so, I got my electric guitar, used, back in 2013-2015. it's had a bad pickup selector switch the whole time. i just kept smacking it until it worked for... *checks notes*... a decade. FINALLY open it up to try to fix it, and discover it's a fucking crime scene.

The #PSF currently has about a 6-month financial runway, as opposed to their target 12-month runway. If you or your company benefits from the #Python community, please look into supporting them! If you rely on `pip install` working, you rely on them. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/conn...

Internet friends: what weird research rabbit holes are we going down this week? Y’all learn anything new and cool and weird?

Bork v10 has been released! Bork is a build & release tool for Python, which can publish to PyPi & GitHub. Major changes: - `bork download` is deprecated in favor of `homf` - release notes include a changelog based on merged PRs Install: pipx install bork==10.0.3 Details: pup-e.com/blog/bork-v10

Absolutely fucking cursed discovery: If you create a gem, you can set its version to: 0.a.a.a.b---.---c--- And when you do `gem build`, it converts that version into: 0.a.a.a.b.pre..pre..pre...pre..pre..pre.c.pre..pre..pre. (last dot is included in the version)

Bork v10 has been released! Bork is a build & release tool for Python, which can publish to PyPi & GitHub. Major changes: - `bork download` is deprecated in favor of `homf` - release notes include a changelog based on merged PRs Install: pipx install bork==10.0.3 Details: pup-e.com/blog/bork-v10

!!! `jim release` can now: 1. build itself as a .gem, 2. pack itself into a single-file script, 3. publish both of these to GitHub Releases Try out the packed `jim.rb` file. It should be completely self-contained: github.com/duckinator/j...

!!! `jim release` can now: 1. build itself as a .gem, 2. pack itself into a single-file script, 3. publish both of these to GitHub Releases Try out the packed `jim.rb` file. It should be completely self-contained: github.com/duckinator/j...

Huge props to Python Software Foundation for actually standing up for not just the Python community, but the broader open source community as well, by refusing to bend on their values. ❤️ We need more folks taking a stand on this kind of bullshit. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

you ever think about how a modular synth wired up with "stacking" patch cables is functionally equivalent to a data bus? this thought's been eating at me for over a day and i want to do something with it

We spun up this feature petition with GitHub that I think would genuinely help a lot of projects and companies, open source or not. github.com/orgs/communi...

guess who just generated a valid tar file using ~150 lines of Ruby~ Tar file writer implementation: github.com/duckinator/j... And the code that uses it: github.com/duckinator/j...

i just learned that some of the Postgres codebase abbreviates "context" as "ctx" and some abbreviates it as "cxt" for some reason, and i am in _agony_ from this

me: [fidgeting with the 5lb sledge hammer that i've kept by my desk for like 3 months] @kayila.bsky.social, perfectly describing what she is witnessing: "the autistic urge to hold something slightly heavier than you should currently be holding"

me: [fidgeting with the 5lb sledge hammer that i've kept by my desk for like 3 months] @kayila.bsky.social, perfectly describing what she is witnessing: "the autistic urge to hold something slightly heavier than you should currently be holding"

"git push -f, 2013"

Hey #CSS / #flexbox folks: On pup-e.com I have a `nav ul` rule with `display: flex` and `flex-wrap: wrap` With flexbox, is it possible to only put a character between each item that's on the same row? atm I put a mid-dot between each item, but it looks like shit if it goes over multiple lines.

What if gem hosts had NPM-like scopes & your Gemfile could be: source "https://gem.example" gem "@duckinator/jim" OR: gem "https://gem.example/duckinator/jim" ... what if a PoC patch was 25 lines, and a 1-line kludge meant you can test it against a production server? github.com/gem-coop/gem...

The first SIX PARAGRAPHS of "Why Did Ruby Central Treat This Event as a Security Incident?" should have been ONE SENTENCE: "Ruby Central was informed some credentials were not rotated after an operator's access was revoked." Everything else is noise to distract from their operational mistakes.

On RubyGems & Governance: pup-e.com/blog/on-ruby... Many programmers have no interest in formal governance processes, but letting people act and speak on our behalf without our input is what got us here. The path forward is for the community to speak up and take direct ownership of what we make.

once again i find myself sitting down at my computer and immediately clicking the "POSIX.1-2024" bookmark this happens far more frequently than most people would expect

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

💖❣️BIG NEWS❣️💖 We just revealed through IGN that our first public demo for Don't Stop, Girlypop! is OUT NOW ✨ Check out the brand new trailer here 👇 https://bit.ly/46G0FiI

I wrote a little about it on my site. martinemde.com/2025/10/05/a... I can't wait to make more chicken puns with you all.

I'm excited to join my friends in announcing gem.coop, a new ruby community gem server that you can use right now.

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

behold, my latest technological cognitohazard github.com/duckinator/j...

In retrospect, buying a set of 31 books when my bookshelf can only fit 9 of them wasn't my best choice. Like yeah sure I have *plans* for building a bookshelf, but I also had *plans* to make my own night stand. ... and after multiple months a housemate got *so impatient* they built it for me. 😂

Fun Fact™: If your Steam Deck's power button is REALLY HARD to press, it might be that your case is slightly warped! In my gf's case (lol), turns out some plastic near the power button bows out slightly, which means there is a ~1mm gap between the plastic piece you push on and the actual button.

I have a comment on one part of today's RC post. "we focused first on contacting the team members directly affected" They revoked access, took 6 days to say what they wanted, then kept changing their demands as soon as we got close. After multiple rounds of that, they demanded people be removed.

Stepping away from the social media, email, etc for a while. Sorry if I don't get back to you. Getting overwhelmed and need a break from it. I leave you with the gift of a thread explaining my latest technological cognitohazard made during a sleep-deprived fugue state: bsky.app/profile/duck...

you ever have one of those days where your code just gets so excited it segfaults?

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

behold, my latest technological cognitohazard github.com/duckinator/j...

I've talked a lot recently about the people I worked with in the Ruby community. So now I'd like to shout out folks *outside* the Ruby community who've inspired my work *inside* the Ruby community over the years. The ordering of these is random (as in: %w[rust cargo pip pipx dist].shuffle ).

What’s the value of owning the place where open source lives? code can be forked maintainers can leave users can abandon Then what lives in the repositories? Trust. Trust lives there, but only if everyone agrees. If you destroy trust to become owner, then what do you own? A kingdom of ashes.

I have to step away from Ruby Central and RubyGems discussion. This has taken a week of my time. I'm going to make $4k less this month because of that. My income keeps a 6-person household housed and fed. We narrowly avoided losing our home this year. I refuse to be put in that situation again.

Remember: measure twice, cut thrice. #protip

Today has been... intense. Thank you everyone who's discussed this with me and offered kind words or support. I don't know the intent behind what happened. The people involved aren't villains, and they aren't evil.

I appreciate the apology. I figure it's only fair that I share it, since I shared some other parts of the discussion.

I can now see why that would be offensive and I apologize for my mistake in characterizing it that way. I didn't mean to downplay or minimize your contributions or your work. As I stated before, I have nothing but respect for your work. Thank you for your contributions.

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

@cafeaubun.bsky.social hey! Am I remembering correctly that these album covers were your work? I sadly have lost my records from 2017 so have to rely on my memory of things from 8 years ago. 😅

did you know that most implementations of strncmp() will SEGFAULT when passed NULL? did you know strlen() has the same problem, so even implementing your own strncmp() won't save you? don't mind me, adding NULL checks to a few things.

sometimes it feels like C compilers are optimized for being frustrating. warning because variables are "unused" -> explicitly mark as used -> get 2 additional warnings about the [[used]] attribute being ignored *facedesks*

projects i work on always seem to have a very specific vibe