watch Minneapolis and learn from their example. no one will look out for your neighbors but you, no one will look out for you but your neighbors.

ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Wrote this paragraph 17 days ago, about the killing of Renee Good.

I'm looking for #Ruby or #Elixir work, can start immediately. Freelancer, getter-of-things-done, many years of experience, feel free to DM for more info. Can work worldwide. Happy to work with other languages/frameworks and devops as needed.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

the function of a system is what it does. fuck ICE, and additionally fuck the spineless controlled opposition party that enables the death squads while tweeting big talk

They murdered someone else in Minneapolis. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

New from me on states' rights in the zeitgeist (gift link): www.theverge.com/policy/86588...

New focus & blur shaders in Ghostty enabled by my recent PR. I made a little "emulator" for them on my site where you can test them out. I've been absolutely nerd sniped by these lately. martinemde.com/blog/ghostty...

✨ ICYMI, last week I published A Website To Destroy All Websites, an explainer on why the internet feels so bad to use, and what we can do to fix it. i hope you think it’s nice :) henry.codes/writing/a-we...

I’m gonna get snatched this new year. Gotta catchup with the baddie.

I'm looking for songwriter friends who'd like to do a regular FaceTime/whatever to workshop each others songs. I think a chance to give and receive kind and honest feedback would really help me. #songwriting

When people are saying it takes a weekend to put out an MVP these days with vibe coding, when it takes 2 months for me to fix projects after 20,000 line PRs from colleagues that were vibe coded. Like you’re not being serious.

My academic probation has been lifted after 18 years! I can finally take classes again!

Ernest Becomes Death

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

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! 💜

Who would you like to see keynote a Ruby event in 2026?

I'm working late, cos I'm a singerrrrr.

countless promising, bright young souls every month are tragically lost to Business Madness

guards. seize him. he’s already blogged about this 😮‍💨

Cloud service worker: Boss our entire service is down Boss: get in the dns Shinji

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

This bitch better compile!!!!

Took Monday off of work so that I can spend a 4 day weekend working, finishing the last of my freelance projects. Gotta take down that Sword of Damocles suspended above my head.

“XO Ruby exemplifies the Ruby community's dedication to uplifting diverse voices, and in cultivating our connections. It was the best. I'll be coming back. We're gonna throw one of these in SLC next year it was so fun. JIM CALL ME!” –Karl Oscar Weber on #XORubySanDiego

Sharing an spot for the weekend with @kow.fm was great!

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Saw Prey (2022) for the first time in theaters just now. Damn great film.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Breaking news: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected as the next mayor of New York City, defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and becoming the first Muslim and first of Indian descent to hold the office. https://wapo.st/47rlrDf

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

Zohran Mamdani - the first Indian American and the first Muslim mayor of New York City!! 🎉🎉

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

After talking with a man really bought in to using AI at work, I’m even ore determined to never use it. It just feels like brain rot.

Someone woke me up a whole month late. WHAT THE HELL!!!

“No matter how much we may be capable of learning from the past, it will not enable us to know the future.” - Hannah Arendt

In three days, I'm fucked Like, lose my house fucked

Look at these absolute units!

That's how you lead with integrity.

more so than the em dash, i find my self deeply wary of unordered lists with **bolded first sentences**, especially with nested ordered lists. simply reeks of roboslopping and it's totally ubiquitous in their discharge

Give @lorencrary.bsky.social some love, PSF made a hard call, but they made the right call: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... If you have the means consider a donation as well.

What the fuck is this shit.

The talk recordings from @rmrubyconf.bsky.social 2025 are now live on @rubyevents.org, go check them out! We also just shipped a new look for the featured section on the home page! 🎨

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.