after four months of private discussions, I have an update on the Bundler and RubyGems situation with Ruby Central: andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/fou…

I watched hackers, sneakers, and WarGames back to back. What’s next?

I love this so much. ❤️

One of the reasons LLM chatbots are compelling for answers is they’re not yet turded up with ads. But WHEN they are, they will lose some luster.

Parents should get referral revenue from the government

I can’t believe there was a time we wrote software without git. What a truly life altering peace of software.

I do wonder what that total size of all gems is. It’s gotta be pretty big w recompiled binaries and such. Maybe a subset of anything that’s actually used…

Depends what cave

Petition for Multi-Approval Organization Ownership Controls on GitHub · community · Discussion #177729 Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Summary We are requesting that GitHub implement a mandatory multi-person approval system for top-level organization ownership changes consistent with their a...

We spun up this feature petition with GitHub that I think would genuinely help a lot of projects and companies, open source or not. github.com/orgs/communi...

Perhaps the next version will be powered with MagSafe. Or MagSafe.

Haven’t heard of mise. I’ve been an asdf user for a while and love the “all the things” nature but find the command line fairly clunky. Mise is nice?

Name is cool.

For a brief moment I wondered if zed shaw came out of the wilderness and was writing IDEs and was reminded of this. We’ve (Ruby folk) been through a lot of dramatic times.

harmful.cat-v.org/software/rub...

Had not heard of it. Gonna check it out!

This rubygems stuff is devolving into some seriously petty shit that is BUMMING ME THE FUCK OUT. And it’s all unnecessary. You can’t just steal a goddamn project y’all. It’s as simple as that.

FWIW this is the task LLMs were born for

Congrats yall! 👏

Super naive take. Aside from funding (happy to contribute), what's stopping us from playing an uno-reverse-card, forking rubygems.org and standing up alternate rubygems infra.

source "https://rubyhub.org"

I like the “probably” hedge

I highly highly recommend you watch Murderbot on Apple TV

It's consume week! What did you CONSUME?!

You know. The internet is a wonderful and horrible place. It’s going to destroy the world. But I’m glad we did it anyway.

Got it. Thank you for that specific and actionable feedback. I’ll get right to work!

Would love to hear what you didn’t like! I’ve found most of the transcripts to be quite readable! Hit me up jason(at)transistor.fm

Thefuq happened to all your NFTs?!?!

Helen, @transistor-michael.bsky.social, & @transistor.fm's devs gifted me (Chad) an incredible support experience today.

~6 hrs after I asked how to make show notes links open in a new tab, Transistor's dev team released an update to make that happen! We LOVE hosting our podcast on Transistor! ❤️

Why ar. emy thumbs so.fucking fat??

I’m reminded of the famous Baron Rothschild saying:

When there is blood in the streets, it’s your blood in the streets!

Something like that…

SpongeBob SquarePants 9: This Time It’s Oceany

Scored by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

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Yessss. That is definitely magical. Of course it does necessitate you doing laundry on vacation 🤣