If you wanted to have loved one buy you a t-shirt because “you’re impossible to buy for” today is your last day to get it for Xmas. rubytshirts.com

The social media ban in Australia should be expanded to all countries and… all ages.

Moving my stuff to Codeberg as of today

If you run it past the pope it will turn into wine?

“Privatisation was the experiment — and it’s failed. We have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege.” Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.

Just saying 😊 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

@eightbitraptor.bsky.social hello!

The Donald says climate change is a con job, but it’s actually a cron job

“In opposition, Labour vowed to introduce a right to roam. In govt, it U-turned on this promise… its plan to create 9 new ‘river walks’ is a paltry compensation.” Excellent Guardian leader on why we need a right of access to all rivers @righttoroam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Great to see a politician eviscerate the media narrative about small boats, take on Farage and talk about inequality bsky.app/profile/zack...

An incomparable legend.

My talk at #ElixirConfEU is live!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99Q... It's all about how we use #Elixir and #OTP at the #BBC. Please have a look and let me know what you think 🙂 #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

Elixir Senior Software Engineer @ BBC / Both #job #ElixirLang

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

"Climate change is significantly altering the UK's vector-borne disease landscape, creating increasingly favourable conditions for disease-carrying organisms. The recent detection of West Nile virus in British mosquitoes exemplifies this emerging threat." ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/21/h...

In case you missed the email, I've put together t-shirts for Brighton Ruby (for the first time). I never did it before because of cost, potential waste admin hassle and a fear of many t-shirts in multiple sizes in my (too small) loft. Want one? rubytshirts.com/collections...

Gemini, Malloc, and me open.substack.com/pub/codeanth...

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

You know what's not sold out? brightonruby.com #RailsWorld

@stuffwithstuff.com I'm writing a substack post that mentions Crafting Interpreters (which I love, thank you!). I was wondering if you'd be OK for me to put an image of the book in the substack post? It would be the main image that you have at the top of craftinginterpreters.com

Starting my substack today codeanth.substack.com/p/hello-world

less vibe coding more vibe debugging

I’m not sure what happens to people who are really into meditation, but they all turn into missionaries, praising the lord of breath and whatnot

Happy #lastofus day to all that celebrate. Hope you’re doing okay.

Lua

I get overwhelmed by choice often. This year, instead of choosing things to do, I'll just choose what not to do.

I'm always surprised when news about Facebook pop up because I honestly cannot understand why people still use that crap.

The curl coasters you now realize you were missing. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11...

built a fairy house with my daughter. what do you think?

it's funny reading someone's interpretation of my book... www.writersknowhow.org/articles/can...

Just posted my first post on HN. Give us an upvote! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4236...

Just posted my first post on HN. Give us an upvote! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4236...

had to endure someone yesterday telling me that people should take paternity leave out of their work holidays

existent

I'm starting a new project soon, running a self-hosted web app from home, from a raspberry pi. Any anyone has done that? Pitfalls I need to avoid? Links, tips?

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging snowstorm, and Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of emotional support pastries.

Finally managed to get my self-portrait up on the wall!

"It was as if he had just given himself the power to cancel transatlantic flights, or boost the number of vegetarians in the world. All by deleting a few lines of code." www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-tiny-s...

A majestic beech in Epping Forest.

If you are at #rubyconf and want know more about Ruby culture, you can download my book, Coderspeak, for FREE, here: uclpress.co.uk/book/codersp...

💬 ENTREVISTA | Em entrevista à Pública, o professor de ciência política na Universidade de Pittsburgh, José Antonio Cheibub, afirma que “Trump opera radicalmente para se autosservir.” e que a vitória anuncia um cenário sombrio para combate às mudanças climáticas. http://dlvr.it/TG2kpC

This is a great comparison of the landscape of Ruby parsers and I am not surprised that Prism comes out on top on every kind of benchmark.

cause and consequence in image form

Não dependa de algoritmos viciados, assine a minha newsletter e receba meus textos direto no seu email. É de graça? É! Mas quem quiser apoiar com um cascalho eu estou aceitando de bom grado! orlandocalheiros.substack.com

my colleagues reviewing my PRs