RE: https://aus.social/@mattro/117042537299206873 SpaceX junk left in 2024, collided with the Moon yesterday.

Anyone in (or near) Seattle and into Ruby: #XORuby is happening Saturday! Looks like tickets are still available according to their web site. https://www.xoruby.com/event/seattle/

Seattle

Welcome to Emerald City

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Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re learning out how to do this […]

Learn the difference between someone who is nice vs someone who is kind. https://www.thesaurus.com/articles/nice-vs-kind

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harpaa01/116993120522403868 I’ll be there! #xoruby

Aaron@harpaa01.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

To any fellow Rubyists in the PNW: XO Ruby is having a conference in Seattle on 8/8, and you should go! It's a refreshing break from super expensive conferences you have to pay thousands to travel to. It's local, just one day, on a Saturday, and costs just $100. I'll be bringing some fidget […]

I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

RE: https://ruby.social/@spinel/116965667079861714 RV now supports private gem servers like Sidekiq’s. Hurrah! 🎉

@sferik btw your GitHub profile does not point to your active Mastodon account but does point to your inactive X account.

This new gem from @sferik looks to be extremely useful for regression testing fast paths within a code base. Extraneous allocations can cripple a fast path and hugely affect performance. https://github.com/sferik/minitest-memory/

GitHub - sferik/minitest-memory: Memory allocation assertions for Minitest

Memory allocation assertions for Minitest. Contribute to sferik/minitest-memory development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I've spend a non-trivial amount of time trying to avoid using native Ruby gems on my servers. It's been increasingly difficult and now appears to be impossible since ruby-core has moved basic functionality like `date` and `bigdecimal` into gems. Now my system requires a gigabyte of compiler […]

I worked with the fine folks at @flagrant to rework my corporate brand over the last few months. They published this nice case study about the work. It was a pleasure! https://www.beflagrant.com/work/contributed-systems-rebrand-and-refresh The final result is here: contribsys.com

Flagrant | Making Work Human > Making Humans Work

Our mission is to bring people together and provide value to our clients and communities.

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One year of rv, an update from @indirect https://andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-plan-and-progress/

It seems like the latest generation whole home wifi mesh systems aren’t using Powerline for the backhaul anymore. I was relying on this since our house isn’t Ethernet wired. Any recommendations?

I've started publishing SHA256 sums for each sidekiq gem release. Is anyone aware of any better tooling for integrity verification for published binaries before I homebrew a bunch of scripts? It's pretty awkward as is. https://sidekiq.org/sha256sum.txt

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116715954580036781 One of the nice things about watches is they become part of YOU. It’s normal to wear the same mechanical watch for decades. Treating it like a 5 yr disposable item sucks.

Considering how big each company is, it’s incredible to me that neither Stripe nor Gusto have a native iPad app. This UX is awful.

I’m reviewing the proposed bylaws for Ruby Central and: - I can’t find an actual board member election process so I presume board members are still board elected, not community elected. - the new community governance model is strictly advisory, with no teeth (12.3) - community governance can be […]

Got Sidekiq questions? The Ruby Users forum is the newest place where you can get Sidekiq help anytime. https://www.rubyforum.org/t/get-sidekiq-and-faktory-support-in-the-ruby-users-forum/414

Get Sidekiq and Faktory support in the Ruby Users Forum

Today we’re glad to announce that we’ve partnered with @mperham, so you can ask any question around Ruby, background jobs, threading and Sidekiq in the forum. We’ll also be providing updates on new releases and other important announcements. If you’re not familiar with the projects, Sidekiq provides a simple and efficient background jobs for Ruby, and Faktory aims to bring the best practices developed in Sidekiq to every programming language. You can start today by creating a new topic using t...

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RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 I'm seeing this with Sidekiq too. Lots of small PRs with minor changes, adding test coverage, fixing edge cases which never occur in practice, etc. I can't speak to rsync but it's nothing to worry about for Sidekiq (and to be clear, I still do […]

It sucks that in 2026, @digitalocean still doesn’t support IPv6 for droplets built via images.

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...

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Another day, another rabidly racist post from Der Leader. At this point I don’t know how anyone remains on rails-core. How do you live with yourself?

Towards a safer Timeout API in Ruby. https://beautifulruby.com/code/tcp-user-timeout It's a bit of a blunt solution, some sockets may want a 0.1s timeout while others want a 10s timeout. I think a Fiber-local Context API (like Go's but not manually passed around) might be another interesting […]

Reminder: you can go to lobste.rs instead of hacker news, mute the “llm” and “ai” tags and never have to see AI articles again. ❤️

ActiveJob just added support for additional attributes on jobs. I think long term that could be a bad idea. The power of jobs is that the only state they have is the job arguments, making them easier to test. Sidekiq provides middleware to set up orthogonal concerns which shouldn’t explicitly be […]

TGIF! @sidekiq 8.1.4 is now available with minor changes. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/Changes.md#814

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@feross/116494691306371498 We seem to be seeing significant supply chain attacks every day now. How do we get out of this tech doom loop?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116485181809714931 Good thread 🧵

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅@pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

I really hope that whatever platform we collectively move to post-GitHub has a place to prevent what happened with GitHub again. To me, enshittification like this and a slow collapse was inevitable simply because the way it was funded and purchased. That's why I hope that we move to Codeberg […]