@flavorjon.es
Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby. OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem. Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.
I'm excited that Rails 8.2 is going to have to_markdown for Action Text content. Given Markdown is the lingua franca for LLMs, this is going to make it dead easy to add markdown support to your Rails app API.
github.com/rails/rails/...
Who needs Pingdom? Upright is open-source, more featureful, integrates into your existing OTel infrastructure, and was made with love by my teammate Lewis.
dev.37signals.com/introducing-...
If you're interested in multi-tenancy in Rails apps, I talked a bit about my recent work on Active Record Tenanted here:
dev.37signals.com/rails-multi-...
"See what you made me do?" is what bullies and abusers say to try to make people compliant in the future. Fuck this complete asshole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It made me so sad and angry to see these scientific budget cuts. We're eating our intellectual seed corn. NASA has to operate on timelines longer than a presidential term, this feel unrecoverable.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I am happy to share that we (the @GoogleAIStudio team) are now a sponsor of the @tailwindcss project! Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders.
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!!
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Congressional Republicans have surrendered their power to the president they are constitutionally obligated to oversee.
It is a startling abdication, rivaled only by the Trump’s lies to voters about what his foreign policy would be once he took office.
Compare Candidate Trump to President Trump ⬇️
Whether it’s Donald Trump demanding Greenland from Denmark or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor, both presidents made some highly unusual requests.
In case any of my friends in Europe or the UK need to hear it: all of this is fucking bullshit. All of it. I am a USian and I am incredibly embarrassed by all of it. Stephen Miller in particular can eat a fucking dick. I am 100% in favor of the rule of law as are all of the USians I respect. Fuuuck.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Rubyists, I just updated the Nokogiri docs site nokogiri.org to use Zensical. Let me know if anything looks wonky!
Shout out to @squidfunk.com and the @zensical.org crew! Good stuff.
Oh, late last year I also published a post about universal precompiled native Rubygems!
mike.daless.io/posts/2025/0...
This might be interesting if you've been following along with the bundler performance conversations like this post by @tenderlove.dev:
tenderlovemaking.com/2025/12/29/c...
Happy new year, Rubyists! I've just published a summary of the last few months of my open-source work here:
mike.daless.io/posts/2026/0...
Never forget The Whale
A hand-written list of cookie names, paper clipped to a longer hand-written list of cookie names. "Gooey butter vanilla cake bars", "Glazed citrus ginger shortbread", "Cinnamon roll brownies", etc.
Life with a professional baker part 22: Xmas cookie planning
I like to play hard-to-get, Andy, you should know this by now
It's finally happening. I'm going to Brighton Ruby next June!
ti.to/goodscary/br...
Are you paying attention?
Today’s xkcd made me cry.
In a good way.
xkcd.com/3172/
Jeffrey Epstein won’t see your post making fun of his comma usage but your friend who can’t figure out how to use a comma will
From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
This looks awesome as the heir to MkDocs:
squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...
I'll be trying to convert nokogiri.org to it as soon as I can make time!
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.
I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
Finally, some good fucking news
Scenes from the Great Gatsby Halloween Party at Mar-a-Lago on the eve of SNAP benefits expiring for 40 million Americans due to the federal government shutdown.
If you want to know more about ICE’s third-country removals, I keep what I believe is the only public tracker of all of them here: hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
There are more than you probably think.
It’s SO satisfying to see many of the points of emphasis we targeted with @xoruby.com summarized succinctly in one testimonial.
❤️❤️❤️
Respect.
I riffed on that post a bit www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comme...
I feel like defining a “good enough” and a “stretch goal” might help companies realize they’re not doing nearly enough. Even if it’s true the ones at the top could be doing more. I feel aligning on expectations is helpful.
