Additionally, there’s an open letter calling for the forking of Rails, and a pledge to adopt the alternative: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...

I hope the Ruby community is able to recognize his role in harm after harm, and the deeply racist/white suprematist, xenophobic, and otherwise hate-grounded views he holds deeply in his heart, expel him, and begin to heal from all this hurt. And I hope rv rekts these people’s asses at a tech level

DHH is an embarrassment of a human being and should’ve been chased out of this industry and his entire community years ago for being the toxic missing stair that he is. His presence provides no benefit to anyone.

“Without the community, there is no point to this work, and there is no way it could ever have been done in the first place.”

"photoshopped" but make it 2025

So this was a hostile takeover. The Ruby community needs to get their house in order. And one more note, I assume it is implied in the write up, but you might now know: DHH is on the board of directors of Shopify. He exerts tremendous organisational and financial power. ruby.social/@joeldrapper...

reminder that my book "building git" is 50% off until the end of the month if you use voucher code BGSEPT2025 shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

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

ruby 20 years ago: check out this quirky fun little proglang ruby now: the web framework is run by a fascist and the package hosting team all got shit canned, have fun

Everything is stressful and everything sucks but the world is vast, with much space for hope in it. For example, my beloved nephew is safe in his new home and crowdfunding for gender-confirming care, if you had a bit of spare cash and wanted to chip in ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-li...

the open web

Not now Police say 110,000 attending ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London.

Hello London!

This is the most fun you’ll have choosing your next #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst stack: www.localfirst.fm/landscape PouchDB and @couchdb.bsky.social are there too, with filters to help you maximise compatibility for your next use case Thanks to @localfirst.fm ‬for putting it together ✨

My book is on that list, so…

Once the machine to remove rights is complete, everyone protected by the Equality Act (as in literally all of us) are at risk. This process can and will be repeated; will you wait until it’s your turn? Or will you stand in solidarity now

We must act now. Everyone who can, no matter who you or your MP are, must write to their MP as soon as you are able. If this guidance comes to pass, trans people (or anyone perceived to be trans) will effectively be banned from all spaces outside the home; including schools and hospitals.

The new guidance has been submitted to the minister, probably end of yesterday. I don’t know when it will be “laid before parliament” but it’s giving us until mid october if we go from now. We also have to take conference season into account.

Some facts: - The browser company cancels its popular but not popular enough product - …then pivots hard into AI in hopes to gain more traction - a few months later they are bought by Atlassian - startups are usually bought when they run out of money, can’t raise another round or go public

Our own @janl.bsky.narrativ.es presented “How to Sync Anything” at the latest #LocalFirst Meetup. Learn approaches to replication, plus how @couchdb.bsky.social handles it. The full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3983... And the article it’s based on: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04...

My lightning talk about How to Sync Anything from the #LocalFirst meetup last week is online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3983...

2025.08.28 edition now out, featuring: @janl.bsky.narrativ.es‬ @mauve.moe @sophiebits.com @zed.dev @expo.dev @powersync.com @mackuba.eu‬‬ PeerSuite Relay PuffinPilot To To-Do PromptMask

Britain post-WW2: we need to set up institutions to stop fascism rising again Britain now: these institutions are getting in the way of the fascism we want to do!

it's back to school season and I'm doing a sale on my book "building git", a deep dive into a ton of programming topics through the lens of rebuilding a tool you use every day visit shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ and use voucher code BGSEPT2025 to get 50% off

Ich habe im @workingdraft.de Podcast von Local-First erzählt. Hat nur zwei Stunden gedauert und wir hätten noch Themen für mindestens weitere sechs 😅 Es hat sehr viel Soaß gemacht, ich hoffe dass das rüber kommt 🙏 Wenn ihr noch Fragen habt: AMA! #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst

My friend Rosyna needs a top up on their GoFundMe and you’d be doing me a personal favour if you contributed to or shared this appeal 🙏 mastodon.social/@rosyna/1145...

I’ll be talking about How to Sync Anything at the Local-First LoFi/#29 event tomorrow night. You can join via the LoFi Discord (don’t @ me): lofi.so See you there! o/ bsky.app/profile/yonz... #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst narrativ.es/@janl/115088...

Schedule of talks 1️⃣ Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es – How to sync anything 2️⃣ Mauve @mauve.moe – Peer To Peer Mapping with CoMapeo 3️⃣ Alex Clemmer @hausdorff_space – Building a truly offline-first, collaborative text editing product

📣 Tune in for **#LoFi/29** on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, @ 8 AM PST — we’re thrilled to announce yet another exciting lineup, and get your ticket for SyncConf coming to SF on November 12 syncconf.dev Speakers: 1️⃣ Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es 2️⃣ Mauve @mauve.moe 3️⃣ Alex Clemmer @hausdorff_space

me: which part of an LLM depends on it simulating being a person them: the thing where you think you're talking to a person me:

It’s easier than ever to share your @couchdb.bsky.social story! We learned in the last CouchDB survey that user stories are your favourite to read. There’s now a form to make submissions snappier. Be the next storyteller 🧙 & share with fellow devs how you use CouchDB: forms.gle/oysjbJkQsq6E...

PSA, don’t come into my mentions with your* “blockchain is good actually” opinion. I assume these are coordinated sock puppet accounts anyway, but the PSA stands.

Is anyone hiring remote (US) for #Ruby #Rails staff positions in non-AI/finance contexts? #hiring #jobs

there is no reason to suppose that the operations an LLM can perform should lead to the production of new knowledge and it is an active and deliberate deception by their developers to pretend otherwise

I also wish I'll will to Robert Galbraith, also known as JK Rowling https://social.coop/@cwebber/115038635759157079

we actually don't need to make friends with and debate and persuade fascists. we need to make being a fascist *socially unacceptable*

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Counterpoint: my entire audience is human, and every layer of bots trying to intercept our communication is a failure of the network. It's not enough that the billionaires want to DDOS the web and strip mine our work for their profit, we're supposed to make it easier? I'm so tired.

Working on code that runs on quite a lot of mission-critical servers is a bit daunting. But we made it work and helped make Log4j a little better for everyone in the process:

Nice anecdote from the Tailwind team about using AI for a refactor: > But even with all this effort, the results were honestly so inconsistent that I'm absolutely certain that reviewing + polishing all of the work done by the robots took more time than if we just did every single block by hand …

Counterpoint: business consortiums should not be in charge of open source projects or public governance. social.lfx.dev/@linuxfounda...

My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

I sent this briefing pack from @transsolidarity.bsky.social to my MP in my last letter, I recommend looking at this to help draft your letter www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

My problem with the term “late-stage capitalism” is that is sounds like it’ll be over soon.

If Parks & Rec happened today, Tom Haverford would just be an LLM, sorry, government agent.

@jovo.design @seldo.com I’m so very sorry this is happening again.

If Parks & Rec happened today, Tom Haverford would just be an LLM, sorry, government agent.

Initial sync in #OfflineFirst and #LocalFirst can be slow for users. We wrote up some ways @couchdb.bsky.social#OfflineFirst#LocalFirstnd #PouchDB do "Partial Data Fetching on Initial Load," for example by switching to a remote DB. Get more strategy and implementation details on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/

All of you using LLMs to optimize your workflow