pizza for dinner yesterday, pizza for lunch and dinner and post-hockey today. only time will tell how much pizza tomorrow brings

RubyGems Fracture Incident Report (September 18, 2025) by ruby.social/@schneems rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

what even https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

just signed the final stuff and handed over the giant novelty cheque to the lawyers for the new place. we move next week!

someone who is good at systems please help me budget this. my developers are dying https://agileotter.blogspot.com/2026/03/pipeline-gates-populator.html

guess I'm painting my new office seafoam green https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam

not seriously interested in using this, but it's one of those things where I think it's cool that you can do this, if you wanted to https://thoughtbot.com/blog/meet-duck-typer-your-new-duck-typing-friend

now u know https://andre.arko.net/2026/03/24/how-to-install-a-gem/

all well and good to have a more practical relationship to this tech, but where I'm seeing that break down is when organizations are pushing their teams to use it without any kind of coherent strategy. https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/

this week in Solidus ❥ the in-memory order has been merged!!! mutating orders is now faster ❥ we've dropped our more complex Rubocop config in favor of StandardRB read a little more about the IMOU over here: skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/in-...

"The cover letter was signed by a P. Silvia in the Ministry’s correspondence division [...]" https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/25/the-top-10-biggest-conspiracies-in-open-source.html

wrote a little about what the in-memory order updater means for Solidus https://skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/in-memory-in-solidus/

"dress eccentrically"?

that's a very neat trick https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/header-blockers/

the only canadians vacationing in the US are driftwood https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/landmark-west-coast-trail-log-turns-up-on-washington-beach-12043988

I have so many metadatas https://andycroll.com/ruby/handle-uncountable-words-in-rails-inflections/

I'm shocked https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/are-ai-agents-actually-slowing-us

somehow missed out on "write stupid code that uses smart objects" https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html

Solidus is using StandardRB. Time to rebase some PRs. https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/pull/6421#issuecomment-4128726026

the medieval peasant may not have ever tasted a Dorito, but they also didn't have to answer emails, so

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

saw some comments saying our team sucks because we use ai too much unfortunately that's not why, we just suck for normal reasons

got one of those Kodak Charmera's. thinking of setting up a bot account to post this pics I take with it.

love a minimal feature flag implementation https://benjaminwil.info/weblog/portable-feature-flags-in-ruby/

"Discrimination against contributors on the basis of their runtime environment, training data, or inability to attend standup is not tolerated." https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/21/how-to-attract-ai-bots-to-your-open-source-project.html

immediately got stuck when I forgot how many letters in the word "right" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B3uijFzaHw

well, just made the support request to move the internet to the new place next month. we're basically two weeks out from the move. it's real.

went on a rant about this on LinkedIn (ugh) but I'm seriously completely lost on how any business chooses shopify for subscription systems. it is truly ass.

me: o fearless leader, what wisdom will you bless us with today dhh:

I'm convinced Roxie understands that all these boxes means we are moving and hates it

another technical Ruby post to inject directly into my veins https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/

the whole amazon thing is ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlIHBcpGt8

🚀 Game-changer alert! 🚀 Apparently Kagi is disrupting the translation space by turning standard English into high-impact LinkedIn speak. 📈 It’s all about leveraging the right tools to scale your personal brand and stay ahead of the curve. https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak

seems good https://dev.to/hsbt/should-rubygemsbundler-have-a-cooldown-feature-40cp

today's haiku the goldeneyes lost but we booed curl so much so at least there's that

sigh https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/

the gov's doin' gov stuff again https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/

I think this is a good article, but I feel like a lot of these pieces are exposing what already happens in most companies, before AI — quality software isn’t something that happens because of ICs, it happens because the org builds processes that make quality a byproduct.

herbaceous 🌿 https://herb-tools.dev/blog/whats-new-in-herb-v0-9

the various prices of LLMs https://skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/llm-neurosis/

OH: Flour isn't edible.

Lol, the kids are alright

neurosis is back https://neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-undying-love-for-a-burning-world

"The reviews can tell you what a computer is for. They have very little interest in what you might become because of one." https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

today's haiku didn't sleep so good but I want a soup dumpling so I will march on

this week in Solidus ❥ the fine folks over at Framework have been testing the in-memory order updater are seeing significant speedups. expect this to be merged before the next release! (#5872) ❥ we're finally switching over to StandardRB (#6421) ❥ Martin has strikethrough pricing working!

declare acronyms and make 'em consistent. I'll citizens arrest you if I find both 𝙰𝙿𝙸::𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 and 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝙰𝚙𝚒𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 in your codebase. https://andycroll.com/ruby/declare-acronyms-in-rails-inflections/