My Linux laptop is named "Grandma" because every time it goes to sleep there's a terrific chance it's never gonna wake up again.

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A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

I got quite a lot of free time lately, so I figured I'd use it to blog a bit. Hopefully it's worth the effort? Here's the first one, about some of the optimizations I and others made to ruby/json recently: byroot.github.io/ruby/json/20...

People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.

Ruby 3.4.0-rc1 is out! github.com/ruby/ruby/re... github.com/rbenv/ruby-b... I'm working to keep stability of new release now. Please build and run your code with 3.4.0-rc1. If you faced issues, please file it to bugs.ruby-lang.org. #ruby

I could not have been clearer about this