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A wild idea appears... what if you could use JBang with JRuby as a complete Rails command line... no JVM or JRuby installation required? jbang rails@jruby new blog cd blog jbang rails@jruby generate scaffold ... It just needs some tweaks to work. Interested?

You can defeat these big, careless, arrogant companies that have subpar products by not giving them your money. Cancel your order. Cancel your subscription. Stop paying for crap.

Pasting a huge AI generated explanation to a problem in an issue or pull-request is nothing but RUDE. Don't do it. You look stupid and the receivers of that feel insulted. We are humans. We communicate like humans. Fine, use the tools you like, but don't insult us.

I appreciate having Rivian Assistant as a replacement for Alexa. I like where it's going. But I think Rivian analysts are being highly illusive about it. It's passable, but by no means incredible. It's like asking a toddler to press buttons on the UI for you. It barely gets the job done, and slowly.

I can't believe that it's seemly impossible to get off a group text message (RCS) unless the sender removes you from the group. Seriously, technology is so antiquated.

they should invent software updates that make the software better over time instead of worse

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This is counter-productive and, well, just fucking stupid.

Here's what's got my mind in knots. We have AI barons proclaiming that apps will anticipate what we want, and yet I have to page through a dozen screens to continue playing the series I've been watching all week. Maybe it's all just smoke and mirrors.

I used to really enjoy watching sports on ESPN+ until it got taken over by greedy overlords who trashed the app and added forced ad breaks. So long @espn.com

I refuse to pay for a subscription service that has ads.

The Ruby language developers don't give a fuck and I've fucking had it!

The Ruby language has definitely committed itself to the enshitification trend. Why make it better when you can make it worse?

@danarestia.bsky.social These new Cascade helmets are just plain goofy. It's a step backwards. Might as well bring back the Bacharach helmets at this point.

It's so hard to emphasize just how hard the Work Items interface in GitLab is to use. It's just so terrible. I've used a lot of bad interfaces in my life, but this one takes the cake.

@danarestia.bsky.social I am outraged that the Ivy and NCAA tournaments are on ESPNU and blacked out from ESPN+. I thought we were past this. I'm seriously considering cancelling ESPN+ in protest. This is just absurd.

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Something that annoys me about how people talk about Linux is they expect their experience to be 100% pain free or else it's not worth making the change. Meanwhile, their experiences with Windows and MacOS have never been pain free, but for some reason Linux is held to a higher stsndard.

I do not understand people who think Trump is “authentic”. Authentically what?? An authentic liar? Authentic manipulator? Authentic con man?? These are oxymorons.

It's really painful that Node.js can't parse XML without adding a dependency. (The same could really be said for YAML too, though XML is much more universal).

It really would be nice of npmjs.com showed the required minimum version of Node.js to use a package. It's kind of an important piece of information.

GitLab Duo is popping up again on project pages despite the fact that I have explicitly disabled it. More AI being rammed down our throats. If I disable it, it means I don't want it. Is that so hard to understand?

Love wearing this shirt when I travel… Had someone ask to take a picture at the Frankfurt Airport train station (at first in German, who then switched to English, but I knew he wanted a pic 😉).

@riviantrackr.com Also, after spending time using AI chatbots the last few months, it's painfully clear how far behind Alexa is. I can't wait for Rivian to be rid of it. It can't even figure out how to give me a flight status.

Swipe on the gboard has gotten so bad, that it has conditioned me to start dictating sentences, something I thought I would never do. Folks, technology is not getting better.

@riviantrackr.com I can honestly say that the loss of universal hands free is the first time the Rivian has gotten worse since I owned it. It's like all the updates in drive quality got rolled back.

@danarestia.bsky.social This ESPN+ app was developed by a bunch of amateurs. Frankly, it should be embarrassing for ESPN. I don't know what's going on over there, but I do know it's going downhill.

The @espn + app is just terrible now. Use it for a few seconds and you'll likely agree.

Mutter completely broke how I use my keyboard. If I press a key, then another key immediately afterwards, the latter key will not repeat. Do you know how many times that comes up when using VIM? What are we doing? Please revert!!!

The shirt I want. "I can code without Claude." Arrogant? Perhaps. Necessary? Absolutely.

Looking for work. Will DevRel for coffee or wine 😁

Well, my #Java journey has come to an end. Today my role at Oracle has been terminated. I’m open to any job leads y’all may have.

@danarestia.bsky.social Really great interview with Paul. He does so much better in that format, and with questions that come from you, than on TV. I learned a ton.

There's a ton of Open Source developers out of work right now. The same developers that maintain the libraries and runtimes you all depend upon for your apps. The same libraries and runtimes all your AI code is built upon. Hire or sponsor someone today.

After decades of sitting at the computer a certain way, I'm trying to learn to sit without using my mouse as a brace. Wow, this is hard.

@danarestia.bsky.social I'm appalled by what ESPN has done with the ESPN+ app. They have absolutely ruined it. I love watching lacrosse, but this honestly might just turn me off. The ads are unacceptable, the seek is totally broken, and it's super glitchy. It's honestly amateur hour. So painful.

@danarestia.bsky.social That was my first time seeing Spallina play in person. I understand now why he confuses so many people. He's certainly a very good player, but he's just no CJ Kirst. He also rubs other players. At one point, he chirpped the entire Denver bench, and had a few goes at the refs.

Whoever is running GitLab is trying their hardest to ruin its reputation. What the hell are you doing over there? Someone please take control of this ship!!

I swear I'm going to leave GitLab if they keep popping up the GitLab Duo sidebar. Fuck you and horse you road in on you asshats. I don't want your fucking agent!

And what is with GitLab Duo being forced down our throats?!? Everything is just getting more terrible by the day, I swear.

With absolutely no notice, GitLab renamed Issues to Work Items. Not only do I hate it, it's extremely confusing for new and existing contributors alike. Terminology that has been used for decades has now been changed for no justifiable reason. Please change it back!

Can we *please* add a way to get the parameter names of a function reliably in JavaScript? Ruby is way ahead here. Way ahead.

I really don't like Gradle's daemon. I wish it were something you had to enable in your local settings rather than it just being employed by default.

With all the distracting cookie garbage and location requests, I honestly don't think companies actually want to sell any products online. It's nothing but a waste of time trying to find what you want.

So far, in my experience, AI has turned out to be atrocious at helping to shop. The product suggestions are just way off or overly generic. Probably because even a human can barely shop effectively online.

Your mindless CVE scanner is not open source's problem. Take it up with your admins / organization to invest better.

It's that time for curling! youtube.com/watch?v=p60I...

It's truly devastating that the American flag has become a sign of hatred.

Shift+Delete from the URL location bar is broken in Firefox (at least on Linux). Come on now!