Valerie Woolard
@valeriecodes.bsky.social
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software engineer 👩💻, board of directors
@rubycentral.org
, chaotic good, INTJ, she/her
i will die on the hill that pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding are three of the most metal things human beings can do
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
If you care deeply about the Ruby programming language, open source sustainability, and community growth, here is your chance to help shape the future of the Ruby ecosystem. Accepting applications for the Board of Directors until November 21st:
rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164...
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Ruby Central Board Member - Ruby Central
About Ruby Central. Ruby Central is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing the Ruby programming language and community. We steward foundational open source infrastructure su...
https://rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164-ruby-central-board-member
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Ruby Central has opened board applications for next year:
rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164...
I’ll be rolling off the board to have another baby and stuff, so I’d really love if you’d apply and/or share this with anyone who’s interested in being involved.
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Ruby Central Board Member - Ruby Central
About Ruby Central. Ruby Central is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing the Ruby programming language and community. We steward foundational open source infrastructure su...
https://rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164-ruby-central-board-member?ref=rubycentral.org
about 2 months ago
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I had a long commute today and have some movie musical hot takes to share. First, movie musicals that are underrated: West Side Story (2021) The Phantom of the Opera (2024)
2 months ago
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This is my toddler’s favorite book right now but this page freaks me out
3 months ago
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My team built this and it’s pretty fun
www.heroku.com/blog/turn-id...
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Welcome to Heroku Vibes
Turn your ideas into apps with Heroku Vibes. Our AI-powered agent lets you build and deploy simply by describing what you want.
https://www.heroku.com/blog/turn-ideas-into-apps-heroku-vibes-pilot/
3 months ago
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Matthew R Francis
3 months ago
headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.
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there are simply not enough delicious beverages that contain neither caffeine nor alcohol
3 months ago
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All of this is ridiculous but it was kind of fun to see a meme be born in real time
3 months ago
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Kat Tenbarge
3 months ago
One thing conservatives are gonna do is they’re gonna make sure pregnant people are suffering as much as possible—because, of course, they hate women and want them to suffer!
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hey so tylenol is the only pain reliever considered safe during pregnancy so by saying pregnant folks shouldn’t take it (in addition to being based on dubious research) is essentially just telling them they can’t have pain relief
3 months ago
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Sorry to everyone who has followed me recently that I am mostly retired from Posting
3 months ago
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Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well.
apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of-the?utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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And yes, I limit replies and quote tweets because I don’t want to spend all my time moderating my bluesky, feel free to screenshot and dunk on me as you see fit.
4 months ago
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Just to be clear, Ruby Central has not taken money from DHH/Basecamp.
4 months ago
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Hi folks, I am the president of the Ruby Central board. I don’t have time to reply to posts individually, but I do want to make clear that recent changes to permissions in our open source projects were done in collaboration with the organization’s leadership and not by one person unilaterally 🧵
4 months ago
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Kylie Cheung
4 months ago
An update in the case of a 21-yr-old Kentucky student charged with ‘abuse of a corpse’: The county coroner declined to answer whether the 'infant' in question was full-term despite confirming they have this info, and specified that 'infant' sometimes refers to fetuses:
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Kentucky Coroner: When We Say 'Infant', It Could Mean 'Fetus'
Lexington law enforcement knows whether Laken Snelling's pregnancy was full-term—they just won't say
https://jessica.substack.com/p/kentucky-coroner-when-we-say-infant
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if I am considering a kindle colorsoft but would rather not give (more) money to amazon… what should I do?
5 months ago
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me ordering more labubus
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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She’s ready for her keynote
#RailsConf
6 months ago
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At
#RailsConf
! Say hi!
6 months ago
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Kai Ryssdal
6 months ago
For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
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Marty Haught
7 months ago
Ruby friends
@valeriecodes.bsky.social
@nodunayo.bsky.social
at
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i dare anyone to curate a more insane fb marketplace algo than mine
9 months ago
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since becoming a parent I want to see every single baby’s sweet little face
10 months ago
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I mostly stay out of the AI discourse, but its invasion of wholesome hobbies really makes me sad. Every day in one of my embroidery groups someone gets duped by a weird AI-generated pattern for sale on Etsy.
12 months ago
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After Vine and now TikTok, I’m starting to think we just don’t deserve short-form video content
12 months ago
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I can’t explain it but this feels like a massage for my brain
youtu.be/eT3BFzSD6YY?...
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All Star but they don't stop coming pitch corrected
YouTube video by This Is That Guy
https://youtu.be/eT3BFzSD6YY?si=Ez9c_bIK_KMBsOag
about 1 year ago
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what are we using for our basic email lists nowadays?
about 1 year ago
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Wicked screening was a success! People had a great time, it made me so happy. There were like 20 babies there.
about 1 year ago
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Hosting a private babies and caregivers showing of Wicked and I’ve warned everyone in attendance that I might sing. This is my dream I am so excited
about 1 year ago
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Roxane Gay
about 1 year ago
The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.
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scream singing “defying gravity” in the car while my baby sleeps in the back seat, unbothered
about 1 year ago
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listening to the wicked cast recording for the first time in 15 years to prepare to be insufferable for the next week
about 1 year ago
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do you think apple is aware of the issue where if i try to use face id while holding my baby it doesn’t work because it registers the baby’s face instead
about 1 year ago
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if you follow me, what are you interested to see more of from me? - ruby - postgres/db things - baby/mom stuff - silly crafts - dinosaur drawings - jokey jokes - something else?
about 1 year ago
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almost done with parental leave, maybe I should start posting database hot takes or something
about 1 year ago
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Finally got back into my account on The Other Site but honestly it’s such a hellscape I’m not sure I ever post there again
about 1 year ago
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Bryn Robinson, PhD
about 1 year ago
RAISE THE FLAG OF FREEDOM HIIIIGH
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Dave Moore
about 1 year ago
All the Bluesky advice threads are like when someone at a restaurant explains how “we do it a little differently here” and it’s just tapas
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I just saw the suggestion for men to start using period trackers for completely random things to screw up the data and was reminded of the tiktok of the guy who used one to log every time he ate taco bell 🙃🌮
about 1 year ago
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also, i am trying to avoid posting too many photos of the baby on public platforms but this sweet portrait that
@bbghost.bsky.social
drew seems okay 🩵🩷
about 1 year ago
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I am missing
#RubyConf
to soak up my final weeks of parental leave with my sweet baby but the fomo is rough
about 1 year ago
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i am gonna need everyone shocked that their favorite influencers are trump voters to be so for real with me right now
about 1 year ago
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Valerie Woolard
Ruby Central
about 1 year ago
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sorry I will not be calling them skeets
about 1 year ago
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hi, I’m Valerie. You may know me from the bird site. Follow me for weird crafts, jokes about my baby, trash TV, and occasional hot takes on Ruby or Postgres
about 1 year ago
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i am locked out of my main twitter and logged in on an alt that I haven’t followed/interacted much on, and the feed is all right-wing vitriol after a bit of aggressive blocking/muting it’s now all porn!? i truly cannot
about 1 year ago
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This is something I’ve struggled with a lot over the past ~decade because I grew up very sincerely believing that anyone could be won over with a reasonable, factual, and respectful conversation because people actually mostly agree and want the same things. I do not believe that any more.
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about 1 year ago
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I am locked out of my Twitter account, perhaps a forcing function to get me over here. Who should I be following?
about 1 year ago
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