Rubyists! I'll be co-hosting a SQLite "office hours" with all-around good guy @fractaledmind at the final #RailsConf in Philly (on Day 2 of the conf!)

If you've got any questions about using SQLite or deploying it into production, we'd love to help!

Get your ticket here: railsconf.org

I've had quite a few people ask me what "Shape Up" looks like up close since I started working at 37signals, and I've tried to explain it but Brian has nailed it here in less than 300 words.

https://world.hey.com/bb/a-little-is-enough-9a7856b3

As a developer, playing "Blue Prince" is the closest thing I've seen to being on-call in a new job with an existing codebase.

Things happen at random and you opportunistically build mental models and piece together what's happening. If you take good notes you'll be rewarded by being able to solve a puzzle later on.

And yes, I love this about both the game and my job.

What is Ruby's ZJIT? Here's a great, clear explanation from the Shopify team of how it works and how it's different from YJIT:

https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-14-merge-zjit/

#ruby

😅

Sneak peek into a new product we're building.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jason-fried_heres-the-first-preview-of-a-brand-new-product-activity-7326335017779896320-hg84?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAPCwgBJI7FuwtPMkDC8WsvZUnuRzrkfEw

Rubyists! The second installment of my "open source update" has arrived, which chronicles what I've been working on for the last month:

https://mike.daless.io/posts/2025/04/open-source-update.html

Thanks again to my employer, 37signals, and the handful of generous folks and companies who are sponsoring me on various platforms. ❤️🙇

Has Dunning-Kruger gotten a little stale and questionable as a reference (see controversies), don't worry I got a new one for ya

"Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886924004975?via%3Dihub#s0150

@maidhc right after I write some mobile-friendly CSS, gulp

@kmcphillips mmmm baked goods

you have me questioning my life choices now

@maidhc LOL that's the next feature I need to implement on my hacky site. I'll ping you when I do it!

Ahoy, rubyists! I'm trying a new thing, which is to periodically publish a summary of the open-source work that I'm doing. Here's the first installment!

https://mike.daless.io/posts/2025/03/open-source-update.html

Shout out to my employer, 37signals, and to the handful of generous folks and companies who are sponsoring me on various platforms. ❤️🙇

#ruby #osslife

Old-timers may recall that I introduced an FFI backend to Nokogiri back in 2009, then I ripped it out because it didn't perform well enough

#ruby

I'm super excited about this post by @tenderlove and what it will mean for Rubygems with C extensions in the future

https://railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-tiny-jits-for-a-faster-ffi/

Fantastic work by Aaron 🙇

#ruby

@Ryanbigg the funny thing is, I LIKE solving puzzles and will totally spend an inordinate amount of time tracking down weird behavior -- just as long as I'm having fun with it

but, like, bad bug reports are the OPPOSITE of fun

it's like playing 20 questions with my parents when they can't print from their windows 10 laptop

@Ryanbigg this is the way

but also: thank you to the people who put in the effort when reporting bugs

I see you and appreciate you

like, I swear I will debug the problem once I can reproduce the problem

but I'm not going to spend a half a day guessing at the preconditions that are necessary to trigger the problem

you get this software for free, the least you can do is put a little effort in, jfc

It just came out that Meta downloaded via Torrent over 80 terabytes of books taken from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-Library to train their AI models, and nobody is guilty. In contrast, in 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded just 70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR (only 0.0854% of what Meta took) and faced $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. Unable to bear the situation, he took his own life in 2013.

#FreeKnowledge #JusticeForAaronSwartz #OpenAccess #AIandEthics #FairCompensation

dear people who report bugs without providing clear reproduction instructions,

why do you hate me

sincerely,
me

#osslife