I wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…

“It doesn’t matter whether ‘Matz is nice’” po-ru.com/2026/07/29/i...

DC, now is the time to hold Trump enablers in local party offices accountable. Vote for all 20 members of the FREE DC Slate by Tuesday June 16th at 8pm. We are a NEW DC Democratic Party takes bold collective action to protect our neighbors, put DC's wealth to work, and organize for people power!

Alex Koma@alexkoma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's an unusually bitter battle brewing over the future of the DC Democrats. The race to control the Democratic State Committee will determine not only party strategy: but also a replacement for Robert White if he wins his race. Naturally, things are getting personal: wamu.org/story/26/06/...

15 years ago, I got married!! At our ceremony, we combined salt (we aren't religious butike to cook and salt historically was used as a covenant). We repeated it 5 years later and again today! We have a lot of salt lol.

They finally made the three shells from Demolition Man

Plex: extremely precious about metadata, shows you the stars, related movies, seasons, episode summaries etc. Plex Downloads: here's a fucking bag of .mkv files, randomly sorted, GL

True story: I gave the Apple AI thingy a pic of my son Warren holding a World Cup trophy replica and asked it to “blur the picture except for Warren [it usually knows who he is] and the cup”. And I kid you not, it sent me back a picture of Elizabeth Warren holding a coffee cup.

I worked with a designer who thought the only way to prevent people from having to re-login frequently was to have an app on the App Store. Because of this, he wanted us to spend 100,000's of USD building an app that was just a few web forms.

ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ@infrequently.org · 3mo ago

Heres @nytimes.com advertising it hired so many Over Reactors that nobody in the building knows how to write CSS or access MDN any more. Cringing inside out with second-hand embarrassment.

re: erin's quoted post - this is why I buy Tom Bihn. Quality materials, YKK zippers. They are expensive, but they actually hold their value really well on the used market, at least in my experience. Of note: I fucking love bags and would buy a zillion all the time if I could :)

Erin Paget, née Dees@erindees.me · 4mo ago

I thought I was cynical. I’m not cynical enough

Unfollowed pragmatic engineer. We don’t need more of David Rails

Towards an amicable resolution with Ruby Central andre.arko.net/2026/04/02/tow…

Update on Desktop Linux - I'm back to using it, xremap is the only thing making it usable for me, there's a ton of papercuts, fuck snap, but overall it's a solid dev machine. naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/03...

The Mediocre State of PWAs (via pwa.support, which I vibe coded for science) naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/03... [ sparing you all the tedious "Golly Gee Whiz Claude Code is whatever blah blah" post - cannot stand those ]

Happy to see Andre finally speaking publicly about the hostile Ruby Central takeover last year. RC is no longer a trustworthy steward for the Ruby community. I don't see how we repair this rift without Shan stepping down, she has been awful as ED. andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/f...

I have had some gigs like that: a CTO wants to do something that is scoped a well-suited for independent work (coordinated with anyone affected). It has to be done and can afford it, but the day to day eats them. You enter, do it, and shake hands.

TBH this is a good approach for any project - finish quickly and without incident. Don't ask permission for delivering quality work, either (however you want to define it). And make sure that each Friday, the entire team can walk away from the project, never to return, and it still has value.

Dave Copeland@davetron5000.com · 5mo ago

And if you should get cover, time, and/or resources to undertake a major improvement: work you fucking ass off to finish it as quickly as you possibly can, because these types of projects are the top list to be cancelled to reclaim resources for shorter-term gains.

In my experience, it's impossible to justify "paying down" tech debt to anyone outside your team's programmers, and even then it's iffy. Doing a bunch of work without changing the system is hard to quantify, perhaps even impossible. That said, cruft happens and needs to be dealt with. 2 strategies:

Brandon Weaver@baweaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With any large scale tech debt project there are three things needed to succeed: 1. Commendation - Anyone who works on this is incentivized, recognized, and rewarded. 2. Capacity - Teams have dedicated resources to making this happen. 3. Capability - Tools, resources, and knowledge exist

If the AI code generators are capable of adding any feature to any codebase then there is no longer such a thing as technical debt. Tech debt - if it matters at all - is only relevant to people writing code.

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 5mo ago

When it was slow to write code, it was slow to accumulate technical debt. What is it about LLMs that won't result in accumulating technical debt even faster than before?

The Death of a Software Craftsman (it happens a lot 'round here) naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/02/2… AI Abstinence? All in on Agents? Or resign yourself to becoming a niche craftsperson?

@aeronautapp.com How do I "select" the most read message so that keyboard shortcuts navigate from there. e.g. If I come to the app after a day of not using it and hit j/k I'm navigating from whatever message I had focused a day ago. cmd+up does take me to the top, but then j/k again scrolls down

Aeronaut 1.6 is now available. This release adds support for selecting list items with the keyboard! • ▲ or K to move selection up • ▼ or J to move selection down • ↵ to perform the default action • ⌘J to go back to the selected item if you’ve scrolled it out of view • ⌘+click to deselect 1/2

Yes, I’ve had lots of requests for more keyboard shortcuts! These already work: • Scroll to top: ⌘+up-arrow • Switch tabs: ⌘1 through ⌘8 I’m planning to add a menu item for scroll to top to make it more discoverable. And arrow keys to move between posts is on my todo list.

I would love to understand why Synology decided to name this new version "$SAME_AS_CURRENT Update 1" instead of bumping the FIVE DIGIT PATCH NUMBER?!?!?!

Trying out @aeronautapp.com (was previously using a Safari web view of the Bluesky website). Much nicer, and look forward to whatever improvements they make.

The linked article is fucking depressing

Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Paul Kinlan's "Dead Framework Theory" will be rattling around in my head for awhile. I have definitely encountered the "React/Tailwind because AI" mindset. The entropy is hard to ignore. But ugh... it feels like we're tying our own shoelaces together and trying to run. aifoc.us/dead-framewo...

Amazon's royalties always come in three transactions: deposit the amount I'm owed, then withdraw that exact same amount, then deposit that exact same amount again. Apple's and Kobo's royalties are deposited without incident, but almost no one seemingly buys tech books from them.

Every month, I reconcile my personal and business accounts + my dad's. Novo bank has the worst UX (and that's saying something). Their devs do not give a shit or know what they are doing. The ellipsis truncation in the middle of that whitespace just kills me every time.

Tax season approaches here in the US. The US government had a (legit) great idea to create a single sign-on for all government services. In typical US fashion, why build one when you can build two at twice the price? I have moved stuff to login dot gov, but the IRS only accepts ID dot me. Cool.

Using a search engine, we found 67 unsecured admin panels for Flock Safety cameras. The majority of them use AI to zoom in and follow people. I had both live and 31 days of archived footage from retail parking lots, forest trails, playgrounds, etc. @404media.co youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...

This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Google could have chosen to promote recipe websites that show you a recipe and not someone's culinary journey. But they did not. ibid for literally everything. This is why an LLM trained on the internet is far superior to searching that same internet.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 8mo ago

Every time I search online for a recipe (today: pinco de gallo) - the #1, #2 #3 results on Google are endless text, 5 ads and then MAYBE you get the recipe. Had enough now just asking an LLM that browses using sources - today, Perpexity. FINALLY get what I actually wanted: