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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️

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self-taught ruby dev turned startup founder something something building something new everything i post is satire

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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 09/02/2026
hello old friend
The unicorn error page from GitHub.com; a rainbow-maned unicorn with the text "No server is currently available to service your request"
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 10/09/2025
today someone sent me an llm generated email i sent one back we’ve truly done it
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 23/06/2025
me: it’s important to write good commit messages also me: git commit -m “FUCK”
Screenshot of a git commit history on the main branch. A vertical list of commits includes:
	1.	Mock c…
	2.	FUCK (selected)
	3.	point at staging
	4.	ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
	5.	It is the children w…
	6.	Prayers to the Om… (x2)
	7.	Deploy demo to he…
	8.	first pass at a loadi…
	9.	Add Ordinal brandi…
	10.	Style and add exa…
	11.	Working POC
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 08/05/2025
andor is maybe the best show ever made? i will block dissenting opinions thank you
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 20/04/2025
google what’s that i only know gogole
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 12/04/2025
agree or disagree there are some great thought provoking ideas in here @bsky.app team has done an incredible job challenging pre convinced notions about social media and imo should keep doing it
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 08/04/2025
most powerful productivity hack of them all alias rpsec='rspec'
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 01/04/2025
pro software engineering tip from @codynorman.com deploy client products at 4:57 pm on april 1st we will pay ANYTHING to go home
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 31/03/2025
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learnhotwire.com
learnhotwire.com by Chris Oliver & William Kennedy
learnhotwire.com teaches Ruby on Rails developers Hotwire to build modern web applications with HTML over the wire using Turbo, Stimulus, and Hotwire Native.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
rizzo the rat in front of a silver curtain saying: "Why are you booing me? I'm right."
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 28/03/2025
hear me out: disappearing skeets
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
just a quick reminder that you can encrypt your bluesky posts by using the #encrypted hashtag #opsec #encrypted
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 26/03/2025
geez guy wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face
OpenAI's attempt at drawing Trogdor
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 26/03/2025
this is how a well oiled engineering organization gets shit done 😤
A todo list titled Urgent with only one item, “memory leak,” marked out
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Eloquent Ruby 2nd Edition is on the way with Pragmatic Programmers! @russolsen.bsky.social and I have started work on modernizing this Ruby classic for the next generation of Rubyists to enjoy.
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 14/03/2025
Finally a strong rational for choosing Visual Basic in 2025
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 14/03/2025
Raising VC as a technical founder, I’ve learned this: engineers build magic and forget it’s magic. Other engineers learning how to fundraise: don’t forget your investor audience is quite likely *extremely* non-technical. You need to demonstrate how much magic you’ve built. They won’t see it.
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 19/02/2025
what’s great about raising venture capital is the emotional toll
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
what does semver say about emojis
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 01/02/2025
UX designer whose job is to make you book the wrong dates to maximize revenue
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 15/01/2025
Hey friends A local game studio just released their first title If you’re into narrative, suspense games, I’d be psyched if you supported my new indie dev friends by adding it to your steam wishlist or downloading it while it’s on sale store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/...
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Save 20% on The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam
The Haunting of Joni Evers is an emotional tale of a broken family from small-town Oklahoma, driven apart by a malevolent haunting. Uncover the mysteries of Joni’s family and the Cunningham House, dig...
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 12/01/2025
they’re playing crossfade and creed at my barber shop 🤘🤘🤘 Onw to get some tribal tats
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Warehouse (2000)
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/01/2025
please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that
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Cody Norman @codynorman.com · 03/01/2025
After limping my way through the end of last year, I'm coming out of my winter reset and ready to come out swinging in 2025!
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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 27/12/2024
I was reminded of Noah Gibbs’ talk on ‘The Forty Year Programmer’ If you have, or are considering having, a career in software then I think this is worth 30 minutes of your time. Lots of wisdom here even for those of us similarly long in the tooth www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkJ...
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The Forty Year Programmer
YouTube video by Noah Gibbs
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just found out a good friend and mentor, Noah Gibbs, has passed away. Rest in peace friend, the Ruby community is poorer in your absence.
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 27/12/2024
Noah embodied a lot of the things I love about the Ruby community. We were very lucky to know him and I will miss him. If you knew Noah please share your memories with his family via @nateberkopec.bsky.social
A Lenovo Thinkpad covered in software development related stickers. One sticker resembles a teddy bear that Noah Gibbs carried at tech conferences to make himself approachable.
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
DS9 holiday special scene. Weyoun is pictured in mid-thought. He has large and extra long ribbed ears that stretch further down the face than earth humans, aligning more with the jaw line, and have horizontal loafy ridges up and down. 
Closed caption reads, "Oh, ho, ho, ho."
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 25/12/2024
cat: *filets human hand* my wife: that’s our signal so i know he is done with play time
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GitHub @github.com · 23/12/2024
Are you an open source maintainer? Comment below 👇 and find others in the community on 🦋
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daniel:// stenberg:// @daniel.haxx.se · 23/12/2024
hey, I run a little hobby project called #curl
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 19/12/2024
might fuck around and delete the entire front end today
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 18/12/2024
In two Zooms at the same time, one about product and another about protocol, and jumping between them. This is what it means to be in flounder mode
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
hash rockets!!!!!
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 14/12/2024
terrifying when you realize you only have 72 hours remaining to buy every single saas (everyone knows black friday only lasts 21 days)
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 14/12/2024
dev tools mantra
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 13/12/2024
I’m very wary when people anthropomorphize LLM behavior (i.e., self-reflection, motivations). It’s not dissimilar to presenting LLMs as an AGI-lite.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 09/12/2024
I was talking with an engineer at GitHub who told me they learned to love Ruby on Rails. I thought I remembered GitHub used to run on RoR Apparently, it still does! The .com, for sure! (How did I forget about this?)
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 12/12/2024
@nickyt.online recently introduced me to Inertia JS We’re exploring using it in a Rails 8 project (hosted on MSFT wtf) Is anyone using Rails + Inertia + Vite in production these days? Endorsements or horror stories?
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Why @why.bsky.world · 28/11/2024
Pro Tip: If you remove an unused index, make sure your ORM won't try and recreate it next time you restart the process. In completely unrelated news Discover and other bsky.app feeds should be back online now.
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 27/11/2024
can’t wait to unveil my upcoming dataset too
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
half of that AI model is probably like this. thank you @amutepiggy.bsky.social 🫡
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Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate @elchefe.me · 26/11/2024
I am once again asking companies to stop restricting internships to college students. There are a lot of boot camp and self-taught folks who could use those opportunities too.
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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 26/11/2024
"guy wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face"
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 26/11/2024
what in tarnation disconcerting in any nation to be frank
a complicated anti-bot challenge asking the user to "Make sure the object is facing in the same direction that the hand is pointing towards."
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Tyler Walpole ➡️ NYCC @tylerwalpole.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I didn’t realize just how annoying and intrusive the ads were on the other site. I mean, I KNEW. I just thought I was better at tuning them out than I actually was. Hope this place figures out a community-first business model so we can keep it nice!
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ruby folks: who's using shorthand hash syntax in prod apps? dev.to/baweaver/rub...
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Ruby 3.1 – Shorthand Hash Syntax – First Impressions
It's the time of year again, and with it comes a bundle of new Ruby 3.1 features getting approved and...
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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️ @jacobherrington.dev · 24/11/2024
- grow faster (pretty much the only right answer imo) - very strong conviction/data re: pmf - complicated af - great if you figure out the previous question 😉 we’ve raised a respectable pre-seed on SAFEs from a small number of very competent angels w/ relevant networks
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Brian Cheung @justbcheung.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
FIRST-TOME FOUNDERS 👇 Lmk if you’d like to be added to the starter pack! (repost for visibility 🙏🏻) go.bsky.app/LncBcre
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