Retro Toyota spotted in Singapore today. So much coolness.

If you could watch one video this week, let it be this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWnU...

One of the best purchases I did in recent years was buying these Kanto Ora desktop speakers. Surprisingly high quality sound and good bass in such a small package. kantoaudio.com/powered-spea...

LLMs for sure love the word "quietly", a lot.

Booked flights for kaigionrails.org/2026/ this year. Who else is coming?

24 hours until the first Stripe Brighton meetup. Room for a few more people if you want to join… …and still time for me to include your dietary preferences in the meal order :) luma.com/0zakatid

I guess I could stay on my existing, perfectly functional home automation setup instead of moving to Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi, but where's the fun in that? Rabbit-hole, here I come.

Grateful for the opportunity to give a talk at @balkanruby.bsky.social, hosted at an actual mineralogical museum in beautiful Sofia, and to meet so many cool Ruby people.

It's Balkan Ruby week, and everything is coming together. We are waiting for you amongst the gemstones at the Museum of Earth and Man in Sofia on the 15-16 May. We'll do a few pre- and post-event activities: balkanruby.com/activities. Tickets are still available. See you in Sofia! 🙌

All I want for Christmas is a 10Gb PoE++ switch. sg.store.ui.com/sg/en/catego...

If a review has "honest" in the title, it's anything but honest.

This video should be a case study for companies on how to work with influencers. Everything from the shooting to the storytelling is top notch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9K-...

The speed with which the zeitgeist has moved from "digital transformation" to crypto and blockchain, from metaverse to now "AI" in a decade is just staggering.

"If I worried about a fraction of the stuff I should be worried about, I'd never get anything done" – Sterling Archer. Words to live by.

Gave my first talk at a Ruby conference yesterday! 🎉 I talked about my personal journey of becoming a Ruby developer after two decades in marketing, building SaaS products and the hard lessons I had to learn along the way. Based on the response, it seems to have resonated with quite a few people.

Good Morning, Bangkok! RubyConf Thailand just kicked off! Looking forward to the first Ruby Conference of 2026! 🙌🏼 #rubyconfth #rubyconfth2026

RubyConf Thailand kicking off! #rubyconfth

Of all the cringe trends I despise, "broetry" is definitely in the top 3, right next to Studio Ghibli style AI imagery. fenwick.media/rewild/magaz...

"If you’re using SQLite, use SolidQueue.... If you’re using Postgres, use GoodJob." - great post from @bensheldon.bsky.social on the state of Active Job backends in 2026.

I'm looking for #Ruby or #Elixir work, can start immediately. Freelancer, getter-of-things-done, many years of experience, feel free to DM for more info. Can work worldwide. Happy to work with other languages/frameworks and devops as needed.

Since meeting @jot.is at @friendlyrb.com last year, we've been working on cogrid.com, a competitor research and tracking tool for SaaS founders and marketers. We're launching the MVP in a few weeks. Join our mailing list to follow our progress and get early access!

We're having our first meetup of the year! Come join us if you're in Singapore. luma.com/wss7unyx

I approve of the subtle Archer reference in the @kit.com account settings 👍

Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’ It’s ‘innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate.’ Everything else should default to boring, because boring has known failure modes.” [addyosmani.com]

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