If, as a developer, you claim your bottleneck in productivity really is how fast your computer allows you to type words or to jiggle your windows around, then I don’t trust the soundness of your solutions.

Hopefully 2026 will be the year of macOS on the desktop.

In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year. The #2 on the list, India, installed 24GW. The US at #3 installed 21GW. There is an order of magnitude difference. lovli.fyi/zWVS

“'Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a 1.0.0 on it”

tired: mojito wired: bloody mary

Protect your peace.

I’ve built an app! Introducing lovli.fyi, a lovable URL shortener. 100% anonymous, 100% free, 100% made of organic code, crafted by yours truly. 0 machines have been begged for help in developing this project. Bonus! It comes with an opensource CLI to use it from your terminal 👀

The cake in the picture is called “Bertolina”. It’s been a traditional delicacy of Crema for ages, but it’s not widely known outside of the city. The filling is made of grape (Clinton variety), so people around here bake this cake only at a specific time of the year, the beginning of autumn.

This bit me earlier today, while upgrading Ruby from 3.4.5 to 3.4.6 bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21608 I get that that code shouldn't be valid syntax. But enforcing it in a patch version? Are we sure we really want this compatibility breakage in upgrading from a .5 to a .6 release? Wild, if you ask me.

Apparently a new trend is emerging where people shatter new iPhones and afterwards complain that the phones are, in fact, completely destroyed.

Friendly reminder that scrum is bad, and that if you’re forcing scrum on your team you should feel bad.

I’m enjoying the new design language of liquid glass *so* much. I love the bold aesthetics, the transparencies, the animations, the subtle touch of thickness. To me it’s a love letter to skeuomorphism, which I think was peak UI style. It’s time for farewell, flat, dull, boring design.

Upgraded to iOS 26 basically just for the Call Screening feature, only to find out it’s not yet supported in Italy (maybe Europe? who knows). Highly disappointed.

Coffee in Romania has been so consistently delicious so far, it’s excellent everywhere! What’s your secret, people??

them: “what do you do for a living?” me: “my best, mate, my best”

Aaaand it’s a wrap! Thanks to everyone who made @friendlyrb.com possible and to all the equally friendly folks who attended the conference. It’s been a blast. Already looking forward to meeting you again at future Ruby-centered gatherings! 👏🏻 #friendlyrb

Today I learnt that hours and minutes in the “new alarm” view of the clock app on iOS are basically just…very, very long lists of numbers?! You can’t keep scrolling forever, they just stop at some point. What? Why?? Is that a message about the “end of time”? Are circular linked lists still a thing??

them: “but who’s gonna take care of you when you get old? 😩” me: “well, the same people who are taking care of me now, flight attendants! 💁🏻‍♂️”

omg look a that venue! 😍 rubyconf.at

This is a picture of me trying to nudge @ladybiss.it into reinstalling tiktok on her phone so that I can share videos of kittens with her without having to download them first. I regret nothing.

Coming from the backend trenches, I approach CSS like non-programmers approach vibe coding. Namely, iteratively begging a machine to “pretty please do the thing now, I’m about to cry”. The only difference being, you can actually ✨ learn CSS ✨. Yeah flexbox, I’m coming at you.

@friendlyrb.com Hey! 👋🏻 Do you have any advice/docs about how to get the best possible experience out of the Sinaia trip next Friday? E.g. details about expected temperatures, recommended clothing, planned Kms of walking, altitude of the destination? Thank you so much! cc @ladybiss.it

Internet domain names are so cheap these days. Sure, you may not get a super glamorous TLD, but really, who cares? Building something and publishing it for people to see and use? Getting an email address @i-love-puppies.dog? Priceless.

Be nice. And be humble. Strive for no less than excellence in what you do, and don’t brag about it. Let your work speak on your behalf. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

And right when my brain was almost done with the switch to the English language, Rails World is over! 🤷🏻‍♂️ But next week @ladybiss.it and I will be at @friendlyrb.com in Bucharest, so hopefully all that work won’t go wasted 🤓 See you there!

About to leave for Rails World with @ladybiss.it! Come say hi if you’re in Amsterdam too 🥳

I think I might have come up with a design to use Phlex views from Rails' ActionMailer in a way I'm happy with. This turned out to be quite simple to code in the end, but since ✨simplicity is hard✨, it took me a bit of reasoning to get there, so I want to share the results! 🧵

what’s the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I don’t know, but I’m building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

Just read someone referring to ChatGPT as ChatJippity. From now on, all LLMs will be Jippities to me.

@bensheldon.bsky.social hi! I’ve come across your post at island94.org/2024/12/incl... while searching for info about Rails helpers. It’s been super useful, so thank you! One question though: wrt to `helper_method` you write “it extends singleton View objects which deoptimizes the Ruby VM” ->

Rails' model concerns + polymorphic associations are such a powerful combo. Chef's kiss, highly recommended.

This is the way.

Always make invalid states impossible in your database if you can.

Derek Sivers on Mastery

No. I don’t ever want to jump on a call. Ever. In my experience, Extroverts (usually unintentionally) take advantage of Introverts on the phone. I find the playing field to be level when everyone has to type.

amazing weekend at Futur Festival with @sang.io 😍

I’m SO proud of Gen Z’s approach to work (and life!) 👌🏻 13/10, highly recommended (blog post a little old and in Italian, sorry, but please Google-translate it, it’s still very much on point). Thanks to @ladybiss.it for sharing. acidorsa.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/a...

Current status: melting 🫠 This is how the fetid Pianura Padana feels like right now.

oh wow

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻!!!

Yes. 👌🏻

Recently tiktok has been pushing me videos of people climbing mt. Everest. Looks like a nightmare come to reality. Now the mere thought of it gives me chills 😬 Big huge nope for me. 0/10, would not recommend.

The beauty of listening to a #Rails podcast about a Rails feature with @rosa.codes on a platform @buzzsprout.bsky.social that is built with @Rails !

Yesterday was Alan Turing’s birthday. Inventor of modern computing. WWII hero. Unparalleled mind. May your memory live on forever.

One cool Bundler trick I like is the `default_install_uses_path` config option. When it's set to `true`, `bundle install` will use the `.bundle` directory local to your project as the destination for all the dependencies, as opposed to using a directory inside your Ruby installation path.

Today I learnt that Marie Curie’s tomb (Paris) is lined with lead to shield visitors from the radiation that her remains still emit these days. Unsurprisingly, if you think about how radiation actually works, but still somehow mind-boggling.