As usual, it's the laws of physics that are the haters.

Faker v3.5.3 is live: github.com/faker-ruby/f... Check out our new README :)

In the spirit of Thanksgiving I'm gonna tell you part of how I deal with life. It is understanding all the little miracles that are comparatively worthless but emotionally salient. I go into a Waffle House and I hold that knife and I think about how recent our advanced metallurgy is. Like 70 years

There's no such thing as a single engineer or even a group of 5-10 engineers that can pull this off. It's not a solo nor a single-team task. The teams and individuals that have tried this burned through every ounce of their political capital at mach speed.

Hope beats fear. Never doubt it. 😉

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best halloween costumes

i wrote a lil essay a while ago about THE POWER OF FRAMES for creative work.

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

It's interesting to contrast with the original vision for the computer. The LLM doesn't aim to be a "bicycle for the mind" (Jobs) nor extend senses and reach (MCLuhan) but displace cognition. Instead of a machine that does what you tell it, it's a machine that tells.

democracy is awesome 🎇🎉

this was a lovely episode

seeing the northern lights tonight 🌠🌌

can confirm

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber

Doing the right thing is always the right thing, even when it’s the hard thing.

Sending my love to all RubyGems/Bundler maintainers. 🧡 We can't thank you enough for all the essential work you do, and all your contributions to the Ruby community. Gratitude, kindness and respect for all the OSS maintainers out there. 🙏

What if the real vulnerability all along was NPM? 😜

listening is a gift that keeps on giving

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

This is why I always felt weird about being "in tech" once everyone assumed that meant startups. I want to make things that people use, alongside people I can learn from and get better together. Startup people wanted SCALE or SPEED and that's theirs to want, but it bothered me to be lumped in.

New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works.

- "How about improving docs & API design? This helps the whole dev team + external users!" - "Nope, ain't got no time for that!" ... ... - "How about improving docs & API design to support MCP? This would let some random LLM interact with the API." - "YES WE NEED THIS! START RIGHT NOW!!!" 🗯️ 🤷

WE HAVE LONG SINCE LEFT THE INFORMATION AGE. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF NOISE

This thread is incredible.

When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.

"AI is basically suggesting McDonald's for your code." - @tenderlove.dev

I think people do not fully think through what “useful” means. Is something truly “useful” when it also causes a skill you cultivated—perhaps over decades—to atrophy?

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

cloudflare outage😮‍💨

"Ruby’s commitment to whimsy feels almost revolutionary, punk, even" Source: https://stevengharms.com/posts/2025-06-07-the-delightful-art-of-rubys-impenetrable-naming

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs. Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June. forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...

a true master of their craft 📷

Frictionless learning is not a thing. If you're doing something that feels like learning but you're constantly in a flow state and progressing w. ease, you're not learning, you're being trained via someone else's designed system. This is not always a bad thing. But it pays to know the difference.

"This is the economy now. Not a distribution of opportunity. A redistribution of friction. But friction isn’t the enemy!!!! It’s information. It tells us where things are straining and where care is needed and where attention should go." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

"It’s not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one."

People laugh when I say "practice telling your feeling from reality" but it really is the most critical skill. Extreme emotions (good and bad!) are a liability it you let them take over. This piece is still one of my go-tos on how to actually practice it: stackingthebricks.com/survive-pani...

📢 Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 134 was published yesterday. This edition was possible with the help of @vcosmin01.bsky.social who did all the content editing for this edition. Let me share 👇 some highlights from this edition #Ruby #Rails #Newsletter

"Earth has entered retrograde", the martian astrologist said. 🌚

When a controller is full of custom actions named: - `#create_[thing]` - `#update_[thing]` - `#delete_[thing]` It usually means that `[thing]` is a missing concept in your domain. Consider extracting those actions into a new `[things]_controller.rb` class or something similar.

Your periodic reminder--if a design change is hard then you haven't worked hard enough making it easy.

Rails Tip: `rails routes --expanded`: If you can never find the controller#action being called by a route, expanded routes can help!

democracy is awesome! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

I will write a blog post about this when the PR lands, but Ruby 3.5 should have 6x faster object allocation

Software can't save sociotechnical systems. But they can make it easier or harder to do the right thing.

If you ever wondered how Conway's Law applies to US Politics, here's your chance to see what the person who came up with it thinks, and what can be done about it. Mel is approaching this from a math + systems thinking lens and it's both fascinating and necessary to understand the world we're in.