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There are plenty of new problems to solve, and I’m excited to dive back in. Trying to make the process of developing software a little better every day.

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At the same time, software is changing, and it can change for the better. It’s really up to us. If we can now do even more with less, we should aim higher.

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Things I still believe about software: - good software takes effort - slower is often better - the hard work is human - it should make people’s lives better

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Taking time off this summer was so nice. The industry has changed a lot recently. Too much, too fast, tbh. It was good to step back to gain some perspective.

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That‘s kinda the joke I was making but I regret to inform you that it’s also a lie

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Weird thing to say to a stranger. Ironically it’s hard to tell if this is a bot reply lol

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I guess I missed an opportunity to demonstrate this by cross-skeeting to bsky and cross-tooting to Mastodon.

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Haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been vibe coding a cross-posting app. Preventing me from posting is its #1 feature.

It’s kinda cool, idea is to post to my static blog as the canonical but optionally customize the syndicated versions for each platform (like buffer). Works with all that indieweb stuff. joshuawood.net/micro/202610...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/10/2026

Haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been vibe coding a cross-posting app. Preventing me from posting is its #1 feature.

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The trees are turning colors and there are gloriously crunchy new apples and there are migrating geese flying through the air. The Earth is beautiful and every one of us are a part of it

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 02/10/2026

These are pretty sick. bsky.app/profile/rmru...

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 02/10/2026

Hey look it me (in the first pic w/ the mic). Fun moment at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social, where I got to give away a custom @honeybadger.io balance board.

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Flagrant @beflagrant.com · 01/10/2026

Bonjour, Ruby. 🇨🇦 XORuby comes to Montréal Oct 17, 2026. It's a single-track conf, top Ruby speakers, $100 ticket, zero travel needed. Details: www.xoruby.com/event/montre... #XORuby

Event card for XORuby Montréal, October 17, 2026. Background shows an orange-tinted photo of the Montreal Biosphère's geodesic dome against a cloudy sky. Text reads: "Montréal never quite fits a simple description. Wrapped around Mount Royal, it's a city where two languages trade jokes on a terrasse, bagels come out of wood-fired ovens at 2 a.m., and summer seems built..."

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 01/10/2026

I guess it's time to start making zines and flyering windshields at supermarkets.

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 01/10/2026

Personal data sovereignty is becoming my number one personal computing concern lately, heh. Like I'm still fine using apps/SaaS, but if they lock up my data, they can fuck right off.

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This blew my mind when I first saw it

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The fact that DHH credits Marc Andreessen as the person who personally stepped in to help him during the 37signals no politics at work fiasco explains a lot about David's embrace of psychotic optimism imo.

"Standing by our principles back in 2021, and not caving to the woke mob, remains one of the proudest achievements in my career. And you don't forget the (very) few who came forward to help. Thank you again, @pmarca (and @tobi and @patrickc)"

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I’m not hot and bothered, I’m perfectly calm. :) Personally I try to post about things only when I have something to add, and I haven’t seen anyone else mention this specifically.

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Effective accelerationism - Wikipedia

I’m not upset he’s leaving Rails. I wish he would (he won’t). I’m talking about him and his billionaire friends more generally. They’re throwing all of us under the bus with a specific form of “optimism.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effecti...

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Hi Dave. I think “he’s always been nuts” IS dismissive of what he has become more recently though. He was always divisive yes, but he was still usually punching up instead of down. I’m writing this more for the folks who are still in his orbit.

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There was a time (before he was a gutter racist) when David was at least on the side of the underdogs, the indie devs, the small teams who used Rails to punch above their weight. That's clearly no longer true. He's thrown in with the ultrarich, and he's throwing the rest of us under the bus.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 29/09/2026

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TL;DR I'm going to write more and no one is going to read it but that's okay.

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Writing Things

I'm still here and I'd like to continue writing, if you'll have me.

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99 sleep score, jackpot baby

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You have discovered The Format™️

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Well there was something called a hellthread

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where is aaron's keynote I need to laugh

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I think it takes actual work

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also I know "software development" not "software engineering" I like to be special too 😂

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I get being excited by LLMs for software engineering and tbh the first 20 minutes of the talk (before the sermon) were alright. Yay, we can do more now! And more people can do more things! But then the pivot to bitterness and resentment (sorry, I mean "optimism").

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