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Chris Fung

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He/him. 💼 Staff Software Engineer at Binti. 💙 Reinventing child welfare with technology. 💎 Ruby and Rails enjoyer. My posts and opinions are my own. Temet nosce. 🐘 @[email protected] 👨‍💻 https://github.com/aergonaut ✍️ https://chrisfung.dev

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · Feb 19

Your outie thoughtfully documents every function they write.

Your outie chooses good names for their variables.

Your outie’s code review comments are appreciated and valued by their coworkers.

Cassidy @cassidoo.co · Feb 19

Your outie's code works on the first try

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 14h

FANTASTIC 👌 Oscar contender for best short??

San Francisco Ruby Conference, Nov 19-21 @sfruby.com · 14h

This November in San Francisco... 💎❤️
Grab your tickets before October 20 at sfruby.com
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The San Francisco Ruby Conference: join in at sfruby.com

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 1d

I have never ONCE in my life intentionally launched the Ghostscript command `gs`

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Una Kravets @una.im · 2d

Is it just me or have domain names just generally gotten a lot more expensive lately?

(Maybe this is the universe telling me not to buy another one)

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gourd chorus @jcoglan.com · 4d

as I've said, LLM advocates have an extremely narrow idea of what a person is, and that is why they think an LLM could be one

Shrikant Joshi @shrikant.bsky.social · 4d

That's a very dismissive construct of LLMs, IMHO. Yes they are stochastic and yes they are 'robotic' but here's a sentence for you to ponder:

Humans are just advanced language output algorithms that spit out returns based on input and their reference library.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 4d

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Meet the new and ambitious Ruby & YC startups at the SF Ruby conference already on Nov 19-21, and let’s build the future in Ruby, together! We pushed the price down to $350, which means you get the tickets for $300 till October 6 with code SEP29OCT6.
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Meet the Ruby & YC companies at the San Francisco Ruby conference on Nov 19-21: sfruby.com

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André Arko @indirect.io · 4d

only 7 weeks left until the SF Ruby conference! come for the incredible speakers, stay for the confusing SF weather

plus tickets get more expensive in 3 days, so now is the best time to join us luma.com/sfrubyconf20...

The San Francisco Ruby Conference ♦️ · Luma

Full program is live. Tickets are on sale now. The San Francisco Ruby conference is the place to meet the most ambitious Ruby and Rails founders, leaders, open…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

The idea that you’ll make people want to have “no Caesars” by _acting like one_ is stupid on its face, made worse by the fact that *the alternative to take your ball & go home does not exist* for all practical purposes for an average Bluesky user.

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 6d

Some ghost pokemon today 👻
#pokemon #art

Illustration of some ghost pokemon featured are duskull, dusknoir, dusclops, ghastly, haunter, gengar, alolan marowak, misdreavus, and mismagius

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 7d

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6d

The million-dollar PR campaign: everyone loves AI

The reality: everyone hates AI and isn't shy about it

www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Subway poster for an AI dongle called friend dot com vandalized with a message: go make real friends, this is surveillance. AI fuels isolation. Reach out into the world.

Subway poster for an AI dongle called friend dot com vandalized with a message: AI will promote suicide when prompted, it is not your friend.

Subway poster for an AI dongle called friend dot com vandalized with a message: fuck AI, talk to real people.

Subway poster for an AI dongle called friend dot com vandalized with a message: don't be a [illegible], be a luddite.

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Jul 17

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12d

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 7d

Always hated that illustration. It implies the right way to do things is to build something no one wants, then tear down your entire manufacturing process so you can build another unrelated thing, and still no one wants it. Repeat ad nauseam.

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 8d

I’ve tried different tools (git, rcm, chezmoi) but the one I keep coming back to is home-manager and nix-darwin. The new flakes-based configuration system makes this much smoother.

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 9d

This is the kind of take I’ve been looking for

Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 9d

Nix is just hipster gentoo

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 9d

Assume *not* covered in the book!

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 9d

Anyone tried integrating Apple’s Foundation Models with Hotwire Native? Particularly interested in the speech-to-text model, and the async transcription utility. I assume it covered in @joemasilotti.com’s book, but should be possible?

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 12d

Why did GitHub Packages never really take off? It’s had RubyGems support since the beginning, but I have never heard of any gem being published there.

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 12d

Is there an 🍊 🤡 labeler out there so I don’t have to see deranged capslock spam unless I want to

Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 13d

Partially want to try the new Siri call screening feature. But would that send the signal that there is potentially someone at the other end to the scammers? 🤔

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 14d

You: eponymous
My brain: ah, yes. “Pertaining to Link’s horse, Epona, from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 14d

I agree and even more so: what if the problem is us, the Ruby community, not contributing to our key nonprofit enough? We did not have ownership because we didn’t show up, and RC ended up being squeezed by a big donor because they did not have enough sponsors, stability and support.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 15d

*Taps sign* If you don't like it do something about it, and complaining on social media counts for nothing.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 17d

RE: Ruby Central funding, and a consolidation of power with companies like Shopify.

For years now the lead funder of Ruby and Rails initiatives has been Shopify, full stop. They've contributed heavily in both time and money, and through that have left a substantial impact on Ruby and Rails.

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Chris Fung @aergonaut.com · 14d

100% Funding is a big problem, but we are also part of that problem if we are not paying.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15d

this aged really well lol x.com/dhh/status/1...

DHH on X: "This is totally crazy. Like if the operators of rubygems dot org just decided to expropriate the official Rails gems, hand over control to a new team, and lock the core team out of it. We're in uncharted and dangerous territory for open source now. What a sad sight." / X

This is totally crazy. Like if the operators of rubygems dot org just decided to expropriate the official Rails gems, hand over control to a new team, and lock the core team out of it. We're in uncharted and dangerous territory for open source now. What a sad sight.

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gourd chorus @jcoglan.com · 15d

everything else aside for a moment, it is deeply concerning that ruby central has painted itself into a corner where it's entirely dependent on one company that has dhh on its board

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