It’s week two of our sponsorship drive! Thank you so much to the ten Rubyists who became Hanakai sponsors in the last week! You’re standing up and showing us there's power in numbers. Read more about it here, including a special Q&A with Pat Allan! hanakai.org/blog/2026/08...

Power in numbers, and Pat Allan

“In code like in life, healthy relationships should have respectful boundaries.” Week two of our sponsorship drive.

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I wrote some thoughts about Information Technology. And also about two technical interview designs. Something for everyone! 😆 I would love to chat if you have thoughts/experiences about building/designing case management or customer support software. island94.org/2026/08/two-...

This is an exciting (new?) thing I learned that allows a lot of workflows I want on GitHub Actions: island94.org/2026/08/prog...

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

If you're not outraged, you should be

Odysseus: Do I need to give sacrifice to Poseidon before we set sail? Alex: All the information is in the task.

If you know of any open-source program using Ractors, let me know, I'd be interested to try it with ractor-shim.

Hello, Ruby World! sfruby.com

#civictech is about benefiting the public good - not government efficiency www.civictechnologists.org/2025/02/civi... @derekeder.com and I write for @civictechallies.bsky.social on what civic tech volunteer groups can do to reduce harm brought on by the new administrations policies (thread!)

ACT unequivocally supports all diverse individuals. We stand for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility to build stronger, more innovative #civictech and public service. Read our full joint statement with #TechnologistsForThePublicGood (#TPG) 👇 🔗https://www.civictechnologists.org/2025/01/…

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I'm rereading "Radical Focus" to sharpen up my dislike of how OKRs are practiced.

I guess this is how we code now 🫠 tbh I'm not unhappy with the result, just disappointed in myself.

GitHub is now running Ruby 3.4.1

I wrote some high level thoughts to help make sense of the current reality of AI: https://island94.org/2025/1/how-im-thinking-about-ai-llms

I wrote about moving my static site blog from Jekyll to Parklife+Rails: https://island94.org/2025/1/living-parklife-with-rails-coming-from-jekyll

RubyConf 2024 talks are live on @rubyvideo.dev! 🥳

shouldve titled the piece "zones of ethical interest"

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