Jared Norman
@jardo.dev
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serving at the altar of digital commerce
https://jardo.dev
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I guess I'll introduce myself to Bluesky. I'm Jared, but you can call me Jardo. Computers bend to my will. I'm based in Victoria, BC, and help organizations build eCommerce systems that make Shopify stores jealous using Ruby on Rails and Solidus.
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this week in Solidus ❥ the Super Good team is working on ✨general maintenance stuff✨ ❥ Alistair and Sofia have been fixing up the Starter Frontend ❥ we're unifying test matrixes into one repo and trying to reuse them across the ecosystem ❥ more unexciting but very necessary 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈
about 20 hours ago
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I sometimes wish I could make a better habit around taking notes, something like what Nicole is doing. what I do in practice is have a sort of freeform scratch notes/todo list thing where if I'm feeling particularly frazzled, I write more.
ntietz.com/blog/using-...
2 days ago
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if your planning meetings don't involve adjusting course, you're probably going the wrong direction
agileotter.blogspot.com/2026/02/do-...
2 days ago
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welcome to the stage of AI dev where people write "JS ecosystem moves to fast" posts about LLM stuff
kukicola.io/posts/im-be...
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I'm Behind and I Don't Care - kukicola.io
AI tools change every week. New models, new workflows, new hype. I decided to stop chasing and focus on building instead. Here's why being behind is not a bad thing.
https://kukicola.io/posts/im-behind-and-i-dont-care/
3 days ago
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Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
3 days ago
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3 days ago
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3 days ago
Thought y’all would enjoy. Yesterday over on x: They removed dim mode because the overhead of CSS variables was too much AI will skip coding and write binaries directly by end of year
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interesting to see some effort to actually quantify the effects of LLM use in software development. this mostly fits what I've seen, though I've also seen some real standout bad uses where developers were able to amplify their terrible decisions
www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-...
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#softwareengineering #ai #devops #continuousdelivery #codequality | Dave Farley | 17 comments
Is AI creating a maintenance nightmare? We actually measured it. We hear constantly that AI coding tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) make us "faster" and "more efficient." But most of these claims rely on naivity. They measure typing speed or feature count short-term metrics that ignore the economic reality of software development. The dominant cost in software is MAINTAINING code. Maintenance represents 50-80% of the total cost of ownership. If AI helps you type faster but creates "slop" that is impossible to change later, we are optimizing for the wrong thing. We decided to stop guessing. I contributed to a controlled experiment involving 150 participants. We split the study into two phases: 1. Creation: Developers wrote code (some with AI, some without). 2. Maintenance: A different group of developers had to evolve that code, without knowing if it was AI-generated or human-written. The results were not what many of us expected. Here is what the data showed: • The "Slop" Myth: The
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-farley-a67927_softwareengineering-ai-devops-activity-7426940209507840000-BJSL
3 days ago
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4 days ago
I suspect these inquirers are stringing us along
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I enjoy a good StringInquirer but I also feel like it's one of those things that trips up people new to Ruby
andycroll.com/ruby/use-st...
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Use StringInquirer for Readable Predicate Methods
The same pattern Rails uses for Rails.env.production?
https://andycroll.com/ruby/use-stringinquirer-for-readable-predicate-methods/
4 days ago
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I don't miss vendoring, but I get a fresh taste of it every time I step back into the world of game dev as I'm usually using Lua.
nesbitt.io/2026/02/10/...
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Lockfiles Killed Vendoring
Why almost nobody vendors their dependencies anymore.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/10/lockfiles-killed-vendoring.html
4 days ago
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bad news is I'm never getting up
4 days ago
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alright, my crossposting tool is in a much less janky state now. still far from complete, but it doesn't look completely like ass
8 days ago
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okay you can all stop with the "why X is the best programming language for AI agents" posts now
8 days ago
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"what I really want in a todo app is something slightly different than any offering I have tried"–everyone who uses todo apps
8 days ago
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holy shit that worked!
9 days ago
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this is a test. posting this from my hilariously janky bespoke cross-posting tool
9 days ago
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the last few weeks in Solidus ❥ Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4 support landed (PRs 6409, 6410) ❥ Omnes was updated for Ruby 4 too ❥ Subscriptions extension is getting some overdue updates ❥ Starter Frontend is getting some cleanup and updates too
9 days ago
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don't love that
www.heroku.com/blog/an-upd...
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An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
9 days ago
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hilarious that we still see these brutally reductive "code reuse bad" takes
www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-sti...
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I Still Feel the Urge to Reuse Code (Even Though I Know It's Wrong)
A word of caution - if you are a software developer, architect or tester, this article might challenge some of the fundamental believes you have about your work. When I started to look for different ways to build systems in 2021 - I rejected every single one of the ideas presented here.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-still-feel-urge-reuse-code-even-though-know-its-wrong-dilger-yphie
9 days ago
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derek guy
9 days ago
crypto wouldn't be falling like this if trump was president
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10 days ago
gotta respect it
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bring back stoned wheat thins
10 days ago
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I've always found the situation with the copyright status of fonts to be really interesting
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The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick
Matthew Butterick
https://matthewbutterick.com/
10 days ago
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no (saved you a click)
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Will AI Make Package Managers Redundant?
Following the prompt registry idea to its logical conclusion.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
10 days ago
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y'all were getting your facts from the CIA fact book?
10 days ago
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Jared White
11 days ago
The thing that's just nuts about these sorts of people is not even the providers of the services enabling this sort of thing are saying that's how it should be used. Anthropic: "AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and should be carefully adopted to preserve skill formation."
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if you haven't heard, I like jj
add a skeleton here at some point
11 days ago
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leaving this here
jardo.dev/how-to-review-ai-ge...
11 days ago
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really wish I'd discovered these guys sooner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSb...
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HÄLLAS - Face of an Angel (Official Video)
Pre-order PANORAMA here:https://shop.hallasband.com Stream it here:https://tr.ee/WMF4AS722eDirector: Ezra SimonsEditor: Ezra SimonsColorist: Max Ferguson-Hoo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbZwuOHLvE
11 days ago
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not really sure what this means. Astro hits a really nice spot in the flexibility↔simplicity spectrum. it's also up there when it comes to building lean static sites (not the best, but definitely good)
blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins...
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Astro is joining Cloudflare
The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-cloudflare/
11 days ago
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couldn't play the other night so I took pics
11 days ago
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was always impressed by the built-in admin in Django
jvns.ca/blog/2026/0...
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Some notes on starting to use Django
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/27/some-notes-on-starting-to-use-django/
12 days ago
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I also went down the word list rabbit hole when I started building a scrabble/wwf clone a while back
ntietz.com/blog/good-e...
12 days ago
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somewhat less annoyed with Mozilla all of the sudden
www.theverge.com/news/872489/...
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Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off
An AI killswitch.
https://www.theverge.com/news/872489/mozilla-firefox-ai-features-off-button
13 days ago
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good tip
andycroll.com/ruby/prefer...
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Prefer in? Over include? for Readable Conditions
A more natural way to check if a value is in a collection
https://andycroll.com/ruby/prefer-in-over-include-for-readable-conditions/
13 days ago
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learning the rules of curling by drinking at the bar at the curling club
16 days ago
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should add this (or something like it) to my site
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GitHub - dpecos/mastodon-comments: Webcomponent that embeds a Mastodon's toot conversation in a HTML page
Webcomponent that embeds a Mastodon's toot conversation in a HTML page - dpecos/mastodon-comments
https://github.com/dpecos/mastodon-comments
16 days ago
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it doesn't have my favourite: macOS randomly changes audio balance
www.bugsappleloves.com/
16 days ago
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should we be surprised that AI-driven bduf isn't any better than bduf?
agileotter.blogspot.com/2026/01/con...
17 days ago
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as a programming language grows older, the probability someone writes a library for generating HTML that looks roughly like this approaches one
www.gomponents.com/
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gomponents, HTML components in pure Go
HTML components in pure Go, that render to HTML 5.
https://www.gomponents.com/
17 days ago
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seeing an AT tomorrow but it's looking increasingly like I injured my left rotator cuff. could means months off hockey, surfing, et cetera and boy does that suck. I don't even know what I did to it.
17 days ago
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mozilla doing insane shit instead of implementing CSS properties that all the other major browsers have supported for years
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...
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1816038 - [css-inline-3] Implement `text-box-trim` (formerly `leading-trim`)
NEW (nobody) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-01-17.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1816038
17 days ago
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I was at this show and it was in fact sick as hell
www.straight.com/music/david-...
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David Bowie's final Vancouver concert was a real doozy
Five months later Bowie played his last concert ever.
https://www.straight.com/music/david-bowies-final-vancouver-concert-was-a-real-doozy
18 days ago
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things seem to be going well enough over in go-land
go.dev/blog/survey...
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Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey - The Go Programming Language
The 2025 Go Developer Survey results, focused on developer sentiment towards Go, use cases, challenges, and developer environments.
https://go.dev/blog/survey2025
18 days ago
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I'd play it
island94.org/2026/01/fro...
18 days ago
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like I know mozilla is really stupid but this is wild.
19 days ago
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19 days ago
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takeaway is vernier solves all your problems
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Optimizing load time for faker-ruby
A quick win that made loading faker-ruby 19% faster.
https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/optimizing-faker-ruby-autoload-openssl/
19 days ago
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