This is a pretty cool fully local AI tool to slice up a longer video into shorts / highlights, cool usage of the recent small and powerful local LLM models from Google (gemma4) github.com/mutonby/shor...

It's weird now when you get some very solvable problem that software can do... you either get a bunch of established big company packages (Adobe acrobat PDF) for example or give it to any AI bot and it can do the simple task... We have been overcharged for basic format conversion forever.

another Science Saturday activity, build and launching a model rocket. millermayersadventures.com/2026/06/07/s...

Science Saturday with the kids... To the moon. 500ft rocket kit parts recovered via parachutes

it's been fun to play with an learn more about n8n, openclaw, and hyperagent... If you haven't tried it I highly recommend hyperagent for building quick scheduled repeatable AI workflows with a bunch of nice off the shelf integrations. if interested my referral link: hyperagent.com/refer/LSP7276C

A funny thing happened, AI rejected an ADR. An effective way of building an ADR document write it w/ one AI, then have it evaluated & give feedback by another. For the first time opposed to the evaluation AI helping me improve the ADR, it convinced me to reject it and propose a different strategy.

lovable is pretty fun to build out little toy apps. My kids have been having fun with the mad libs generator genabsurd.lovable.app/s/kvbcry7r

playing around with some different AI editors, I mostly use Claude code, but wanted to quickly try out lovable given how much love it gets... AI Mad Libs with illustrations of the silly stories. genabsurd.lovable.app

This is a great post on Ruby concurrency paolino.me/ruby-concurr...

My time with Shopify has come to an end. I'm now looking for my next opportunity. If you have worked with me in the past & know of a position that might be a good fit, reach out. I still love Ruby, distributed teams, & building software that matters. updated resume www.mayerdan.com/resume_markd...

learning 3d printing with my kids has been a good time. We all enjoy printing things and I have enjoyed doing some 3d modeling and using it to help out with some DIY projects around the house. Also, while not very good yet, the fact that you can 3d print shoes is just very cool.

added a demo site to help show how to use and integrate memory map cache features memory-map-cache.onrender.com

New Cache store, memory mapped cache that provides memory map cross process caching for single servers, along with support for layered cache to remote cache rings. github.com/danmayer/mem...

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!