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I'm rereading "Radical Focus" to sharpen up my dislike of how OKRs are practiced.

I guess this is how we code now 🫠 tbh I'm not unhappy with the result, just disappointed in myself.

GitHub is now running Ruby 3.4.1

I wrote some high level thoughts to help make sense of the current reality of AI: https://island94.org/2025/1/how-im-thinking-about-ai-llms

I wrote about moving my static site blog from Jekyll to Parklife+Rails: https://island94.org/2025/1/living-parklife-with-rails-coming-from-jekyll

RubyConf 2024 talks are live on @rubyvideo.dev! 🥳

shouldve titled the piece "zones of ethical interest"

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