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a pile of small dogs in a meaty land vessel • KC1QGV • they/them prone to creating technological cognitohazards #rustlang, #rubylang, #pythonlang, #cprogramming

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 15d

behold, my latest technological cognitohazard github.com/duckinator/j...

jim/lib/jim.rb at 528d641d02b32a5104ef24a3b6d70fd3f52eb835 · duckinator/jim

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 13h

Communities build out, not up: pup-e.com/blog/build-o...

Defaulting to rubygems[.]org already causes dependency confusion.

By embracing the idea of multiple smaller gem hosts, and making our tools accommodate that in a secure way, we address risks from centralization *and* dependency confusion.

Communities build out, not up

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 16h

It's difficult to figure out the right balance.

Too little structure, and everything is run on norms and cooperation — so the second someone doesn't cooperate and violates those norms, you're fucked.

But on the flip side, too much structure makes a project collapse under its own weight.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah. I've seen this problem everywhere from "5 teenagers set up a small IRC network and shit goes sideways" back in like 2005-2007, up to the Gittip crisis a decade ago (no way to replace a leader who was harming the project), to the last month with Ruby Central and RubyGems.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

i want the community to rally around these ideas and all of the people working towards making them real, not just whatever group i'm affiliated with at a given time.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

we need our tools to work well with multiple gem servers, without fighting and confusion over gem names.

we need the configuration for those tools to be standardized so multiple independent toolchains can exist (see the Python community and pyproject.toml) without fighting each other.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

the technology we use needs to reflect this fact, not fight it.

people are talking about how rubygems.org and gem.coop splitting is "splitting the community".

but we already had multiple gem servers — it's just that most of them are more corporate in nature.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

the Ruby community is not a cohesive whole, it is a collection of many disparate groups that share ideas and technology.

this is both our strength and why our conflicts get so loud.

we have more "drama", but we also reconcile and grow.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

centralization makes this problem more likely to repeat, no matter how hard we try to defend against it, because a single group is easier to target than a dozen.

anyone who tells you otherwise is naive or benefits from your dependence.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

and, to be blunt:

we shouldn't be relying on one individual group, and this explicitly includes any group i bet my reputation on.

after all: i hitched my reputation to Ruby Central, and i was wrong.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

it's taken me ~18 years of running head-first into this problem to find a way to articulate it. i'm glad it comes across well.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

On RubyGems & Governance: pup-e.com/blog/on-ruby...

Many programmers have no interest in formal governance processes, but letting people act and speak on our behalf without our input is what got us here.

The path forward is for the community to speak up and take direct ownership of what we make.

On RubyGems & Governance

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 1d

once again i find myself sitting down at my computer and immediately clicking the "POSIX.1-2024" bookmark

this happens far more frequently than most people would expect

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 4d

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community!

gem.coop

I am *super* excited about this!

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 3d

i absolutely am ready for bad chicken puns

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Don’t Stop, Girlypop! @girlypop.net · 3d

💖❣️BIG NEWS❣️💖

We just revealed through IGN that our first public demo for Don't Stop, Girlypop! is OUT NOW ✨

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Don't Stop Girlypop! – Official Demo Announcement Trailer

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 4d

it continues!

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 4d

I wrote a little about it on my site. martinemde.com/2025/10/05/a...

I can't wait to make more chicken puns with you all.

Announcing The Gem Cooperative - Martin Emde

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 4d

I'm excited to join my friends in announcing gem.coop, a new ruby community gem server that you can use right now.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 4d

We're basing the governance structure off the one used by Homebrew. We'll have more info on the governance structure later this week. 💜

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 4d

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community!

gem.coop

I am *super* excited about this!

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 5d

If my books were well-organized I wouldn't have come up with a bookshelf design, y'know?

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a programmer not a woodworker, fuck if I know what I'm doing with this.

I mean some of the books in this set *are* about woodworking so reading them might help me out, but that'd require rummaging through like 20-something books that are just in random piles right now and nah I'm good.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 5d

The 50lb-per-foot estimate is based on an online tool I found, which does assume ~idealized wood~.

I'm hoping that by aiming for 50lb-per-foot but actually going with <40lb per foot, I can compensate for wood variance and the fact that I'll probably forget to account for something.

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 15d

behold, my latest technological cognitohazard github.com/duckinator/j...

jim/lib/jim.rb at 528d641d02b32a5104ef24a3b6d70fd3f52eb835 · duckinator/jim

jim likes gems. Contribute to duckinator/jim development by creating an account on GitHub.

puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 5d

And yes my bookshelf plans *are* designed to theoretically hold 50lb per foot, on a 5ft wide shelf.

I may be overcompensating for 20+ years of sagging bookshelves.