This is a good explanation of where things feel like they are headed at the moment. background-agents.com

This is a great post on thinking about caching, I love all the animations and visualizations they use to make the concepts crystal clear planetscale.com/blog/caching

Nice I programmed with my kid (in C) to get a robot that shoots nerf darts to randomly spin and pause and fire. So now we can play a game where we all run or try to doge the robot nerf attacker ;)

This is so true I was moving over txt to speech to use Google Vertex and sorting out auth took 5 times longer than the new code service. Even AI couldn't help with auth and would give 10 step directions for manual human click and navigate steps to try to get the right auth and permissions

we are winning the war on allocations andycroll.com/ruby/find-t...

brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05... true

And here's a newsletter/blog post noelrappin.com/blog/2025/10... Part one of a likely two-part series about the languages that influenced Ruby. This time, Perl, with all of its shortcuts and syntax quirks. The things Ruby took and the things Ruby left behind...

Ok, fall let's do this.

My kids first opened on supporting school lunches millermayersadventures.com/2025/10/05/v...

OK, it is that time again looking for some fun sci fi book recommendations. Futurism, Solar Punk, etc... Favorites murder bot, the martian, lock-in / head on, old Michael Crichton.

Claude code is really good at ffmpeg command line options... Give it a bunch of photos and music and some suggestions about timing etc and it can stitch everything together nicely. Easily handling multiple formats, sizes, orientation, etc

New rhino in rino a nice setup on Denver by the river

Friday was my last day of an incredible journey at Shopify. In the past 5 years, I had the privilege of working on some cutting edge projects to advance Ruby with some of the most talented and well-known developers. Shopify will always have a very special place in my heart.

I have been learning more about hardware and electronics repair. I disassembled my gardyn towers and put in a diy replacement for the water pump, now I bypassed the fried motherboard, cameras, and sensors to put the grow lights on a simple timer. Cutting energy use about in half in the process.

Good architecture is invisible until it saves you. Great example is flipper’s adapter pattern. Can move from db to cache to whatever storage you want with little effort.

Invest some time to set up the debugger for your project, and document how to use it. You don’t have to debug everything with it, but having it available will save you a lot of time when you do need it. mahesh-hegde.github.io/posts/what_d...

It is amazing what we can train ourselves to expect. I wear noise cancelling headphones to keep things quiet while working, but I am so use to them I find out of habit I put them on even when my space is entirely silent, as it triggers focus mode just having them on

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Bluesky loves links — we don’t downrank or deprioritize posts with links in them, and as a result they get higher traffic, so lots of people post them.

🤩 github.com/rails/rails/... github.com/puma/puma/pu... At @tropicalonrails.bsky.social, @fxn.bsky.social and I talked about the very cumbersome Rack::BodyProxy way of doing stuff once the response body has been closed, as my talk about the executor spent some time explaining it.This is much nicer!

“A good programmer is not someone who writes a lot of code, but someone who avoids unnecessary code.”

My kid and I play fortnite together and the switch2 basically wasn't even usable for fortnite, something is seriously broken... Some folks still think it is a myth. www.reddit.com/r/FortniteSw...

This is truly cursed, I love it, and I expect no less from @jhawthorn.com

LOL, no one seemed to want to hear about gardening... So I guess I will need to write about tech again... Well I got one shot, fairly good consistent characters, working so perhaps I can write a post about that.

Rack middleware is so awesome. I love the idea of adding to the env for downstream consumers. flipper and flipper cloud do it like crazy to work together efficiently. Just added a middleware to tag all appsignal requests with the requesting flipper gem version, ruby version, etc.

My motivation on tech blogging got killed, got a lot of anger for posts about AI and using AI images for blog images... So I haven't been on social much either... Anyways, not ready to blog about tech again yet but do folks want to hear about gardening at all? Today's tomato and peach harvest

what is the first tech you remember getting super excited about and then it just disappeared into a dead path of tech history. I think of XSLT for XML... I wasted a good portion of time (and my youth) trying to force it into a bunch of projects that didn't need it.

I tried making some videos to show what the AI book builder could do, but while it got the idea, it didn't seem to be able to pull in any of the screenshots or real-world UI I gave it as context. Anyways, first attempts using Google's Veo 2 generator. It was supposed to promote app.pretheory.com

@flippercloud.io wins again! Discovered a bug in a new UI we’re rolling out on a Friday afternoon. Rather than rush for a fix (and introduce other bugs) we can simply…roll back the change and figure it out next week.

I will write a blog post about this when the PR lands, but Ruby 3.5 should have 6x faster object allocation

ok, folks, my old Kindle bit the dust... I am going to get a new one, Do you have any thoughts on the color Kindle? Scribe? or just paperwhite?

how is it no one is making guitar hero or rock band games anymore? I blame the split where they were both just oversaturating market imploded... But I wanted to introduce it to my kids and realized there are no games with instruments like that anymore... I am sure there is still a market for it.

@byroot.bsky.social @bihi.bsky.social Very happy to deprecate my library thanks to all your work on JSON 🎉 github.com/jhawthorn/ra...

I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...

Tonight is Boulder Ruby with two fantastic talks lined up: 💫 Landon Gray: "Jupyter notebooks with Ruby" 🔌 Anthony Eden: "From Stalled to Supercharged" 📅 👉 RSVP: lu.ma/e37ect5e?tk=... Thanks to @github.com, @dnsimple.bsky.social, MojoTech, @fastly.com, and @gustohq.bsky.social for sponsoring!

New from Julie Kent: Imaging you have a Rails endpoint that has slow queries AND performs third-party HTTP requests. With Rails async queries, you can perform these operations in parallel—without being an expert in multithreading. 🚀 www.honeybadger.io/blog/rails-a...

How to drive improvements in a gem with tooling... working with benchmarks and profiling to make repeatable performance improvements www.mayerdan.com/ruby/2025/02... #ruby #vernier

As I celebrate another Super Bowl by doing silly tech learning things... here is the history of the Super Bowl as told by a time-traveling whale... as imagined by AI writing and illustrating the story. www.pretheory.com/books/wilbur...

some fun reflections from a developer... > Distributed locking is still really hard for some reason lol, yeah... chriskiehl.com/article/thou...

it's also blown me away to see the impact beyond my own learning that this TIL repo has had - @jwworth.bsky.social built til.hashrocket.com - @simonwillison.net has been prolifically TIL'ing at til.simonwillison.net - I often get emails from ppl who were inspired to start their own TIL repo

I can't wait for the update to Ruby Under the Microscope... So good patshaughnessy.net/2025/1/28/up...

Turns out on the same day I wrote this, Pat announced the rewrite! 🤯 patshaughnessy.net/2025/1/28/up...

I wrote down my personal thoughts on whether it's worth removing Ruby's GVL and what it would take. I wanted to talk about Ractors too, but this is already too long, so that's for another time. byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

the blog posts by @byroot.bsky.social continue to be amazing, digging into Ruby fork byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

Tech track leaders (senior staff, principal, etc) I highly recommend adding office hour times to your calendar and advertising it such that everyone in your org knows they are for everyone. I started a few weeks ago and have had the best conversations.

if you want to keep up with all that is quickly changing with the AI ecosystems, you can't beat this write-up by @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

@byroot.bsky.social great post CPU vs IO. > APIs can be both very convenient and performant, but both have to be considered right from the start for it to happen. Do you have thoughts on building performant APIs from the start (patterns for init & object reuse). or need to profile APIs day 1?

finally was able to get the fiber internet to connect to the house switch, and now my office finally has ethernet to the fiber line... It is about 3x faster and far more stable than the wifi... less stalled video meetings, hooray