This is so cool

Wow 😮

This was a desktop application? Sounds so cool

Rain 2.0

Everything has changed

If you’ve played before, give it another whirl

rain.schwadlabs.io

NEW RELEASE FROM SCHWADLABS: WaitTimesNI

I’ve been scraping live A&E wait times data in Northern Ireland every 15 minutes since Nov 2023. (With a few gaps)

The result is WaitTimesNI. Visualize trends across all emergency and minor injury centres.

waittimesni.schwadlabs.io/heatmap?hosp...

As a not prolific OSS maintainer I’ve found the part of my brain that is like “this is nice I will release it” is now more like “why would I give my competitive advantage away for free”

Or something like that

The fun bit is gone. Release a gem, people chat about it, star it, contribute

Rain is growing

rain.schwadlabs.io

213 players
Nearly one trillion Rain
150,000 clicks
0 have beat it yet (besides me)

Thanks for playing

rain.schwadlabs.io

Building Rain: An Idle Game About Letting Go Last week Nick and I built an idle game in one sitting. Seven hours. Started around 2pm. By 9pm we had something neither of us expected.

Building Rain: An Idle Game About Letting Go

schwadlabs.io/blog/buildin...

Thanks! Out of the box rails and SQLite on Hetzner with the only JS being hotwired/stimulus

Did you turn on the sound? Have you evaporated yet? :D

There actually is a clear unambiguous ending to the whole game…. But how to get there 🤔

Raindrops evaporate at 1,000,000 collected

An incomplete game

But a game nonetheless

Enjoy

rain.schwadlabs.io

Rise of the Writer Web-scraped training post-2022 is increasingly poisoned. Human writing is down. The importance of human writing is up. You should write more.

Rise of the Writer

schwadlabs.io/blog/rise-of...

companion: an instrument panel for your agentic workers

written in Ruby. delightfully unnecessary.

schwadlabs.io/companion 🛸

coming soon

Absolute scenes at Belfast RubyFest 2026. Julian Cheal, Christian Bruckmayer and Thijs Cadier put on a clinic for top-tier Ruby talks. Everyone had a blast. People are already talking about bigger things next year. Got home at 2am. Belfast Ruby is on the map. 🚀

BELFAST RUBYFEST TONIGHT LETS GOOOO

SchwadLabs — Software That Just Works Public data tools built to be understood at first glance. No manuals, no onboarding flows.

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Here are the top three results if you google “url shortener”. The fourth is the one I’ve just built. Enjoy

r1r.io

Thanks

BelfastRuby CFP This is an open call for folks who would like to speak at the BelfastRuby event in a few months, our next event after Belfast RubyFest

Never to early to think ahead.

Our CFP for our next Belfast Ruby event if you'd like to speak!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Belfast RubyFest 2026 · Luma The first-ever Belfast RubyFest is here. It will be a celebration of community, creativity, and all the wonderful things you can build with Ruby. Three…

Only about 10 slots left for Belfast RubyFest. RSVP today! luma.com/yl6v0cy9

@evanphx.dev do you still have a copy of the old RubyForge DB?

From a Ruby History perspective I would find it interesting to host a readonly/archived version of the site. Preserving discussions, forums, etc.

We have folks from five different countries coming already for this event.

Sign up today, come over and have a blast! I’m organizing! You won’t regret it.

luma.com/yl6v0cy9

Belfast RubyFest 2026 · Luma The first-ever Belfast RubyFest is here. It will be a celebration of community, creativity, and all the wonderful things you can build with Ruby. Three…

Over half the slots for Belfast RubyFest 2026 have gone in the first 24 hours since I announced the event.

If you want to come to Belfast and have a great time with other fellow Rubyists, RSVP now!!

luma.com/yl6v0cy9

you know I've never actually been to Cork. I might put that on my 2026 todo list

It's amazing that they'll actually allow this LOL

Belfast RubyFest 2026 · Luma The first-ever Belfast RubyFest is here. It will be a celebration of community, creativity, and all the wonderful things you can build with Ruby. Three…

GET HYPED

FLY TO BELFAST

HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Belfast RubyFest 2026 is here. Headcount is strictly capped, so RSVP today.

luma.com/yl6v0cy9

For Noah.

* v0.5
* Scarpe now has a site - complete with Shoes documentation and our robust Scarpe architecture documentation scarpe-team.github.io/scarpe/
* Improvements, features and bugfixes: github.com/scarpe-team/...

Noah Gibbs was the largest engineering force behind Scarpe the last few years of his life. In honor of his memory I will be doing some hacking on it Christmas Eve.

If you’d like to hack on it as well (LLM it up if you’re new!) I can refine some nice user-friendly issues.

A hidden message by
@_why

HIDDEN: April 13 2013
DISCOVERED: October 2025 by Nick Schwaderer