Announcing the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship! gem.coop/updates/2026...

Remember that tomorrow is your last day to apply for the 2026 Gem Fellowship! https://gem.coop/fellowship/ We will announce winners in Jan/Feb.

Should turkeys have been ruled kosher?

After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life. I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness. Join me in building a better future: okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

Matz is sponsored so we are sponsored

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

The events of the past week have still been really hard for me to process. The only way I can describe it is a nasty breakup of a decade-long relationship. I know people in the community are (rightfully) upset. I just ask that you remember individuals were directly hurt too.

Nothing says "we will ignore everything that is said in a Q&A" like scheduling it over Rosh Hashanah.

This is, at best, an extreme mischaracterization of what’s happened over the past week. As a member of the rubygems team for over a decade, Ruby Central’s actions happened without discussion with the maintainers team. Afterwords, the entire team spoke out against what had happened.

Today I’ll be mourning what’s happened to projects I have poured a third of my life into.

Today is my last day working full-time on RubyGems. While being able to focus on securing the Ruby packaging ecosystem has been a dream job, the time has come for me to move on from Ruby Central. I’ll still be maintaining RubyGems/Bundler/RubyGems.org, just not as my day job.

RV, a new tool by the creator of Ruby's Bundler, cuts down Ruby's install time from 10-40 minutes to mere seconds. By @lorainelawson.bsky.social feat. @indirect.io

If you’re at the conference in Amsterdam and have time to post about the talks but not about the fact the man on stage giving the keynote has been using his platform to promote fascist ideals…. we notice that

Just pushed a quick `rv` 0.1.1 release! The response from everyone has been so amazing, it’s restoring a bit of my faith in open source.

If you saw a podcast named “The $x Podcast” where $x=open source project, would you expect the podcast to feature maintainers of $x?

If you missed the RubyConf talk that @qrush.bsky.social and I gave, the recording is now available! 🎙️ The Evolution of Rails within RubyGems.org 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRR...

I’d like to announce my triumph of the day: finally got Completionist++ in Balatro!

For a tech conference in the US in 2025, what percentage of speakers from the CfP would you expect to be women? At what point would you be uncomfortable with that number being too low? Is 6/49 CfP speakers being women a red flag to you?

If you say you're looking for feedback, and then ignore anything that didn't come in your one chosen forum... do you want feedback or positive PR? I remember being taught the importance of meeting your customers where they are...

If you have thoughts about Ruby Central inviting a certain person to have a keynoting presence at RailsConf, I beg you to attend this and voice your concerns and make it clear the community has thoughts and feelings on the subject. bsky.app/profile/ruby...

Chag cheesecake day. May you enjoy your dairy without too much of a stomachache.

My views are my own, and clearly not those of my employer but: it sure doesn't feel great to be told to be excited about the latest headliner for our organization's conference. Feels really gross, in fact.

Two important CocoaPods updates: - @segiddins.me has shipped an update to trunk to not allow new pods to run scripts on your computer - I've updated the blog/site with a new header that counts down to the specs repo going read-only Info: blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Sp...

That’s me!

When @segiddins.me needed jruby-openssl features that were missing compared to the CRuby version, he just called into Java's security API from Ruby and added them! That's a true "power of JRuby" story!

A poem Today I witnessed a miracle A short ride from the most evil place on earth Grounds forever stained with blood and tears and horror There still stands a building Yes, there is a cemetery outside Yes, the cemetery has graves Yes, the cemetery carries the whispers of our foreparents

If you’re like me and curious about how adoption of sigstore is going in the #Ruby ecosystem, have I got the site for you! segiddins.github.io/are-we-attes...

🚨 Ruby Central is seeking a new Executive Director! In this role, you’ll oversee #RubyConf and #RailsConf, help expand our Open Source Program, and drive community engagement, marketing, and fundraising to ensure the org's long-term growth and sustainability.

The video RubyConf talk I helped deliver is now up! Go have a watch if you're interested in what we've done on RubyGems in the past year. youtu.be/yNylJiBI_H0

I led our work on this audit, and I'm really happy we did it. 1) We're in a good place 2) We know what to do to take things to the next level Thanks to Alpha-Omega & @trailofbits.bsky.social for making this possible! As always, feel free to reach out to me directly to discuss RubyGems security.

How is one supposed to end their twenties? Not with a bang, but with a _______

Reminder that publishing exploits in open source software without first notifying maintainers is a real @**hole move.

In case you don’t know me well, this is 100% my sense of humor. I am not sorry about it.

I'm amazed how many times this year I've had to go "ugh why does inserting half a billion rows into a sqlite db take so long". And I'm amazed it still takes so long!

What’s the current Best Way to do a blog? I’m not sure I love the Jekyll approach, Wordpress is out, and I refuse to continue writing my monthly updates as gdocs because that is absolutely miserable without internet.

I can’t understate how good it feels to be back up in the mountains

Our security engineer, Samuel Giddins, spoke at SigstoreCon! 🛠️ He shared his process & challenges of building Sigstore Ruby from scratch. (Hint: You probably shouldn't build a Sigstore implementation from scratch! But you should watch to learn WHY...)

If you’re curious about how I spent most of 2024 building sigstore-ruby… www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UX...

Can anyone figure out what’s special about this version of this gem? rubygems.org/gems/configu...

aka “why Sam has a job”

Gosh we doubled the number of gems on rubygems.org published with sigstore attestations today. I still account for 100% of them 😂

🚨 #RAILSCONF2025 UPDATE! 🚨 We are hoping to host our FINAL RailsConf in Philadelphia in July 2025. Help us make that happen! If you're interested in attending or sponsoring, let us know by dropping your email here 👇

I guess I’m on another social media site, hooray.