Meet our Chief Freeze Officer Ursa and her cubs. Her entire job this weekend is to lie directly on top of the main branch and refuse to move. Happy Labor Day from MergeFreeze. Take the long weekend. Let somebody else hold the branch for a while.

The cowboy coder thought the rules were for everyone else. The agent does not know rules exist. Does not sleep. Does not check Slack. Does not even know it's August. Same failure, new offender. We built a freeze that holds either way. ❌ www.mergefreeze.com

Every engineer on vacation is just an engineer in a different location checking Slack. Set yourself as away. And enjoy your vacay. mergefreeze.com

We had a whole May the 4th post ready. Then someone merged to main during a deploy and we spent yesterday putting out fires. Just kidding. We use Merge Freeze. We just forgot. Happy Revenge of the Fifth. www.mergefreeze.com

Happy Arbor Day. Protect your branches. MergeFreeze freezes your branch with one click so nobody merges to main while you're deploying. It's what the trees would want. 🌳

Happy (belated) National Pet Day to the real MVPs of remote eng: the cat on the warm laptop, the dog at every standup, the bird with code review opinions. Drop a pic of your coworker 🐾❤️

March 4th is the only date that's a command. Here's yours: stop deploying on vibes. 🫠 www.mergefreeze.com

Setting up MergeFreeze takes less time than picking a gym and the results last longer. One-click branch freezing → no more deploy collisions. mergefreeze.com 💪

Hundreds of eng teams used Merge Freeze over the holidays to actually enjoy time with family instead of getting paged about production issues no deploys = no fires = no ruined dinners kind of wild how much better the holidays are when you just... stop merging to main for a few days🎄 🕎 😌

Happy New Year from MergeFreeze! 🎉 Wishing you a smooth start to 2025—may your deploys be uneventful, your releases confident, and your year full of shipping great work. Here's to a productive year ahead! 🥳

#GitHubUniverse is almost here! Drop your announcement predictions in the replies ⬇️ Don’t forget to sign up to join us virtually if you can’t be there https://githubuniverse.com/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=1week

Q4 2024: $352B in US e-commerce sales. The quarter that makes or breaks your year. And the worst possible time for a production outage. Every deploy is a gamble when your infrastructure is already maxed out. How does your team handle deploys during peak retail season?

Today, we celebrate #Juneteenth, honoring the unwavering spirit of a people. Learn more and join the celebration at @NMAAHC: nmaahc.si.edu/Juneteenth

How do you really feel about your work? A recent study from @lennysan.bsky.social and Noam Segal showed that 84% of tech workers are facing some level of burnout! Surprised? Or relieved you're not alone? Check out their tactical advice to avoid burnout: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-techs-...

How tech’s most resilient workers handle burnout

Introducing ARMOR: a new framework building on our tech worker sentiment survey insights

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What questions would YOU want to ask the legends of the Rails community? 👀 For the final #RailsConf, we're bringing together Kinsey, Nadia, Eileen, Marty, Evan & Sarah for a keynote panel on the past, present, and future of Rails. Share your questions for them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The post-conference glow is still real ✨ We’re deeply grateful to everyone who made Baltic Ruby so special. And now — we need your help. 📝 Fill out the feedback form while the memories are fresh: tally.so/r/m6zVrN Let’s make the next one even better — together!

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We're excited to share that we'll be hosting an intimate Meet the Authors event at #RailsConf! This is your chance to meet the authors of top Ruby books, ask questions, and maybe grab a copy or two... 📚

Bringing down production is a developer’s rite of passage—like being knighted, except with a 2 a.m. Slack call and fewer swords.⚔️ With Merge Freeze, you can pause the madness, regroup and push code without the 🔥 drill next time. 🥇

If you haven't booked your room for #RailsConf, NOW is a good time to join our room block at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown! 💫 By booking as part of our block, you're guaranteed a great deal AND you're supporting Ruby Central. 🙌

For more than 700 million people worldwide, clean water isn’t accessible. But with technology, organizations like @charitywater.bsky.social can change that. 🌐 This World Water Day, learn how charity: water has collaborated with GitHub to help combat the water crisis. github.blog/open-source/...

Calling all Ruby enthusiasts!! We're giving away FREE tickets to the Helvetic Ruby 2025 conference helvetic-ruby.ch. Here's what you need to do... 1. Follow @mergefreeze.bsky.social 2. Repost OR comment below (maybe why you ❤️ Ruby?!) 3. We'll reach out to the lucky winners in early April.