Noah Gibbs was the largest engineering force behind Scarpe the last few years of his life. In honor of his memory I will be doing some hacking on it Christmas Eve. If you’d like to hack on it as well (LLM it up if you’re new!) I can refine some nice user-friendly issues.

A hidden message by @_why HIDDEN: April 13 2013 DISCOVERED: October 2025 by Nick Schwaderer

Another successful BelfastRuby in the books! Thank you @altabyte.bsky.social, @petr.codes for your wonderful talks! And a huge shoutout to Stora for hosting and sponsoring!! 🙌

ARE YOU READY FOR BELFAST RUBY TODAY!? LET'S GOOOOO luma.com/r42ger8m

I’ve started using Notion yesterday. Notion users what tips and advice do you have?

Calling my shot for 2026 I'm working on something big Cool Interesting And I'm gonna want to talk about it

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RSVP Now for our next BelfastRuby meetup, with hosts Stora on November 5! 🎉 We will have amazing speakers Rob Graham and Petr Hlavicka See you there! luma.com/r42ger8m

Hi, I’ve found some encrypted data, or a message, embedded in a cryptic GIF from 12 years ago I’m the first to uncover this; but I don’t really know where to start Any experts in this space with any tips?

My first writing in nine months “A Claude Commands and Hooks Primer - Building a Memory and Personality System for Claude Code” blog.schwad.org/schwogs/7

this is when i peaked

Might try to sell some software. Like actual software. Like you go and buy it and download it and enjoy it.

\(^-^)/ Big thanks to @schwad.org for organising a Belfast Ruby meet-up last night, and giving me an opportunity to speak 🤝 My Hotwire tips deck for anyone that's interested: hiddenloop.com/remark/heyho... Next meet-up scheduled for Jun 10th, incl. @marcoroth.dev and others lu.ma/BelfastRuby

screencasts but it's just me doing screen studio with absolutely no post-processing just sharing me screen and talking about random stuff without a lot of structure but honestly you'll never know what you're gonna get $12.99/m

I did a thing. If you know a Rubyist or Ruby-friendly person near Belfast, let them know. Our goal is to reach the heights @inazarova.bsky.social has achieved with SFRuby 😅 www.meetup.com/belfastruby/...

If you saw I’d published a proper book, what would you expect that book to be?

"Papillae: the surprising, hilarious and unbelievable way your tongue got its lumps and bumps" - Schwaderer, Penguin Press, 2026 "Join Schwaderer, a software engineer, as he takes you on a deep dive of the world's most interesting topic you've never thought about" - Washington Post 5/5

4 years. I have worked at Shopify for four years! 3 out of 4 Shopifolk are newer than me. Am I old? It has been a joy to be on the front lines of Ruby, Rails and Commerce. (P.S. If you'd like to learn more about my experience at Shopify, and love Ruby, DMs are open)

Matz said his favourite Ruby method was ‘eval’. What’s yours?

A few of my own words about Noah Gibbs blog.schwad.org/schwogs/6

A little side project I know Noah would’ve thought was neat. A television from 1979 I’ve set up (through short range analog broadcast) playing television from 1979-1981 all day long. I just turn it on whenever and TV is going. Video sourced from Marion Stokes archive.

When I found this out today, all I could think of saying about Noah to my wife, is that he "Got it". I just don't know how to put this into words. We were on the same team for years, and he cofounded the Scarpe team with me. github.com/scarpe-team/...

I drive a Peugeot 107 (66mpg) and it's been my only car my ENTIRE software career. I love it but... I'm looking for gadgets I can add to my car to smarten it up. Any ideas? ( like this sort of thing generevo.com/collections/... )

I sat next to John Cena and Nikki Bella on a flight once and every couple years I need to remind everyone of this bizarre fact

For me, having a wood stove is one of the great joys of life

I have a new shirt I've designed. It arrived yesterday so I can get pictures for my product page. Actual review from Mrs. Schwad: - "You aren't allowed to wear that outside of the house" - "I hate it" Be the first to know when it's live 👇🤣 bit.ly/3OPGXY0

What’s your favorite music video under 1 million views? I’ll go first youtu.be/q4LItOvKyjI?...

coming soon 👀 make room in your coding playlists 🎧

Tomorrow night, @tonsoffun.bsky.social will be speaking about AI agents and open source at #SFRuby! 💎 Hope to see you there.

my hobby is reading the plot of movies I’m too scared to watch on Wikipedia then being like “phew, I’m sure glad I didn’t watch that”

The etymology behind quintessential is cool

it is absolutely impossible for me to be in a bad mood whilst listening to Bill Wurtz

Rubyists, have you ever wanted more features from SQLite? I'm excited to announce the `sqlean` ruby gem! github.com/flavorjones/... packaging precompiled extensions from antonz.org/sqlean/ for things like unicode, hashing, regexps, time, fuzzy strings, math, and even CSV support! #ruby #sqlite

some people achieve self-actualisation by dunking on shit but me i just like hyping good people doing good things

I’m extremely honoured to have been nominated for the Ruby Prize this year for my work in the Ruby LSP, DX in general and talks given at conferences. Congratulations to the finalists! rubyprize.jp

I can really tell the difference now that BlueSky has the UpDog integration live.

To my knowledge, there has never been a Ruby-related conference in Ireland. I was tempted once upon a time to run one, but I did ... other ones instead. I've been chatting with a few folks about it lately. Who would be interested in coming to Ireland for an ... alternative Ruby-related experience?

Had a great time catching up with everyone this week at #RubyConf I'll see you at RailsConf in Philly next July?!

This one is very album cover-y

For all the best Schwogs go to IRB blog.schwad.org/schwogs/3

twitch but you're just livestreaming your coding but instead of acting like it's your job you're acting like you're playing some really popular game

[BLOG] Ruby pomodoro timer with exceptional tunes blog.schwad.org/schwogs/2

Pomodoro timer from the command line using Ruby gist.github.com/Schwad/11192...

“schwifty” was spelled with “sch” for a reason

if you aren't using bloopsaphone to provide audio feedback in your executables what are you even doing

Do you remember how to turn the main water off to your house? If not, how many panicked minutes would it take you to figure this out? This is a Schwad PSA

@tenderlove.bsky.social omg I got online just in time to see you wave "bye" and the stream ended. Next time! Happy Friday!

one of my favourite slides in @searls.bsky.social 2017 talk "Nothing.new under the sun" www.rubyvideo.dev/talks/there-...

what are your commit messages like on apps where you're the only one who will see them