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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. :|

It has been 0 days since I heard the words “unvaxed blood”

OH: “Every snowflake is special, but one snowflake is probably the best”

Taking a few weeks off the internet, bbl

Tickets are on sale for XO Ruby! Go get yours:

https://www.xoruby.com/events/

September 6th: Chicago September 13th: Atlanta September 20th: New Orleans

October (TBA): Portland, San Diego, and Austin

It’s a small thing, but it’s nice that I can type thoughts into the bsky textbox and delete them without the text being posted to some spy endpoint first

If I had more energy I would have live tweeted the Laracon talks. I am so wiped this week. I hope some Ruby devs go watch the talks once they’re online and borrow some ideas for Rails and Hanami though. :)

Taylor Otwell takes the stage at Laracon to cap off day 1 on Tuesday. What a crowd.

Home from Laracon a bit early. It was great reconnecting and meeting new folks. Laravel is killing it. <3

Remember Murder Hornets? This piece had me on the edge of my seat.

“Here is the plan the team came up with. Find the nest of these giant hornets and eliminate them. It really is the plot line from a horror movie.”

Big networking events are hard because all I really want to do is chat around the campfire.

If you ever wanted to help us grow at Honeybadger, here is your chance! We’re a small team and your referrals really help. ✨

PDX -> DEN for Laracon. I think my last Laracon was in 2018 or 2019. Excited to be back! Say hello if you see me.

I will not send a “Stew Peters is literally a nazi now” gotcha text to a friend of the family who kept sending me his videos in 2021. I will leave them blocked. That’s definitely progress.

Treat Your AI Assistant Like It’s a Fork Bomb With a Chat Interface Because it is

One of the reasons I think devcontainers are more useful now, because you can firewall them and really lock down access. But also good team security practices.

I will keep my 4-day work week thanks.

I have completed my first run in a few weeks. Please clap.

If you wish cmd+k would add a link to your selected text in Slack like it does in every other app (instead of opening the search bar), here’s some config for Karabiner Elements (an essential Mac app imo).

The truly disturbing part is the repeated outrage that an LLM “lied” to him. It’s like screenshot dunking a rock for falling on your head. Some people really are cooked on this technology.

Saw a few people say they don’t believe in hell but Trump should go there. Pretty sure Trump’s hell is obscurity, his name on no one’s tongue. He’s all but guaranteed to end up there eventually.

I love this future where my daughter texts me a genmoji of me crying when she is upset

(but also it’s kind of adorable lol)

hey bro have you heard of arch linux?

I could probably make the case that going for a long walk is on net better than any other physical activity (for me, obviously)