Announcing the #GemFellowship, a grant program from Gem Coop and Contributed Systems! If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply! APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH. Details: gem.coop/fellowship/ Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Thanks Heroku, that's highly unhelpful. I sure hope whatever webhook you've deleted didn't do something important with something somewhere... 😐

Pushed a new release of github.com/substancelab..., fixing a somewhat esoteric bug and adding official support for Ruby 3.4. #ruby

Whenever I'm on a project using minitest, I sorely miss rspecs ability to run specific examples, or lines, or directories, or focused examples, or .. or ...

Commodore C16 > Commodore Plus/4 > Amiga 500 > Amiga 1200 > Pentium something > Some other Intel PC > iBook G4 > Intel MacBook Pro

github.com/substancelab... is now updated with Flowbite 4 componets and styling, ready for easier themability. #rails #opensource #flowbite #tailwindcss

It’s never complete. That’s why you need to ship. And also why you need to keep at it, after shipping. (Not move on to another thing that’s incomplete, and also not working.)

Another week, another hug-ops day for Cloudflare?

I have a customer with an old, Turbolinks based iOS/Android app. We'd love to modernize and upgrade to Hotwired Native. Who do I talk to that has experience with a migration like that? #rails #hotwired #ios #android

Ordered a bunch of stuff from Amazon on black friday. Over the weekend, they cancelled the order with no real explanation as to why. Emailed them monday asking what the heck? Clever way of not having to honor black friday discounts? 😬

Jeg vidste slet ikke at man kunne komme i kontakt med sin kommune via statsministeren! Smart nok alligevel. 🙄

There’s an interesting story here, I’m sure 🤔

The three hardest problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and explaining to your family what you do for a living

The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two things: uncertainty and complexity. Code is sometimes an asset and sometimes a liability, but itself has no meaning outside the context of those two factors.

How about no?!

Happy "wow, the internet is pretty centralized and we should probably do something about it" day

“if the web is going to survive the next wave of complexity, automation, and expectation – we need to remember how to build it properly” Why semantic HTML still matters www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...

PURE CINEMA watch this robot reveal video with sound on for maximum effect

Go home, Copilot, you're drunk

Friendly reminder: If the engineers at your company don't have access to the right keys / logs / observation tools, you can't blame them when the app is slow or down, when it takes a long time to get back to normal operation.

Someone pointed me at the eductation version of PICO-8 oh god someone stop me please #idonthavetimeforthis #game #gamedev #pico8

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Love the "Marketing mode" toggle on sentry.io/welcome/ 😆

One of these days I'll learn to spell enqueued.

You know you're day is going downhill the moment you have to bundle open actionpack to help debug an issue 😭

Every so often you have a small script that needs to be run on your staging or production server, but committing and ...

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now): "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

For your professional goals, make a habit of just steadily putting points on the board, consistently doing a little bit steadily, even if you’re bad at it sometimes. You’ll be amazed at how quickly successes start to compound. Don’t let your job get in the way of your career.

Fuck apps - build websites.

Dear recruiter, if a quick phone call is enough to figure out if things make sense, it is possible to include a short description of the gig in the initial email...

People who use excel needs things be accurate. I just don't understand who thought this was a good idea.

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Got inline pagination up and running thanks to Pagy 43(!) and Turbo Frames 🤘 #ruby #rails #uchi

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Does a sample Rails application exist that could be used for education or demos or similar? Something that demonstrates most Rails features, but isn't too complex to follow? Preferably with sample data?

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Is there any way to debug what classnames Tailwind finds in what source files, in particular to find out why it hasn't found some specific classnames 🤨 Feel like I've tried every combination of path in my @source now tailwindcss.com/docs/detecti...

Hi folks, I am the president of the Ruby Central board. I don’t have time to reply to posts individually, but I do want to make clear that recent changes to permissions in our open source projects were done in collaboration with the organization’s leadership and not by one person unilaterally 🧵

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

I sure hope this “partnership” is just a browser extension and not some bullshit deeper integration into @1password.bsky.social

One of my favorite pet peeves is instance variables in partials. Unfortuntaly, I still encounter these in actual production code. #Rails mentalized.net/journal/2025...

"If you're actually an impostor, it's not a syndrome" 😂 www.youtube.com/shorts/xBilK...

Got a fairly solid (🤞) I18n implementation set up in my little automated admin thingy project #wip #rails #opensource #uchi

Typical day in life of a web dev

Did Firefox change something that suddenly makes my (webpacker-based 🙄) assets not being served in a Rails application? 🤨

‼️ Friends, please pay attention: grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules if you found it, don't panic: update dependency remove npm cache