congrats to the editor I currently hate the least reaching 1.0 https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

surfed the lowest tide of the year

AI is making the world worse https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/05/06/rails-security-ai-and-ibb/

Give a Thrill to Your Old Doom: Adult DOOM. (1994)

shroom now supports typed functions, recursive functions (via `let rec fib =`), and unary minus. I think I'll add strings and then maybe look at type inference or modules or something

wild shit https://stripe.dev/blog/selective-test-execution-at-stripe-fast-ci-for-a-50m-line-ruby-monorepo

I've been thinking about it for a long time, but finally made the hardest decision of my life bought a bucket hat

not a fan of scroll-driven animations, just sharing the interest of fewer people implementing them wrong https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/scroll-driven-animations/

my dreams of creating the perfect Solidus order recalculator are coming closer to reality https://skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/never-monkey-patch-again/

a lot can be done to make discussions about programming languages more interesting, and some people are doing it

did you wake up today and think "I hope I get to hear a weird new-agey drone/doom metal album from an Orthodox priest who lives in a tiny Greek village"? booooooy do I have good news for you https://heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-metal

this week in Solidus ❥ some post-v4.7 quick fixes and tweaks ❥ specs are fixed on the starter frontend (thanks Alistair) ❥ there's more recalculator work cooking skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/nev...

😒 https://css-tricks.com/googles-prompt-api/

if you want processes that never produce outages but also never produce results, I got you

the sheer amount of "let's put it fucking stupid processes that make every thing go slow so we don't avoid some highly specific issue that cause a short outage one time" I've experienced in my career is making me wonder about how companies are approaching this whole AI thing

anyone got clever ideas for what we can do with this? https://railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-one-engine-many-tools/

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/galls-law/

I have opinions about the whole Solidus versus Spree thing I guess https://supergood.software/solidus-versus-spree/

Update on RubyGems.org We're responding to a coordinated spam-publishing campaign. No existing packages have been compromised; the activity is limited to newly registered accounts publishing junk packages.

What the hell is a monad

The Ruby Developer Experience team at Shopify has just launched Rubydex, a building block for indexing and (semantically) querying your Ruby codebases. @vinistock.bsky.social has a write up explaining what it is and how it works here: railsatscale.com/2026-05-12-o...

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

Don't assume that I don't know how to read merely because I've massively misinterpreted what you wrote. I actually understood it perfectly, I'm just also annoying

pro tip: give a shit https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/04/21/the-importance-of-people-who-care/

if there were a contest for "sitting on a bunch of related articles/docs intending to one day write a blog post about them" for the longest period of time without writing a single word of the post, I would be winning

I want to go to this one day https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/blue-ridge-ruby-2026-recap/

can't even https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

I don't know... but I don't not know. https://yaroslav.io/posts/bundlebun-bundles-bun

#ootd (office of the day)

wrote a little about Shroom, the language I'm vaguely, kind of working on https://skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/shroom/

my programming language (shroom) now supports not, and, or, comparison operators, and almost has the worst type-checker ever

truly incredible that we live in a universe where "talks about goblins too much" is a problem we can have with our computers https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

my programming language has conditional expressions now

pretty tempting https://frame.work/laptop13pro

felt compelled to write a programming language today at OpenHack, so started writing a lexer

this is wonderful https://hanakai.org/blog/2026/05/01/welcome-to-hanakai

lol https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

rode 175km over the weekend, including 85k yesterday, the longest I've ever ridden in one day. on the one hand, I'm so sore and am going to avoid all unnecessary movement today. on the other hand I want to go again.

not planning on moving my own _serious_ projects of gh, but am curious about ✨other platforms✨ https://technomancy.us/204

this is not a good "sign" that this website is working good

being helpful, as usual

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

you can absolutely strip away the toxic of parts of "sprints" and still benefit from weekly or biweekly high-level rituals https://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/when-you-can-safely-leave-sprints-behind

vaguely hopeful about this https://rubycentral.org/news/a-new-chapter-for-ruby-central/

pro tip: don't make PRs to random open-source projects part of the screening process for your job listings without asking the project first. https://github.com/orgs/solidusio/discussions/6472

ugh now he's giving me more ideas for my site https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/squash-and-stretch/

when a new model comes out (like gpt-5.5) the first thing I always want to know is how it does on bullshit bench https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v2.html

so it turns out that an outsourcing company has been directing candidates to fix issues on the Solidus project as part of their vetting process. I've asked them to stop.

some good thrashy metalcore that I will def be throwing into my running/workout playlist https://sylosis.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-flesh

I fully approve of the RubyKaigi team's choice of Miyazaki for 2027.