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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 6d

Here’s a note from our Executive Director regarding our recent security incident.
rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what…

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 6d

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11d

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 10d

Amplify the voices you want people to hear.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

www.theguardian.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 14d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSe...

Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)

YouTube video by VinnieFarsheds

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 14d

Something I do all the time when writing software: I always start by prematurely trying to build something generic, then I run out of time and just build the thing I need anyway, except under greater pressure.

It is more pleasant when I remember to not do that 🤣

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 18d

Regulations are protections.

www.wired.com/story/the-la...

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 22d

Congratulations!!

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 23d

Hmm. Well, nothing notable is showing up in either the site metrics or the Fastly metrics.

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 23d

Timeouts on API calls, or on package downloads?

The dashboards all look OK to me, FWIW.

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 27d

Just a little note to say that Nokogiri hit a billion downloads at some point in the last couple of weeks. 🎉

Thanks to everyone who's contributed over the last 17 years, it's been amazing to be a part of it.

nokogiri.org

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Nokogiri

The Official Tutorial Archive™ of Nokogiri®

nokogiri.org

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 16

Hmm There probably is a bug there if method_missing is called with a block. File a bug report if you can find it!

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 16

I linked to the insert method, which is private. Take a look at the initialize method instead. You can see that block arity is saved there and conditionally used by the insert method.

It's not exemplary code, like I said. It's 16 years old and I think I've only touched it once in the last decade.

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 16

Diverse cities where strangers from different backgrounds respect, welcome, and care for each other are literally the most amazing thing to ever come out of civilization.

It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 15

Hmm this is the first I've heard about performance implications of that pattern. I will try to look into it but also happy to have help

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 15

It's not inspired code or anything, but Nokogiri's Builder class does this: github.com/sparklemotio...

nokogiri/lib/nokogiri/xml/builder.rb at c55cdbae14d92f3c9665698bdc5b163f16676334 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby. - sparklemotion/nokogiri

github.com

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · Sep 15

My Rails World talk about Rails multitenancy is up!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4F...

And you can try out the activerecord-tenanted gem here:

github.com/basecamp/act...

Mike Dalessio - Multi-Tenant Rails: Everybody Gets a Database!

YouTube video by Ruby on Rails

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Molly White @molly.wiki · Sep 5

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...