@rubyconf is in Chicago, where I live, this November 13-15 and I’m giving a workshop!
It'll be about recreating the Enigma device as a way to explore object oriented principles! Enigma was the "uncrackable" decryption device used by Germany in WWII, breaking its secrets led to many advancements in the earliest days of general-purpose computing!
This is an extension of a talk given at last RubyConf, so we'll have more time to build out extra features...together!
See you in Chicago, #rubyfriends!

In the last 10 years, Paris has closed 100 streets to cars, removed 50,000 parking spots, tripled parking fees for SUVs, and built more than 800 miles of bike lanes. “Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git

These need to be in place all over the country.

Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.

And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free

I have a longer rant about this that I will write up at some point, but here's the TL;DR: yes, you should attend conference talks, and please stop telling other attendees (especially those new to the community) to categorically skip them. Supporting conference speakers and the staff and volunteers that work to make the talks possible is a very cool decision.

@Viss I feel attacked 🤣

Both things can be true: the OP made a good PR to document something and the formatting of it wasn't up to the team's standard.

I guess we all need to take Mr HH and The Rails Foundation at their word:

* Rails is Mr HH, not anyone else, per his blog post
* Foundation doesn't want community involvement, they "will commission freelancers and firms to work on better written documentation”

It's a damn shame they decided not to work with the community and engage them.

finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on Friday May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

Let’s say it’s Big Block of Cheese Day: what is something you wish more people knew/paid attention to?

I think a big part of the reason I hate Rubocop is because of the name. If it was “Rubobutler" or “Rubovalet" it probably wouldn't bother me nearly as much.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@mcphat i officially sign this petition

O'Brien stars in some very Black Mirror level horror stories in StarTrek Deep Space Nine.

#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.

@NanoRaptor 🤔 is this a subtle but brilliant piece of viral marketing for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? (oeis.org)

"We never saw any of this ADHD or autism stuff when I was young!"

You never saw any photos of the surface of Mars back then either, but I'm pretty sure it was still there the whole time

📢NEW EPISODE!

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina discuss chapters 5 through 9 of "Active Record Migrations". They debate migration file management, and touch on the relationship between end users and application data, and learning complex concepts within Rails' convention over configuration framework.

https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/995526/

A pro soccer team spends way more time in practice than in competition.

Software teams spend more time keeping systems up to date, refactoring, reading code, talking about the systems, looking into problems
than adding capabilities.

This isn't weird. It's the real work.

A sitting US Senator was caught on tape having been part of planning an attempted coup, and yet he was neither immediately arrested nor even brought in for questioning, nor was he expelled from the Senate.

This actually happened.

I'm tired of seeing only the rioters facing any legal accountability for January 6th. It's time to lower the boom on the coup plotters and financiers, in or out of Congress, on, or married to someone on, the Supreme Court.