Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

If you're not on @middleearth.quest, are you even a serious person?

Hetzner increased prices again. www.hetzner.com/pressroom/st...

Ah, I see this checkout process is in fact a doorway into UX hell.

Ruby 4.0 warning: it looks like a GC change in 4.0 means Sidekiq may leak memory on every job failure. v8.1.6 will be released tomorrow with a workaround. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/7006

I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.

Make sure that people around you know that you disagree with < fascist fuckery > or whatever. Give voice to your side-eye. Make sure that people who live around you know that you dislike X, Y, Z fuckery. Make sure they know they're not alone. Ensure that "bigotry doesn't fly with me" is well known.

I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜

Booking a flight be like: "Would you like to choose a seat? €15–35. Do you want the option to cancel your flight? €50. Are you bringing anything with you? €120. Will you be breathing oxygen during the flight? €25. The cabin toilet uses a pay-per-gram pricing model."

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.

One of those days where all anyone wants to do is "sync" and "align", in some apparent and insurmountable fear of getting some actual work done.

I've started using ** in Fish instead of find & xargs and I really love it, instead of writing `find . -name '*.py' | xargs wc -l` I can just write `wc -l **.py` it hasn't 100% replaced `find` for me but I'm definitely using xargs way less than I used to

You can just 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴. A young Juno, sadly no longer with us, but a silly photo I found in the archives. Share with me your wonderful fluffers!

100% one of my all-time favourites. Perfect.

@sifa.id I like what you're doing, but I do feel a bit put out there without my consent by you broadcasting my profile. I'm not mad, but a little perturbed.

That marks a full year with @kagi.com. It doesn't feel abnormal to pay for search any more, especially when I see others using Google and being force-fed made up nonsense and ads. I'm not an affiliate, I just think we'd all be better off being mindful about this.

Dicey Dungeons spitting facts today.

Hey @mackuba.eu. As the foremost Ruby + ATProto enjoyer, would you give this a glance? You sort of inspired me to do something like this because of your talk at @wrocloverb.com

Popular JavaScript runtime merges a 1m LOC PR to main which rewrites the entire project in another language. Over 500 comments on the discussion but we can’t read them because they’re on GitHub which is less reliable than a Dutch weather forecast. Software in 2026.

I've been using vim for over 20 years, and only now did I think that typing "+y every time I want to copy something to my OS clipboard was too much, and mapped cmd+c. I feel like I'd have been a decade ahead in my career by now had I done this sooner.

Advanced ruby tip of the day: Instead of writing shell scripts, you can just write ruby scripts.

Rails people: do you have any strategy for backporting to existing apps all the fixes and niceties that a current `rails new` would provide by default? `rails app:update` helps but only in the context of major updates, plus it doesn’t cover everything and there’s no way to know what’s left out.

So. Moved to @eurosky.social. Pretty smooth, took about 25 minutes which includes mopping up a dropped bottle of water and saving the wrong password (PEBKAC).

Slightly increase a band. Futon of Filth

Friday May 8th in Rimini was magical. We spent months imagining Rubycon 2026. Then the day came, and it became real. This video tells that story. Thanks to everyone who was there. #Rubycon2026 #Ruby

Feeling welcome in Bologna with @jamie.schembri.me

A coffee shop without a dog lacks a soul.

Periodic reminder that Google Chrome is ✨borderline malware✨ lovli.fyi/yb4O

IYKYK 🥲

And can celebrate here on Bluesky by moving your data to a European server, that operates under EU law, like @eurosky.social :) eurosky.tech/accounts/

Fantastic day at @rubyconitaly.bsky.social today! Delightful talks, memorable conversations, and perhaps most importantly, the world’s foremost ruby community dog/mascot melting the most jaded of our hearts. Happy to have met and re-met so many great folks!

@newvgadvisor.bsky.social Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Rubyists! I am reviving Ruby Inside after 12 years of hiatus. I have too many Ruby things I want to blog about :-) So far I've got the archive up and running at rubyinside.com/archives/ - it's a bit of a Ruby time capsule..

So. @rubyconitaly.bsky.social is coming up! Who that I know is going to be there, so I can spend half the trip mustering up the courage to say hello?

Huge news for our corner of the Ruby world, and the culmination of a multi-year effort to align our people, our code, and our presence on the web. Go check out the new site, it’s stunning! Deepest of thanks to @aaronmoodie.com and @makenosound.bsky.social for co-creating these wonderful visuals. 🙇

Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (Multiplatform, 2023)

@mackuba.eu Hey man, didn't you write a labeller or two in Ruby? I know you've done a lot of work but I can't seem to find this stuff. Probably a me problem.

I gave @tangled.org another look. At first I was sceptical because I wasn't sure about hosting repos on PDS, but it turns out... that's not how it works. And the nomenclature is easily figured out. I think I like it. Let's see where it goes.

I think we need to separate what we want when we talk about moving away from GitHub. Hosting repos is a solved problem, and there are several viable options for business. For me I’ll miss the project discovery aspect most, but that has required more curation since LLMs everywhere anyway.

Enjoyed watching this couple get it on yesterday.

I've created Asynq, a new lightweight Sidekiq::Client alternative meant to be safe for use in Ractors. https://github.com/mperham/asynq

Optimizing social media for mental health I’ve recently done the work of changing my social media feeds on apps like Instagram and TikTok away from politics to things that make me happier. For me, those are animals, musician friends, and Formula 1. I think this is a good choice for my ongoing…

I only eat grass-fed tofu. I’m soymaxxing, you’ve probably never heard of it.

The trouble with realising you can just make banana bread is that all the bananas start going uneaten until they’re only good for banana bread. The flip side is that you have banana bread which is probably in my top 3 favourite things.

Wholesome

Following Charles Nutter's inspiring talk about JRuby @jrubyproject.bsky.social at @wrocloverb.com, I'm happy to announce that Strong Service is now tested against JRuby 10.1. github.com/shkm/strong_...

Really enjoyed this talk!