When people complain Shopify is too prominent, only main company donor in RC, etc. WTF folks. As if that was their choice! Where are the other companies pushing Ruby and Rails with real money and resources to be on par? Talk is cheap.

Peter Zhu@peterzhu.ca · 10mo ago

I wrote about some of my thoughts on the lessons we can learn from the RubyGems situation and how we can move forward. blog.peterzhu.ca/open-source-...

A reason we wrote a response to McKinsey's article on developer productivity: McKinsey is a big enough brand for people to take them seriously, even as what they suggest is damaging. 2 out of the top 3 organic Google search results for "developer productivity" are McKinsey (!)

He fought the law and the law won

just do the right thing bro. i promise bro just literally do the right thing and everything else will follow. bro cmon just do the right thing bro

>open reddit app "oh yeah that doesn't work anymore" >open twitter app "oh yeah" >open bluesky app

absolutely incredible

this is like the sound of the 7th trumpet

Thinking about posting this on Twitter then just walking away to play Zelda for the day.

starting over on bluesky like

There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3y ago

Musk says verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6000 posts/day, unverified to 600, and new unverified to 300, to address "extreme" data scraping (Elon Musk/@elonmusk) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Elon Musk’s latest business model innovation is that users need to pay to read tweets. New users can read 300 tweets a day, unverified users 600 and paying users 6000. Do users get a revenue share for writing tweets now? This guy is giving a Ph.D in mismanaging a social networking app.

When they said generative AI would change everything, I didn’t think that meant by causing so many strikes 1. WGA writers strike. 2. StackOverflow moderator strike due to chatbot content being allowed. 3. Reddit blackout due to API prices being raised to prevent scraping by generative AIs.

Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually