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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This meetup will include a book club discussion at the end for the O'Reilly book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" 2nd edition. Read the first 60 pages for this meetup if you want to participate.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My first curling game of the season.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One feels like they're throwing their energy into a black hole whenever reading AI generated documents. They provide too much information and don't make sense, even if the text at face value makes sense. That's because they didn't directly come from a human being.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI can be a nasty productivity killer for teams. Nothing kills productivity faster than having to read an AI document generated by a teammate, especially when not knowing it's AI text. Those documents are totally soulless. #ai #productivity #killer

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Claude one shot a working component for me on the very first try So, I will keep maintaining it as a better Web Frontend option than everything else that's available in JavaScript and other languages (like Clojurescript, Elm, and Dart), thanks to the awesomeness of Ruby.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Glimmer DSL for Web adopts the simplest Frontend approach possible in any programming language and has been tested with AI generation. It works nicely because of its simple approach.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

React.js has such a bad design that it could cause ridiculous issues as the Frontendn grows just because of its bad "reactive architecture", which was always a bad idea (but no one was courageous enough to point it out because of the bad React.js bullying culture).

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DHH suggested AI options for Native desktop/mobile apps and the Backend, but did not address the Web Frontend. JavaScript and React.js are not reliable options for bigger apps, and WASM results in large downloadables.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought about one more DOM mutation to support in Glimmer DSL for Web, "replace" (as in replace an element in place with another element). I have it working on my machine. I will implement the data-binding alternative in a different sample before release. #web #frontend #ai #glimmer #dsl #web

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I realize people will excuse this by saying one shouldn't work in a synchronous way anyways, yet by asking AI to do even more tasks in parallel, but that violates Steve Jobs' recommendation to focus and Lean's recommendation to work on one task at a time. W/o focus, work quality indirectly suffers.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow! Opus 5 is so frigging slow. It takes forever to do a large refactoring task compared to Opus 4.6. #ai #ruby #rails

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More blog posts about discrimination and exclusion in the Ruby on Rails community: andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-... andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/07/ruby... andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/07/remi... andymaleh.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-...

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RubyConf 2026 Is Not a Safe Environment for Everyone

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The #Ruby on #Rails community has been a cesspool of #discrimination for years (see links in this series), so I am very happy #DHH and many discriminatory people are abandoning RoR for Agentic AI + Rust/Native. Good riddance! andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/09/ruby... #rubyconf #railsconf #railsworld

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How did the Ruby community go from Great to Garbage?

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI koolaid drinkers have completely forgotten about the piece of advice "go slow... to go fast"! 🤦‍♂️ It's OK. It gives people who follow that advice better job security.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And, so it begins. AI slop crashes.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Speaker Bio: Robert Jakubowicz is a Full Stack Software Developer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling web applications.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this talk, we'll explore the source code of the Solid Queue gem and look at the lifecycle of a Rails background job. We'll look at concurrency, the interactions between the supervisor, dispatchers, and workers, and how coordination happens between them.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, the meetup will include a book club discussion at the end for the O'Reilly book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" 2nd edition. Read the first 60 pages for this meetup if you want to participate.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI Slop on Hey's website! Can you see it? Do you get it? That didn't happen when AI wasn't the primary mode of work.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Correction: I used Swift not Rust. This was an example of Native UI on the Mac, not Rust.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still, I am willing to consider it. It would be interesting to try building some apps with Rust or Native UI languages like C++ and Swift via AI as a learning experiment. In fact, I already tried building a native Mac calculator app with Rust and got this app that's in the attached screenshot.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And, if the AI mastered Rust enough, then we might not need Ruby on Rails anymore. I believe the jury is out on that one though. Building a Rust app with AI quickly is not enough to prove that. An app must be maintained for 2 years at least to know if the AI approach is practical.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But, Rust has very difficult to read syntax, and it is statically compiled. So, if AI mastered Rust, then we could take advantage of that.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I personally don't find AI helpful with Ruby because Ruby is already very terse, and I could come up with better code ideas in it as a Master Rubyist than what AI comes up with.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I put in some more thought into what DHH shared, and I think it might make sense to use AI with Rust or Native UI languages like C++ and Swift. #dhh #railsworld #railsworld2026 #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #ai #agenticai #agentic #genai #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank God to AI for making DHH finally leave Rails! Rails is gonna become so much better without DHH.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

P.S. And, DHH made it sound like Shopify is making the same decisions as him, so good riddance to them as well given their discriminatory unethical ways. Go enjoy Native Rusting and let real MINASWAN Rubyists continue using Ruby the right way!

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One good thing that came out of DHH's RailsWorld 2026 talk today is DHH announcing he's ditching Ruby on Rails to use Rust & Native Desktop/Mobile tech via AI Agents. Finally, the Rails community is getting rid of DHH!! Hip Hip Hurray!!! #dhh #shopify #ditch #rails #ruby #rust #native

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Glimmer DSL for Web somehow survived the whole Gen AI revolution intact and even became more valuable than before given how garbage are all the JavaScript frontend alternatives are. Great news for Glimmer DSL for Web!!!

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI can generate Glimmer DSL for Web Frontend features with much simpler and more reliable code than React's as attested by my own experience with this. Glimmer avoids over-engineering with a much more elegant design. #glimmer #dsl #web #rails #railsworld #ai #dhh #frontend #development #software

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The most interesting thing about DHH's talk today is that he can replace desktop/mobile apps with Native while replacing backend layers with Rust, but the Frontend can still not get rid of garbage React.js because generated vanilla JS code is even less reliable, unless we use Glimmer DSL for Web!

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing gives real Software Engineers better job security today than everyone else using AI to their detriment. It's totally the opposite to what people expect, but true. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #softwareengineering #ai #softwaredevelopment #artificialintelligence #programming #web #software #dev

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's what I mean when I say AI only provides the illusion of productivity, but it is more of a crutch, and actually real Software Engineering skills provide true productivity.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My Rails team had an incident retro, and one of the things that were brought up is 5 Senior Software Engineers used different kinds of AI to troubleshoot the problem and all failed to figure it out, but when I did some manual investigation for like 5 minutes, I figured out the problem without AI.

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andymaleh.bsky.social @andymaleh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The #video and #slides for the #Montreal.rb February 2026 #talk "Crystal: #Ruby with Static Typing" have been published! The real exciting bit to any real Rubyist is that #Crystal has similar syntax to Ruby's and similar performance to that of C/C++/Rust. andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/09/mont...

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