A quick update on POSH TUI project. It was radio silence for a while, but I have written down a future roadmap for the project. I'm currently filling out some papers/formalities to enable this R&D work and get some tax discounts (and maybe even EU funding).

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

I really appreciate your post @apiguy.dev. Thank you for posting your thoughts. I wish you had the info I had to make your decision. Here's the core issue: Before Sept 9, when a trusted maintainer broke our shared contract and added an RC non-maintainer, you had no ability to enact your vote.

Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take: - RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

I'm increasingly worried about what ruby central is doing (Or not doing). Today one of the old guard maintainers has resigned due to hostile actions of this organization. pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby... Am I the only one worried here?

Teacher: "Your kid is happy all the time, enthusiastic about everything. Does this happen at home as well?" Yeah, a 24 hour perpetual motor is always in action.

RailsWorld was lovely! I've been showing around my new app. And feedback helped me realize, that I didn't solve the biggest pain point with it. Back to the drawing board.

All receipt management apps gave me privacy nightmares. So I built keepareceipt.app, a receipt management app without any backend or personal data to manage. Now my sleep is better. o_0

"Prepare to explain gaps in your employment history". Didn't feel like working.

Fridays are when we spar at the kickboxing gym. This time, it was raining heavily. Only the people who take training seriously show up. Not a single easy fight that day. My fighting IQ improved by 3x compared to a regular training day.

I have to confess, there is absolutely nothing novel about my new project. There are at least 40 other competitors in the space. A lot of them I tried and understood that there are similar issues with all of them. I'm mostly copying at this point, with my little spin on top.

Ran a second "vibe-code entire app" experiment. Managed to produce a workable solution. But after family testing, decided to manually polish it before presenting it to a wider audience. Huge progress. The first app was not even working properly!

At this point, I have no use for the Opus model. In advanced coding GPT-5 shows better results for a fraction of the cost.

DevTUI is featured on the BetaList! betalist.com/startups/dev...

We have a new friend at home, his name is Mango.

MVP done! Submitting my app for approval with Google! I'm relying on the Google Drive API and only test users are allowed to use it now. Has anyone passed such a verification? Something tells me it will take longer than building this app.

How do iPhone users live without this feature?

Yesterday had an urge to start building custom casio/g-shock watches and sell them. But I don't need another geeky hobby, so I snapped out of it :D

My guilty face prototyping a receipt scanning app.

Have recently open-sourced devtui.com project, a failed commercial product. After I started selling it and giving away free licenses to first poshtui.com supporters. It was obvious that it's not a sticky product; adoption was really low.

Presenting you with a freshly updated /now page. skatkov.com/now

Switched over from zsh to fish shell. Fish default features are great. So far, there is no need for "oh-my-zsh" or "zprezto" like frameworks with fish (even though, they do have oh-my-fish).

First-time went over the $100 monthly limit with Claude Sonnet 4. Getting productive :)

"...engineers don't learn from books anymore. The speed of development is beyond what any publishing company could catch up with."

Something looks straightforward to build, but nobody did it. For months you keep wondering why, because it's so obviously better and easy. And then you build it. And then you know why it's not easy... Happens with me all the time!

For a long while, I've been writing apps for myself and mostly aimed at developers. but this is changing. I got a small prototype app for my wife, small business owners and people who shop a lot :)

I'm happy to become someone's ruby friend ;-) rubyfriends.app/profiles/MJZU

Dilemma facing me today - get another full time contract - take a part time contract - take a bigger break between contracts to spend more time building your own products

Within a couple of years, my son mastered the Thai language better than me after living in Thailand for 6 years. In his 7 years, he already knows more languages than I do.

It's great to be a contractor during an economic downturn. Contractors are more flexible and have fewer obligations. They’re excluded from official layoff figures. Layoffs often come with hiring freezes, but orgs still need s%$& done, so contractors fill the gaps.

I'm really bad at making logos. Any AI out there that can make it easier?

Building a simple mobile app for my wife. Managed to do it with react + capacitor and it's 95% done. But I have this feeling that I stepped into a pile of shit, and will never be able to clean my shoes off. Thinking of rebuilding it with pwabuilder.com?

It's time to abandon my git aliases; at this point I already forgot what they alias to.

Lifehack to have a good relationship with your mother-in law: Learn enough of her language to speak only about pleasant topics, like food, weather, and small chit-chat.

As a reckless mobile phone user, I can't justify buying a high end smart phone. It will drown or be stepped on or fall from incredible heights or worse... Because of that, I'm buying phuone for ~$400. I'll break it and move on, by just buying another one.

Recruiters and Directors of Engineering of all sorts suddenly flood my inboxes. I have no clue, why such a paranormal activity is happening during a season of vacations? Does it have to do with my recent OSS work?

Didn't indulge in the "Netflix and chill" activity for a couple of months. Opened it up yesterday and could not find anything remotely interesting to watch. Why do I keep paying for this?

Mother in law after 3 days will come to live with us for 3 months. I'm slightly worried...

The research shows men tend to mask sadness by smiling, and gesturing more, making it harder for others to notice and empathize. This emotional masking may explain why society offers less support to men with depression leading to bigger suicide rate. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Have a lot of interesting stories to tell, but very little time to do that. Previously it was the other way, a lot of time, but not a lot of stories.

Fairphone always had an interesting concept behind them (repairable phone). But only fairphone 6 has a somewhat interesting design, that I would consider buying.

Been working from coffee shops for years, nobody ever asked me "what kind of laptop is that?". Like ever.. But got this reaction three times with a framework 13' laptop. Immediately followed by: "They officially support Linux? Interesting. Do you like it?"

DevTUI reached 40 stars and got featured on couple of go related publications. Zero contributions still :) Not too bad. github.com/skatkov/devtui

Tried a new trick on the wakeboard yesterday, crashed hard into the water, and stretched a leg. I'm planning to have a blast and completely wear out this body before handing it over to the grave.

I was frustrated, that after so much hard work I'm not losing weight, but growing muscle. But my trainer told me: With age everything in our body becomes weaker and slowly fails us. But if we maintain muscles, they will be the thing that will hold the entire body together.

I do something crazy for a 40-year-old - regular sparing (fights). It's all amateur, we're not going full power against each other. But still feels great, that I still have enough power in me to stand against younger fighters and not being beaten up badly in the process.