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Tom de Bruijn
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Dev team lead and developer at @AppSignal.com
Organizer Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Rails Girls NL.
tomdebruijn.com and lintje.dev
#Ruby #Rust #Vim #Git
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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sarahmccarry.bsky.social
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
feralstreeep.bsky.social feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · Aug 10
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎

https://gem.coop/fellowship/
gem.coop
gem.coop
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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daiz.moe
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.

I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
daiz.moe Daiz @daiz.moe · Oct 29
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...

A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!

Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
gem.coop
gem.coop
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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amsrb.org
The internet is down ⚡ so while you're checking social media, remember to RSVP for next week's Amsterdam Ruby meetup! www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...
November Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Hello Rubyists! 🧣👋 Get ready for the November meetup! This time we'll be back in Amsterdam at FeedbackFruits! Join us for talks and chats with people from the community
www.meetup.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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graham.loadingreadyrun.com
Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again.
Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals.
Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week.

DesertBus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
DesertBus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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desertbus.org
Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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amsrb.org
It's getting cold out, so join us for the November meetup at FeedbackFruits on the 27th of November! We got warm food and talks 🧣

RSVP here: www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...
November Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Hello Rubyists! 🧣👋 Get ready for the November meetup! This time we'll be back in Amsterdam at FeedbackFruits! Join us for talks and chats with people from the community
www.meetup.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”
letitmelo.bsky.social Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · Oct 28
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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dangolding.com
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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socksthewolf.com
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
python.org Python Software Foundation @python.org · Oct 27
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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amyhoy.bsky.social
i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely)

this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly
anthonymoser.com Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Oct 27
Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people

Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white

Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Oct 26
Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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afomera.dev
I wrote my most personal blog post to date.

It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.

afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...
Stop Giving Harm a Microphone
afomera.dev
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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joel.drapper.me
The two most effective ways your company can support open source:

1. Let your developers have time for open source work.

2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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nateberkopec.bsky.social
If I'm following RC correctly:

1) RC Did Nothing Wrong b/c it always had the right to the GH org, RC always owned Rubygems; Bundler merged into Rubygems, so they own Bundler too.
2) But, we're gonna hand it back to Ruby core.
3) Nobody has to sign a CLA

So what was the point?
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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fasterthanli.me
Ooohhh rust-lang/rust is finally changing its default branch to main! blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
Renaming the default branch of rust-lang/rust | Inside Rust Blog
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
blog.rust-lang.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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bell.bz
“I asked chat GPT”
impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · Oct 9
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
tomdebruijn.com
The tram I’m on in Amsterdam broke down. The fix? Turning it off and on again.
October 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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aryafairywren.bsky.social
The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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tomdebruijn.com
Local Git push/pull: Quickly share changes between #Git clones of a repository on the same machine. No need to push changes to a remotely hosted repository and pull it in the other local clone.
Is this a very niche problem to have?

tomdebruijn.com/posts/git-pu...
Git: Pull changes from a local repository
Did you know you can pull the changes from one Git repository's local clone to another local clone?
tomdebruijn.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tomdebruijn.com
Local Git push/pull: Quickly share changes between #Git clones of a repository on the same machine. No need to push changes to a remotely hosted repository and pull it in the other local clone.
Is this a very niche problem to have?

tomdebruijn.com/posts/git-pu...
Git: Pull changes from a local repository
Did you know you can pull the changes from one Git repository's local clone to another local clone?
tomdebruijn.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM