I get it whenever Apple Music tries to play a song I imported on another machine, and I can’t play (stream) it on this other machine because of the song not being licensed in my region. It could be some similar license issue?
It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it.
Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first.
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Paul Kinlan's "Dead Framework Theory" will be rattling around in my head for awhile. I have definitely encountered the "React/Tailwind because AI" mindset. The entropy is hard to ignore. But ugh... it feels like we're tying our own shoelaces together and trying to run.
aifoc.us/dead-framewo...
God YouTube can be cool and good sometimes.
What a brilliant video that not only has a great fucking message, but is also beautifully shot/edited. youtu.be/tWYxrowovts
I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?
"When it comes to stand-up, people want to show up and have an experience with other people." @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social shares why he thinks that, ultimately, AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut
Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.
Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...
in case you were looking to sponsor cool rust contributors, there is a list now :>
blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/08/m...
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎
https://gem.coop/fellowship/
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
The internet is down ⚡ so while you're checking social media, remember to RSVP for next week's Amsterdam Ruby meetup! www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...
Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again.
Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals.
Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week.
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Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
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It's getting cold out, so join us for the November meetup at FeedbackFruits on the 27th of November! We got warm food and talks 🧣
RSVP here: www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely)
this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly
I wrote my most personal blog post to date.
It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.
afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
The two most effective ways your company can support open source:
1. Let your developers have time for open source work.
2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.
If I'm following RC correctly:
1) RC Did Nothing Wrong b/c it always had the right to the GH org, RC always owned Rubygems; Bundler merged into Rubygems, so they own Bundler too.
2) But, we're gonna hand it back to Ruby core.
3) Nobody has to sign a CLA
So what was the point?
Ooohhh rust-lang/rust is finally changing its default branch to main! blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
“I asked chat GPT”
