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@eightbitraptor.bsky.social
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Ruby core committer. Drinks a lot of coffee, listens to loud music. Proud Luddite. <3 Fountain Pens, Linux & Emacs. 日本語を勉強しています。でもまだ上手じゃないです。助けてくださませんか 🙇 Get in loser. We're going programming. More active here: ruby.social/@eightbitraptor

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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Increasing wealth inequality. The gap in benefit between someone who owns a 150k semi in Durham, and someone who owns a 5mil detached estate in Sussex is ludicrous.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 07/10/2026
this will obviously be framed as stealing from adobe even though none of the big companies' AI training or use of their models by their customers will be classified the same way
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socketwench @deninet.com · 06/10/2026
Still thinking about a comment a read in response to "fast, cheap, or good, pick two" that responded with, "I never expected companies to pick fast twice."
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 06/10/2026
the robot adding signatures to fake cartoons is such a great demonstration that these things do not understand the meaning of anything, they only know how to imitate form
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 06/10/2026
this is what software developers are agreeing to and it's so obviously ludicrous the second you see it recontextualised
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it is 2028 and my manager is pouring over my chat transcripts, he is asking me why i made the computer sad and blames me for the reduced velocity that followed as my negativity is causing alignment issues
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
Watching my twenty-something kids fall in love with CDs and vinyl is something else. "I can listen without paying every month?" "Nobody knows what I put on or when?" They're not being nostalgic. They're discovering, for the first time, that a song can belong to you and only you.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I want Binface to win _so_ much.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
we must recover the old wisdom
Biryani for 800 people
4 kg ginger
2 kg garlic
200 kg mutton (cut 6 pieces from each 500g of meat)
50 kg rice
32 kg masoor
80g saffron (8 tolas)
2 kg chilli powder (red)
2 kg crushed chillies (red)
500g whole green chillies
360g elachi
250g turmeric (use sparingly of this quantity and use egg yellow to obtain richer colour)
500g jeera
250g shah-jeera
250g tuj
20 kg ghee (use sparingly. If mutton is fatty, less with be needed)
20 litres oil
1½ litres lemon juice (or vinegar or ½ vinegar and ½ lemon)
40 x 500ml yoghurt
12-16 doz eggs
25 kg potatoes
20 kg onions
1 kg fine salt (use only as much as is required)
6 kg coarse salt (for rice and meat)
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yes! Sorry I did get it - I'll reply as soon as I can - this week has been crazy busy.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hey! Good to hear from you! Beer sounds like a great plan - Easiest thing for you to do is drop me an email and we can plan something (or at least move to a platform that's a bit more convenient for chatting).
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 24/06/2026
"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust." Code you can fix. Trust evaporates in an instant and doesn't come back. XP was a trust factory. Every practice that builds it makes you trustworthy. Vibe coding removes those moments: newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/trust-fact...
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Niche toot: There is no Sleep without Pike.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Have you met Steve Blackburn yet? He's there with some of the MMTk folks iirc.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It doesn't happen very often but I wrote a thing. Typically it's about Linux admin stuff. In this case the rather painful process of getting Guix system on my ThinkPad. www.eightbitraptor.com/2026/06/02/i...
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Electric Wizard's Dopethrone is such a wonderfully sluggish, grimy and nihilistic album. It's slow and greasy and exudes utter despair and futility in every track. 10/10 perfect record, I love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofd1...
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I,The Witchfinder (2004 Remaster)
YouTube video by Electric Wizard - Topic
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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · 17/05/2026
After weeks of work, Ruby’s master documentation now displays rbs signatures! We will release this feature in RDoc 8.0 soon as well. So any projects using rbs (inline or .rbs files) can benefit from it too. Check it on docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
イギリスは93万円。たかい〜〜
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
RubyKaigi 2026に行く途中で、地震で盛岡に足止めました。盛岡をもっと見てみたいです!RubyKaigiを盛岡でも開催してほしいですね。じゃじゃ麺はすごくおいしそうです。そして、わんこそばはずっと食べてみたかったです!🍜
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
東京に到着します。
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Peter Zhu @peterzhu.ca · 24/04/2026
Honored to give my talk at #RubyKaigi this year! Slides are available here: blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/rubyk...
Me on stage at RubyKaigi giving talk titled “Building the Next-Generation Garbage Collector in Ruby”
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shishi @shishi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
今年の9月のイギリス旅行でアーサー王伝説の土地グラストンベリーに行くときに @eightbitraptor.bsky.social と再会する約束をしたのが楽しみ。これもkaigi effect!
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
たくさん歩きましたので、足がいたい 😮‍💨
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
東京まで新幹線に乗っています。遅れないといいですね。
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
函館さよなら。
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Matthew Newell 🇺🇦 @matthewnewell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
So much winning, the couch fucker says Trump is a terrorist.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'll also be arriving Monday.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 11/04/2026
Even better: stop treating tech monopolies as if they're an immovable part of the landscape which we can only accept, ban, or regulate. We have the means to replace toxic social apps with better ones, including youth-designed and youth-governed alternatives.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
All this shit is a heat check by mainstream press to see if they can still pull off a “there’s equally bad guys on both sides, and here’s the guy we decided is just as bad as Nick Fuentes.” It’s: 1 - A way of avoiding the real problems: Trump, Vance and Netanyahu 2 - Probably not gonna work anymore
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Brendan Miller @brenkjm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Authoritarian brainrot
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 04/04/2026
Hitler and the Nazi Party equated themselves with Christianity -- the result was Germany becoming one of the most atheist countries after the war. It is in Christianity's own interest to rebuff Trump's attempts to co-opt Christianity to legitimize his immoral behavior.
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
There’s always a tweet. Rubio on December 14, 2023. Before he hooked his wagon to Satan.
Rubio post which reads: 

No U.S. President should be able to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval. 

Thankful my colleagues in Congress passed this bipartisan measure.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group. This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote. This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague. (🎥 Cradle Media)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵
A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
starting a secretive conspiracy within the Catholic church to promote minorities, Opus DEI.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
the Nazi and Soviet files are full of stuff like this.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yeah. With you on that. The old pro 2's boxy look was much classier.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Nice review. As a fellow Topre lover who's looking to get back into HHKBs most of your experience totally matches mine. However. In an age of planned obsolescence & non-user serviceable components I consider the humble AA to be the killer feature. It elevates the HHKB almost into the BIFL category.
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Max @bernsteinbear.com · 18/03/2026
New post by Jacob about recent heap modeling optimizations in ZJIT :D railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-h...
railsatscale.com
How ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores
ZJIT’s optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRuby’s shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 18/03/2026
This is great news, and outstanding work by @open-web-advocacy.org. Without their tenacity, the web wouldn't have a chance at a comeback on mobile.
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Matthew Newell 🇺🇦 @matthewnewell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Have you said thank you?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“The only thing prohibiting swimming on Amity beach is the deadly shark. But it is completely open for swimming should the shark stop sharking.”
A clip from Jaws of the infamous incompetent and irresponsible mayor, much like drunk, unqualified Secretary of War Pete Hegseth who may be the least qualified mammal for the job.
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Matthew Newell 🇺🇦 @matthewnewell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“…if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle…”
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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#PeteHegseth #Iran #StraitOfHormuz Liam Nissan™ Pete Hegseth this morning: “The only thing prohibiting transit in Hormuz right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.” What a goddamn verified genius we have running the Pentagon, folks! 📼 @WillsBlackwolf
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half/moon @halfslashmoon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Listen folks. Half of this administration says we're at war. The other half says we're not. This kind of recklessness and disorganization is going to cost lives. That's why I, Gavin Nelson, pledge to call it a war when I refuse to deescalate in 3 years.
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 03/03/2026
I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I try to watch my language on this site. This man is a fucking psychopath.
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eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fair point. At least Bush paid lip service to getting Congressional approval for Iraq and pretended to have a reason other than oil. Trump hasn't even considered that he might need to help Americans get home!!
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