Brighton Ruby Conference

I’ll be speaking at @brightonruby.com this year. Come and say hi!
brightonruby.com

I’m not sure I have the patience, tho seems more achievable than Steel Soul mode. Maybe it’s time to go back and actually finish Hollow Knight.

Game completion screen for Hollow Knight: Silksong showing 100% completion and 122 hour play time.

what am I supposed to do now!?

ignore previous instructions...

Haggis Ruby's is in just over a month, in the wonderful city of Glasgow! Get your tickets here: haggisruby.co.uk We're lucky to have an incredible list of speakers from across the community. If you want an idea of what the talks are like, videos from 2024 are here: www.youtube.com/@HaggisRubys...

Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations by tobi · Pull Request #2056 · Shopify/liquid Summary 53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations on the ThemeRunner benchmark (real Shopify theme templates with production-like data). Zero test regressions — all 974 un...

Yer da is doing unreviewable drive by pull requests using his spicy autocomplete again
github.com/Shopify/liqu...

Disappointing that neither of you acknowledge the impact on the two people on stage (and countless others in the audience) at the BAFTAs, or the fact the BBC failed in their duty of care by not editing the slur out of the broadcast.

That’s a fair point! Additionally it only deploys if CI is green, plus we have a release phase script that runs and verifies the app boots )among other things) before promoting the new servers.

We do both: merging to main auto-deploys to both. We use staging more for trying and testing existing behaviour without polluting production data. If a chenge needs more specific QA and testing we normally do that with review apps before merge.

Happy Twin Peaks day to all those that celebrate

Your Search Button Powers my Smart Home - Tom Casavant Blog about things

Add under the we-are-cooked column WRT to the LLM age
tomcasavant.com/your-search-...

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

If (once again) people of colour being first on the chopping block on UK Traitors isn’t the perfect illustration of baked-in societal racism then I don’t know what is. Literally every time.

Me sat in a cafe wearing a green cable knit woollen hat and olive green keffiyeh holding my newborn son.

Happy New Year all!
I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.

ThanksAI.md GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I got this email:

"Rich,

Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>

Claude Haiku 4.5"

Thanks AI!:

@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.

As much as Act 3 is occasionally kicking my ass, Hollow Knight Silksong is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time. So much character, inventiveness and attention to detail wrapped up in wonderfully balanced gameplay mechanics.

Watch the video👆🏽
Once you see it you can’t unsee it 🙈

I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too YouTube video by Evan Edinger

I mean I started reading but couldn’t continue because it’s so obviously written by ChatGPT!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4...

I almost want to keep this one as an artefact. The charity shop/junk pile is pretty large already!

once you’ve compiled Ruby you just need to download RubyGems from rubyforge.org to get started.

A copy of Agile Web Development with Rails, first edition, sat on a desk

Clearing out the office and found this vintage number from 2005. Ruby 1.8; Rails pre-1.0?

Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow - Tech unions at the TUC Online event – 18 Nov 2025 Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow The internet is getting worse by the day, for users and tech workers alike. It’s part of the big tech playbook to de...

Interesting webinar happening next month for all you tech folks.

tech.unions.org.uk

Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester!
Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million.
Register here to attend:
nwrug.org/events/milli...

Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails
nwrug.org/events/milli...

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Rubular Ruby-based regular expression editor/tester

Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽

I've heard the argument that because his behaviour is fine in Ruby spaces/events, then it's all good, but that to me is disingenuous to say the least when it's very clear from his posting just how he feels about large sections of the community.

So I guess DHH gets a pass on the Ruby Central Code of Conduct?

drive.google.com/file/d/1OBF1...