🖤 NameMangler — Several years, I still absolutely love it Five stars. manytricks.com/namemangler I know that I could do this in Terminal. I also don't care. Pls don't tell me about it. :) If you like to bulk rename using CLI, I'm happy for you! I'd rather use a Mac app for this task.

🖤 I really love the comic book archive file format: .cbz .cbr .cb7 .cbt .cba It's literally just a folder of sequentially named files, packaged as one file The container type defines the .cb* file extension: - .cbz → ZIP - .cb7 → 7z - .cbr → RAR - .cbt → TAR - .cba → ACE

#Ruby question — is there any situation where `[0]` works but `.first` wouldn't?

Event spaces, event organizers, I'm begging you please PLEASE put your city/state and website in your bio… …and on fliers! Gone are the days of only locals seeing the promotion for an event. "this looks great, I'll go to it! Oh, it's in another state/country"

Every single person still posting on X, including electeds, need to be asked why they're using a CSAM generator site.

It's increasingly annoying how many websites have Cloudflare's "verify you're a human by checking this box" wall before the page will load

Better Futures Club is a new idea that we're starting in Portland, Oregon 📆 First meetup: Thursday, January 15, 2026 Ruby hack night, programming languages design theory and practice, and an imagination of STEM and liberal arts building together Join us! #PDX betterfutures.club

Jodorowsky's Dune is one of the most important, impactful, influential creative works that never actually got made Thank you for attending my Ted Talk™

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

TIL: "ass over teakettle" Derived froms and derivatives of. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ass_ov...

I'm always flabbergasted that there are still websites with URLs like: .com/index.php?page=productDetails&productId=123 Everything meaningful is in the query params. How did we ever think that it was good to make the whole website at one "page"? How does anyone still think so? :sideeyes GraphQL:

"Onward. Forward." —Ted Lasso Just two words. Some of my favorite TV/movie dialog ever. youtu.be/HA3HWP1OcL4

Music trained folks—  I hear a seed/echo of Refused's "Summerholidays"[^1] in La Dispute's "The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit"[^ 2] A. Am I wrong? 2. If not, help me articulate how and why this sounds like that pls. :) [^1]: youtu.be/cAVhec3SRJg?t=53 [^2]: youtu.be/rC6EUGhLCjc?&t=78

Who was the first to say some variation of "we taught rocks/sand to do math" ? Do your thing internet.

TIL: things I expected to be on #Ruby's YAML class, but aren't given this YAML file, named h.yml ```yaml foo: bar ``` loading like this works swimmingly: ✅ h = YAML.load_file('h.yml') { 'foo' => 'bar' } ✅ h = YAML.load_file('h.yml', symbolize_keys: true) { foo: 'bar' }

Victorian shoes gnarled bad washed ashore www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8...

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

My favorite knock-on effect of the completely legitimate criticism of the whole :gestures at everything: #AI stuff is that: Everyone who is rightly concerned about the water usage of data centers became concerned about the water usage of animal agriculture too and all became vegan! Love that! —🐮🐷🐔

+1000 this. Congratulations @marcoroth! 🎉 rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/ma... The work that Marco is doing for the frontend #ruby/#rails developer experience#rubyy#railsl favorite software development thing that's happening right now. 😍

In YOOL 2025, the official #Ruby website finally says the latest version right on the homepage Sadly, it also now has a fascist right on the homepage too :(

📣 Service object/class renamer to Noun.verb renamer… as a service Reply to this thread your service object, I (and others) will reply with renames NounVerber.run → Noun.verb #ruby #rails #programming #oop or… Noun.new(args).verb

Customer/user protections are so broken and long ago forgotten Businesses just straight up lie in ads all of the time. No consequences. Ever. Eg, I saw a 100% digital camera advertised as a "hybrid digital film camera" …because it had film aesthetic presets.

Reason number 23576358798 to just make webpages and to not Javascript all of the things: letsgetdigital.net/outdated-f... Why on godsgreenearth are there not permalinks for every year? /1997 ?year=1997 # 1997 I'd take any of these FFS friends, please oh please… just use HTML+HTTP

#ruby / #rails / #programming hill that i'll die one— service objects considered harmful 🤮 NounVerber.run .exec .call I prefer to use a PORO 🥰 Noun.verb But that's just me, what do I know

I still think a lot of people realized that THESE PEOPLE WANT TO SHOOT ALL OF US. They are planning for it.

I've had this Mounatin Goats song on heavy rotation the past few days. youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY The thing I keep coming back to is… this is a hardcore song! Imagine it with punk rock instrumentation. Listen to just the guitar and drums. It's almost all palm muting and tom tom drums.

This movie looks so earnest and joyous. And you know, Hugh Jackman as a shepherd. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing it. Unironically liking things is the new ironically liking things. youtube.com/watch?v=JSsGiEabHPY

Pirate the series. Make your own physical media. That's the only answer when this happens and they haven't put it out any other way.

Someone made a new file format called TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) They describe it as: "A compact, human-readable encoding of the JSON data model for LLM prompts" To my eyes, it's YAML's weird cousin home for the holidays toonformat.dev

XKCD 2347 "Dependency" kind of became itself what it's describing in its image: one small thing propping up a lot xkcd.com/2347 "Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble."

Whoa. Huge audio archive of Spotify. Quarter billion tracks. 😳 Archivists are fucking wild. annas-archive.org/blog/backing...

Testing server-rendered HTML: Make a request, look at the result. Testing React et al: Make a request. Receive HTML. Ignore it! It also contains a string. The string is attached to a bird The bird speaks latin Find an antiquities professor He can distract the bird While you build a fake browser

The stop downloading button in Apple Music on #macOS has an off center square

THE M OUNT AING OATS From The best ever death metal band out of Denton,Texas to The Late Show youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY 🎵 And the next thing you learn is how cold it can get at night

TIL: zizmor > zizmor is a static analysis tool for GitHub Actions. It can find and fix many common security issues in typical GitHub Actions CI/CD setups. zizmor.sh

Substack was in the discourse again. Which got me wondering, do I still have any subscriptions over there? Turned out I did, but not anymore. Dear creators, want to keep my subscription? Publish somewhere else please!

Q: How many crimethincs does it take to change a light bulb? A: There we were in the recently illuminated room, flooded with the light of revolution, enjoying our dumpstered vegan pastries. We lock eyes and smile. We didn’t just change a lightbulb. We changed the world.

Crimethinc eating a really good sandwich: We can be sure that TONIGHT, our enemies in their palaces and mansions and boardrooms, are not EATING AS GOOD AS WE ARE Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

What's gonna happen to Cactus Dome when Enewetak Atoll is swallowed under sea level rise? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_I...

Day 348, in which the world is especially dark and I just want to observe the athleticism of Margo. Sending love to you all today, my friends 💙

I wonder if Squarespace builds Squarespace* using Squarespace * — the .com marketing site, not the app

It's that time again, post-macOS version bump… all of my Spotlight abbrevs are completely forgotten and reset to absolutely absurd new defaults! "ME" — surrrrreee Apple, what I want to launch is "Media Configuration Tool . app" not you know "MEssages . app"

TIL: 1729 and taxicab numbers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab...

Is this a hare brained #Ruby/#Rails thought? What if we named `type` with adverbs? adjective (typical): user.sync :full user.sync :incremental adverbs: user.sync :fully user.sync :incrementally It reads more like a proper sentence to my eyes. Instead of a Programmering Sentence™

Naming Things is Hard™ help request— For a join table in a #Rails app, a user has a paid plan already. The user has also paid for a product/feature add-on. Book + User = authorships What is User + Product?

Liberalism can only ever wear the masks of the radicals it slaughtered Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A few: Calling all, this is our final cry before eternal silence —— To be thought, if fortunate —— Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

I just tripped and fell down. For the first time in years. Heavy bag, balance, wobbly step, try to avoid mud… clonked onto the sidewalk!

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight