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Flagrant @beflagrant.com · 01/10/2026

Bonjour, Ruby. 🇨🇦 XORuby comes to Montréal Oct 17, 2026. It's a single-track conf, top Ruby speakers, $100 ticket, zero travel needed. Details: www.xoruby.com/event/montre... #XORuby

Event card for XORuby Montréal, October 17, 2026. Background shows an orange-tinted photo of the Montreal Biosphère's geodesic dome against a cloudy sky. Text reads: "Montréal never quite fits a simple description. Wrapped around Mount Royal, it's a city where two languages trade jokes on a terrasse, bagels come out of wood-fired ovens at 2 a.m., and summer seems built..."

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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been at Thatch for a bit over four years now and excited I can finally tell my mom I work at a 'real' company 😁 thatch.com/blog/thatch-...

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Thatch raises $108M Series C at a $1B valuation to build a healthcare system people love | Thatch Blog

Learn about our Series C funding round

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 10/09/2026

Bonjour Montréal 👋 We're coming to town this October 17! Who should speak at the conference? We’re looking for new voices. Maybe someone who dives into a deep part of a domain that Ruby helped solve, someone who has a story to tell that’ll make us think about our AI age, ...

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 10/09/2026

Three cities, three Saturdays, and a bunch of folks making it happen! Toronto - Oct 3: Clio.com, @fullscriptdev.bsky.social, Phoenix.ca, Toronto Ruby NYC - Oct 10: Chime.com, WyeWorks.com, Montréal - Oct 17: Fullscript.com Leg Sponsors: @dnsimple.com, Typesense.com, @confreaks.bsky.social

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

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Clarisse @qex.at · 23/07/2026

french if it had a compiler

error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> /messages/10378318/80554717
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1 | je suis aller à Paris
| ---- ^^^^^ expected past participle, got infinitive
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| because of this auxiliary verb
help: replace with: `allée`
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1 | je suis allée à Paris
| -- ^^^^^ feminine past participle
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| this refers to a person with feminine pronouns

For more information about this error, try `frenchc --explain E0308`.
error: aborting due to 1 previous error

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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My RBQ Conf talk recording is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrm... - completely missed it while on vacation last week.

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RBQ 2026 - How to quit your job (and come back later)

YouTube video by Convivial Tech

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Grace @gracekind.net · 13/06/2026

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lukas.fittl.com @lukas.fittl.com · 05/06/2026

Gave a talk today at #PGData2026 on #Postgres plan management and monitoring. Some exciting changes coming to Postgres 19, and pg_stat_plans (plan statistics) now supports the new release. Full slides from the talk: resources.pganalyze.com/pganalyze_PG...

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 27/05/2026

Canadians: there's a Parliament petition up to withdraw the surveillance bill, C-22. It's sponsored by NDP MP Jenny Kwan. Please consider signing, but also make sure to call your MP and tell them why you oppose it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7416 - Petitions

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/03/2026

Built something new this morning and am getting quizzed, right now, on what we did and why. Extremely cool that people like Hicks and Willison can independently build tools that give people control over their own learning process; I hope tech journalists are writing this up.

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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@apenwarr.ca hi, unsolicited Tailscale feedback/ask. We're Rippling IAM customers and they don't have OIDC for custom apps, but their app shop does support OIDC (and SCIM): developer.rippling.com/documentatio... - any chance TS will get in there so things will 'just work'?

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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

People using stripe-ruby version <= 18.1, you might start running into connection issues on February 16 when Stripe starts using new root certificates for api.stripe.com. Details and a workaround if you're unable to upgrade here: github.com/stripe/strip...

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stripe/stripe-ruby

Ruby library for the Stripe API. . Contribute to stripe/stripe-ruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 26/12/2025

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ruby and the release of Ruby 4.0, the first 32 talks from the SF Ruby Conference main stage are now live on YouTube! This includes keynotes from @marcoroth.dev, @palkan.bsky.social, and @paolino.me. We’re working on uploading the rest next week.

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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This was the book that really made me understand idiomatic Ruby looks like early in my career. Looking forward to reading the new edition.

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Andy Boenau @handle.invalid · 27/12/2024

The free parking crowd has limits.

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