Proposal: move RubyGems (the gem and bundler CLI tools) to the same Ruby org that governs the language itself. It's an accident of history that Ruby, its dependency tools, and its dependency hosting are managed by three separate entities. (And it hasn't gone great.)

Things I worry about that I probably shouldn't. world.hey.com/sean.hogge/t... #Ruby #RubyCentral #RubyGems

It still feels like we need more discussion about #Hotwire specifics - not Hotwire feelings. Many of us have been solving the same problems, but we need share so that we can all settle on the convention. I have many that work that are inelegant, and that ain't Rubyful.

Finally gave Overmind by @darthsim.me a coveted* single-letter alias for my shell, alongside Rails, Vim and Lazydocker. I apologize for the delay in officially recognizing this wonderful project. *I like to imagine Sergei felt a disturbance in the source as I saved the rc file

So true. I want to find a way to capture the spirit of building under severe constraints with the joy of all the incredible tech we have at our disposal. Vim isn't faster because it's better - it's faster because it had no choice.

I bet if compilers branded themselves as the Dark Souls of programming, we’d have the “no hit run” equivalent (no compiled program can raise an exception) within the year. And I would still watch the live streams and never participate directly.

This from the same man who wants to bring back Columbus Day is the lowest-pitched dog whistle ever.

Just got the confirmation from my boss: #RailsConf is a go for our entire team. Normally I prefer smaller conferences, but this is the end of a memorable era I'm ready for the meta-troll where @tenderlove.dev gives multiple closing keynotes by playing an augmented C chord. Get it? 'Cause Ruby is bu

Please stop trying to validate the skills of senior engineers over #VibeCoding. First of all, it seems melodramatic. Secondly, the longer they vibe code their way into unmaintainability, the more we can charge to fix it. We can all be the new #COBOL guys if we just let it play out.

My third weekly niblet is up! This week our topic is "On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates". charity.wtf/2025/05/02/o... It talks about why I support pronoun disclosures, and normalizing the practice of sharing pronouns, but hate mandates and pressure to share. (And why I personally don't.)

I’m always terrified when the dogs are in the car and drive like a grandma with cataracts. They, on the other hand, seem to have zero cares. He’s down from unhealthy 60 to a rowdy 45 lbs, and that weird lump I felt is his floating rib. The vet only laughed at me a little for that one.

I wonder if everyone does this: when I'm writing a new feature for a #Rails app, I write the invocations first, in as many ways that will actually be used. Then I write the code that responds to those messages. I find it gets me closer to the elegance I see in others' work.

I don't know why Medium's plagiarism irks me so much. Seriously, it probably shouldn't to this degree. But look at medium.com/@ashwinborka... Pick a post at random. Google the first coherent sentence. None of it's original. Why does this feel so slimy? Why does reporting it do nothing?

is wash really dead

#Rails is rose-tinted. It simulates, through conceptual compression, the feeling of building sites in the 90s without the facts of building sites in the 90s. The ConCom™ is incredible. If you're young still, fire up a Windows 95 VM and build an IIS site that puts form input into a DB. I dare you.

I disagree than Slim and Haml are worse than ERB. 😖 When people hate on Phlex as an abstraction, they’re just grumpy they have to learn the signatures for tags. It made me grumpy for the hour it took to learn. After that, you fly. Vanishing the yield sold me: tables no longer suck to write.

Is there any browser that, when in dark mode via the OS or browser setting, doesn’t set the default new blank tab background to white? I really don’t need a flash bang as punishment every time I open a tab without content.

I had a beautiful script full of #kamal app exec commands, scp & tar, gzipping and gunzipping. Then I realized that the #docker host exposes mounted volumes, so a single line rsync will replicate production to development or staging. And yet I still haven't replaced MySQL with SQLite...

Are people willing to hear yet that Severance has great everything except story?

@travisturner.bsky.social - I read your article about copywriting errors. It has some errors in it, so I wanted to help get them fixed and pay down the global irony debt. Your name on the article links to Twitter which you (rightly) deleted so I knew you'd be here. Where can I send the typos?

The 90s: a time when we only lost our religion, not our bodily autonomy and freedom from government kidnapping.

We treat one-hit wonders like failures or disappointments. But we treat one-app wonders like pharaohs even after their next 5 apps fail. People still think Zuckerberg is a genius, but @eve6.bsky.social is washed. One was awesome that one time and the other made Tumblr for the KGB.

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

Everyone calls it "generative AI" but I have yet to see evidence of anything other than "replicative AI." We haven't replace all construction companies with LEGO - why can't we see the difference with LLMs?

Setting a Tesla on fire is actually saving a life since that only happens when no one is inside it.

In #Ruby, if you define a variable in a conditional that can't be reached, it will be assigned `nil`. So you can still check for a truthy value even if that branch, logically, isn't executed. I think I knew this on some level but if asked if this was true, I would have said "no" before today.

This is a heart-breaking, objectively reasonable concern. Stay away from us until we test negative for authoritarianism. And don’t let us come to you, either. I would rather watch America die alone than take friends with us.

You’ll never appreciate or understand the cloud more than by doing it yourself first. You’ll also learn which parts you are happy to outsource (email) and which parts you prefer privacy and control (simple web apps). It’s not all-or-none, and skill has no correlation to cloud usage.

America is the embodiment of that classic API dilemma: is this a 4xx or a 5xx error situation?

Again, from game programming in #Ruby where I pass around lambdas like they're candy: I like this method of doing #Rails things in order from most to least preferred, saving the most expensive (dollars and IO) for last. What are the other approaches that aren't conditional spaghetti?

I learned to love Comparable#clamp by doing game programming. In #Rails, I usually see Array#min and Array#max instead. To get better at Rails, get better at #Ruby. To get better at Ruby, use it outside Rails.

This is what Kansas City deserves and I'm thrilled that, in sports at least, justice still exists somewhere. I hope everyone in Philadelphia has fun without injury. #SuperBowl #Chiefs

Lots of the Wheel of Time hits different now that I’m 3 times older than my first read. But the division of the White Tower… it’s uglier to me now in all the ways I think Jordan wanted it to be.

We were never able to write a second hit because of dei

Zuck was inspired to replace mid-level engineers with AI by his daughter graduating from Lego to Minecraft. So, naturally, if his daughter had been able to watch someone else play with Lego instead, she'd be way better at Minecraft and more profitable for her company.

If you routinely post using caps to convey emphasis... I can't follow you. I'm sorry, but it's simply too reminiscent of the unhinged and ill-informed. On a petty note, it's just bad writing. Remember that crazy chapter in Khazad-dum where Gandalf used all caps at a Balrog?

If JavaScript programmers were as chill as they pretend to be, uninstalling an npm package would be "nvm" (instead of version management).

I don't know how to feel about the 100% certainty that America would be safer by a huge margin if we passed a law that only women could buy or carry guns.

I wonder if and when I'll get over the childish glee when I use Hotwire to broadcast changes to a page without it reloading. I routinely spend 2 minutes just issuing console commands and watching between 1 and 4 web browsers update with the changes. And the code to do it fits in this text box. 🤯

require "colorize" in your Minitest tests, and for the messages on assertions, use black.on_read for failures and black.on_yellow for setup issues. You can quickly tell whether the issue is that (probably) a fixture changed or (probably) you broke something.

Sometimes the vowel front-loading strategy Just Works™.

@joel.drapper.me - We noticed that phlex-rails redefines all (or most of) the Rails helpers, which means it has to stay in sync with Rails. Are we clutching pearls or is there some valid concern here? Or has this already been addressed and put to bed somewhere on the web?

Video games taught me that in battle, an effective force is varied. Fighting differently is smart. Some should be loud, others quiet, some should be selective, others shouldn't. Pick your unit and support other units. The Air Force clears a path for the Army's FOB to send SEAL incursions.

I don't know if this is a hot take. AI art/image generation it to artists as Wix/Weebly/SquareSpace is to web devs. It robs them of the worst possible clients they would have ever had to litigate for payment.

For as long as I live, I will always have to stop and puzzle through prepending modules to recall that it means the module is appended to the prepending class. What's the weird OO reason that calling it "append" doesn't make sense? Am I late to this bike shed soiree?

The real test of BlueSky: can we calmly discuss #systemd? I admit I don't get it. Most of what I hear sounds like people shouting about the existence of mayonnaise instead of just ordering their sandwich without it.

Hi, good morning. Are you the user of a SaaS product? Do you have a good relationship with the provider or developers? Do you worry that you'll annoy them with requests? Do you want "one trick" that will make them always happy to hear from you? STOP. DOUBLE CLICKING. LINKS.

The only reason everyone likes autumn is because it's winter on NG+.

If you’re free from major responsibility and lucky enough to have a support network like parents or friends, do stupid shit. Live in another country, take an interesting dead-end job. A plane ticket home is the worst case scenario. Be as reckless as you can while staying safe and being safe.

Every time you alter a test, if you don’t flip it red/green by touching only code outside the test, your test ain’t a test; it’s a prayer.