oh yeah, it's the "sweat armpits, cold hands" season

Imagine if I had written this after reading Hyperion 📚 www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

It's fun to be caffeine-free :D www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

A fun conversation getting to my improv class where a friend asked me: - "wow, you're so brave riding your bike!" - "hum, why?" - "well, downtown is so busy at this time" - "well, that's true if you're driving a car which I am not 😅. The bike lanes are great" - "you're still brave!" 😆

Currently reading Hyperion and wow, I missed getting addicted to a good well written story.

Today is @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social's 8th birthday!! Hard to believe. We've come a long way since 2017... www.sprawlcalgary.com/sprawl-birth...

Almost one year ago, I started moving away from Google. It's finally done: deleted my Google account. Saying goodbye to tech evil (no more Amazon, Twitter, Goodreads, WhatsApp, etc.). It's a bit hard to do this completely because the list keeps increasing constantly 🫠 but doing my best.

I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat

Im creating an open source UI library for Rails (using Phlex, my gem Vident & daisyUI/Tailwind). It's rough but I'm using it to build something so fixing/refactoring as I go. If your interested, keep an eye on github.com/stevegeek/de... & the previews are here yoe4v.hatchboxapp.com/lookbook

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

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...

New profile pic :) My rocky and I have been together for more than 6 years now. Going to places I never imagined I would bring her to 😍

Just found out this Active transportation document from the Canadian government www.canada.ca/en/public-he... 👀

Getting back to writing. Found inspiration for the ending after reading a book this weekend: www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/a-shor...

The main reason why I never offload cognitive thinking to LLMs is that frictiontless output is a pernicious trap. Seems smart, but long term it's you who becomes replaceable. If the use case is to speed up useless work, it's a sign to change your life, not how you produce something to the society.

"This is the economy now. Not a distribution of opportunity. A redistribution of friction. But friction isn’t the enemy!!!! It’s information. It tells us where things are straining and where care is needed and where attention should go." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

I'm excited to finally drop this: After 20 years of bike commuting, a book, and a YouTube channel, I've compiled everything I've learned about urban cycling into a course to help people overcome the barriers to making the bike a bigger part of their lives. shiftercourses.thinkific.com

Rails Tip: `rails routes --expanded`: If you can never find the controller#action being called by a route, expanded routes can help!

Over the past few months, I decided to "retire" from online community work. My interests have changed a lot and I decided to direct that focus into building meaningful and local connections with my community. I am now participating more in local communities and it's making me happier.

So Happy to share that I was able to pre-order this at my local independent book store :)

If you haven't gotten a copy yet, do it now. The exercises are really fun and engaging, and you learn a ton. If you need financial help to get a copy, reach out to me (contact in my blog) and I will be happy to help (limited capacity but happy to help as I can!).

"Systems should limit complexity and be based on standards and training". Very interesting quote I stumbled across when watching this video rescue training for ski patrol professionals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPWa... I always like to remember how software problems are not software-exclusive.

My team is hiring a Senior Rails/React dev job-boards.greenhouse.io/kit/jobs/469... :)

Two perf dataviz patterns: 1. Compare vs last week's data. Timeshifting eliminates day/night and day-of-week based traffic patterns/noise. 2. Graph "% change versus last week" (a/b*100). Look at how much noise you remove when you combine both.

Free sample of my "Bug Hunt : Volume 1" guidebook is now live. Check it out here: bh-1.skillstopractice.com (10 of 56 exercises included) Please preorder if you expect the full guide will be useful to you after trying the sample. Much more to say on all this, but for now, happy hunting!

As much as hate and division hurts us all, I am so inspired by how Canadians are getting united <3 Besides shopping local and not going to the US, I cancelled Spotify, Lyft, and will soon delete Whatsapp. It's a a new phase that I started last year www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

Yes! Do what you can, support local businesses, be more involved in your community.

It’s easy to forget that just because it has always been this way, it doesn’t mean it has to continue so.

I am usually excited to learn things and embrace getting frustrated BUT DO NOT ENJOY CONFIGURING OR INSTALLING ANYTHING. I can not ever work with infra or devops for that reason xD

Kitchen Nightmares is a great example of how you can have a big team, even with great people there, but without a leader who knows what they are doing, and jumps in to support the team, your business will suffer.

Here's a timeline cleanser for you and your soul. Latest cycling video from yours truly: youtu.be/5w9CrKyulaY

@pattywiens.bsky.social que legal saber que voce eh brasileira! Ouvi uma entrevista sua no Bike Talk ou falaram sobre seu trabalho como Winnipeg’s First Bicycle Mayor :) Eu comecei a andar de bike na neve e estou gostando. Minha tolerancia eh perto de -10C. Adoro seu trabalho :)

There's something about naming a chunk of information as "data" in a codebase that triggers me off. If you're manipulating it, you have a sense of what kind of "data" it is. Why not call it what it is?

Just finished reading my 3rd book of 2025: "Moonwalking with Einstein", by Joshua Foer. Such a vivid, inspiring and fun read 🤓 Loved knowing that the author got to get tested by K. Anders Ericsson. And to get reminded how our memory is far more important than we give credit for.

Testing JavaScript used to take so much time (and frustration) out of me but now it's part of my day. It all started with a Node upgrade project. The results? A RailsConf 2024: "From RSpec to Jest: JavaScript Testing for Rails devs". Check it out here: hexdevs.com/posts/railsc...

Starting a new role this week as a Senior dev at kit.com 🎉 Had more than one month off in between jobs to reset, so feeling super excited to start the year with a new challenge. If you're using Kit, and want to chat more about your experience, let me know!

Also, drafting a post sharing the migration from Phoenix 1.6.12 to 1.7.14 for hexdevs.com. The website is now live and fully migrated: using Phoenix.Component and Verified Routes 😎 I know it's not for everybody but I actually enjoy upgrading back end stuff :D

2024 was a unique and special. I made new friends, volunteered locally and met inspiring people, started moving away from Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc., started supporting local businesses and did things that scared me. Wrote down some thoughts here 📝 www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

- TDD - Finding answers by searching the library's docs and source code, which eventually leads me to a commit, PR or other comment that solves my problem - Giving and receiving feedback when working together on a project, especially when I don't agree with someone's comment, review, etc.

"On an individual level, cycling can contribute to the direct experience of the neighborhood environment, which might motivate people to be helpful, to get engaged in social organizational participation and in political participation. […]" <3

Coming back to writing just for the sake of writing and came out with this one: www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

This is the way

I am still laughing at everything related to this episode 🦝 @99pi.org such a great listen to lighten the day and remember that we're not the "smartest" animal out there. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/racc...

HB's own @bencurtis.com created the faker gem!

I'm looking for Rails teams who are interested in saving time by using Rails more and getting stellar advice delivered async. I'm running a pilot program and I'm looking for up to 5 companies to start. It's a pack of 10 emails from team members to me for $1000. Renews when used.

In just 4 days, I've added posts from 36 different Ruby developers, so this feed can be used as a starter pack of sorts. I'll keep tending to as its own little garden of good stuff. Sitting at #3 for Ruby feeds + #5 for Rails feeds in search now. Only human curated feed I know of on either topic.

My internet experience lately has had lots of searching "how to disable AI". I really hate that almost every app enables this social disservice by default without asking for my permission and I have to spend my time figuring out how to disable it 😠

Fun fact: @thd.codes wanted to play with Elixir so we decided to build www.hexdevs.com with Phoenix. A few days ago, I wanted to get it up to date with the latest versions. Last updates were 2 years ago 🤭 Just shipped the site with Elixir 1.17.3, Erlang 27, Phoenix 1.7.14 😍

@hexdevs.com is in the area! Give us a follow there :)

Pairing yesterday on a React/TypeScript task: Jimmy: well, TypeScript is not happy we're passing the children like that Me: WHAT IF WE PASS BABIES INSTEAD?