Super excited for this movie. youtu.be/D9g_6zVnGm0?...

Our youngest child has informed us multiple times over the past few days that he wants to dress up as a subscribe button next year for Halloween. The year after he wants to be a pumpkin head.

said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.

We have about 50 tickets left for Rocky Mountain Ruby in October... and you'll need to reserve one by Sept 10 to be guaranteed one of our cool shirts! (Remember this fun little friend from last year...?) rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

Addressing the @opentelemetry.io API’s design might make instrumentation more ergonomic, but just improving isn't enough. By @hazelweakly.me, thanks to @embrace.io

Rocky Mountain Ruby early bird tickets are up at rockymtnruby.dev. Join us in October for a great local conference!

You have two cakes inside you. One is angel food, one is devil food. You probably shouldn’t have eaten two whole cakes.

A fun announcement, @davidhill.dev and I are hosting a new podcast from @rubycentral.org. We dropped the first episode at #railsconf. @chadfowler.com joined us for the first episode on how this all got started.

There are just a few weeks left to tap federal programs that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable. www.wired.com/story/congre...

First poster for Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller 🚀 Trailer drops Monday.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW29... #murderbot

Is a corndog a popsicle?

Want to work with my team @gitlab.com ? See www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwc...

✨ I’ve got a couple of extra General Admission tickets to @renderatl.com and I’d love to give them to folks who might not otherwise get a chance to go. If you’re from an underrepresented group in tech and want to be in the room or know someone who should be DM me!

You might have heard of vector databases, but I'll bet you haven't encountered this explanation before. This shit is COOL AF www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQql...

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

I'm urgently looking for work 🚨 Engineering manager or staff programmer 20 years ruby/rails 30 years of web dev/design 5+ years of eng mgmt I'm based in Portland, Oregon Open to local or remote work https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge

There it is. The clam before the storm.

🚀 GitLab 17.11 is here with powerful new features! 🏷️ Custom Fields for Issues & Epics ⚙️ CI/CD Pipeline Inputs 👤 Service Accounts UI 🔄 Docker Hub Authentication UI Upgrade: about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/04/17/gitlab-17-11-released/ @gitlab.com More in 🧵

Current status

The rattlecam is back www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8C4...

Who is posting here content about #Ruby or #Rails or any other Ruby framework and I should follow? :) Looking to expand the network of people I follow/watch directly or via lists and that I can include in the newsletter.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

🚀 @gitlab.com 17.9 supercharges your DevSecOps with self-hosted AI, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows! 🤖 GitLab Duo Self-Hosted 🌐 Parallel Pages Deployments 🔄 Automatic Pipeline Cleanup 🧠 Enhanced AI Context in IDEs 📝 Wiki Comments 1/2

When you stick around, you see the ramifications of your past decisions. This can be exciting, humbling or both. letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2023/08/07/t...

What happens when there’s more than one agent getting the job done? 🤔 We’ll see how multiple Goose AI agents collaborate in real time! Each agent enters the chat, gets assigned a role (e.g. Project Manager, Content Designer, Engineer), and works on its part of the task. 🗓️ linktr.ee/blockopensou...

Tonight is Boulder Ruby with two fantastic talks lined up: 💫 Landon Gray: "Jupyter notebooks with Ruby" 🔌 Anthony Eden: "From Stalled to Supercharged" 📅 👉 RSVP: lu.ma/e37ect5e?tk=... Thanks to @github.com, @dnsimple.bsky.social, MojoTech, @fastly.com, and @gustohq.bsky.social for sponsoring!

💡🛡️ Recommended read: How @gitlab.com uses prompt guardrails to help protect customers How do you manage the risk of AI inadvertently exposing sensitive data or responding to malicious prompts? about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/01...

Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC. Here's the last slide.

I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.

Google engineers detailed how LLMs cut costs for large codebase migrations, like switching a 32-bit ID to 64-bit across Java and C++. AI handled 80% of changes, halving migration time. For JUnit3 to JUnit4 migration , AI made 87% of changes. This is automating tedious tasks developers often dread

Most times, talking about roles and responsibilities when teamwork is hard is the wrong move. When you’re outcome-driven, people can set aside their egos and collaborate. When it’s turf-driven, the best ideas can’t surface because people have to stay in their lanes.

🚀 @gitlab.com 17.8 is here! 🔒 Protected container repositories for enhanced security 🤖 ML model experiment tracking GA ⚡️ M2 Pro hosted runners 🎯 Multiple to-do tracking in issues/MRs 🔄 Improved deployment tracking for releases about.gitlab.com/releases/202... #Development #Security #ML

Did you know the Adler Planetarium in Chicago runs a Rails-based citizen science platform? Chicago Ruby is hosting an event March 5th at The Adler Planetarium. Learn more and be a part of a what is shaping up to be a stellar program. ✨ RSVP: meetu.ps/e/NMJV1/M0ms/i

“ greatness is in the agency of others”

Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery

Love reading this success story 💜🚀 CERN advances understanding of the universe with the help of @gitlab.com 🌌🦊 about.gitlab.com/customers/ce...

Hope you can join us for two great talks at @boulderruby.bsky.social on Jan 8. Ben Randolph is going to talk about locals, and Joel Hawksley is speaking about GitHub's UI. More details/RSVP form here: lu.ma/vyiivomc Thanks to @github.com, @dnsimple.bsky.social, MojoTech and Gusto for sponsoring!

Whew! Look how late it is. #HappyNewYear

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

It you've heard of Conway's Law, please repost this. (I'm testing out a theory of how it applies to Bluesky)

Had a great time skiing while the kids took lessons yesterday. I couldn't stop this guy from skiing backwards at the end of the day.