Jamie Schembri

@jamie.schembri.me

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇲🇹 Software guy (mostly Ruby). 🇳🇱 Immigrant. 👾 he/him. I try to be good.

I got roughly a bazillion (there's a "b" and a "z" in that) responses to my logo designer request post. Thanks for sharing and responding! As I'm chaotic, I've not been able to get back to everyone. If so: sorry! But I'm not sure I could handle managing that many conversations anyway!

I've been building a SaaS in my spare time. I won't get into details, but I need a logo. I don't have a big budget, but I do want to pay a human to design it. Any logo designers out there?

hey bluesky, i've been unemployed since i graduated. i'm proficient in typescript and python, and can learn new stuff fairly quick. also familiar with using LLMs in various ways. Please hire me.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Had last week off. I've put in a reasonably powerful irrigation system, installed outdoor lighting, trimmed more bushes than I can count (fuck brambles btw), started attacking the absolute state that is my garage / tool collection, and uh... yeah so I'm having a relaxing holiday I guess.

I just released Insta, a new snapshot testing library for Ruby, live at RubyConf in Las Vegas! Extracted from Herb's test suite and inspired by @mitsuhiko.at's fantastic insta library for Rust. `gem "insta"`

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Getting compliments on a PR I put up to fix some deep and difficult to debug issue, but I just pointed Claude at the problem and told it where to dig. It's a weird feeling. I don't want to take credit and feel ashamed, but also this is development now. Experiencing this a lot lately.

RubyEvents Guides is now live. Over the last few months, I talked to Rubyists who want to help the community keep going. Some want to restart a local meetup. Some are organizing their first small conference. Some already run events and want to make the next one better.

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