This was a really great essay by @phillmv,and I think may be interesting even if you're not in tech or working with Ruby on Rails.

It has a lot to say about what makes writing Rails apps fun, but also: power and the drive for domination and what it feels like to have rich white men who seek to dominate & control others get to destroy so much of what's nice in your life, and also have it be so plausibly deniable to people who aren't the targets of being hurt by it.

It has given me much to ponder.

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#ruby #rails #fascism

In Praise of dhh

"The tent is being made smaller. To stay in the tent going forward you will increasingly be forced to agree with David. I’ve been involved with Ruby for seventeen years: why am I the one being pushed out in order to make space for toxic and abusive dudes?"

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#dhh #rails #ruby #webdev

In Praise of dhh

"The tent is being made smaller. To stay in the tent going forward you will increasingly be forced to agree with David. I’ve been involved with Ruby for seventeen years: why am I the one being pushed out in order to make space for toxic and abusive dudes?"

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#dhh #rails #ruby #webdev

This was a really great essay by @phillmv,and I think may be interesting even if you're not in tech or working with Ruby on Rails.

It has a lot to say about what makes writing Rails apps fun, but also: power and the drive for domination and what it feels like to have rich white men who seek to dominate & control others get to destroy so much of what's nice in your life, and also have it be so plausibly deniable to people who aren't the targets of being hurt by it.

It has given me much to ponder.

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#ruby #rails #fascism

"A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone.

"All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.

"“Whoa!”, I can hear some of you say. “Offside, that’s not cool. That’s an ad hominem, and very immature of you. What do you have against a mixture of dried carbohydrates and powdered seasonings?”

"I hear you, and I ask for your forgiveness and your patience."

#Ruby #Rails #DHH

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

｢ A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone ｣

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#dhh #rails #opensource #dei

｢ The average red-blooded American programmer has never visited London, doesn’t know much about European history, and has no idea who Tommy Robinson is. Are native Brits conceptually different from Native Americans?23 As a powerful, charismatic leader, David commands a lot of the benefit of the doubt, and he exploits that. He speaks in dog whistles, and communicates via subtext ｣

#dhh #rails #diversity #hatespeech

｢ The average red-blooded American programmer has never visited London, doesn’t know much about European history, and has no idea who Tommy Robinson is. Are native Brits conceptually different from Native Americans?23 As a powerful, charismatic leader, David commands a lot of the benefit of the doubt, and he exploits that. He speaks in dog whistles, and communicates via subtext ｣

#dhh #rails #diversity #hatespeech

｢ A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone ｣

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#dhh #rails #opensource #dei

"A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone.

"All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.

"“Whoa!”, I can hear some of you say. “Offside, that’s not cool. That’s an ad hominem, and very immature of you. What do you have against a mixture of dried carbohydrates and powdered seasonings?”

"I hear you, and I ask for your forgiveness and your patience."

#Ruby #Rails #DHH

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails

https://telebugs.com

#HackerNews #selfhosted #errortracking #Rails #webdevelopment #telebugs #technews

I've been told your #Rails leader uses #Alacritty as his terminal emulator - part of their Linux "distribution"...

That above has accelerated my _need_ to move to something else since I had some other issues - besides being kind-of-slow in my environment...

So, starting today I'm changing to #Ghostty, by @mitchellh

https://ghostty.org

Ghostty is neat, and works perfectly with my current setup: #tmux + #ViM on both, macOS and Linux.

Who has two thumbs and wrote an explainer on TCP slow start and Keep-alive connections? https://www.heroku.com/blog/learn-how-to-lower-heroku-dyno-latency-keep-alive/

#thisguy #ruby #rails

Who has two thumbs and wrote an explainer on TCP slow start and Keep-alive connections? https://www.heroku.com/blog/learn-how-to-lower-heroku-dyno-latency-keep-alive/

#thisguy #ruby #rails

I’ve loved Ruby for two decades, but have decided to take a step back. The language is still beautiful, but the leadership around it isn’t.

I wrote a bit about how I've gotten here and where I'll be focusing instead:
https://sleepingpotato.com/taking-a-step-back-from-ruby/

#ruby #rails

After writing about stepping back from Ruby, I wanted to dig deeper into the long-term impact of leadership and governance on the ecosystem itself.

New post: https://sleepingpotato.com/when-leadership-fails-ecosystems-shrink/

#ruby #rails #opensource #programming

After writing about stepping back from Ruby, I wanted to dig deeper into the long-term impact of leadership and governance on the ecosystem itself.

New post: https://sleepingpotato.com/when-leadership-fails-ecosystems-shrink/

#ruby #rails #opensource #programming

I’ve loved Ruby for two decades, but have decided to take a step back. The language is still beautiful, but the leadership around it isn’t.

I wrote a bit about how I've gotten here and where I'll be focusing instead:
https://sleepingpotato.com/taking-a-step-back-from-ruby/

#ruby #rails

@getajobmike @afomera It really hit home how much we need to actually do a plan vert. Lots of projects fork, and its fine. Is there a discussion happening in some secret cave somewhere on how to go about it? #Ruby #planvert #rails