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Hiked Angel’s Rest with Josh Price today and did not manage to stay warm or dry. That is to say, a classic Pacific Northwest adventure!

This is a great read about how current tech coverage favors money and finance over the builders who actually innovate and create new technology (and often for free).

SNL should do a sketch where Kenan Thompson explains the Department of Homeland Security’s social media content to Andrew Daly as Benjamin Franklin from The Office

Explaining the Department of Homeland Security:

“So there’s a mythical place called hyperborea”

Nicotine subsumes basically all my other compulsive behaviors in one neat little addiction and as a bonus makes my brain function. Always a bummer when I’m reminded of this.

I photographed #NoKings today in Vancouver, WA. This was a particularly fun one. Current events may be dire, but you would’t know it from the joyful thousands in the streets. This feels like something different.

Full photo set here.

My $2,200 TV just interrupted my movie to make me accept some new terms of service. Wtf are we even doing.

Naturally I couldn’t find the remote.

Watching the Addams Family and after the scene where Wednesday fires a crossbow at Pugsley while he holds an apple in his mouth, I’m like “never do that kids” — to which my youngest (7, the Pugsley of the two) exclaims, “we don’t have a crossbow!”

I really wish Robert Reich would stop texting me.

Maybe I’ll just drive my 2004 Wrangler for the rest of my life (was pretty much already planning on it)

“I was still able to steer and brake with power steering and brakes for maybe 30 seconds before those went out too”

I’ve been using Zen Browser today, and it’s very nice so far. It seems to have most of the features I was missing from Arc, without the junk that I don’t miss (AI features mostly).

I appreciate the nuance in Robby’s take and if Ruby Central was acting in good faith, I want to see them work to make it right with the maintainers. Actions speak louder than words.

This was a good read from Jean Boussier, I agree that more companies should contribute to open source directly.

“So, that’s why the frogs are important”

Just here me out..

Basically the frogs stand between America and the Insurrection Act.

In case y’all were wondering, Portland has always been this way. Here’s a pic I took in 2021.

This was a particularly violent day in which the Proud Boys hosted a rally, originally scheduled for the waterfront but then moved to northeast Portland. Someone ended up shooting at antifascist counter-demonstrators downtown, and PB attacked people and destroyed several vehicles in a brawl.

This after the current president had told PB to “stand by”, and five years later pardoned many of them. Now the same president calls Portland “war ravaged”. It makes you wonder who created that impression in the first place.

Gem.coop’s governance was initially guided by Mike McQuaid.

Gem.coop’s Project Leader is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s Project Leadership Committee is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s Technical Steering Committee is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s maintainers are not yet appointed.”

This looks like a cool directory of streaming #horror recommendations, if you’re a horror fan like me.

Excited about this launch—check it out if you’re a Python developer.

Truth be told I love that we got an anti-ICE inflatable frog this year and not the pepe-themed proud boy we had in 2020.

Managed to squeeze the full moon and Mount Hood into the same shot.

Enhance

Re: bluesky, is it too much to ask to just not fuck up my fav and tbh probably last social networking site

The Ruby community moves fast!

Ruby is kind, and so we are kind.

Sam Livingston-Gray:

“MINASWAN” (Matz is nice and so we are nice) was never enough.

“Nice” isn’t enough, because “nice” is too easy to fake.

Be kind.

Ruby is kind, and so we are kind. #RIKASWAK

Zed is so nice. So many nice details. Like their native vim mode not only works great, but it works anywhere there’s a multiline text input.

All the Rails folks and Rails-adjacent folks who defend and enable him and pile on his critics, many of you who I know personally, what the hell is wrong with you?

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought

For those of you who aren’t sure why folks are so upset about DHH lately, this is a good short summary. It doesn’t even go into the many similar examples from the past 5 years.

It is not “woke” to say this is wrong.

For those of you who aren’t sure why folks are so upset about DHH lately, this is a good short summary. It doesn’t even go into the many similar examples from the past 5 years.

It is not “woke” to say this is wrong.

This was a hell of a weekend to watch One Battle After Another.

What if all Portland photographers just took pictures of the residents enjoying their vibrant city as federal agents and the US military occupy it for no reason. Flood the zone with joy.

Tim Bray has now signed an open letter to fork Rails.

Read Tim’s blog post about the very first early Rails conference.

They probably renamed it to the department of war just so he could say he’s directing the secretary of war to invade Portland. Secretary of defense doesn’t have the same ring.

It’s extremely great that half the tech bros I know are more concerned about codes of conduct than American autocracy.

I was going to go to brunch today but the president is directing the US “secretary of war” to “deploy the troops” and authorizing “full force” in my US city. (source)

I was going to go to brunch today but the president is directing the US “secretary of war” to “deploy the troops” and authorizing “full force” in my US city.

Huh, Eugen Rochko, the creator and lead developer of Mastodon, has signed an open letter to fork Rails.

That’s interesting.

I hope my marketing consultant doesn’t read my bluesky

Fascists would never issue a memorandum targeting the broad political enemies of fascists. That would be so unlike them.

Jeff Sharlet was saying earlier:

People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.

In happy Ruby news, I am so excited for XO Ruby in Portland on October 11. Look at that lineup, it’s like a Ruby reunion. (But don’t be intimated if you’re new, we’re friendly!)

And there are still tickets available. 👀

I was in the room with Mike Perham when we confronted Ruby Central’s executive leadership over their decision to invite DHH to RailsConf (which sponsors were not made aware of ahead of time). They knew that multiple sponsors had a problem with the continued relationship.

“Does anyone have a good playlist for the Rapture?”

Funny you should ask. This is a work in progress. I don’t use Spotify anymore, need to migrate this to Apple Music.

“If you are trans, a migrant, black, overweight, childless, have ADHD, then in DHH’s view you are somehow inferior. Instead of raising up and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, DHH choses to exclude and punch down. This is not something the Ruby community can continue to simply ignore.” 🎯

Chris Tomlin and Phil Wickham leading worship for the Kirk memorial is insane. Not sure what to say. Fun fact, I briefly toured with Phil when we were kids in high school. How sad.

It’s wild how so many of the “timeless biblical truths” we grew up with were popularized like 50 years ago.

I picked a good week to take a vacation.

“How can we make people hate Samsung appliances even more?”

Just checking out André Arko’s new venture, Spinel. Awesome team they’ve assembled!

Got to see The Lost Boys in 35mm at Hollywood Theatre in Portland last night. Epic. alexwinter.com

I’ve barely looked at the images on my camera this year, much less edited them. Here are a few I liked from UFO Fest in May.

Your engagement and your work, not unlike your vote, is a form of power, something you can choose to grant to others. Those others, particularly organizations and companies, accrue that power to use as they see fit.

The Wikimedia Foundation should tell Comer and Mace exactly where they can stick their unconstitutional demands. Wikipedia doesn’t answer to Congress about its editorial decisions, and Congress has no business trying to intimidate volunteer editors.

Look who I found down in Florida!

w/ Justin Searls and Chris Nelson

I really don’t like this world where anyone can slurp up everything you’ve ever said or written online and write an email as if they know you. Familiarity was already the critical vulnerability in humans. :|