@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.

As much as Act 3 is occasionally kicking my ass, Hollow Knight Silksong is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time. So much character, inventiveness and attention to detail wrapped up in wonderfully balanced gameplay mechanics.

Clearing out the office and found this vintage number from 2005. Ruby 1.8; Rails pre-1.0?

Interesting webinar happening next month for all you tech folks. tech.unions.org.uk

Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester! Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million. Register here to attend: nwrug.org/events/milli...

Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails nwrug.org/events/milli...

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽

So I guess DHH gets a pass on the Ruby Central Code of Conduct? drive.google.com/file/d/1OBF1...

I have a growing number of unpurchasabels on my shopping list because Siri doesn’t understand me saying “puy lentils”. Alongside “toilet sauce” we now also have “foil lettuce”.

@rhiannon.io 's entire thread here, honestly. Ruby Central lost the plot here and has made a lot of bad calls, but hopefully this can serve as a catalyst to restoring it to what it should be.

Brandon is right. Ruby Central needs broader funding to avoid even more consolidation of power in the Ruby ecosystem. I for one am committing to do my part.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Final reminder: Tonight at NWRUG we're hearing all about building mobile apps using Rails and Turbo Native. Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm nwrug.org/events/septe...

This Thursday! Come hear Rahoul (AKA Baz) update us on his latest experiences using LLMs for software development. #ruby nwrug.org/events/softw...

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

This Thursday! Come hear Caius expound the virtues of tugging on those mysterious threads that we happen upon during our day to day code weaving #ruby nwrug.org/events/tuggi...

Looking for a small meeting space (10-15 people) with a screen in central Manchester to host the next @nwrug.org. Any suggestions?

As a next step for Herb, I'm happy to announce the release of the Herb Language Server and VS Code extension. Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files. Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs. Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June. forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...

“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”

If you've got a blog where you (at least sometimes) write Ruby-related posts, please reply with a link to your RSS feed below. I am going to try to start keeping an eye on those as well and sharing interesting stuff I find from time to time.

Join us this Thursday as @cpytel.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @thoughtbot.com leads us on a look back at Rails AntiPatterns 15 years later. How exactly have best practices changed since Rails 3? Full details and registration: nwrug.org/events/rails...

but code review is the only technique you can apply to ai generated code because all the other techniques go hand in hand with actually authoring it yourself

thing about software is that the methods you use to produce it impact the confidence you have that it does its intended job. code review is just one of those methods and it is relatively weak, especially next to deliberate design processes, formal methods, testing, etc

Apologies, this has strong LinkedIn-post energy – but it’s a useful analogy. Hitting a wall with my 5km runs reminded me why software teams often end up slowing themselves down. blog.robbowley.net/2025/04/30/t...

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

I am offering six free 1:1 CTO coaching sessions in May! If you the are most senior technology leader at a start-up or scale-up and have a challenge that you would like support with then please book one. https://monkeysthumb.co.uk/book/free-coaching-session/

We’re back for another Ruby meet in Manchester! Next Thursday we’ll be looking at generative AI, with a live coding demo by @rahoulb.bsky.social using AI agents, followed by a discussion of the pros, cons, ins and outs of generative AI in software dev. Info/registration: nwrug.org/events/april...

I released Ruby 3.1.7 and 3.2.8 now. www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025... www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025... 3.1.7 is final version of Ruby 3.1 series and Ruby 3.2 will be started security maintenance phase from 3.2.8. I strongly recommend you update your Ruby to 3.3 or 3.4 series.

Our March meeting is tonight (20 March). Join us at the Colony, One Silk Street in Ascots at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm) to work through the Noisy Animals kata. Thank you to Fatsoma for sponsoring Full details, including the all important registration link, available at

We're doing the Noisy Animal kata this Thursday evening in Ancoats, Manchester. All are welcome, no matter your level of #ruby experience. Registration here: www.tickettailor.com/events/nwrug...

for the whole of this month, I'm offering 50% off my book "building git", which teaches you a huge array of software and system engineering topics while learning how git works. use voucher code "SMARCH" shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

We’ve updated our website to better explain how we help trade unions to get and retain more members: jointogether.online

NWRUG is back tomorrow for our lightning talks night! Full details and registration: nwrug.org/events/febru...

We’re back! Thursday 20 Feb will be lighting talks at North West Ruby User Group. Come join us. nwrug.org/events/febru...

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

Turns out the join form we (@jointogether.online) designed and delivered for the NEU has a 60% higher completion rate than the one it replaced 💅🏽

I wrote a love letter to a cool, but underused chart type from the 90's, designed to help avoid one of the most common mistakes people make when analysing time-series data

Better late than never. Yearnotes 2024: tekin.co.uk/2025/01/year...

My favourite Ruby 3.4 improvements: timriley.info/posts/my-…

So much invasive ad tech and tracking nonsense dressed up as “features” on modern TVs. Now AI slop has been added to the mix. Do your friends and family a solid this Christmas and make sure it’s all disabled.

Ruby 3.4.0-rc1 is out! github.com/ruby/ruby/re... github.com/rbenv/ruby-b... I'm working to keep stability of new release now. Please build and run your code with 3.4.0-rc1. If you faced issues, please file it to bugs.ruby-lang.org. #ruby

My apparently controversial take: there is no good reason to have randomness in your test factories (chuck faker in the bin!). If something needs to be unique/different to validate, use a sequence. Non-determinism in your test suite is a fast way to a flakey test suite.

HR is not your friend. Join a union.

To date I've tried using ChatGPT for two things: 1. help constructing more complex SQL queries 2. converting HAML to ERB It's been pretty impressive with HAML to ERB, doing a better job than other tools I've tried. Well today it well and truly flubbed on the task in a subtle but dangerous way...

landley.net/history/mirr... don’t let this be your software. Leave behind a useful revision history!

Grateful for the incredible work of the Ruby DX team on the Ruby LSP and VS Code integration. Navigating a Rails codebase (jumping between definitions; going from controllers to views to routes), inline docs; refactorings; ERB support... it's consistently and continually improving my day-to-day dev.

Love to see it