oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...
nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology · 4d agoyeah iunno bout you but that seems pretty bad
Mike Perham
@mike.contribsys.com
CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq https://mikeperham.com https://contribsys.com https://sidekiq.org Portland, OR
nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology · 4d ago
Gem Coop recently published an update on the Gem Fellowship: gem.coop/updates/8/ We're explicitly trying to fund more projects this year. If you maintain an open-source Ruby project, and could use funding, you should consider applying when applications open on December 1st 2026!
gem fellowship 2027
Hello! It’s been a while, but we’ve been working on some exciting new stuff. Today, we’re very pleased to announce the 2027 Gem Fellowship. Last year, we sponsored work on eight Ruby OSS projects incl...
gem.coop
It’s almost 2027 and time again for the Gem Fellowship to support Ruby open source. www.mikeperham.com/2026/10/15/c...
Coming soon: the 2027 Gem Fellowship
Last year I founded the Gem Fellowship with $100,000 in funding. Myself and the gem.coop team judged applications from 40+ projects and funded eight with awards between $2500 and $20,000. This year I’...
mikeperham.com
It’s almost 2027 and time again for the Gem Fellowship to support Ruby open source. www.mikeperham.com/2026/10/15/c...
Coming soon: the 2027 Gem Fellowship
Last year I founded the Gem Fellowship with $100,000 in funding. Myself and the gem.coop team judged applications from 40+ projects and funded eight with awards between $2500 and $20,000. This year I’...
mikeperham.com
This year, Spinel is supporting the 2027 Gem Fellowship. Applications open on December 1, but companies can sign up to sponsor Fellows today. Learn more and join us: spinel.coop/blog/help-us...
Help us grow the Gem Fellowship program
spinel.coop
@intertwingly.net How can I learn more about any roadblocks to Sidekiq support in Roundhouse? Giving people the potential to choose their app runtime is super intriguing, removing the GVL for Sidekiq job execution is a massive scalability improvement for CRuby users.
some good advice i got once was "never work for someone you don't want to become"
We built uptime monitoring and check-ins to catch the issues that don’t throw errors. They’re included FREE in your Honeybadger account. Set them up in the sidebar of your Honeybadger page—you can be running in a few minutes. #devops
even the mainstream tech media has started to pick this up www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
theverge.com
The performance difference between json 2.7.6 and 3.0.0 is noticeable in Sidekiq's load testing script (~21.0sec to 20.5sec, ~4-5%). That's really hard to do with mature software like Ruby; Jean's optimization work here has been stellar.
Jean Boussier@byroot.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'll probably release the final 3.0.0 version early September, so if you got time please try the RC1 and submit any feedback you may have: github.com/ruby/json/re...
We can only stretch for more thanks to our returning sponsors. Today we share our thanks to Sidekiq and the inimitable @mike.contribsys.com. Sidekiq’s support is what got our funded maintenance program off the ground in the first place. Thank you Sidekiq! hanakai.org/blog/2026/08...
Sponsor Hanakai in 2026!
Help us continue to build Hanakai — and a diverse future for Ruby.
hanakai.org
7 lessons from my 7 years as an entrepreneur😀 1. Don’t quit your job right away 2. Sell to businesses 3. Make what the market wants 4. Do what you’re good at 5. Don’t do lots of tiny bets 6. Charge more 7. Focus on being profitable
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…
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler…
andre.arko.net
a great summary of the current state of de facto ruby governance from @threedaymonk; I think that if ruby is going to meaningfully remove the influence of the fascists currently in charge of it, it is imperative that gems.coop and the move to fork rails are successful po-ru.com/2026/07/29/i...
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak...
po-ru.com
"software is made for and by humans, and the community about the project is the most important thing about it" www.reddit.com/r/rails/comm...
madribby78's comment on "What the hell happened to DHH? (I did some digging)"
Explore this conversation and more from the rails community
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Seeing houses and cars set on fire and people terrorized directly instigated by the guy that DHH said makes “beautiful” things happen. If you’re a Rubyist, tell the Rails Core team what you think about them being collaborators and enablers for this. Fucking disgusting.
If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...
Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5mo agoI've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
#GemCoop namespaces are now out of beta! gem.coop/updates/7/ I am *SUPER* excited about this!
namespaces released
hi again everyone, we’re back with exciting news. namespaces on gem.coop have been promoted out of beta and into general availability. that means you can use namespaced gems directly from the top-leve...
gem.coop
I realized it has been ~1.5 years since I concluded my series of post on JSON optimization. So I got curious how much faster it became since then. 2.7.2 was the last version before I took over maintainership. 2.9.0 was the version I released at the end of the blog series.
Why doesn’t @digitalocean.com support IPv6 for droplets built via custom image? Is there some weird edge case with IPv6 vs IPv4?
Ruby 4.0 warning: it looks like a GC change in 4.0 means Sidekiq may leak memory on every job failure. v8.1.6 will be released tomorrow with a workaround. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/7006
Possible thread/memory leak · Issue #7006 · sidekiq/sidekiq
When a Sidekiq job fails, Sidekiq creates a retry in Redis but it also throws away the entire Processor object and Thread to ensure all jobs execute with "known good state". A Customer reports memo...
github.com
Javier’s really put in the hard work to grow rubyforum.org from scratch. Another win. 🏆
Ruby Users Forum
Welcoming space where you can learn, share, and grow with other users of the Ruby programming language.
rubyforum.org
Javier Cervantes@jvrc.ca · 5mo agoLiteral and Phlex are 2 very interesting and useful Ruby projects that you should check out if you haven't already. www.rubyforum.org/t/phlex-lite... #ruby #phlex #literal
Fresco is a ruby-framework that compiles down to a binary via Spinel (matz/spinel). It's super early, but I have something cobbled together that seems to work (and not segfault every fifteen minutes!) Fresco is fresh, it's new and it's inspired by Hanami and @hanakai.org
It was a good month with the Ruby Users Forum! www.rubyforum.org/t/monthly-up...
Monthly Update - April Wrap-Up
Hello everyone! April was a great month for our forum. We’re already 259 members and growing! It felt dynamic with 45+ topics and 225+ posts, we loved reading through many interesting conversations (...
rubyforum.org
This was a year ago. How’s everyone’s AI coworkers working out today?
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2y agoI do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
I've created Asynq, a new lightweight Sidekiq::Client alternative meant to be safe for use in Ractors. https://github.com/mperham/asynq
GitHub - mperham/asynq: A lightweight sidekiq client
A lightweight sidekiq client. Contribute to mperham/asynq development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Miren (from @evanphx.dev and crew) looks like it is coming along nicely. A next generation PaaS for people who appreciate Heroku's ease. miren.dev/blog/introdu...
Introducing Addons - Miren
Declare what your app needs and let Miren handle the rest.
miren.dev
I strongly believe that honest assessment is the best way to build trust, and I hope folks feel that the comparisons reflect that.
miren.dev@miren.dev · 7mo agowe started Miren because deployment hasn't gotten easier in a decade - and AI coding tools are only making the problem bigger curious how Miren stacks up in the age of AI? take a look: miren.dev/compare