Yesterday, I took Mochi to the groomer and was able to hold the whole conversation with her in Dutch when leaving her and when picking her up. It helped that she was really patient and that she said "teddy bear" in English 🥹
Rosa
@rosa.codes
🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
What Bruges politicians are arguing about this week – we only have 50 swans currently, which puts us below the 52 needed to keep off a (likely fake) mediaeval obligation put on the city after Bruges citizens beheaded Maximilian's enforcer Pieter Lanchals in the market place.
If you're worried about the recent Rails CVE, @flavorjon.es made a very good skill you can feed to your coding agent to help assess your apps. Read about it here! discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2026-6...
[CVE-2026-66066] Attack details, and tools to perform a forensic investigation
Hello there, I’m writing as a member of the Rails security team about CVE-2026-66066. As mentioned in the advisory, GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm, we held back details about the attack vector to allow applicat...
discuss.rubyonrails.org
Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. github.com/rails/rails/...
Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing
### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...
github.com
My #Ghent films are blowing up thanks to a post by @brenttoderian.bsky.social to see so much more that I have out there you can go to my Streetfilms blog post to see and learn even more! #Gent www.streetfilms.org/featured/ghe...
See Ghent’s Tremendous Quality of Life In All Its Streefilms Glory — Streetfilms
Ghent, Belgium instituted a Traffic Circulation Plan in 2017 and ever since its residents have experienced a better quality of life by limiting the intrusion of car trips thru the city center - leadin...
streetfilms.org
[X]🏛️ The design conveys a feeling of being European
Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2w agoThe winning design. 🇪🇺💶
It's time to welcome Chris Oliver (@excid3.com) as one of our amazing speakers! Chris is a Rails Luminary, founder of GoRails, and host of Remote Ruby podcast. We're very happy to have him on stage this year. Catch his talk at the conference.
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"`
😱😱😱🥹🥰 equal parts super excited, super grateful and super terrified!
Evil Martians@evilmartians.com · 3w agoSpeaking at the SF Ruby Startup Conference: Rosa Gutiérrez (@rosa.codes)! You may know her from her work at 37signals or as the creator of Solid Queue. She loves puzzles, theoretical CS, and her pup: Mochi. Get early bird tickets for the conf and see her on stage: luma.com/sfrubyconf2026
Possibly going tomorrow to see this with folks from my Dutch school 🤩
Nieuwsblad@nieuwsblad.bsky.social · 4w agoHow cool are Belgium's away kits? I'm obsessed: www.instagram.com/p/DWGG8Wuj21... They pay homage to Belgian icons. This year's is Magritte, but previous years have included Tintin, cycling, Tomorrowland...
I watched the 🇪🇸🇧🇪 match yesterday in the Dageraadplaats in Antwerp, which is one of the nicest squares I know. The city had installed a big screen and a fan zone there. I'm not really that much into football, but the atmosphere there was awesome 🤩⚽️🍻🍟🚲️🚲️🚲️ Happy that 🇪🇸 won, but I seriously love it here
If you’ve read the Bun rewrite blog post (and you should because it’s fascinating from a tech perspective), you should 100% read this reply from Zig’s lead developer: andrewkelley.me/post/my-thou...
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite - Andrew Kelley
andrewkelley.me
Let's keep an eye on this European alternative to Slack / Discord / Teams 💬 💪 🇪🇺
Hendrik Mans@hmans.dev · 4w agoVery happy to announce that @chatto.run, the amazing little team chat app you can self-host from your own infrastructure (and quite easily so), is now available & Open Source. ✨
oh my god my Belgian coworkers are gonna be so fuckin polite about this
I had so much fun speaking with the Once a Maintainer folks about being an open source maintainer and some of the security work that's involved. I hope you give it a read and enjoy! ❤️ onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-mai...
Once a Maintainer: Mike Dalessio
The nokogiri maintainer on how AI has changed security and on maintainer burnout
onceamaintainer.substack.com
Yesterday I renewed my @museumpassmusees.bsky.social It gives you access to all museums in Belgium for a year, including most temporary exhibitions. It's one of my favourite things here 🥰 www.museumpassmusees.be/nl
Een jaar lang onbeperkt op museumbezoek | museumPASSmusées
De museumpas is jouw sleutel tot 271 Belgische musea. Je gaat zo vaak je wil, wanneer je wil. Klaar voor een jaar vol verrassende uitstappen?
museumpassmusees.be
Another thing I'm fascinated about lately: Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau 🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-... "The border's complexity results from a number of medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant."
Want a beginner-friendly entry point into open source at RubyConf? RubyEvents with Marco Roth and Rachael Wright-Munn is indexing the full history of Ruby events, and they need help. Modern stack, good first issues ready, and a chance to dig into Herb and ReActionview in person. buff.ly/FMNCNhV
In Dutch zoet = sweet zout = salty/salted supermarket mistakes guaranteed ✔️ Also, who invented the aberration that are zoete olijven? I had never heard of them and @jorgeleria.bsky.social is traumatised now 🤣 He literally screamed when he tried them. Why isn't this forbidden by some law?
I've been a fan of Herb Lester Associates for a super long time, and have some of their London guides/maps. Their literary guides are a dream: www.herblester.com/collections/... I think I'm going to get Lamb's London, as I'm making my way through the Slough House books (huge fan).
Literary
Authors, cities, characters. Explore the places behind the books – a collection of literary-inspired guides and maps.
herblester.com
Save the date, mark your calendars, and decline the invite to the All Hands meeting! The second edition of SF Ruby Conference is happening Nov 10-12. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is @realgarrytan.bsky.social, president and CEO of Y Combinator and longtime Rails builder.
One of the most important things I've learnt this weekend is that there's a regatta in October in Kasterlee (a town in the Anwerp province) where participants paddle in hollowed-out giant pumpkins. It's called the Pompoenregatta. And then people ask me why I like Belgium so much. I mean...
After a few months of almost non-stop travel, I'm in Belgium, more or less settled until January 2027 🇧🇪❤️ I still have a few trips planned this month and Sep/Oct, but not constantly on the go like before. And starting Dutch classes again tomorrow, A2-B1. I'm determined to be fluent 💪🏻😆
If you want to migrate your blog/newsletter from Substack to Pagecord I can now do that for you in within minutes 😊 #blogging #substack #independent #opensource
