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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 29/08/2025

On behalf of Piotr It is with great sadness that I inform of the passing of Piotr on July 29th, after his long fight with cancer. He was a great man, great engineer, a wonderful husband, father, brother and son. A dedicated Ruby community member. He will be sincerely missed Piotr's wife, Monika

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 02/07/2025

... and this is why I don't like to talk to journalists. I made an exception for The Economist: sent over 7 pages of details on the comp landscape and told them they can use it, plus quote from @pragmaticengineer.com as long as they link it. They used my chart, redrew it as their own, did not link.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 02/07/2025

It's happened: the trimodal nature of software engineering compensation made it to the Economist! Disappointingly though, they did not link to the original article (they never do AFAIK), they redraw the image, and do not call it trimodal. Feels like "ripping off" my research, not gonna lie.

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Strajk Kobiet @strajkkobiet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@martalempart.bsky.social wygrała z @OrdoIuris o słynne zdanie, którego nie mogła przez lata wypowiadać. To znaczy, że nie musicie się bać mowić, że Ordo Iuris to finansowani przez Kreml fundamentaliści.

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 01/07/2025

GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 30/06/2025

A couple comments about what I’ve been learning about algo engineering, but first off: if you’re interested in helping us improve Discover and all of our algorithmic systems, we are hiring algo engineers jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

jobs.gem.com

Bluesky Jobs

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

happy women having sex with robots day for those who celebrate

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/06/2025

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 29/06/2025

Neil Brown neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk:

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number.
Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 28/06/2025

The crowd at the Budapest Pride is massive, in defiance of Orban www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/e...

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The singularity is awesome

Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me”
Al Overview
To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/06/2025

Budapest Pride thread, from the ground

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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 28/06/2025

Tried to use Gemini to fix a bug in Ruby. It made a change that caused Ruby segv, told me it's too dangerous to continue, and then gave me instructions as to how to report the bug 🤣

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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Jamis Buck @jamisbuck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Going through some old stuff of mine I found a random side project I threw together back in 2017. It generates an image of a random city skyline at night, then produces a random name and description of the city. (Pretty silly, to be honest.) jamisbuck.org/skylines/

A city skyline at night, reflected off of water in the foreground, with a large moon rising behind.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 27/06/2025

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A husband and wife have been charged with defrauding Bełchatów, Europe's largest coal power plant, out of €5 million by supplying it for years with what they claimed was an "innovative product" to help reduce emissions but was actually just slightly modified tap water.

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Couple charged with selling tap water as "innovative product" to Poland's biggest power plant for €5m

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Vitaly Slobodin @vitallium.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The Ruby extension v0.10.0 for @zed.dev is out, featuring Herb LSP by @marcoroth.dev and bundle-aware debugger support. Happy vide coding!

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Absolutely incredible work on this Zaku by Aksara Ngarmna www.instagram.com/p/Cb-QW64vTo...

A Zaku Gunpla kit painted to look like white porcelain with blue patterns in a traditional style.

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 26/06/2025

“The United States was the largest donor to Gavi, whose work is estimated to have saved the lives of 17 million children around the world over the past two decades.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/06/2025

"this guy in his mid thirties lacks work experience" really hits different from the generation that writes the email body in the subject line

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In case anyone wanted an update on Armenian politics

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 25/06/2025

time to finally hang up this banger of a poster

a poster with Hermaszewski asking WHICH SIDE WILL YOU STAND ON DURING THE WAR WITH SPACE ALIENS?

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Michael Tsai @mjtsai.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

macOS Tahoe Beta Forces Sharing FileVault Key: mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06... #mjtsaiblog

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Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS Tahoe Beta Forces Sharing FileVault Key

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We have reached Peak Streisand.😭

Four newspaper articles which all feature a very large photo of the Vance meme where he is fat, crazy looking and bald

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Peter Boling 🌹🧬⚛️ @galtzo.com · 24/06/2025

The secret to installing older Rubies (2.7, 3.0, 3.1) on systems with GCC v15, like Fedora 42, is CFLAGS=“-std=gnu17”, because GCC v15 changes the default mode from gnu17 to gnu23. Newer Rubies 3.2+ have no issue with gnu23. #Ruby

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 24/06/2025

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.

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Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) @batsov.net · 24/06/2025

Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 24/06/2025

If you use VSCode or Zed, you should now get auto-complete by default in your Rubocop configs, powered by RubySchema.

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friendlyrb.com @friendlyrb.com · 24/06/2025

🚨 One week before the CFP is closing for this year's Friendly.rb. - about 140-ish attendees - post-conf activities - incredible not-often-seen speakers - coffee corner - superails hack space

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You think you have an ally but your ally thinks he has a cool new weapons testing polygon

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 23/06/2025

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

1. SHELL

cast of characters
meet the shell
PATH
PATH tips
history
job control
filename tips
stdin/stderr/stdout
redirects

2. TERMINAL EMULATOR

meet the terminal emulator
escape cdoes
colours
the mouse
copy & paste
TERM

3. PROGRAMS

types of programs
less
editing text in REPLs
keyboard shortcuts

4. TTY DRIVER

meet the TTY driver
stty
canonical mode

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Poland’s culture ministry has set up a special department, headed by a former military intelligence officer, to prepare for the evacuation of the country’s most important artworks and other cultural artefacts in the event of a Russian invasion.

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Poland prepares for evacuation of most important artworks in case of Russian invasion

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Paweł Świątkowski @katafrakt.eurosky.social · 23/06/2025

I little write-up with details and thoughts. Includes a link to the complete code. katafrakt.me/2025/06/23/h...

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Putting Hanami in the browser via WASM

Thoughts and learning from the experiment with Ruby, Hanami and WASM

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

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Peter Sobot @petersobot.com · 23/12/2024

I have been thoroughly nerd-sniped by USB-C PD. If any devices in my house take 9V or 12V, they will soon be taking USB-C. I didn’t say it would look pretty, though.

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José Albornoz (valid bearer) @eljojo.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

today i did my first CASIO F-91W mod by turning it into a Sensor Watch Pro with custom LCD and accelerometer

crowd supply kit with sensor watch pro and custom LCD display

flashing firmware into the board. it plugs straight into a micro usb cable!

board with additional accelerometer installed. board on board.

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Grain @grain.social · 20/06/2025

Gallery comments are live! You can now leave comments on a gallery or on individual photos. You can also reply to others and get notified when someone responds. All comments, whether for the gallery or its photos, are shown in one place so it’s easier to keep track of the conversation.

screenshot of a grain gallery comments dialog showing the subject (the gallery) and its associated comments. A user Chad commented on a photo “love this place”

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joe @24fps.myatproto.social · 19/06/2025

wait for the punchline

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 19/06/2025

When using YAML 1.1, it will catch things like `Yes`. In 1.2, this behaviour has changed but it will catch `true`.

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