“Adult summer camps” is the new way of going through mid-life crisis without any irreversible damage. You are just one camper in the middle of many others, all wearing the same shirt. The coaches make you run for two hours a day. You end up improving whatever thing you were here for. You get a

I have not written code or opened my laptop in 3 weeks and I am okay. One more week left.

We are doing this!!!

The best part of my sabbatical is really the ankle sprain on day 4. What am I gonna do now? Coding??? 😭

It’s only 2pm and I have done a total of 5 resets on 2 branches. I also looked for the big roll of disinfectant wipes at the other side of the open space when I had one on my desk. Lost many grains of couscous on the main kitchen floor. Did the ticket of someone else “by mistake”…

I wish there was a way to tell people on Marketplace that I prefer not selling something than responding to someone who does not know the basics of politeness. If their only message is « $100 » then they can f$ck off. The thing has been in my garage for ages, I don’t care if it takes a year to sell.

That’s a really nerdy license plate we have here

Hundreds of millions of people write right-to-left. Still, most developer tools treat it as an afterthought. But this isn't an edge case. If a user types in Arabic or Hebrew, many English apps will break. In most cases, the fix is just two HTML attributes, explained in this article:

True story: I gave the Apple AI thingy a pic of my son Warren holding a World Cup trophy replica and asked it to “blur the picture except for Warren [it usually knows who he is] and the cup”. And I kid you not, it sent me back a picture of Elizabeth Warren holding a coffee cup.

We are super invested in a pair of doves nesting under our roof. They already had two babies. One of them got out of the nest while my husband was going outside which scared the sh$t out of it and it ended up in our pool 😭 Hubby went full on Baywatch, saved it, put it in a towel and left him there

First day of RTO was yesterday. Honestly the level of excitement by the welcoming crew did not match mine at all. I was there at 7:20, there were balloons and Taylor Swift. I am not sure what I did to deserve such agression first thing in the morning. If it was not enough it seems we have very

Officially a tennis player. Lost my first match like a champ 6-2, 6-2. I am tired af, probably met a tennis friend with whom I can laugh about our terrible shots, and I didn’t break any bone. It’s a good day!

Thinking I was finally out of the Clair Obscur ending depression, I spent the afternoon listening to the soundtrack while working. Huge mistake.

Parents: hey remember that bully that made your life hell, look what she looks like now, I am friend with her on Facebook. Sweet.

The last Unicode newsletter talks about the SNL sketch about emojis, and it seems like all the « RBF emojis » are up for adoption. I am very tempted to adopt aerial tramway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Cp...

Yet another Pokemon game. What would I play without them? Resident Evil?? 🤭

Who has 2 thumbs, no teammates less than 380 miles away and is hit by a RTO that only her will have to comply with?

Nothing beats your last day of PTO in bed with a freaking migraine, counting the time left until the next painkiller intake.

Working on internal tools can be so rewarding. Nobody makes big announcements for the projects because they don’t sell. Even when building something specific for a user facing feature, mentions in announcements are rare. Everybody just expects that it works and they all freak out when it does not.

Nature is incredible. apnews.com/article/iran...

“The promise of Rails is being fulfilled. People just haven’t caught up with this reality yet,” says @inazarova.bsky.social. We wrote about SF Ruby and reveal the real reason we decided to host the conference. Find it here: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Hey friends, our next #SFRuby meetup is on December 18, at Intercom! It is a Holiday Edition: bring vibes, home-cooked sweets, and your Xmas (and cold :🥶)-inspired talks! Sign up at luma.com/sfruby Submit a talk at forms.gle/C9HQzaT5jvwA...

15 years ago I used to listen to a French Alt radio station that was broadcasting a very specific acoustic version of a K’s Choice song they sang for a German radio station. I found the recording on YouTube at the time and it’s the only way I listen to that song. The video has 20k views and 80% of

The new question Ruby conferences have to add to their registration forms now (in addition to t-shirt size) is "do you need a Ruby passport?"

Is there out there any **reliable** app to manage Windows devices (parental control) that is not Norton? Something I can control from my phone even when I am on the other side of the globe.

When there’s something strange In the apps at work Who is on-call? Aurelie!! (It’s always me. Like al-ways.)

Not sure you’ll guess what I listened to today

People leave bad HOAs, not bad condos.

Cooking planning for Thanksgiving. Nothing happened as planned.

Your annual reminder that your cranberry sauce should be ready by now.

Great weather here in SF today. This was taken from Fort Mason where the SF Ruby is hosted. You can still grab tickets at sfruby.com

Friendly PSA for everyone travelling to @sfrubyconf.com: Bring your Ruby Passports with you 🙌

For those who have taken a sabbatical in the past, what did you do during this time off?

Here’s to 41! 🥂 (<= that’s kombucha , I am old now, I can’t manage alcohol anymore and need to think about my digestion)

Guess who's got two free tickets to give away for the first edition of @sfruby.com? 👉 🙋‍♂️👨‍💻 👈 Just comment below the answer to this riddle to get a chance to get one. p [ [65, 118, 111], [105, 115], [116, 104, 101], [98, 101, 115, 116] ].map { |w| w.map(&:chr).join }.join(' ')

10 years ago today we were certainly above Greenland, in a plane on our way to San Francisco just the 4 of us, our clothes, video games, and ziplock bags full of little cars and Legos. What a ride it has been 🧡

I bought Feastables!! We were supposed to be the cool house in the street. Only 3 kids came. I am so done with Halloween…

Talking Halloween plans for my 14yo and his friends. Him: Mom we can’t go trick or treating anymore, we’re 6ft tall, nobody wants to give us candies Me: yes you can, all your friends are not that tall, look at your friend A Him: HE HAS A MUSTACHE

Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

OH yesterday: « AWS being down is the tech version of a snow day ».

Yeah! Join Aurelie at sfruby.com ! But like do it NOW because prices go up on Thursday! 😱

Woke up, AWS on fire, I am on-call, might go back to bed.

This pickle ball thing is so loud…

It’s funny how very small sentences can provide much information. For example, if I say “my hip hurts”, it gives you an idea of my age and also what’s the weather like outside.

And I think peak French music was 90s and 00s French rap.

You’re 39, everything is fine, healthy as hell. You turn 40 and suddenly your teeth are plotting against you, your back hurts, and your knee is in pain even though it’s your son who got hit.

This November in San Francisco... 💎❤️ Grab your tickets before October 20 at sfruby.com youtu.be/m2P9PZwi8W4

Alright, I'm in... ☺️ Who else will I see at SF Ruby?!

youtube.com/shorts/sCtPr... Meet the new and ambitious Ruby & YC startups at the SF Ruby conference already on Nov 19-21, and let’s build the future in Ruby, together! We pushed the price down to $350, which means you get the tickets for $300 till October 6 with code SEP29OCT6. sfruby.com