James Bell
@sarcainian.bsky.social
(he/him) @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Web head, reader, cook, rubyist and all that.
Web head, reader, cook, rubyist and all that.
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Cthrion Uroniziir by Faizal
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Cthrion Uroniziir by Faizal
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On December 20 in Mita, Tokyo, the Ruby community will celebrate the anticipated release of Ruby 4.0 next week and 30 years since Ruby 0.95. Congratulations and thanks to Matz and the Ruby Association for shaping generations of developers.
#rubyrelease30th
おめでとうございます！
#rubyrelease30th
おめでとうございます！
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
On December 20 in Mita, Tokyo, the Ruby community will celebrate the anticipated release of Ruby 4.0 next week and 30 years since Ruby 0.95. Congratulations and thanks to Matz and the Ruby Association for shaping generations of developers.
#rubyrelease30th
おめでとうございます！
#rubyrelease30th
おめでとうございます！
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Dr Miles Kerr Peterson was shown a trunk of family documents by the owner of the manufacturing company he worked for in Glasgow. It led to rediscovery of writings about the island of St Kilda by Christina MacDonald Chalmers. www.thenational.scot/culture/2570...
Remembering St Kilda through the eyes of its only female chronicler
A collection of writings by former islander Christina MacDonald Chalmers, nee McQueen, was rediscovered and republished by historians Miles…
www.thenational.scot
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Dr Miles Kerr Peterson was shown a trunk of family documents by the owner of the manufacturing company he worked for in Glasgow. It led to rediscovery of writings about the island of St Kilda by Christina MacDonald Chalmers. www.thenational.scot/culture/2570...
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I'm really happy to see @marcoroth.dev receive the 2025 Rails Luminary Award! 🎉
He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the Ruby community.
Huge congrats, Marco! 🙌
And it's great to have @fxn.bsky.social and @amandabrooke.bsky.social around.
#rails #RubyOnRails #ReActionView #herb
He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the Ruby community.
Huge congrats, Marco! 🙌
And it's great to have @fxn.bsky.social and @amandabrooke.bsky.social around.
#rails #RubyOnRails #ReActionView #herb
December 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I'm really happy to see @marcoroth.dev receive the 2025 Rails Luminary Award! 🎉
He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the Ruby community.
Huge congrats, Marco! 🙌
And it's great to have @fxn.bsky.social and @amandabrooke.bsky.social around.
#rails #RubyOnRails #ReActionView #herb
He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the Ruby community.
Huge congrats, Marco! 🙌
And it's great to have @fxn.bsky.social and @amandabrooke.bsky.social around.
#rails #RubyOnRails #ReActionView #herb
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These annual selection boxes are becoming as much a staple of Christmas viewing as the double issue Radio Times.
Bravo, the squidges.
Bravo, the squidges.
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
These annual selection boxes are becoming as much a staple of Christmas viewing as the double issue Radio Times.
Bravo, the squidges.
Bravo, the squidges.
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About 2-3 times a year I get suddenly and irrationally furious at the Busted lyric “not much has changed but they live underwater”.
SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY BIG FUCKING CHANGE TO ME, BUSTED. I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU’RE DOWNPLAYING IT JUST TO PERVE ON MY DESCENDENT.
Anyway, today is one of those days.
SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY BIG FUCKING CHANGE TO ME, BUSTED. I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU’RE DOWNPLAYING IT JUST TO PERVE ON MY DESCENDENT.
Anyway, today is one of those days.
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
About 2-3 times a year I get suddenly and irrationally furious at the Busted lyric “not much has changed but they live underwater”.
SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY BIG FUCKING CHANGE TO ME, BUSTED. I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU’RE DOWNPLAYING IT JUST TO PERVE ON MY DESCENDENT.
Anyway, today is one of those days.
SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY BIG FUCKING CHANGE TO ME, BUSTED. I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU’RE DOWNPLAYING IT JUST TO PERVE ON MY DESCENDENT.
Anyway, today is one of those days.
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[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
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SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday.
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday.
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏
For DVD: 🎂❤️
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hey, look at that! Rosa made Rails use the CSRF protection strategy that my team implemented as a Rack middleware! very cool and much simpler than the current strategy (though admittedly only works on modern browsers) github.com/rails/rails...
Use a modern approach for cross-site request forgery protection by rosa · Pull Request #56350 · rails/rails
Motivation / Background
CSRF protection has always been a source of issues related to cached pages, stale tokens, the session being somehow cleared, all resulting in false positives. We still get t...
github.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
hey, look at that! Rosa made Rails use the CSRF protection strategy that my team implemented as a Rack middleware! very cool and much simpler than the current strategy (though admittedly only works on modern browsers) github.com/rails/rails...
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Alright friends, today’s the big day…we’re opening up tickets and CFP for Blue Ridge 2026! 🎉 We’re going to be at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville, NC on April 30 & May 1. We’d love to have you join us this spring in our favorite mountain town. ⛰️
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Alright friends, today’s the big day…we’re opening up tickets and CFP for Blue Ridge 2026! 🎉 We’re going to be at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville, NC on April 30 & May 1. We’d love to have you join us this spring in our favorite mountain town. ⛰️
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All in all I think we'll have a nice first-edition or @RubyConfAT.
@m_isabegovic and the team did a great job so far
I hope to see many of us there in the spring ✌️
rubyconf.at/
@m_isabegovic and the team did a great job so far
I hope to see many of us there in the spring ✌️
rubyconf.at/
RubyConf Austria
RubyConf Austria is the Austrian Ruby conference. Join us in Vienna, Austria in 2026 on 29-31 of May.
rubyconf.at
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
All in all I think we'll have a nice first-edition or @RubyConfAT.
@m_isabegovic and the team did a great job so far
I hope to see many of us there in the spring ✌️
rubyconf.at/
@m_isabegovic and the team did a great job so far
I hope to see many of us there in the spring ✌️
rubyconf.at/
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If you wanted to have loved one buy you a t-shirt because “you’re impossible to buy for” today is your last day to get it for Xmas.
rubytshirts.com
rubytshirts.com
Ruby T-shirts
Matz is nice, and so are these excellent shirts. Ships worldwide.
rubytshirts.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you wanted to have loved one buy you a t-shirt because “you’re impossible to buy for” today is your last day to get it for Xmas.
rubytshirts.com
rubytshirts.com
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Reminded of when, during lockdown, the Princess Bride became an actual folk tale, to be retold, lovingly.
Warning: that ending might choke you up a bit.
youtu.be/29s1yU3nGkQ?...
Warning: that ending might choke you up a bit.
youtu.be/29s1yU3nGkQ?...
The Princess Bride Home Movie FULL
YouTube video by Jenna
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reminded of when, during lockdown, the Princess Bride became an actual folk tale, to be retold, lovingly.
Warning: that ending might choke you up a bit.
youtu.be/29s1yU3nGkQ?...
Warning: that ending might choke you up a bit.
youtu.be/29s1yU3nGkQ?...
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As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
RIP Rob Reiner. You were a prince and I’m grateful we intersected.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Rob Reiner, ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘Stand by Me’ Director and ‘All in the Family’ Actor, Dies at 78 in Apparent Homicide (Report)
The two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
As a director, Rob Reiner released these five movies all in a row
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
1986 Stand by Me
1987 The Princess Bride
1989 When Harry Met Sally…
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
All remarkable and vastly different films, showing extraordinary range and talent
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Today I learned: stackoverflow.com/questions/90...
grep: show lines surrounding each match
How do I grep and show the preceding and following 5 lines surrounding each matched line?
stackoverflow.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Today I learned: stackoverflow.com/questions/90...
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They have now taken the Mickey.
Well this ain’t good.
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They have now taken the Mickey.
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Durable streams FTW electric-sql.com/blog/2025/12...
https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/12/09/announcing-durable-streams
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url: /blog/posts/2025-12-09-announcing-durable-streams.md
description: >
A persistent stream primitive and HTTP protocol for reliable, resumable,
real-time data streaming into client applicati...
electric-sql.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Durable streams FTW electric-sql.com/blog/2025/12...
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I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired.
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using autom...
letsencrypt.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired.
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
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New blog post: Travelling around Japan as a Vegetarian / Vegan
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/travelling-around-japan-as-a-vegetarian-vegan/
I like to visit new countries. I also need to eat in order to survive. As a vegetarian, some countries make that easier than others. I was pleasantly …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/travelling-around-japan-as-a-vegetarian-vegan/
I like to visit new countries. I also need to eat in order to survive. As a vegetarian, some countries make that easier than others. I was pleasantly …
Travelling around Japan as a Vegetarian / Vegan
I like to visit new countries. I also need to eat in order to survive. As a vegetarian, some countries make that easier than others. I was pleasantly surprised about how easy it was go Interrailing around Europe while maintaining a Vegan / Vegetarian diet. My next adventure was Japan. People told me that it was impossible to be veggie in Japan. That was nonsense. I wouldn't say it was easy, but…
shkspr.mobi
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New blog post: Travelling around Japan as a Vegetarian / Vegan
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/travelling-around-japan-as-a-vegetarian-vegan/
I like to visit new countries. I also need to eat in order to survive. As a vegetarian, some countries make that easier than others. I was pleasantly …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/travelling-around-japan-as-a-vegetarian-vegan/
I like to visit new countries. I also need to eat in order to survive. As a vegetarian, some countries make that easier than others. I was pleasantly …
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An oldie but a goodie. A look around the tenements of Edinburgh from the Engine Shed, with tips for owners and occupiers.
(In Scotland a tenement is a traditional multi-storey building divided into flats.)
#housing #architecture #LocalHistory
blog.engineshed.scot/2020/12/22/e...
(In Scotland a tenement is a traditional multi-storey building divided into flats.)
#housing #architecture #LocalHistory
blog.engineshed.scot/2020/12/22/e...
Engine Shed guidance for owners and occupiers of traditional buildings
Engine Shed guidance on how to care for your traditional property and improve its energy efficiency, and on what kind of consents you might need to make changes to it.
blog.engineshed.scot
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
An oldie but a goodie. A look around the tenements of Edinburgh from the Engine Shed, with tips for owners and occupiers.
(In Scotland a tenement is a traditional multi-storey building divided into flats.)
#housing #architecture #LocalHistory
blog.engineshed.scot/2020/12/22/e...
(In Scotland a tenement is a traditional multi-storey building divided into flats.)
#housing #architecture #LocalHistory
blog.engineshed.scot/2020/12/22/e...
A reminder that this is on Thursday! Come along for some Ruby chat in a new venue. Bring a pal!
Happy December folks - with my ScotRUG organising hat on, our last meetup for the year is scheduled for next week, Thursday 11th December in the Quaker Meeting house on Victoria terrace. We'll be looking forward to the Ruby 4.0 release, and chatting about this and that. scotrug.org/2025/12/04/r...
Ruby 4.0 - What's in the new Release? | Scottish Ruby User Group
The shining lights of the Christmas markets sparkle through the crisp nights, signifying the impending arrival of a new Ruby version. This year’s release (scheduled for Christmas day) will be Ruby 4.0...
scotrug.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A reminder that this is on Thursday! Come along for some Ruby chat in a new venue. Bring a pal!
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The Women Of TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide is here! 🎁
Enjoy our guide full of gorgeous TTRPG options from women-owned businesses. Find amazing gifts for your favourite nerds (or yourself), and support women at the same time!
Enjoy our guide full of gorgeous TTRPG options from women-owned businesses. Find amazing gifts for your favourite nerds (or yourself), and support women at the same time!
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Women Of TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide is here! 🎁
Enjoy our guide full of gorgeous TTRPG options from women-owned businesses. Find amazing gifts for your favourite nerds (or yourself), and support women at the same time!
Enjoy our guide full of gorgeous TTRPG options from women-owned businesses. Find amazing gifts for your favourite nerds (or yourself), and support women at the same time!
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The second batch of tickets is almost gone - we can't wait to see you all at #wrocloverb! 🤩
If you'd like to join us as a speaker, our CFP is still open and we're waiting to hear your ideas! Inspire your fellow developers, submit your talk here ➡️
If you'd like to join us as a speaker, our CFP is still open and we're waiting to hear your ideas! Inspire your fellow developers, submit your talk here ➡️
PaperCall.io - wroclove.rb 2026
www.papercall.io
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The second batch of tickets is almost gone - we can't wait to see you all at #wrocloverb! 🤩
If you'd like to join us as a speaker, our CFP is still open and we're waiting to hear your ideas! Inspire your fellow developers, submit your talk here ➡️
If you'd like to join us as a speaker, our CFP is still open and we're waiting to hear your ideas! Inspire your fellow developers, submit your talk here ➡️