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And sometimes you can trick yourself into feeling bad that you can't drink the whole firehouse at once 🙃

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…

ruby code get blocked on - zac's blog yes it's mostly about blocksdef try_a_new_hobby(hobby =

made a blog post that's 80% testing out pckt.blog and 10% reminding myself about the ampersand in ruby blocks and 10% not proofreading things before I post

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It's a little worse because the variable was set by a query that I'm pretty sure would always at least be an empty active record relation, but oh well if it ain't broke

Just got stunlocked by a piece of old Rails code that had this in a view:

`@some_variable.to_a.present?`

A weekly time budgeting dashboard showing availability across multiple projects and days

So I built my own solution: Crow's Nest.

It's a dead-simple dashboard that connects to your Harvest account and shows:
- Your total weekly capacity.
- Hours you've committed.
- How many hours are actually left.

No more guessing.

a quick comic about making art

gem.coop update #4: cooldowns beta Hi again, everyone. We’ve got a big update for you, and we could use your help testing things out. If you just want to test the cooldowns beta, you can jump straight to the cooldown docs. The rest of this post has updates from the team, as well as more background on why we built cooldowns in the fi…

gem.coop has news! we've just released dependency cooldowns (in beta), a strong defense against supply chain attacks gem.coop/updates/4/

Does anyone out there have a really solid system for organizing projects on your local machine? I currently do ~src/<org/profile>/<repo> but I'm wondering if there's a better way.

I really like both games, I have way too many hours in both probably lol

I'll be on the lookout for your thoughts on the Hades 2 story!

Yeah, the combat system feels fairly different, despite looking similar on the surface

My opinion is that Hades 2 is more fun gameplay wise but Hades 1 was better story wise

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I messaged my boss "did some token or permission expire that I didn't know about 😅"

Same!! My first instinct was "No way, this can't be how I go out"

After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.

Join me in building a better future:

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The Inevitable Consequences of Sculpting your own Girlfriend What My Fair Lady's original novel teaches us about AI Support my Writing with a Tip A sculptor, Pygmalion makes a woman, Galatea, out of clay. Because she is made to his exact standards, she is imp...

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I've heard Mango Languages is good, but I haven't used it before.

I think you can get full access for free through some libraries, or something like that?

I didn't seem to do anything on mobile 🤔 does the network tab do anything as you type?

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

The State Violence Apologia Machine Support my Writing with a Tip We have this structured and almost procedural cycle of protest violence in the United States a lot. It goes like this: 1. Grievances bubble up en masse, and people the...

As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...

It feels like several years ago when companies were all changing their logos to be more modern and everyone got mad, but this time the weirdos got mad first and loudest?

Also, what was the shape around the words "cracker barrel" supposed to be in the first place??

Do you think explo should get any main weapon buffs 👀

I find Libraries to be pretty nice, usually.
I've never been able to really focus in coffee shops, I always feel like I'm imposing by staying for too long only buying 1 thing

Yours is a great article, I really appreciate the breakdowns in the Criticism & Further Reading sections

I have tried to do this but I get like 3 dictionary look-ups in and give up 😭