Mountain Dew, I choose YOU https://www.igloocoolers.com/products/pokemon-poke-ball-crossbody-cooler

Towards an amicable resolution with Ruby Central andre.arko.net/2026/04/02/tow…

born too late for lead poisoning, born too early for slop, i am generation microplastics

I should make a game of life simulator for the terminal called "shellular automata"

I’ve posted the full unedited Zoom recording of the meeting between Ruby Central and RubyGems maintainers that took place on 17 September 2025, *before* the takeover. youtu.be/FjQKOIf8_Wg

if you're in san francisco early for GDC, saturday and sunday will be the last two days of this interactive art showcase!

excited to showcase some cool games by game devs of color in collaboration with @gdocexpo.com next wednesday! rsvp here! luma.com/2v2mgk41

nullsignal.games continues to knock it out of the park when they make new NetRunner cards

after four months of private discussions, I have an update on the Bundler and RubyGems situation with Ruby Central: andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/fou…

they should invent a cost of living that goes down

rvx installs and runs Rails in 8 seconds, vs. gem exec rails in 18 seconds.

OH so like a functional programmer to not have class consciousness

who called them persistent data structures and not cow tools

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

OH I've noticed a trend of some of the people I work with like...re-juniorizing, is the only way I can really think to describe it?

rv has a big release, with windows support and gem CLI tools! the fastest way to generate a rails app is now `brew install rv; rvx rails new`. check it out: https://spinel.coop/blog/rv-0.5-cli-tools-windows/

by the way, you don't need to RSVP to attend POPUP INTERNET CAFE (opening this weekend) but if you do RSVP, you can get some fun freebies! luma.com/calendar/cal...

Whoa nice! If you're hesitant to try @jj-vcs.dev because you're a Magit user maybe try this out

“I wish the programming industry would take security problems more seriously, and expect new software to not be full of known holes” :monkey’s paw curls:

Announcing the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship! gem.coop/updates/2026...

vtuber is short for vpotato

@andycroll.bsky.social is there any chance there will ever be more physical copies of the poignant guide? I have just seen the conference guestbook copy and now I really want one of my own 😅

gem.coop has news! we've just released dependency cooldowns (in beta), a strong defense against supply chain attacks gem.coop/updates/4/

if my favorite author is jane austen, does that mean i have regency bias?

"wifi" is short for wireless fireless

Hyped to see rv reach v0.4 - spinel.coop/blog/rv-clea... - I've been enjoying working on it with @indirect.io, @adamchalmers.com, and the @spinel.coop folks!

rv 0.4 can install your project gems now. Locked gems only so far, but that's still super exciting. Try it out, and tell us what you want next! spinel.coop/blog/rv-clea...

last night on this boat the 7yo was trying to give a clue for "YouTube" and screamed "the opposite of Netflix!!!". I am still trying to recover today

Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️

i dove into a soft soap dispenser from 2003 🐟🐠🪸 (jk this is raja ampat 2025)

merry christmas, and happy ruby 4.0! rv.dev has Ruby 4 ready to try in about one second: `rv ruby install 4.0.0`. enjoy!

Why is it called a bug log when you log in the bug of out hot eat the bug

rv 0.3 is out, adding code signatures, automatic install during run, and ruby 4.0.0-preview2 (as well as ruby 0.49, why not). check it out! github.com/spinel-coop/...

@indirect.io: san francisco’s getting upzoned me: what’s upzoned? indirect: not much, what’s up with you?

if you’re looking for the perfect holiday card to send your favorite software engineer, look no further: my letter-pressed binary christmas tree card 🎄 shop.bubblesort.io/products/bin...

Reminder, this Friday all my open source code is available at a 50% discount!

i never realized that i had an aspiration to be a cto until today when i learned that bandai has a chief tamagotchi officer

very frustrating that GitHub has set an official runner policy that macOS open source projects can’t build for users once their OS is 13 months old

browsers should be allowed to display the <li> in a <ul> in whatever order they like

time to pay for a subscription to defector based on one article

Took this moment with my iMac being down to instead use `rv` by @indirect.io and team. Holy wow that thing _flies_.

"By doing things voters wanted, he set unrealistic expectations. Soon, voters will expect ALL politicians to represent their interests. Then where will we be?” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

well fuck

Holy shit what a banger

sudden intrusive thought: stack overflow is just the oral tradition, kept alive by programmers who only know how to speak in posts

Karl Marx failed to anticipate build systems

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

What comes through loud and clear from Shan is the lack of respect for open source authors. She actually says it’s none of my business why I was removed from rubygems. I don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back. youtu.be/nKpo68g9dEk?...

closing all my tickets as wontfix because the software is provided as-is

I'm very excited to see more tooling inspired by `uv` for Ruby. @rubyelders.bsky.social just announced Ruby Butler: rubyelders.com/writings/202...