i've been part of the rails community since 2.x. I've spent at least half a long career posting on main and IRL as a relentless rails advocate. those days are done.

i hope ruby is salvageable but i know at this point rails is not. https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv/115527758820539481

@phillmv i was holding out some hope that this would matter to rails core. i see them more clearly now.

@undead wait till they call the Old BOFH's Home looking for someone for one last gig, and the chorus of a building full of old blokes going GEEEEEEET FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKEDDDDDD

I’ve been developing something called the Human-Made License, a Creative Commons–style way to certify that creative work was made without genAI.

I’m looking for feedback from artists, designers, and writers before the public launch. DM me if you’d like to take a look at the first draft.

Always nice to have options

the democrats are so colossally, majestically useless it's almost breathtaking to behold

free software without progressive politics is just free labor

@phillmv this is incredible work. bravo!

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

One way to look at "all these projects turn out to be fascist/shitty/AI-infected/etc." is that everything is doomed and now there's nothing that you can use or rely on anymore.

Another way to look at it, is that the masks finally fell off, all the cards are on the table, and now you don't have to deal with all the subtle draining bullshit anymore, it's much easier to organize building of projects that aren't fascist/etc. because everyone is on the same page about the state of things, and you can start building up a collection of actually good and nice things without fighting the endless 'enlightened centrists'.

ask not for whom the joronkler ronkles, he ronkles for thee

deciding to pivot from being joronkled to becoming the jeronkler

Be honest, kids, does knowing a company is slapping behavior-correction collars on its workers make you more or less likely to stop boycotting it?
https://www.wilx.com/2025/11/07/target-is-now-requiring-its-employees-smile-more/

bluesky is for people that liked the status quo of the old twitter. lots of nazi-friendly folk, but they were dogwhistling instead of overt so it was okay.

@osma seeing as though one of the bluesky devs equated not trusting LLMs with racism, I think we can puzzle this one out

the company that makes the device my cats shit in want to enhance it with AI.

i don't know if the world is truly ready for this miraculous revolution

this is embarassing af

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/5495

bro rolls up with a bunch of LLM generated malarkey while aura farming

@cmconseils in this house siri is named "computer lady" for this exact reason

"There's a theory that early Europeans started saying "brown one" or "honey- eater" instead of "bear" to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa "the faceless woman" because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber"

i know that i should shut up about arc raiders already but you see i lack the grace to act upon that knowledge