Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️

In retrospect, perhaps chilli crisp shouldn’t be paired with croissants.

🎄🎁 Ruby 4.0.0 Released www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

But he's right there.

Doing some interior research for our house rebuild. After leaving the umpteenth website because of another unclosable modal window, I'm struck by how normal it is for the Web to be unusable in 2025. I'm so used to suffering through this stuff now that I hardly even notice it.

December is the month where everything from music streaming services to smart toilets hit us with a "Wrapped," detailing our supposed habits of the year. Personally, quantisation of these habits impacts my enjoyment; it stays back of mind as I otherwise enjoy music. Just let me be.

Starting to think there is no heavier object in the known universe than a dog's sleeping snout when upon your person.

Technically correct.

I would recommend not donating to Ruby Central at all until they publicly release their bylaws. A “community non-profit” should not operate in secrecy. Release your bylaws. https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/115651523791006350

Wake me up when AI can work in my place on weekdays so I can sleep instead.

Proposal to add a day between Sunday and Monday called Sleepday, in which everyone just sleeps.

Any recommendations for online video editing courses/resources for would-be content creators? Asking for a friend.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Hey, your Twitter account is still listed on the Maintenance Phase site.

TFW you spend an hour taking apart an electronic to replace a part, and spy an additional two screws that shouldn't exist after putting it all back together.

Cool work.

I have a spare ticket to KGLW playing at Brabanthallen in The Netherlands on November 7. QR code, 100% free with no strings attached if anyone wants it (but will actually use it). @kglw.net If you're in NL and fancy a good time, that's you!

Great Halloween evening last night, seeing ORB, Slomosa, and Kadavar in Utrecht. Was right up front and they killed!

I'm trying to do side-project stuff in the evenings. It's getting colder and it's already dark after work now, which makes it kind of hard to find the energy. I've taken to putting Ghibli movies on and sitting under a blanket in front of the TV while writing code. Ghibli makes everything better.

I love that in Ponyo, there is no argument about this being what a goldfish looks like.

I can't any more.

As if cookie notices weren't bad enough, I can't seem to get away from this trash lately. And it's particularly egregious because it takes focus away from whatever other Web ai.0 bullshit has been ejaculated upon your screen.

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

Fantastic set of generic shell scripts and details on their use: evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wr... I keep a bunch of scripts with my dotfiles as well, and will be adapting some of these.

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

The Apple Music app is so absolutely broken in usability and from straight up bugs that I'm now testing three alternatives at once 🫠. I've had to lower my requirements from "can stream from app to Sonos" to "can stream from machine to Sonos" which sucks, but it's still worth it.

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

@jremsikjr.bsky.social You okay there, Jim?

Open source communities can only remain healthy long-term with proper moderation. Do not permit the frequent normalization of trolling behavior! It only perpetuates brain drain over time as people grow weary and leave, or marginalized communities never even […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

I just found a recipe that had a "Jump to Recipe" button and actually appreciated it.* Remember when recipes had recipes in the first 90% of the scrollbar? *It didn't work, because first I was violated with a cookie notice which was broken because of an adblocker. The Web in 2025 is so good.

I recorded a quick demo of my latest project, Empirical, a pre-processor for Ruby that builds on Literal’s runtime type system. youtu.be/G9rxcepewas

@jeroen.wtf please tell me what that number is.

Stop scrolling & post 2 characters who bring you happiness

It’s spooky season, but let’s not make it scary for wildlife! 🎃👻 Fake web decorations can trap and injure our garden wildlife. Stick to sustainable, indoor decorations and let real spiders do the work outdoors! Share these tips & help spread awareness 👇

Sad

Lot of smugness around being up while AWS is experiencing issues. That's not the same thing as being immune to downtime.

Can’t wait to see these heroes again with an orchestra in a couple of weeks.

I've followed, but kept rather quiet about the Ruby Central stuff so far. I'm just some guy who is unqualified to pick it apart, but I will just offer a couple of thoughts. Firstly, most people involved in the discourse care deeply about Ruby, or they wouldn't be engaging in the first place. n/∞

- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard They cover all the genres, and I don't have time to listen to seven more artists whilst keeping up with releases and bootlegs.

this is an awful outcome. all this means is that Ruby Central stole multiple GitHub repositories from their original maintainers and, in an attempt to save face, gave them to Ruby Core, who are now even more culpable in that theft.

RubyGems / Bundler news.

I just can't be productive in Ruby. I'm moving to Haskell.

For the first time in a long time, I have a professional CV! (100% hand-coded HTML of course, and the PDF was itself printed from the HTML via a print stylesheet.) 😎 I'm looking to make a major impact on a fast-growing team with high-stakes full-stack architecture or design system planning […]

I love seeing mushrooms growing all over the place when I'm out walking. I saw a particularly large number yesterday, with these little cuties sprouting up just about everywhere. Mushrooms are awesome.

As of right now: 1. Ruby Central is *still* in possession of the GitHub organisation and gems that it stole. 2. It hasn’t published any kind of justification for this. 3. It has threatened an ex employee for responsibly disclosing that it left him with root access to live production systems.

Woah!

Boom, got my ticket. See you there!

Additionally to collecting stamps in your physical @therubypassport.com, you can now also collect and see these stamps on @rubyevents.org!

@lucianghinda.com I appreciate the Hanami content in your newsletter!

From the email Marty sent to André: > We're also pausing the on call rotations while we work through this transition. That is ABSURDLY stupid. You cannot seriously believe that pausing on-call during a highly uncertain and alarming transitionary period is a good idea.