, giving me comments there for the first time in years, maybe for the first time ever. One Hacker News comment suggested that...

It is time to Better Know what is perhaps the Ruby-iest of Ruby things, a feature that didn't even have an official name for several years, despite being critical to Ruby's Object-Oriented semantics. (It only just now occurs to me that there was no official name _in English_, I wonder...