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#Ruby 4.0.4 is released. You should find it in spite oof the version number. 😄 ➙ www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026...

A cool project to protect the #ocean ➙ youtu.be/NSrWTiNvb2w?...

It may be a bit silly… yet here's my #ROT13 (and ROT5 for decimal digits) version written in #Ruby ➙ rubygems.org/gems/rot135. GitHub repo ➙ github.com/s2k/rot135

Timeline cleanse.

“The science is clear: The AMOC is teetering on the edge of collapse, and the window to act is closing,” Watson said. “Yet global leaders remain paralysed by short-term politics and denial.”

This looks really interesting for… writing all kinds of documents ➙ quarkdown.com #Quarkdown

Today is #EarthDay. No matter our differences, there's one thing we all share: Earth is our home. As so many works of fiction and the daily news tell us: We better take good care of our planet. 1/3

So sad, got a rejection info for some proposals for one of my favourite conferences. 🥹 Too bad it's also a bit on the costly side – and I'm an independent tester, so would have to pay for everything myself *plus* not make any money during the conference days. 🤷‍♂️

Has anyone I know (or don't know) used www.lemonsqueezy.com to sell stuff? What's your experience? #Selling #Online #Zine

Nice: I got another PR for a #Ruby gem (RedCloth for parsing Textile and generating HTML) accepted & merged. 😃👍

I love it, when a zine comes together. 😁 #soon

Wenn du 3.500 € brutto im Monat verdienst, musst du künftig 122,50 € im Monat für die Mitversicherung deiner/deines Partnerin/Partners bezahlen. Wenn du 100.000 € brutto im Monat hast, musst du 203,40 € zuzahlen. #SozialeGerechtigkeit.

Wäre es evtl. sinnvoller gewesen die Mineralölsteuer zu erhöhen, und alle SteuerzahlerInnen über die Steuererklärung o. ä. zu entlasten? Dann würde das Geld zumindest nicht bei den Ölkonzernen hängen bleiben. … Nein, ich glaube durchaus nicht, dass die die reduzierte Mineralölsteuer weiterreichen.

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I just published a new version of "Fast Feedback Using Ruby" at @leanpub.bsky.social ➙ leanpub.com/fastfeedback... What's new: Covers Ruby 4 and updates the used Ruby Gems #fastfeedback #ruby

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Congrats, #Apple, on 50 years of thinking different 🎉 www.apple.com/50-years-of-... Take care to stay on that side of history that preserves humanity, liberty & privacy. We are counting on you 🗽🌈🦄 This means a lot to me, as you've been a part of my life for 30+ years now. Thanks & looking forward!

Many years ago, I wrote a blog post for @fqxi.org on my personal feelings about human spaceflight -- specifically, missions to the Moon. It's not accessible on their website now but as the author of it I feel I can share it here: web.archive.org/web/20130312...

@ast-news.bsky.social Hi, I received an invitation for a special membership (I'm a lifetime champion member already), but have not received the login code yet (after > 1 day), my password isn't accepted and after using the reset link, I didn't receive anything either.

Sometimes 'old' stuff still works. One nice example is this process I am using when working on one of my books published at @leanpub.bsky.social ➙ seasidetesting.com/2020/03/28/w...

Ah, daylight saving time - all of the jetlag, none of the travel... 🤪

It's one of the two days of the year when I open uhr.ptb.de 😀🕟📆

It's 0 (zero!) days until the call for papers ends for @agiletdzone.bsky.social 20206. ➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com Better get your proposals submitted. – Good luck to everyone who does! #agileTD

Choosing a font is definitely the most complicated part of a web project. All my respect to the graphic designers.

Good grief… OK I accept that #Unicode isn't trivially easy to process correctly, but there's no reason to get it wrong so badly and visibly in so many places. 🤷🏼‍♂️😮‍💨

we just added a way to merge accounts to library.wizardzines.com, so that if you've used more than one email to buy zines you can see all your zines in one place!

Cool, the city where I was born has a mayor from the Green Party. 😎 #Munich #München

The Ides of Mac.

What just about every day of 2026 feels like.

When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it probably already is...

AI turns the faucet wide open. More code, more output, better looking dashboards. But nobody's watching the bathtub. A systems thinking look at why more output isn't more value.

What amazes me every now and then is that there is software out there that actually works.

Aus meiner Sicht versagen Medien gerade komplett. Es ist keine Meinungsfreiheit, wenn man Faschisten in von Egomanen moderierte Quatschrunden einlädt. Ein nachträglicher Faktencheck ändert daran nichts. Das gilt auch für Foren, die nichts gegen "Flood the zone with shit" tun. #Medienversagen

Public Service Announcement: 36 days left to submit a proposal to @agiletdzone.bsky.social 2026 ➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com #AgileTD #conference #proposal

OK, wir wissen das er früher Prinz war. Es besteht kein Grund das in irgendeiner Schlagzeile noch mal klarzustellen. (Ausser der Sensationslust der jeweiligen Publikation, natürlich) 🙄🤷🏼‍♂️

Pairing bis Mob Programming—und beleuchtet, wie KI-Assistenten die Gleichung verändern. Nicht durch Ersatz menschlicher Zusammenarbeit, sondern durch neue Dynamiken, die frisches Denken über Wissenstransfer, Lernen und nachhaltige Auslieferung erfordern. www.caimito.net/de/blog/2026...

I built a system to make me faster. It worked. Then I had to build another system to make me stop. "I Removed the Friction. That Was the Problem." blog.northerntest.se/i-removed-th...

Fans of #starwars and #chucknorris must love this www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTQ...

So it _seems_ to me that #Discord is going the #Enshittification way as well. OK, we'll see how turns out. And while I'm hoping the best… you can find me as the_traveller#0042 on @fluxer.app 🤷🏼‍♂️

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

It's not enough to be human these days. Be humane, too. To me being human is a question of your DNA, being humane is more than an additional 'e'.

CN Transfeindlichkeit Tod Suizid #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

Weil Jeff #Bezos ein Unterstützer von Donald Trump ist, stoppt Neil #Young den Verkauf seiner Musik über #Amazon. Wer auf Grönland wohnt, bekommt den kompletten Katalog des Musikers hingegen künftig umsonst. www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik...

Lange habe ich interessante Forschung gemacht. In leichteren Zeiten; aus reiner Begeisterung. Es war ein Traum. Aber die Zeiten haben sich geändert. Der Traum ist vorbei. Und die Begeisterung weicht der Verantwortung. Dazu räumen wir jetzt um. Im Labor. Und im Kopf. Vom Interessanten zum Relevanten.

Want to find your ideal audience for books or consulting? Or influence an audience to consider change? Just 50 hours remaining in my Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/johannarothman/effective-public-speaking?ref=9u6w59. Back it now! #Speaking #Kickstarter #ProjectWeLove

I'm working on an update for my book "Fast Feedback Using Ruby" to cover Ruby 4.0. ➙ leanpub.com/fastfeedback... If you already have this book, and would like additional content - or have other suggestions (read: #feedback), please let me know.

Enjoying a nice Sunday afternoon: After swimming, now reading Paul #McCartney's 'Wings' book while playing all my #Wings albums. Strange that this happened about 50 years – a half century! – ago. 😶‍🌫️