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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 8h

When AI wants to test everything under the sun, you can just make it go back to the basic by asking "check how we are doing it right now"... KISS, baby. 😉

Terminal output showing 'Excellent discovery! Here's what I found:' followed by a section titled 'Current Testing Approach' explaining that SSH connections are NOT currently tested.

Terminal output listing a testing approach with green checkmarks, describing benefits including: matches existing test strategy of unit tests and TCP-based e2e tests, simplest to implement, validates feature works through manual testing, doesn't require restructuring test infrastructure, and allows adding SSH tests later if needed.

Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 3d

Dear fellow open-source devs: its OK to use an AI to help you out (heck, I use it too!) and I would understand you don't have the time to review every reported issue, but I would rather prefer radio silence than an automated "AI analysis" to the issue I just reported. 😔

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 10d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 14d

I've been blown away by Uncloud and unregistry from @psviderski.bsky.social, to the point that I'm actually enjoying deploy again!

Build and deploy under seconds. No need for external container registry, all streamlined.

Previous deploy metrics: k8s: 5min!. Swarm: 30s, Uncloud: < 5s. 👏🚀

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 15d

XP +100! You just unlocked a new level! Please share more details! 🙏

I was struggling with that a few weeks ago (and decided the internet won this round, I will pick that up later) 😅

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 17d

Drop me a line (or two) if you would like to chat about that approach or on-demand compilation for rv/portable-ruby 😉🫶 2/2

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 17d

Back in 2018 I built an entire automated service that pre-compiled gems backed on a allowed list as soon these were published to rg-dot-org (using gem-compiler and my own CI). Then RubyGems added some blocking to cross source gems installations and decided to stop work on it 😔 1/

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 17d

I used to love Changelog Nightly newsletter to discovered amazing new projects. Sadly recently the feed is flooded with "the best AI agent in the universe" (100s of those, daily) that reminds me of "buy pills" spam back in the mailing list days. Sigh 😔 #github #aislop

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 22d

OpenSSF on public, centralized registries:

"...public registries have become free global CDNs for commercial vendors" "[they] may have an open source license, but they are not functional except as part of a paid product or platform"

openssf.org/blog/2025/09...

Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship – Open Source Security Foundation

openssf.org

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 23d

Got a new planet? What kind of atmosphere are you aiming to? Mostly oxygen with blue sky effect or planning more unbreathable one? Tell us more! 😁

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André Arko @indirect.io · 24d

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...

andre.arko.net

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 24d

I love that Forgejo (a fork of Gitea) is run under Codeberg's, a non-profit organization. The funny thing: they have a custom version that they deploy to run codeberg.org itself: codeberg.org/Codeberg-Inf...

Forgejo (Codeberg)
Codeberg's fork of Forgejo, a self-hosted lightweight software forge.
Some changes made to Forgejo's source code are:
« Codeberg-specific themes
« Codeberg's custom landing page
« Codeberg's custom footer
« Various optimizations necessary for running a large instance
« Dirty hacks that we needed to deploy as soon as possible
Some of our patches may be helpful if you wish to operate a large Forgejo instance. However, this repository as a
whole contains a custom version of Forgejo that is explicitly not intended for private use.
[Codeberg and Forgejo work together, but, as projects, they remain separate. For more information about Forgejo
land its relationship with Codeberg, take a look at Forgejo's FAQ]

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · 25d

My mom used to say "even a broken clock is right twice a day" (in spanish). It is important to check it at other times, as sometimes people are right "twice a day", not because they are smart, but just by accident.

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 27d

Not every device can run Tailscale. But this teensy router can put more gadgets on your tailnet, and fix some travel frustrations: tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

RubyGems.org | your community gem host

rubygems.org

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André Arko @indirect.io · Sep 19

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Sep 13

GitHub Actions just sucks out the joy of life for getting your work automated. 1 hour YAML fighting and sunk waiting for a damn runner... 😞

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · Jul 17

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

youtu.be

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · Sep 11

You know it’s a serious AI company because its logo looks like a butthole.

Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Sep 11

LLMs have a tendency to over engineer everything, even a simple random connection picker. A good reminder to question things and always seek for simpler solutions.

Screenshot showing output from Claude titled 'The Bottom Line' with the subtitle 'You're right to question this! For failover scenarios:' followed by three bullet points: 'Any randomization prevents hotspots', 'Fisher-Yates is overkill - we're not doing cryptography', and 'Simple rotation achieves the same practical goal'.

Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Sep 1

That sucks! I happened to me too many times when going to USA that one time I asked on my way out to the police man if was ok for me to run, he was confused and I said if I don't I will miss my flight (also I didn't wanted to get shot/tased by seeing running out of SSSS) 😅

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Aug 29

200 OK from France

Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Aug 26

Nice! I did some work on that front some years ago. Hit a limitation of RubyGems itself (same gem for different versions of Ruby) which led to the fat-binary gem approach that become standard. Built gem-compiler and other tools for that, but too big for a single person. Let me know if I can help 😊

Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Aug 26

Really nice! Thank you for sharing this with everybody! Wondering what are your future plans for "all your gems in seconds, without having to compile anything ever again." For those gems that do not have precompiled binaries?

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Luis Lavena @luislavena.info · Aug 19

I've been doing some TDD with it: write the test, let the LLM make them pass and then assist the LLM review and refactor it to reduce duplication and noise.

Then learn from those sessions and extract patterns the LLM suck at it to "educate it" in relation to style and avoid future bad taste 😉