Reposted by Jakob SkjerningSyntax @syntax.fm · 07/10/2026We have $100K to give away to open source maintainers! Let us know your suggestions and nominations. 6310129
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 9963462478
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningLine Lazarus @linelazarus.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026Efter cpr-læk og råd fra en jurist, vil jeg hermed gerne sige videre, at I skal gøre jer selv den tjeneste at gå ind på borger.dk og sætte en kreditadvarsel op, så I ikke så let kan udsættes for digital svindel og bedrageri. Det er nemt, og kan nemt fjernes igen, hvis I selv skal ud og låne penge.borger.dk 3328
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/10/2026Friends: take a moment to sign european.social. There's strength in numbers and we can bring some game. This can become more than a letter.european.socialThe European Social Stack · An open declarationAn open declaration: The European Social Stack. Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging. 68449
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Spam via TestFlight invites!?! Spam via calendar invites!?! FFS, why are shitheads so creative 😭 122
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningAlejandro AR @kinduff.com · 29/09/2026If you own a product, especially one for developers, ask yourself: what can you offer that they can't build or figure out themselves? The popular view is that anything can be built today. That's true only if your time and money are worth nothing. 021
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 10941801441
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningJason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 27/09/2026the hard parts of building a business are - solving a real problem for real people - ignoring shiny ideas that are fun but distracting - prioritizing boring stuff that moves the needle - connecting with customers if anything, AI makes it *harder* to build a successful business 615520
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026LLMs don’t write buggy code, humans with LLMs do. 021
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningRegina John Hakmann 🏳️🌈 @reginajohnhakmann.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026#MemeMonday 092
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningAndy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hallucinating AI "almost started a war" by FALSELY claiming China was smuggling nuclear materials. "The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel... Military planes were in the air"edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 17190116
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When you deprecate a method that's never left the feature branch you're working 😵💫 #opensource #ruby #rails #uchi 010
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningGovernment of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026BC has a new time zone abbreviation: PCT. PCT stands for Pacific Time, BC’s single year-round time zone. It replaces PST and PDT, providing a consistent way to refer to BC’s time zone in schedules, systems and communications. No falling back this November. 2325183
Reposted by Jakob Skjerningdax @thdxr.com · 17/09/2026the last 20% to get a product shipped and successful is as difficult as ever this is where 99% of programmers have always fallen off the first 80% is a lot easier and so we're seeing more abandoned projects than ever 21117
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My highest score yet, I suspect puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...puzzmo.com@mentalizer's finished Cross|wordPlane Language 000
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I adore @sfruby.com’s branding. The world needs more and bigger pixels! 😍 sfruby.comsfruby.comSan Francisco Ruby Conference 2026 - SF RubyNov 10-12, 2026 at SFJAZZ. Two days of Ruby talks for small teams and big teams, Day 1 AI-heavy and Day 2 AI-light, then a community day. Schedule is live, tickets from $350. 110
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 08/09/2026If you have an LG TV you should probably just unplug it and never use it again idk tl;dr even if you don't configure Wi-Fi, it connects to the Internet via open Wi-Fi networks and tells LG what you're watching and security is bad so it can be hacked to listen on you www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...youtube.com216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV ProblemYouTube video by Gamers Nexus 3249
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 07/09/20262.1.0 of route_downcaser has been released! Contains a single bugfix and is likely to be the last release in the 2.x line; next release will cut a bunch of Ruby and Rails versions from its support matrix. rubygems.org/gems/route_downc...rubygems.org 000
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Here's a projection playground, you can set the center anywhere you like. please don't break the planet kuboon.github.io/equal-earth/ 35115
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Søndag står på solosejlads. Jeg har været alene afsted før, men aldrig rigtigt haft modet til at sætte sejlene. Vejret i dag er oplagt, familien kan undvære mig, så afsted med mig. 🤞 130
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningPatrick Donahue @levelbrook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Every schema constraint you skip becomes an if statement in six places, and one of them will be missing. Put it in the database where it cannot be forgotten. #RubyOnRails #Rails #PostgreSQL 053
Reposted by Jakob Skjerningcee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482191910
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Dear @vscode.dev - please ask your LLM to vibecode it so that keyboard focus is on "Don't save" again, so I can hit enter to save, space to not save, escape to cancel, as god intended. #ux 110
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Been playing around with the API for actions in Uchi. It’s quite challenging finding something that’s both expressive and flexible without becoming complex - and that won’t be restrictive in the future - but I think I’m getting there 🤞 010
Reposted by Jakob Skjerningslyngel.eurosky.social @slyngel.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026Er du administrator for et online fællesskab? Overvej at checke oase.app ud. Det er dansk. Det er gratis for private forsamlinger (koster lidt for foreninger) og kan ca det samme som Facebook fællesskaber. Og så er der ingen meta. Ingen algoritme og ingen reklamer.oase.appOase: Gruppechat hvor alle kan være med. Børn som voksne. Fri for reklamer og fastholdelse.Giv dig selv og dine børn et sikkert, trygt og algoritmefrit alternativ på en dansk platform bygget af forældre til forældre. 3157
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026What web apps out there provide really good keyboard navigation? Linear comes to mind, any others? 210
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There’s hardly any wind but who cares when the sunset turns your sails orange #sailing #boatlife #scampi30 011
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I must admit, I am quite pleased with the components overview illustrations I just added to flowbite-components.substance... 😍 010
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So... we set up a server for Solid Cache the other week; it just ran out of diskspace. Pro tip: Remember those `max_size` settings. So how's your Sunday going? 🙈 000
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Turns out, building a project that relies on another project you're building, which relies on a third project you're building, which is also used in the first project, gets somewhat confusing 😵💫 010
Reposted by Jakob Skjerningtapster @mileswoodroffe.com · 13/08/2026New Agents on Rails benchmarking initiative just dropped. The Rails Foundation commissioned @evilmartians.com to get this rolling. Super interesting already but just the beginning rubyonrails.org/2026/8/13/ll... rubyonrails.org/airubyonrails.orgRails and AI — Ruby on RailsRails gives AI coding agents a convention-driven, expressive framework for building production-quality software quickly. 0207
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hm, load average: 45.61, 43.21, 37.50 isn't optimal, right? 😬 100
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've just pushed out v1.1.2 of Classlist: rubygems.org/gems/classlist Unfortunately v1.1.1 included a pretty serious performance regression and you'd probably want to upgrade to v1.1.2 as soon as possible. #ruby #railsrubygems.orgclasslist | RubyGems.org | your community gem host 110
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“Incidents per Pull Request were up 242%. Monthly incidents were up 58%. Bugs were up 54%” Slow. The. F**k. Down. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/s... via Instapapercodemanship.wordpress.comSlow. The. F**k. Down.“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” US Navy SEALS training mantra Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In the latest AI Engineering Report from Faros, the so… 011
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Been twiddling with the marketing page for Uchi these last few days; Finally got around to adding screenshots of actual features: www.uchiadmin.comuchiadmin.comUchi AdminScaffolds are great, but only take you so far. Uchi is the next step in Rails admin panels. bundle add uchi && rails uchi:install and you're halfway there. 111
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ooow, got a classic SQL injection attempt, it's almost cute 010
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026New toy just arrived 😍 #nocfree #keyboard #kickstarter 210
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Adding a new domain to Mailgun, and their _recommended_ "Automatic setup" gives me an iframe from Entri (?) that plainly asks for my DNS provider username and password 😱 wut? 000
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningJared Norman @jardo.dev · 01/08/2026this is cool. it was a running joke (it was a joke right?) that the elevators in the (newish when I started my degree) Engineering & Computer Science building were programmed by students. this was why they failed all the time. john.fun/elevators 011
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningPete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 31/07/2026Domains by the numbers dotcom.press/archive/domains-by-the-numbers although probably nicer to read on the website^, this is well suited to a thread, so here goes 1105
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Finally a score above 4K. Still a long way off from the speed solvers, though. puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...puzzmo.com@mentalizer's finished Cross|wordMusic Arrangement 000
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Has anybody ever distributed a paid-for library as a downloadable gem that you vendor into your application? #ruby #rails 101
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Great advice... #BookSky 12455681200
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningKasper Villum Jensen @villum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Memories😻 "The Loading Museum": sheets.works/data-viz/the... Via @davidpierce.xyz (The Verge/Installer)sheets.worksThe Loading MuseumTwenty-two loading screens from your life, rebuilt so they actually make you wait. At the end, we tell you the truth. 021
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Lillebælt viser sig ikke just fra sin mest sommerlige side i dag. Gråt, regnende og blæsende. Men 6,5 knob, jow tak 😎 #sailing #boatlife #scampi30 071
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Efter 30 sømil for motor pga manglende vind må man godt sejle langsomt de sidste få sømil til Vejle 😎 #sailing #boatlife #scampi30 131
Jakob Skjerning @jakobs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026After far too many windless days, this is bliss #boatlife #sailing #scampi30 081
Reposted by Jakob SkjerningTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/07/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 453415655