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If you haven't upgraded yet, Ruby 4.0's garbage collection is generally much faster than 3.4. This patch release fixes the one area there had previously been a notable regression (allocating/freeing Classes).

last year was very cool 🚲

the CTrain free fare zone is one of the nicest things we have in Calgary. The numbers from the recent survey are pretty clear: people use it, they like it, and they want it to be expanded. City Hall should just listen to what people want.📣

new post about the garbage can model and persistence as a design method. mikegallagher.org/posts/from-g...

I see no lies here

If something is supposed to be a tool, you have to ask a tool for what. If everyone is talking about the experience of using the tool and not the outputs or outcomes, then it's a tool for self…soothing.

I just learned such a great word for our times. An epiphany is sudden true understanding. An *apophany* is a false understanding based on seeing a relationship in data or perception that doesn't actually exist. Pareidolia (seeing faces in things) is a subtype of apophenia.

It's not that difficult or expensive to understand people if you really want to understand them. Many organizations prefer to spend huge amounts of money to keep that confirmation bias high going.

> production is down due to cosmic rays today working as a "datacenters-in-space" devops engineer doesn't sound that fun.

it’s very weird, as a creative myself, to see other creatives who are proudly telling the world how much they loathe their craft and the process of making things.

Writing my action items on a piece of paper that I will burn to ward off spirits

The idea that every social problem needs a technical solution is so myopic. If you're worried about the smarts of the population, why not just fund public education? And if you're worried about Skynet, maybe try regulating the AI industries...

very exciting! 🎉🤩

loving this new technique where we replace making mistakes as we work though a programming task and learning from them with letting an AI do the same, allowing us to learn next to nothing.

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

The thing that really makes people stupid is wanting to look smart more than they want to learn.

good horse deserves cake 🍰🐎

let's go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

Everyone talking about social media ruining attention spans, and no one talking about ruined attention spans undermining software development If it takes longer than 2 weeks to do, you can't get anyone to understand it anymore

First time speaking at city council, it was fun! 🎉 Very excited that Calgary becoming a more affordable, diverse and inclusive city. Hope the trend continues! 🙏

"a school may almost be conducted by machinery (phonographs)" that could have been nice, actually. 📣

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Winter colors

too cold for photos

Jotting down some thoughts. www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

Look, it's a mess out there and you can react to that mess by deciding everyone else is a moron or you could react to it by deciding most people are trying to get by with a different context than yours and start working the problem. Those are your choices pretty much, can't choose "no mess"

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Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we! Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

this is nice

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

“A purely private language, which refers to experiences known only to the user, cannot function because there would be no distinction between following a rule correctly and merely thinking one is following it.

"it is easier to come up with a defensible idea than it is to come up with a productive one." "By calling for a theory to be more comprehensive (...) we paradoxically end up with less clarity. We lose information by adding detail."

New blog post on the high costs of coordination and the implications for large organizations: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/24/b...

Evergreen

as somebody who trains adults, i've seen a lot of this my THING is that i'm really great at explanations that stick in people's minds but there's always like 10-20% of students who want to ask a question where the answer is literally just me repeating what i already said, but with their name

One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style

Do something nice to someone today, expecting nothing in return other than the joy of being a human being who cares about others ⭐

There are ways as a designer, design researcher, or technologist to deal with this. I talk about that. The most important one is to stop trying so hard to make a business case for your work before you really understand how decisions are being made. It will comes across as a threat or an annoyance.

negative productivity day: removed 120k lines to get 65% better performance. am I a -120,000x dev now? 😅⌨️ github.com/faker-ruby/f...

Loading Faker is 19% faster on version 3.6! 🔥 Give it a try! hexdevs.com/posts/optimi...

how to remove AI summaries from google: add "-ai" to your search. Creatig a custom search engine with "-ai" as a parameter is a good option for this. (see screenshot). Or use duckduckgo: noai.duckduckgo.com

"a zoom with 50 people is not a meeting. It's a webinar." - @stefannibrasil.me, 2026. Wise words. 😆

tech in 2026: "microwaving frozen meatloaf & the rise of the 1000x chef"

> Diplomacy, a communicative art, had been overwhelmed by communication. By August, the world was at war.

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If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...

very cute 🦏

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It moves! We can watch as the Kepler supernova remnant changes over a quarter of century in X-rays from Chandra. #aas247 chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/k...