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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 9h

Asteroid City vibes!

Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 9h

How long? I used screen.studio to shoot beautifulruby.com/phlex … which I want to say were 20-30 min sessions. I’ve had up to 60 min in some test takes.

No crashes.

My only issue with it is they don’t have a very scriptable interface, but I’m overall pleased with their software.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 9h

Incredible. Looks fake.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 9h

Check it out, SF Ruby Conf got Wes Anderson to shoot their intro video. 😏

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

This November in San Francisco... 💎❤️
Grab your tickets before October 20 at sfruby.com
youtu.be/m2P9PZwi8W4

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YouTube video by Evil Martians

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 1d

I need to do an RTFSC of this repo even though I barely know how to read C.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 4d

Also: leave because of the confusing SF weather, but come first.

André Arko @indirect.io · 4d

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 5d

I think I’m going to open up a newsletter on Beautiful Ruby and I’m going to use Supermail in more places to make it easier to interact.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 5d

There was a distraction? 🤣

Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 5d

Every time I have to do this, I think about @indirect.io's `rv` presentations at the @sfruby.bsky.social meetups.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

Co-sign.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

I've found debates are fruitless when people use "You" in the arguments, so I'm going to bow out of this discussion.

I will say this, the hardest debates are those where many sides have valid points of view, which I find is usually the case for highly nuanced ethical issues.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

The exception to that obviously is Mike, who exercised his right to not donate to RC to hold them to account.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

My position is that RC shouldn't fail this hard if a major donor pulls out for any reason.

The ethics of RC could be debated endlessly depending on the eye of the beholder and how they hold RC to account, so I've found separating funding from ethics helps me better navigate through the problem.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

That's why I think the root cause of this mess is donor funding concentration.

It's easy to blame the event, but I think what unfolded was highly circumstantial between Mike & DHH.

And to your point, a miscalculation at an RC event shouldn't result in a catastrophic funding failure.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

As far as "malice" goes, I'm a big believer in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon'... (replace "stupidity" with "inexperience", I don't call people stupid).

If you look at the RC leadership, they put an ED in there with no experiencing in software or OSS. I can't say I'm surprised at the results.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

One thing I want to make absolutely clear, I don’t fault Mike for any of this. He is absolutely within his right to decide what he wants to do with his money, which is why I have landed on this being a failure of RC to diversify their funding sources.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

After thinking through the “events politics” problem though, I came back around to RV having too much exposure to a few donors.

If donor funds were less concentrated, there would be less risk from an individual donors opinion destabilizing the organization.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

That tracks for RCs inability to communicate 😂

That aside, I also had this thought & generalized it as “event politics”. I think it could help if they got out of events since there’s tons of them now.

I remember being pissed web3 & dhh was cut from RailsConf on the grounds of neutrality.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 6d

I had that thought at first, but I quickly realized the problem was, "All this started over a concentration of funding from a few donors".

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

Remember when I launched Supermail last week as an easier way to work with emails in Rails?

Turns out the simplified abstraction made it easy for me to generate mailto: links.

I also forgot to mention it works alongside ActionMailer for those with existing Rails apps.

Video & code 👇

Supermail mailto links

Start more conversations with your users over email

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

I could see one event being organized that brings together the people working on RC software with the broader community.

Think of it as an onsite for a team that mostly works remote. The issues being discussed would be about the underlying infrastructure and how well it’s meeting community needs.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

On the software theme, Ruby docs are slowly rotting away from search engines because we have sites like ApiDock that are broken or RubyDoc.info that’s very slow.

Improving availability of docs for people on the web and LLMs would be a worthy goal of RC if it had a focus on software.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

If RC became focused on software, they could still support events by putting resources and funding behind community built efforts like Ruby Events, Ruby Friends, and the CFP Rails app Evil Martians built.

There’s a lot that could be done with software to make events easier to organize & publicize.

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

Here’s the receipts for all the Ruby conferences.

There’s a lot to be said about focus for organizations. RC could cut events from their operations & focus on infrastructure & software.

This would also lower the surface area for event agenda politics from destabilizing funding.

www.rubyevents.org

RubyEvents.org - On a mission to index all Ruby events

On a mission to index all Ruby events. Your go-to place for talks and events about Ruby.

www.rubyevents.org

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Brad Gessler @bradgessler.com · 7d

Since we’re at a point where there’s no good answers, I’ve thought RC could fork bundler & rubygems and restore repo permissions.

`bundle` would become a sub command in `gem`, call it `gem deps` or `gem bundle`

Forks aren’t great & this will be harder & confusing, but it would show accountability.

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