When I first started using Ruby way back around 2006, I often used the word "beautiful" to describe the language. What's happening right now, from DHH to Ruby Central, is ugly, ugly, ugly as fuck. Makes me feel sick to be working in the language again

It's amazing how fast collapse can happen

It is possible to ship reliable, working software in a highly dynamic, untyped language, with rigorous automated testing methodology. But that's a lot of extra work just to avoid type annotations, and one must accept that anything complex enough to make money cannot be fully covered

I think this covers it? my brain is well and truly cooked

DEUTSCHE: NVIDIA "is currently carrying the weight of US economic growth. The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely.” @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...

"hallucinations" and "prompt injection" (both silly terms in their own right) are not the system behaving in an abnormal way. they are in exactly the same category of behaviour as the system behaving "as expected" it's just the output does not align with the user's expectations

let me offer a suggestion: you should try having a core of values that aren't knocked off course by a blue haired lefty having weird or even hostile opinions. you should want to have the basic mettle necessary to navigate such obstacles unscathed

“Domestic violence is 2­-4 times more common among police families than American families in general.”

A LOT of these guys joined ICE, etc., specifically to beat the shit out of immigrants and protesters. And statistics tell us anyone willing to behave this way in front of witnesses and news cameras has probably beaten domestic partners too.

Speaking of things coming off as insincere. What kind of person genuinely believes this is a genocide and continues to toe the line for no moral or political benefit - just sparing the feelings of a dying segregationist? Handed the country to real estate Hitler for love of the game.

This is because Johnson and Johnson has PR worms at every newspaper on payroll and not because of any noble reason They are gonna sue his pants off

Fun to research. Besides rediscovering how the NIN catalog unfolded song to song, Reznor also did a bunch of remixes that have been forgotten in time for artists like Queen, Megadeth, Machines of Loving Grace, Butthole Surfers, NERD, Puff Daddy, Peter Gabriel...I included everything Spotify has.

iOS should update its UI for the fact that people may now be dealing with half a dozen or more spam calls _per day_ and make it easier to block those numbers in a single go. That or just make corners even rounder idk

I am learning Rails Hotwire because that is the blessed path for Rails, and I am now working on a Rails app. It is with a heavy heart that I report that this shit is _not_ LiveView. Their similarities begin and end with sending DOM changes down a WebSocket, that's it

One of the worst parts of American policy is we're obsessed with things they want SOCIAL consequences for, and how that interacts with material issues. Like, a lot of people who are pro-life are not actually pro-life but are just mad there's inadequate levels of shame for getting abortions.

Seems like replacing hard regulations with “market-based solutions” in an environment dominated by entities commanding effectively infinite money is a bad plan

you guys

Reminds me of this classic fella who wound up searching for himself

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

Protesters yell at one agent with an American flag mask and sleeves “Nazi” as they push demonstrators off the sidewalk in front of the driveway. “Proud of it,” the agent replied.

I am on the Caves of Qud run where I will finally, after playing this game for like 6 years or so, complete the main story. Feels great and also, wow it's kinda crazy how much good you can do for your faction rep just by killing lots of goatfolk

tf did you just say to me

Crytpo-Democrat who actually wants to see the Republican Party destroyed

LL Cool J Deep Blue Sea my hat is like a shark’s fin

These people really have no idea how easy and cheap it is to set up -arr and Jellyfin and how convenient and consistent the experience is once you have

The cool thing about xenomorphs is just the head area. The rest of them is just a guy

Here’s a big fat “fuck these people” from Kansas

I can’t help but think that some small part of this is that the left is actually interesting to argue with because we have a long pedigree of actual thinking and evidence behind our ideas whereas the right is largely just “black people scare me and my holy book says this, ergo”

When the mouth opens wide with three segments aside that’s a moray

Thinking about making anti-carpetbagging my primary political project. Really trying to meet the moment you know

Anyways this guy pays laughably low salaries at his company and not along ago suggested on here that we should normalize unpaid internships in our industry. In every medium I've interacted with him over more than 15 years, he's always been a uniquely blowhard asshole. Good riddance

Silly thing about this is they already get basically this level of compliance without such ceremony

We may well be living in some of the most Marxist times ever, but not for the reasons right-wingers bullshit about

I think when we are staring down the barrel of full-bore fascism, we might need to start imagining political futures that do not involve Nancy Pelosi and Ezra Klein

Ok but one question about the Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance: are we gonna get the day off? Do they have the balls

What did this thing ever do to God

Caves of Qud is basically There Will Be Blood: the classic roguelike

Probably Judas Priest

Gotta admit it's pretty remarkable that a controversial-view-haver like Kirk was able to build an entire lucrative career around somehow, with official sanction, setting up his lil tent inside the hermetically-sealed leftist radicalization compounds we call "universities", over and over for years

this is, somehow, even worse than I expected, or than any speculation I have been privy to ruby.social/@getajobmike...

I have a potential in for a work visa in Ireland within the next year and I’m really thinking about it

We are a rogue state actively violating international law knowingly providing material support to genocide, before we even get to human rights abuses being carried out domestically, and ought to be demoted from the Security Council

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

These are the types of politicians all these new "anti-groups" astroturfed movements are trying to fill up the democratic party with btw

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...

what the *hell*. if this is true it is a great way to nuke trust in rubygems from orbit pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...