Here's the writeup for my lightning talk (tekin.co.uk/2026/07/ten-...), along with a followup post on how to override the default Rails error message format without breaking the default error messages: tekin.co.uk/2026/07/over...

10 Things You Might Not Know About Rails i18n

The i18n framework in Rails is full of useful abstractions that can help make your Rails code more maintainable, even when you're not actually translating it.

tekin.co.uk

Here's the writeup for my lightning talk (tekin.co.uk/2026/07/ten-...), along with a followup post on how to override the default Rails error message format without breaking the default error messages: tekin.co.uk/2026/07/over...

10 Things You Might Not Know About Rails i18n

The i18n framework in Rails is full of useful abstractions that can help make your Rails code more maintainable, even when you're not actually translating it.

tekin.co.uk

Rails' embarrassing racist daddy is now calling for the ethnic cleansing of Europe over on his blog, but it's fine because he's nice to people at conferences.

It was a really solid year of talks at @brightonruby.com this year and the videos are up already! I especially enjoyed @elenatanasoiu.bsky.social and Emma's talk about flame graphs and the human sides of performance work. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Brighton Ruby 2026 - YouTube

My goodness it was hot. https://brightonruby.com/2026

youtube.com

Nice to see the `git history fixup` command added to Git 2.55. Handy for quickly amending previous commits in one go: github.blog/open-source/...

Highlights from Git 2.55

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

github.blog

I’ve been doing more pattern matching in my Ruby code of late and boy is it neat when it fits to a problem. So good for working with deep nested hash structures from API responses. Check brightonruby.com/2022/stop-ig... by @tomstu.art Also h/t @rgarner.bsky.social for helping it click for me.

Keep repeating until the industry comes to its senses: in most software orgs writing code is rarely the bottle neck! cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-427-th...

TBM 427: The Bottleneck Strike Again!

My goodness.

cutlefish.substack.com

As always had a lovely time catching up with Ruby friends old and new at @brightonruby.com #brightonruby

“There is no ritual for the end of a profession, no obituary for a career, and no socially sanctioned grief leave for the worker who has watched the meaning drain out of work that technically still pays“ jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-...

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it ...

jackmaguire.org

The central conceit in my Branch in Time talk was based on the surprising behaviour when calling .order() on an Active Record association that already has one baked in. Great to see default_order added as a way to avoid this surprise. github.com/rails/rails/...

Add support for default order by udan11 · Pull Request #39525 · rails/rails

Summary Add #default_order and default_order relation option to define a default order which will be used if no other order is specified. This extends the functionality offered by #implicit_order_c...

github.com

I’ll be speaking at @brightonruby.com this year. Come and say hi! brightonruby.com

Brighton Ruby Conference

brightonruby.com

Haggis Ruby's is in just over a month, in the wonderful city of Glasgow! Get your tickets here: haggisruby.co.uk We're lucky to have an incredible list of speakers from across the community. If you want an idea of what the talks are like, videos from 2024 are here: www.youtube.com/@HaggisRubys...

Yer da is doing unreviewable drive by pull requests using his spicy autocomplete again github.com/Shopify/liqu...

Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations by tobi · Pull Request #2056 · Shopify/liquid

Summary 53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations on the ThemeRunner benchmark (real Shopify theme templates with production-like data). Zero test regressions — all 974 un...

github.com

Happy Twin Peaks day to all those that celebrate

Add under the we-are-cooked column WRT to the LLM age tomcasavant.com/your-search-...

Your Search Button Powers my Smart Home - Tom Casavant

Blog about things

tomcasavant.com

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack

In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

joanwestenberg.com

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

If (once again) people of colour being first on the chopping block on UK Traitors isn’t the perfect illustration of baked-in societal racism then I don’t know what is. Literally every time.

Happy New Year all! I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.

I got this email: "Rich, Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever> Claude Haiku 4.5" Thanks AI!:

ThanksAI.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.

As much as Act 3 is occasionally kicking my ass, Hollow Knight Silksong is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time. So much character, inventiveness and attention to detail wrapped up in wonderfully balanced gameplay mechanics.

Clearing out the office and found this vintage number from 2005. Ruby 1.8; Rails pre-1.0?

Interesting webinar happening next month for all you tech folks. tech.unions.org.uk

Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow - Tech unions at the TUC

Online event – 18 Nov 2025 Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow The internet is getting worse by the day, for users and tech workers alike. It’s part of the big tech playbook to de...

tech.unions.org.uk

Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester! Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million. Register here to attend: nwrug.org/events/milli...

Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails nwrug.org/events/milli...

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

jakelazaroff.com

Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽

Rubular

Ruby-based regular expression editor/tester

rubular.com

So I guess DHH gets a pass on the Ruby Central Code of Conduct? drive.google.com/file/d/1OBF1...

I have a growing number of unpurchasabels on my shopping list because Siri doesn’t understand me saying “puy lentils”. Alongside “toilet sauce” we now also have “foil lettuce”.