Luke Melia
@lukemelia.com
software developer, entrepreneur, embereño, beach volleyball player, dad, waverider, founder Yapp
Our Constitution bans foreign emoluments and names bribery as an impeachable offense. Another case where the problem isn’t the Constitution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "Almost anything my kids do -- if they buy a truck -- they have inside information"
The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.
So @jcn.bsky.social rescued some old GORUCO videos from 2010 and 2011 that I just posted up on rubyevents.org, including this killer talk from @sandimetz.bsky.social: www.rubyevents.org/talks/less-t... Enjoy the old school vibes!
Less - The Path to Better Design
GORUCO 2011: Less - The Path to Better Design (Sandi Metz)
rubyevents.org
We've published a whitepaper about the open source system I've been working on with Cardstack: whitepaper.boxel.ai
Boxel Whitepaper
A System of Composable Software in the Age of Abundant Code—By Chris Tse, Cardstack Foundation
whitepaper.boxel.ai
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 9mo agoA video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
@chris.manson.ie's herculean efforts are why vite landed in 6.8 🎉 Shipping proper (deprecations, CLIs, docs, tutorials, etc), is A TON of work, and the community helped get us there - esp on the docs and tutorials side - thank you to all who submitted a PR, opened an issue, or chatted in Discord!!
EmberJS@emberjs.com · 12mo agoHot off the press! 6.8 released with some big features 🎉 ⚡@vite.dev by default 🕚 Compatible with libraries from 8+ years ago* ✨ New APIs: renderComponent, additional reactive data structures 🤝 No more hbs by default (strict: true) Read more here: blog.emberjs.com/ember-releas...
Ember.js 6.8 release looks like some nice steps forward. Great to have the equivalent of tracked-builtins now, well, built-in! blog.emberjs.com/ember-releas...
Ember 6.8 Released
The Ember project is excited to announce the release of Ember v6.8. This is a standard minor release as part of the standard Ember Release Train process, but this release isn't...
blog.emberjs.com
This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
Democrats should not and cannot fund the government without securing a statutory provision reversing the Supreme Court and banning ICE from questioning, detaining, or attacking Hispanic and Latino Americans on the basis of their ethnicity alone.
STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
⚡️ We launched the general ⚡️ ticket sale⚡️ for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025 The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥. Friends, help us share the message!
this headline is complete fucking horseshit btw, this is what he actually said
Jewish Insider@jewishinsider.com · last yr.Zohran Mamdani, a leading candidate in next Tuesday’s New York City mayoral primary, refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada” during a new podcast interview with The Bulwark released on Tuesday, arguing the phrase is an expression of Palestinian rights.
“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original
One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in *February* when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
ICE releases health worker arrested at airport despite living in the U.S. legally for 50 years
Lewelyn Dixon had been arrested at the Seattle airport after a trip to her native Philippines in late February. She was released from ICE custody after three months.
nbcnews.com
"how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana" www.propublica.org/article/rume...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
propublica.org
I published a new post about my personal coding workflow with AI coding assistants and an approach to making it sustainable. Yeah, I used the phrase "vibe coding." It's a little cringe, but it's the phrase people are using, in my experience. 🤷
Vibe Coding the Right Way
How I made vibe coding sustainable (for me) with a consolidation phase
wycats.substack.com
Hands Off! A bunch of big organizations (50501, Women’s March, MoveOn, Indivisible, Hands Off) are coming together on April 5 for a day of nationwide action & protest against the Trump regime. “If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save.” [kottke.org]
Hands Off! A Day of Action and Protest on April 5.
On April 5th, a group of prominent national organizations (including 50501, Indivisible, Hands Off, MoveOn, and Women’s March) and many local organizations are all coming together for a day of nationwide action and pro
kottke.org
Peter Marks has been a constant force for good at FDA and this is beyond worrisome. It’s devastating news. wapo.st/4j31DJa
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”
wapo.st
I've been moved to post on socials ... by a codemod! Ember's template-tag-codemod did a fantastic job moving all my components to template-tag but what _really_ wow'd me is polish provided by the [merge-history](github.com/embroider-bu...) command. #emberjs
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
