I know every company is like we have never done PRs, and versions so fast... We are shipping all the time... but I am pretty tired of having software updates daily or more... Also, tired of being every apps beta tester as they ship without really even trying things out
Interesting as AI changes the way we work, a meeting discussing IDEs most devs said they don't have strong opinions on IDEs and more use AI and whatever the company recommended IDE is.
🐕 Keela - case closed on dead code! Your Ruby codebase's forensic investigator: 🔍 6 strategies: methods, scopes, constants, delegates, attrs, i18n 🎯 Baseline mode - only bark at NEW dead code 📊 JSON output for CI The CSI dog finds what grep missed 🦴 github.com/kerrizor/keela/releases/tag/v0.2.0
Release v0.2.0 - The Nose Knows 🐕 · kerrizor/keela
🐕 Keela v0.2.0 - The Nose Knows Meet Keela — a code-sniffing springer spaniel who finds the unused code that other tools miss. Named after the famous "CSI dog" who could detect microscopic traces t...
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I finally have a stable proxmox with pihole, home automation, and some other stuff running. I was doing this on a old laptop before and it was so unstable it kept crashing and failing and killing the fun. I finally grabbed a mini pc for $200 and it has been awesome.
This is a pretty cool fully local AI tool to slice up a longer video into shorts / highlights, cool usage of the recent small and powerful local LLM models from Google (gemma4) github.com/mutonby/shor...
GitHub - mutonby/shortcast: Native macOS app: drop a long video → auto-cut viral shorts, captioned for TikTok/Reels/YouTube, reframed to vertical, and scheduled. 100% on-device (Gemma 4 12B + WhisperK...
Native macOS app: drop a long video → auto-cut viral shorts, captioned for TikTok/Reels/YouTube, reframed to vertical, and scheduled. 100% on-device (Gemma 4 12B + WhisperKit + MLX). - mutonby/shor...
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It's weird now when you get some very solvable problem that software can do... you either get a bunch of established big company packages (Adobe acrobat PDF) for example or give it to any AI bot and it can do the simple task... We have been overcharged for basic format conversion forever.
another Science Saturday activity, build and launching a model rocket. millermayersadventures.com/2026/06/07/s...
Science Saturday: Roto Rocket™ STEM Kit
Estes Rockets My grandfather worked for NASA and helped build rockets, so this was a fun activity for me. I always enjoyed model rockets as a kid, and I finally got to share that passion with my ow…
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Science Saturday with the kids... To the moon. 500ft rocket kit parts recovered via parachutes
it's been fun to play with an learn more about n8n, openclaw, and hyperagent... If you haven't tried it I highly recommend hyperagent for building quick scheduled repeatable AI workflows with a bunch of nice off the shelf integrations. if interested my referral link: hyperagent.com/refer/LSP7276C
Hyperagent
Hyperagent is the system of agents that does real work, learns how your organization operates, and deploys across your entire team.
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A funny thing happened, AI rejected an ADR. An effective way of building an ADR document write it w/ one AI, then have it evaluated & give feedback by another. For the first time opposed to the evaluation AI helping me improve the ADR, it convinced me to reject it and propose a different strategy.
lovable is pretty fun to build out little toy apps. My kids have been having fun with the mad libs generator genabsurd.lovable.app/s/kvbcry7r
Sasquatch’s Galactic Gourmet — AI Mad Libs
An AI Mad Libs story about "Surprise". Read it and make your own!
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playing around with some different AI editors, I mostly use Claude code, but wanted to quickly try out lovable given how much love it gets... AI Mad Libs with illustrations of the silly stories. genabsurd.lovable.app
AI Mad Libs — Silly stories, illustrated
Generate a silly Mad Libs story, fill in the blanks, and watch AI illustrate the chaos.
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My time with Shopify has come to an end. I'm now looking for my next opportunity. If you have worked with me in the past & know of a position that might be a good fit, reach out. I still love Ruby, distributed teams, & building software that matters. updated resume www.mayerdan.com/resume_markd...
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learning 3d printing with my kids has been a good time. We all enjoy printing things and I have enjoyed doing some 3d modeling and using it to help out with some DIY projects around the house. Also, while not very good yet, the fact that you can 3d print shoes is just very cool.
added a demo site to help show how to use and integrate memory map cache features memory-map-cache.onrender.com
Demo
Blazing fast, natively distributed inter-process caching for Ruby on Rails.
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New Cache store, memory mapped cache that provides memory map cross process caching for single servers, along with support for layered cache to remote cache rings. github.com/danmayer/mem...
GitHub - danmayer/memory-map-cache: an example of a memory mapped cache
an example of a memory mapped cache. Contribute to danmayer/memory-map-cache development by creating an account on GitHub.
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This is a good explanation of where things feel like they are headed at the moment. background-agents.com
The Self-Driving Codebase
Background agents and the next era of enterprise software delivery.
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This is a great post on thinking about caching, I love all the animations and visualizations they use to make the concepts crystal clear planetscale.com/blog/caching
Caching — PlanetScale
Every time you use a computer, the cache is working to ensure your experience is fast.
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Nice I programmed with my kid (in C) to get a robot that shoots nerf darts to randomly spin and pause and fire. So now we can play a game where we all run or try to doge the robot nerf attacker ;)
This is so true I was moving over txt to speech to use Google Vertex and sorting out auth took 5 times longer than the new code service. Even AI couldn't help with auth and would give 10 step directions for manual human click and navigate steps to try to get the right auth and permissions
Evan Phoenix@evanphx.dev · 7mo agoAs I build projects, I constantly have a problem using Google stuff because the auth is so awful. Literally built a tool last night to expose Vertex AI with a simple token auth because I hate Google auth.
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Science Saturday: Crunchlab’s Turret
My kids found Crunchlabs on youtube and then nextflix, and my son really wanted to get a hack pack subscription for Christmas, so we did. The first hack pack delivery was the IR Turret and it was a…
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And here's a newsletter/blog post noelrappin.com/blog/2025/10... Part one of a likely two-part series about the languages that influenced Ruby. This time, Perl, with all of its shortcuts and syntax quirks. The things Ruby took and the things Ruby left behind...
Ruby And Its Neighbors: Perl – Noel Rappin Writes Here
I just write here
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Noel Rappin@noelrappin.com · 10mo agoHere I am thinking about a newsletter post about Perl and it's influence on Ruby, I go to the TIOBE page to see when Perl peaked, and did you know that Perl is back to the top 10 in TIOBE? As far as I can tell, this is kind of an artifact of their algorithm rather than real growth, but still...
My kids first opened on supporting school lunches millermayersadventures.com/2025/10/05/v...
Vote Yes on LL and MM in Colorado this November
Theo published his first Op-Ed in the Westword today. He’s a 3rd grader in DPS and a supporter of universal school meals based on his first-hand student experience. He drafted the op-ed in …
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OK, it is that time again looking for some fun sci fi book recommendations. Futurism, Solar Punk, etc... Favorites murder bot, the martian, lock-in / head on, old Michael Crichton.
Claude code is really good at ffmpeg command line options... Give it a bunch of photos and music and some suggestions about timing etc and it can stitch everything together nicely. Easily handling multiple formats, sizes, orientation, etc
