Following cash vs. curiosity, rolling with the punches, rocking the midlife crisis and reading like there's no tomorrow – pretty much sums up my life in 2025. onurozer.me/2025-in-revi...

I want to know what percentage of people who use the word “cooking” metaphorically actually know how to cook, literally.

The new Ruby website looks amazing! It even features our little Red Dot Ruby Conference on the homepage. ❤️

@marcoroth.dev is one of the most prolific and kindest Ruby developers I've met. I can't think of anyone more deserving of this award.

After two years of practicing drums twice a week with @benediktdeicke.com and @michaelkoper.com on a practice pad, I finally pulled the trigger and ordered this bad boy 🥁

One of the many reasons I love Singapore – the care for the flora and fauna. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1b...

I'm giving my first talk at a Ruby conference in two months, among some incredibly talented Ruby developers. This is probably as good an excuse as any to visit Bangkok, as if you ever need one. rubyconfth.com/schedule/

"This survey will take only 3 minutes to complete" is the second biggest lie in customer support after "we have higher than usual call volume". If you're going to do an email survey, decide what your most important 3 questions are, and just ask those. You are much more likely to get feedback.

I don't always agree with their product decisions, but props to 37signals for trying new ideas with fizzy.do, even after decades in business. The marketing site and Jason's copy are top notch. The look & feel is distinct. And the open source model is great for the Rails ecosystem. Love it.

𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲! Share your HOT takes and inspire the community. Fill the form! Become a speaker! balkanruby.com #balkanruby #callforpapers #callforspeakers #rubyconference #rubycommunity

Leveling up my pizza game today.

I’ve been initiated. I’m a mechanical keyboard user now.

Today I learned that with thoughtful design, you can make anything look sexy. www.powersheds.com/discover-pent via @jot.is

Excellent discussion on managing open source projects and the recent Ruby drama. This was one of the best episodes of Remote Ruby so far. www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis...

I was lucky enough to see toe live in Singapore almost a decade ago. One of the best bands ever to come out of Japan. www.youtube.com/live/hLesl7d...

TIL that you can (should) setup a proxy for @plausible.io so it doesn't get blocked by ad blockers. Luckily @hatchbox.io makes it easy to do it with Caddy. plausible.io/docs/proxy/g...

Set up a home file and media server on a Raspberry Pi 5 that has been sitting around. Next up: a Rails staging server.

Had a very enlightening customer interview today, and I've been wondering why I haven't done this earlier. It's so much easier to give advice to others than to follow it yourself.

Additionally to collecting stamps in your physical @therubypassport.com, you can now also collect and see these stamps on @rubyevents.org!

I never thought it would come to this, but all this Ruby drama is making me explore *cough* JavaScript *cough* other languages.

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

I can swear that the number of people who use “you’re absolutely right” casually in speech has increased since Claude.

My basic solid queue setup on Rails 8 is using 450MB+ memory. Is that normal? supervisor: 74MB dispatcher: 83MB worker: 159MB scheduler: 141MB

Every time I think about how bad things are, I imagine how much worse they would be if we lived through the Peloponnesian wars, and I feel better.

Great to see that the latest Ruby drama leading to something productive. Signing up!

youtube.com/shorts/sCtPr... Meet the new and ambitious Ruby & YC startups at the SF Ruby conference already on Nov 19-21, and let’s build the future in Ruby, together! We pushed the price down to $350, which means you get the tickets for $300 till October 6 with code SEP29OCT6. sfruby.com

Just installed macOS Tahoe. So. much. glass.

I'm trying to change my information diet. Less social media, more long-form reading. I even installed an RSS reader like it's 2015 🎉 What are your favorite feeds and newsletters?

My team at Plane is hiring experienced full stack engineers. We use Rails, Postgres, Phlex, Vite, TypeScript and Svelte. I don’t have a full job description yet, but drop me a DM if you want to know more.

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

Eloquently put, exactly my sentiment as well. Also thankful for thousands of contributors over two decades that make Rails what it is today.

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

I've always tried to separate the art from the artist, but it has become increasingly difficult in recent years.

This was a banger of a talk, coming from one of the nicest people I've met at @friendlyrb.com.

Shout out to @friendlyrb.com on setting the benchmark on organizing a local, cozy, friendly Ruby conference. What a great team!

The @friendlyrb.com beauty pageant about to begin!

One of my favorite talks at @friendlyrb.com yesterday was "Why doesn't Ruby have Boolean class?" by @okuramasafumi.com. Following his relentless journey down the boolean rabbit hole was super fun.

Super excited to be at @friendlyrb.com, quite possibly one of the best Ruby conferences ever. And to finally meet in person all the awesome Ruby people like @rosa.codes, @michaelkoper.com and @lucianghinda.com and many more that I feel like I've known for years.

Migrated an old project from Devise to Rails 8 authentication. Works like a charm. Next up: OmniAuth.

The only thing preventing me from actually using Tailwind Plus components was having to wire up the functionality myself. This is the best thing to happen to @tailwindcss.com components, ever. tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla...

The new Deftones album is so good! I have deep respect for how consistent they've kept their signature sound for over three decades. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Discovered an excellent use case for AI coding: writing Javascript. Built a private browser extension in a few hours and for $4. It was perfect because I don't care how the code looks, as long as it works. And also because I don't have to maintain it.

I've been playing around with @avohq.io for the past few days and really digging it, especially how declarative it is. My favorite part is not having to build any of the CMS functionality myself.

"This is what leads most of us to stop drawing. Not because we lack talent, but because we've developed the ability to judge before we've developed the ability to execute. We become connoisseurs of our own inadequacy." maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-...

The current state of AI coding reminds me the of the JS Frameworks era of the past decade. A new way of doing things every week. That's why I like Rails, it has been more or less the same for the past 20 years. I keep AI in a separate window for the occasional question, but that's pretty much it.

One of the best things to come out of the EU is the USB-C mandate. How did we ever live with so many chargers before?

"Big companies build products sold by specious executives or managers to other specious executives, and thus the products themselves stop resembling things that solve problems so much as they resemble a solution." www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Like Yossarian in Catch-22, I imagine people throbbing with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time they gaze at their own AI generated work, reflecting that none of the work that had gone into it was theirs.

As AI gets better, it will be increasingly difficult to differentiate "real" from "generated". This will put a premium on authenticity, the same way you can get a $25 chef knife from Ikea, but people (me) still spend $250 for a hand-forged Japanese knife.