programming as profession was never about generating tokens. but because generating tokens took so much time and was an essential skill in the profession, a lot of people have confused the two.

Here are the slides for my talk "Running Native Extensions and Ruby Code in Parallel Threads" at #EuRuKo 2026: eregon.me/blog/assets/...

yay, my first pr merged in openclacky: github.com/clacky-ai/op... this is my daily driver agent for private stuff. how and what coming up as two blogposts soon™️ that i already have drafted.

feat: send large STT audio as base64 JSON by tomash · Pull Request #525 · clacky-ai/openclacky

Problem OpenRouter caps multipart form-data uploads at 25 MB (413 Multipart body exceeds the 25 MB upload limit). The STT endpoint (POST /api/media/audio/transcriptions) sends audio as multipart, s...

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So, who's coming to Euruko 2026 in Brno?

deepseek-v4-flash-0731 is *absurdly* good for its price ($0.09/$0.18 per 1M tokens)

I'm not happy about the state of leadership in Rails (to put it mildly) but I like this perspective.

It's been exactly a year since Piotr's death and I still miss him.

Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz@tomash.eu · last yr.

Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

Correct. Use Pagecord elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/s... #blogging

Substack writers, you need a website!

Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …

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I don't know who ran justactiverecord.com because I loved it but it's fully down now. It seems the domain is free, so I bought it and am going to reinstate the wonderful meme there. If you're the original author and owner - hit me up.

If you're a caveperson like me who sometimes uses web chat interface of different LLMs and likes markdown export then you might find it useful: bookmarklets! * repository: github.com/tomash/bookm... * page: html-preview.github.io?url=https://...

GitHub - tomash/bookmarklets: Bookmarklets that I use a lot

Bookmarklets that I use a lot. Contribute to tomash/bookmarklets development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with an exciting mix of end-user insights and really cool tooling: o11y.news/2026-04-27/ #observability

PSA: Don’t let anybody convince you to not spend those 15€ on a new hobby. Those 50€ will be the best 400€ you have ever spent.

DRY (don't repeat yourself) is actually a bad idea in many situations. For example, in a service (or microservice) architecture where you want independent deployability, two services sharing a library are effectively coupled not only to the library but also to each other. 1/3

i know what i'll be playing with over the weekend! also, light up a candle for crystal because they will be competing for same target audience: github.com/matz/spinel

GitHub - matz/spinel

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New blog post: Let It Slop: A New Approach to Modularity in the Age of AI Code Generation. Still a bit rough and needs some editing but the main arguments are there: tomash.wrug.eu/blog/2026/04...

Let It Slop: A New Approach to Modularity in the Age of AI Code Generation

19 Apr 2026 – Wrocław

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Hey #wrocloverb, the slides for my Modularity lightning talk are online at the usual spot: tomash.wrug.eu/talks/

this year's #wrocloverb starts on friday and ends on sunday. and it opens with a throwback for me: headius about jruby is a conference talk i saw on my first ruby conference, euruko 2008 in prague.

More than 8 months later, I finally managed to put some thoughts about the passing of my dear friend Piotr into a post. Grief is tough. Remembering Piotr @chastell.net Szotkowski pragtob.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/r...

Remembering Piotr “chastell” Szotkowski

Most of this blog post was written 8 months ago, between his passing and his funeral. I didn’t find the strength to get back to it for a long, long time, but after talking and reminiscing wit…

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Because I'm a cheapskate and don't code after-hours as much as I want to, also I want to keep the manual-coding skill sharp, I only pay for Cursor and not Claude Code (which I use a lot at work). And I'm happy to report that cursor-cli is not that far behind!

Claude Code added /btw command, but I don't think it works correctly.

On March 10th we seem to celebrate Men's Day (40 Martyrs of Sebaste). Ask a friend what's up and if he wants to grab a coffee, beer or just hang out.

It's hard to scale your way out of shitty code.

How're things with the thought leader, is he still "optimistic" about Trump now that Trump wants to basically start a war with Denmark?

just when you begin to think he's maybe not that bad, just trying to make it in a weird industry, he pulls of shit like this ram deal

this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.

Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!

Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so. So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.

My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.