Toby
@tobyond.bsky.social
Ruby, rails, javascript, and SQL appreciator. Pour over coffee lover. Music obsessed, musician. Reader of (probably) too many books. Aussie, living in Netherlands.
self host a Forgejo instance! I haven't pushed one too hard, but it's super slick, and a nice way to unshackle from the tech titans
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
self host a Forgejo instance! I haven't pushed one too hard, but it's super slick, and a nice way to unshackle from the tech titans
Every time I think a boolean is sufficient, some new feature pushes it toward an enum, or some kind of multiple timestamps. Every, damn, time
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Every time I think a boolean is sufficient, some new feature pushes it toward an enum, or some kind of multiple timestamps. Every, damn, time
As annoying as this AWS outage has been, it's a warning signal to engineering teams across the globe that our reliance on monopolistic cloud providers is bad for business
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As annoying as this AWS outage has been, it's a warning signal to engineering teams across the globe that our reliance on monopolistic cloud providers is bad for business
I converted a few of my old rails apps to Hanami last year, and was pleasantly surprised how little time it took. Granted many of them were relatively simple apps but ultimately it's a wonderful opportunity to simplify any lingering complexity
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I converted a few of my old rails apps to Hanami last year, and was pleasantly surprised how little time it took. Granted many of them were relatively simple apps but ultimately it's a wonderful opportunity to simplify any lingering complexity
I keep thinking about an interaction with one of the major ai tools recently:
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I keep thinking about an interaction with one of the major ai tools recently:
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
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in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
I feel like printer is the perfect insult for someone who is lazy and never does anything
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I feel like printer is the perfect insult for someone who is lazy and never does anything
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Eliminating the headphone jack did this to society.
I was in the bathroom at LAX and the woman in the next stall just took a whole ass call on speakerphone in the goddamn bathroom like wtf
August 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Eliminating the headphone jack did this to society.
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A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
Starting to lose count of the number of times I spin up a new app to try out a new JS framework, and realize that I really prefer vanilla JS, and that their abstraction is too much mental overhead for my productivity
May 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Starting to lose count of the number of times I spin up a new app to try out a new JS framework, and realize that I really prefer vanilla JS, and that their abstraction is too much mental overhead for my productivity
They're a pale shadow of their former, innovative self, and Tim Cook really needs to ask "are we the baddies?"
May 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
They're a pale shadow of their former, innovative self, and Tim Cook really needs to ask "are we the baddies?"
With tariffs throwing international shipping into chaos, it’s only a matter of time before the toilet paper wars return right?
April 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
With tariffs throwing international shipping into chaos, it’s only a matter of time before the toilet paper wars return right?
I'm starting to feel the same way, I like seeing related methods grouped in larger classes. A lot of rubyists prefer indenting everything under the private keyword, but the OCD in me can't handle it. It's not a block or a method, so your code is just dangling there with no end!
April 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm starting to feel the same way, I like seeing related methods grouped in larger classes. A lot of rubyists prefer indenting everything under the private keyword, but the OCD in me can't handle it. It's not a block or a method, so your code is just dangling there with no end!
Trusting in your web framework’s magic is like swiping a credit card, smooth and effortless upfront, but the bill always arrives. Sometimes when your app scales, other times just when you color outside the lines
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Trusting in your web framework’s magic is like swiping a credit card, smooth and effortless upfront, but the bill always arrives. Sometimes when your app scales, other times just when you color outside the lines
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Meets JD Vance. Dies hours later. My guess is the Pope was unable to overcome that level of stupidity.
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Meets JD Vance. Dies hours later. My guess is the Pope was unable to overcome that level of stupidity.
Why do get the feeling the next decade of software engineering is just gonna be cleaning up the crusty spaghetti left behind by someone who 'vibe coded' their way into production at 2am in an over-caffeinated stupor?
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Why do get the feeling the next decade of software engineering is just gonna be cleaning up the crusty spaghetti left behind by someone who 'vibe coded' their way into production at 2am in an over-caffeinated stupor?
Melbourne Airport:
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Melbourne Airport:
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
I regret not going all in on Phlex, and taking the "safe" View Component route with our companies main app. Phlex is elegant and beautiful. For context I really don't like erb, but I do actually like jsx, so there's clearly something a little off with my assessments
March 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I regret not going all in on Phlex, and taking the "safe" View Component route with our companies main app. Phlex is elegant and beautiful. For context I really don't like erb, but I do actually like jsx, so there's clearly something a little off with my assessments
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Bumper sticker that says, "Bought after the pedo diver thing... during the Grimes thing... you know what, this is on me. My bad"
March 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Bumper sticker that says, "Bought after the pedo diver thing... during the Grimes thing... you know what, this is on me. My bad"
After converting a personal project to Hanami, it blows my mind how elegantly it solves many issues I've faced with other frameworks. Bravo! I'm going to have to migrate some much larger projects over
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
After converting a personal project to Hanami, it blows my mind how elegantly it solves many issues I've faced with other frameworks. Bravo! I'm going to have to migrate some much larger projects over
As much as I love the aesthetics of symbol keys in a ruby hash, the mix of symbols and strings in ruby hashes in different projects can be a genuine nightmare. Pick a lane people!
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As much as I love the aesthetics of symbol keys in a ruby hash, the mix of symbols and strings in ruby hashes in different projects can be a genuine nightmare. Pick a lane people!