iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I believe this warrants a far longer post, but I believe it needs to be intentional and clear about the failures of technical leadership and extremely limited pov from which such strong statements are made that are not remotely reflective of the broader industry, especially at larger companies.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is not responsible stewardship of a language or framework community to collectively invalidate the hard work of that same community and abdicate responsibility rather than providing a clear vision for the future.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the "I will repeat this song until I am sick of it" list for tonight, because autism. Also why is it that all the gacha games have music that hits this hard? music.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAf...

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Pas de deux di Rosula e Candela

YouTube video by HOYO-MiX - Topic

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 12/09/2026

The RubyGems team has published an update on the May spam-publishing campaign on rubygems.org, following recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal and research from Nightingale Collective. buff.ly/qU21FCK

rubygems.org

RubyGems.org | your community gem host

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After years of working with conservatives back home? Same. The way to have impact is to focus them in on shared concerns and keep a narrow focus. Build up enough wins and they're far more open to bolder ideas.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On the list of potentially very bad ideas: Travel rugged DDR mats that I could get 2 cleanly into a checked bag, modular to where you can connect all of it on site with pogo pins or something. Would need to figure out electronics and 3d printing among other things to do it though.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You talk most like someone from Kansas — about 53% of your answers match a typical resident." Not bad, I was across the way in Missouri. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Dialect heatmap showing Denver, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerque but saying I'm from Kansas

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Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @sgrif.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You should go check out @tessgriffin.bsky.social's talk if you didn't see it in person! youtu.be/Yuh8W0O4iuE?...

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RubyConf 2026 - Learning Empathy From Pokémon Blue by Tess Griffin

YouTube video by Ruby Central

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Do I want to buy a mini pc and properly learn k8s/proxmox?

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The more I work in Rails the more I'm convinced ActiveRecord is actively harmful at scale, and at no point does it create a designated off ramp to help teams isolate their domains successfully. Telling folks to learn the framework better is at best a cop out and at worst engineering malpractice.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If it's of interest I can share my AI workflows for writing and coding, as they exist today. This thread is more of the TL;DR version.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Starting in on the "Rails: The Sharp Parts" article on Transactions, which I avoided for a bit because it's going to be _dense_ and I want to make sure to review and test all of these things thoroughly.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If it's of interest I can share my AI workflows for writing and coding, as they exist today. This thread is more of the TL;DR version.

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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I loved building a Linux distribution as an engineer, contributing to Fedora, and before that as a Security Product Manager. I’m looking for new opportunities that contributing to open-source projects, in roles like Solutions Architect, Forward-Deployed Engineer, Dev Relations Engineer, or Product.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I mean it's not far off, and I may have had similar thoughts even within the last few weeks.

Google query: tweet like bluesky user baweaver

AI Overview

Here is a post written in the signature style of Brandon Weaver (@baweaver.bsky.social), blending deep Ruby/software engineering musings with a dry, thoughtful tech-community tone:

"Thinking about how much accidental complexity we invite into systems just because a new abstraction smells slightly nicer than the last one. Sometimes the best refactor isn’t a new gem or a clever macro; it’s deleting four layers of 'cleverness' and going back to plain old Ruby."

If you want to adjust this, let me know:

- Should it lean more into functional programming / Ruby code semantics?
- Do you want a touch of existential developer humor?

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Blue Apron changed their supplier and boy did things go flying off a cliff with it. That's getting cancelled. What are other people using these days? Debating between that and getting back into meal planning.

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 18/08/2026

The RCA for the outage we had at GitHub yesterday is live. We're sorry it happened and hope this answers your questions about it. The team is already working on the actions listed here to fix it. www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zk...

githubstatus.com

Incident with GitHub.com

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The type of rabbit hole that has you half-considering writing an SQL parser even though you know that's a cursed proposition.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's amusing looking back on yourself in high school and recognizing the delta between the social group you _thought_ you were in and the one you were _actually_ in, and finding peace with that.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some times I return back to old school MMOs, if only to turn my brain off for a while and hunt cartoon mushrooms for the evening.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined GitHub as a Principal Eng over the Developer Platform group.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 10/08/2026

Love this, agree with it, and have experienced much of the same. As a leader you’re always influencing, whether good or…actually bad. And very few things are perfectly right or wrong, with nearly everything in a some shade of gray. A wonderfully written post from @baweaver.bsky.social

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Every now and then I realize just how _weird_ something I do is compared to more allistic folks I know, when to me it's just the way I think. This one dives into how I process hard problems. baweaver.com/writing/2026...

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Tales of the Autistic Developer - Bringing It Into Focus

How I process problems: hyperphantasia, rotation, the click moment, and using AI as a variance accelerator for a brain that generates more ideas than it can hold.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As I part ways with my current role I wanted to reflect on what it means to lead, and the answer I have come to is that it is our job to create hope that things can change, and to go out and prove it by leading the way. baweaver.com/writing/2026...

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Beyond Senior - Creating Hope

Organizations teach themselves helplessness through reinforcing loops of scarcity, cynicism, and declining trust. This article is about breaking that cycle.

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Tales of the Autistic Developer - Bringing It Into Focus

How I process problems: hyperphantasia, rotation, the click moment, and using AI as a variance accelerator for a brain that generates more ideas than it can hold.

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baweaver.com

Beyond Senior - Creating Hope

Organizations teach themselves helplessness through reinforcing loops of scarcity, cynicism, and declining trust. This article is about breaking that cycle.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For me it was unfortunately the second one. At one point I even had a teacher say that math was not meant for people "like me" and that it was a waste of time.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hey @tenderlove.dev, I think this gives us enough ammunition to make faux macros for Ruby 😃: bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21795...

bugs.ruby-lang.org

Feature #21795: Methods for retrieving ASTs - Ruby - Ruby Issue Tracking System

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of the much much earlier variants of the lemurs from 2014, back when I was trying to figure out how to get into web comics.

Comic with two guys talking.

Person A: Next time don't joke with HR about needing more code monkeys
Person B: that's a lemur, what's the difference?
Person A: $50 an hour with benefits

There's a lemur coding on a laptop with headphones on in the background sipping coffee.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is probably one of the hardest posts for me to write, as I do not enjoy reliving these experiences, but I write on them in the hopes that they help others struggling with the same issues: baweaver.com/writing/2026...

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Tales of the Autistic Developer - Panic

For those who don't know me, I'm autistic. This post is about panic: the kind that locks your body, floods your brain, and makes every solution feel equally impossible.

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baweaver.com

Tales of the Autistic Developer - Panic

For those who don't know me, I'm autistic. This post is about panic: the kind that locks your body, floods your brain, and makes every solution feel equally impossible.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

8 years ago was my first lemur talk back at Southeast Ruby 2018.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Last day today, and a lot of work done. From the initial launch of HealthScribe to the infra underpinning HealthAI, Zocdoc, and multiple other VP+ level goals it's been quite a ride. I'll be starting a new role on the 11th, and it is indeed a Ruby shop, albeit one that uses a decent amount of Go.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Half tempted to wire up a HUD like monitor above my keyboard and give it mruby extensions.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Monday is my last day at Amazon. It's been a wild ride, I've learned a ton and grown a lot in my career, made a lot of amazing connections, but it's always hard to say goodbye. I'm grateful for all the folks who I've worked with, and I'm leaving on a high note.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Might write a post on my dev setup later. Been a while. Also made a portable setup repo for provisioning new laptops for... reasons, probably coincidentally related to the Go posts and writing spree.

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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 31/07/2026

The Rails security team published attack details and -- more importantly -- tools and agent skills to run a forensic investigation to help you determine if you were exploited. Be careful out there. discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2026-6...

discuss.rubyonrails.org

[CVE-2026-66066] Attack details, and tools to perform a forensic investigation

Hello there, I’m writing as a member of the Rails security team about CVE-2026-66066. As mentioned in the advisory, GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm, we held back details about the attack vector to allow applicat...

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Introducing GemCP: MCP tools for RubyGems. Ask your AI agent about gem compatibility, dependencies, versions, and ownership with data straight from RubyGems.org. `gem install gemcp` and add it to your MCP config. github.com/baweaver/gemcp

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have never cared for "debate" in online spaces because it has always felt _off_. It took me a long time to understand why. The problem isn't disagreement. It's that much of what we call "debate" isn't debate at all.

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