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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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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 22/07/2025

Please consider me on a coding/work hiatus at least till the end of September, due to health reasons. 🫠

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 18/07/2025

I was heavily offlined the last few weeks, so I’ll have Opinions™ more end-of-August at best! But my Vim clumsiness finally pays back, the basic bindings are the most I ever learnt. 😇

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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...

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/07/2025

Right, apologies. 🤦‍♂️ You can mutate the array because you have access to the passed-by-value pointer to it (`a`), but you can’t repoint it (this is why `a += [3]` doesn’t change the caller’s variable). This is also why you can’t mutate immediates.

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/07/2025

This is because `a += [3]` is syntactic sugar for `a = a + [3]` – you are not modifying `a`, you create a new local `a` from the passed-in `a`. `a.push(3)` is a call on the original `a` that modifies it. (Ruby is pass-by-reference except some objects are immediates, like small integers… 😱)

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/07/2025

Can they do Polishness next? My paternal-paternal great-grandpa was Czech, my maternal-paternal one was Silesian, the majority of them identified as Poles probably, keine Ahnung – Poland didn’t exist for 123 years (that’s five generations?). And then what does it mean to be Catalonian.

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 01/07/2025

(There’s also the infuriating ‘employees have to be in the office three times a week because we can’t trust them to not be doing another job in parallel’.)

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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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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 30/06/2025

…or, just now – I had my daily blood pressure records in Obsidian oldest-first, but the list grew long and I’d rather add to the top of it: tac blood_pressure.md | sponge blood_pressure.md

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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 30/06/2025

like Popular with Friends (one of the official ones)? bsky.app/profile/did:...

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

Does this include Tuple? I found it times and again phenomenal when it comes to balancing details vs latency.

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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

Thanks! I’m also sadly v. conscious about the contemporary use of bare ‘aliens’ (esp. in the US) so wanted to be clear on this. 🥲

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

as with anything RMS-adjacent I use it _despite_ it's goals 😅 (case in point: I really wanted to publish my PhD code as I was working on it and published partial results, but in a way that Altera/Xilinx won’t easily integrate it before I beat their suites. 😏)

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

yup! (I also put one in the alt-text)

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

This is why I still like copyleft (AGPL / CC-NC) – use it if you won’t lock it, but if you want to lock it then let’s talk about a licence that kicks me my share.

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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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Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net · 24/06/2025

So, a social construct rooted in trust and communication altering what you believe in…?

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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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