This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

I wrote about some of my thoughts on the lessons we can learn from the RubyGems situation and how we can move forward. blog.peterzhu.ca/open-source-...

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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.

Original post: dice.camp/@johnzajac/1...

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