Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so. So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.

My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.

Thought about this latest Ruby drama a lot. I ❤️ Rails and I’m thankful for it, so by association to DHH even if his political blog posts wind me up. Frankly, what he chooses to write is his business and I don’t think it affects Rails. Don’t read it if it gets you worked up. Life’s too short, srsly.

today i learned: les goddamns

judging by my bluesky timeline, i'm guessing the thought leader has shared another piece of wisdom with his views on society.

Diverse cities where strangers from different backgrounds respect, welcome, and care for each other are literally the most amazing thing to ever come out of civilization. It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.

Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.

Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:

This is an important question to ask. When mandatory ID verification is proposed, some of the first questions should be about how that data is going to be maintained, protected, and destroyed.

When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.

"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.

Your timeline has been blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays

Migrating from Twilio's Authy -- because it refuses to run on my Onyx Boox Note Air 3C, despite the system being unrooted and secure -- to Bitwarden Authenticator and I already love the latter. Syncing the 2FA keys in Bitwarden Vault is *chef's kiss*. (FIDO migration alongside)

Privatisation is always the same. Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases. No one wins apart from shareholders. Successful privatisation in the UK: … … … *tumbleweed* Unsuccessful: ❌ Water ❌ Energy ❌ Rail (service, tracks) ❌ Post

GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it

I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community. I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care? No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.

My new laptop has an integrated GPU and a 2800x1800 screen, a combination which makes running new games sound impossible. But thanks to Gamescope's integer scaling and this iGPU being pretty decent (HX370), I got Oblivion Remastered look decent (no blur) and run at 35+ fps.

Heroku's outage now lasts over an entire work day and their communication on the matter is bad. Even their status page had an outage and there's no details on what's happening beyond "Engineers are continuing to investigate an issue accessing Heroku services.".

Almost every job I've left has been entirely because of this. Find a place where you're valued, and once that stops being true find another.

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

i dream of transparent bluesky-mastodon integration (the user handle namespaces seem to be non-conflicting) but for now this is a step in right direction!

A US judge says Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—then tried to cover up its disobedience.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

This is excellent advice from @averagemarcus.bsky.social marcusnoble.co.uk/2025-04-30-m... I'd add that during Q&A try to repeat the questions. Audience members don't always have a mic so repeating will help everyone, it makes sure you understand the Q, and buys you time to think of an answer

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.)

very excited about lower costs with new Sync v1.1 relay, and did a write-up on how to host one cheaply (though @bad-example.com and @futur.blue kind of got me beat on the price point)

hear me out: a battle vest but based off of patagonia. will show that wearer can do tech business in the day and head-bang at night.

Current status: not the biggest fan of ActionMailer, it gets ugly when you want to do specific thing on some of the exceptions, and then test that.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

invisible hand of the market just tearily jerking off at this stage

- Then they said: "We agreed to this on $somedate." - ... - So we asked, they declined and proposed to take it offline. "Taking it offline" was an offline note that agreement was reached, now being referred to. On a whole not the greatest project I've been in. - Sir, this is a Wendy's.

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A groundbreaking device developed by the #EUfunded SCALPEL project can detect cancerous cells in simple blood tests, offering hope for early detection and personalised treatments. Read the article here 👉 europa.eu/!gHgMDj #ResearchImpactEU

Exactly this. Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.

I just pulled the plug and migrated (back) from Logseq to Obsidian, with all my journals and pages, and I've added my keep-it-markdown (export from Google Keep) notes as subdirectory. It already feels so good! Blogpost incoming.

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

it's also built in ruby on rails 😍

What an absolute nightmare. A high school student saw his friends crash their Cybertruck and rushed to help, but was only able to rescue one of them because the car's doors would not open from the outside. He watched his three other friends burn to death. oaklandside.org/2025/03/18/c...

not sponsored and not affiliated, just a happy customer since 2019: pcloud is offering lifetime plans for world backup day. they're stackable if you already have a lifetime plan with them. apps work, has rclone backend, commandline client is oss.

UUIDv7 is awesome and included in Ruby 3.3 standard library, so there's no reason not to use it when you need sequential, timestamp-including identifiers that don't depend on central id-issuing authority.

invest in the good stuff 💪🏻

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

ultimate leadership book just dropped! (yes, it's real)

Once saw a tweet reacting to the Russia aggression with "this is how you get a 21st century polish-lithuanian commonwealth with a nuclear arms programme". Looks like reality is catching up to shit-posts at break-neck speed

It's international women's day and that means it's the day I self-promote! I've written a few good books including my most recent on Platform Engineering, check them out here! amzn.to/3QYGaoB