Travis
@travisbell.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Founder of The Movie Database (TMDB).
Ruby 4.0.2 Released www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026... This is a routine update that includes a bugfix in YJIT for NoMethodError on Puma. We recommend upgrading your Ruby version at your earliest convenience.
Ruby 4.0.2 Released | Ruby
Ruby 4.0.2 has been released.
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This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 9mo ago📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
I wrote about some of my thoughts on the lessons we can learn from the RubyGems situation and how we can move forward. blog.peterzhu.ca/open-source-...
Open Source is the Most Fragile and Most Resilient Ecosystem - Peter Zhu
Some of my thoughts on the lessons we can learn from the RubyGems situation and how we can move forward.
blog.peterzhu.ca
I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
My Linux laptop is named "Grandma" because every time it goes to sleep there's a terrific chance it's never gonna wake up again.
A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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I got quite a lot of free time lately, so I figured I'd use it to blog a bit. Hopefully it's worth the effort? Here's the first one, about some of the optimizations I and others made to ruby/json recently: byroot.github.io/ruby/json/20...
Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most ...
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People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.
Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 2y ago
Ruby 3.4.0-rc1 is out! github.com/ruby/ruby/re... github.com/rbenv/ruby-b... I'm working to keep stability of new release now. Please build and run your code with 3.4.0-rc1. If you faced issues, please file it to bugs.ruby-lang.org. #ruby
Release 3.4.0-rc1 · ruby/ruby
What's Changed YJIT: Add --yjit-mem-size option by k0kubun · Pull Request #11810 [DOC] Tweaks for Array#permutation by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #11802 [DOC] Tweaks for Array#pop by BurdetteLam...
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I could not have been clearer about this
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump says that RFK Jr. is going to look into whether childhood vaccines cause autism. This has already been “looked into”, extensively, rigorously, and repeatedly, by people with knowledge and training in medicine and public health. There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism.
