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Jim Remsik

@jremsikjr.bsky.social
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Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen. Founder of Flagrant a software design & development consultancy. www.beflagrant.com He/him

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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 6h
Talking with folks at a coffee shop before @xoruby.com about how experienced developers have never had more free time. I suggested it would be incredibly helpful to early career folks to get their questions to folks who could help them. Ahmed Nadar said “So … you want to re-create Stack Overflow?”
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Bart de Water @bdewater.bsky.social · 9h
Excited to share I'm speaking at @xoruby.com on October 17th. Hope to see you there! www.xoruby.com/event/montre...
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Bonjour, Ruby.
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 12h
Hello, Brooklyn! I did sleep before I arrived but it’s still nice to see you.
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 16h
The Toronto vibes were great and that was before we pulled out a huge stack of cash to distribute. 🤣 Join us! - Oct 10: NYC - Oct 17: Montréal www.xoruby.com/events/
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh no! Poke oh no. I’m in the Poconos.
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stopped by Rochester to visit with @thedayisntgray.bsky.social before seeing him at @xoruby.com this Saturday.
Harsh side sun spotlights two smiling faces
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyone suggesting you have to leave caution by the wayside doesn't care about you.
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Toronto.
Toronto skyline
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a powerful article. Infuriating how every time the trucker was trying to find empathy for Pierre and Haitians in general, his girlfriend and mom kept intervening with some racist logic or conspiracy.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 04/10/2026
Uhhhhhhhhhhh
Trending feed: Siberia plague

A lab worker in Shelekhov, Irkutsk region, reportedly died; a hospital is quarantined and about 200 are monitored.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2h:

Several hospitals were closed in Irkutsk for quarantine and a mask regime was introduced at an aluminum plant due to the plague
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 04/10/2026
Rocco's basilisk (destroying you with cuteness)
Rocco, a Australian Shepard, in a stark black and white portrait, looking at the viewer
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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 04/10/2026
I'm so excited for VMIL! The program looks great! conf.researchr.org/home/splash-...
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VMIL 2026 - Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Virtual Machines are pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. In fact, languages implemented as virtual machines are crucial in the specification, implementation, and deploym...
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Javier Cervantes @jvrc.ca · 03/10/2026
This was a really nice and insightful talk!
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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 03/10/2026
You can just make software for you. Been working on a project management app that brings all the things I need for me for a few weeks now. Getting to a point where it's usable! One of my favorite things is the check-ins so I can look back on what I accomplished.
Showing a check-in feature where you can post what you did today, plan to tomorrow, and blocked on.Project Management app with a calendar outlying the cycle work and any todos you haveDashboard of a project management app showing what you have starred and what's coming up for you.
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 03/10/2026
Kristine McBride wraps our day sharing how they deliver multiple regions from one monolithic Rails app.
Kristine McBride standing at the lectern presenting her talk.
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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 01/10/2026
The themes for XO Ruby Montréal: - the love of the craft - taking a chance with entrepreneurship (trying many things) - having varied interests pays off All to help with the current moment. Ottawa, Montréal, Upstate New York, come hang out with us on Saturday October 17. #Ruby @xoruby.com
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 03/10/2026
Thanks to Packt Publishing for copies of Polished Ruby Programming by Jeremy Evans!
Melanie holding a bookSaurbabh  holding a bookMichael holding a book
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 03/10/2026
@roelbondoc.bsky.social talking about his path to the stage. Shoutout to @honeybadger.io and Phoenix
Roel Bondox on stage with Honeybadger and Phoenix logos on a slide
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Adam Daniels @adamdaniels.ca · 03/10/2026
This was an amazing talk. Maybe one of the best I’ve seen in recent memory.
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 03/10/2026
Ahmed Nadar is sharing how one pothole tuned into a civic reporting layer for Canada (solvecanada.ca).
Ahmed on stage at XO Ruby Toronto.
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 03/10/2026
“This olde-timey camera thing is … an olde-timey camera” @paoloperrotta.bsky.social is teaching us about 1950s efforts to build a brain. Specifically Minsky, Rosenblatt, and Perceptrons.
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Eduard G.Castelló @elpatroned.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Status on compiling our production Rails API to native with #roundhouse + #Spinel. I'm contributing upstream as I hit issues, so here are the honest numbers. In rough percentages: → Compiling: 100%. 840 C errors down to 0 in four days. → Running unchanged: ~0%. Every build still depends on 34
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 02/10/2026
We'll be at The Loft on King tomorrow from 9-5pm. www.xoruby.com/event/toronto/ psst. If the ticket price is the only thing preventing you from joining us scroll to the bottom of the link above and ask for a free ticket.
Toronto, October 3rd, 2026 at The Loft on King
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Michael Rass @mikerass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, as special prosecutor to investigate the alleged gang-rape at Cornell University
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Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at Cornell
New York attorney general brought in by governor after recent questions raised over university’s 2024 investigation
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 02/10/2026
We watched Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie in preparation. See you tomorrow! www.xoruby.com/event/toronto/
Toronto skyline
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh Canada
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wisconsin ➡️ Illinois ➡️ MICHIGAN ⬇️ Toronto bound for at @xoruby.com
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𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔏𝔬𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢 @fleurkenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In ✨31✨ followers I will commence the sacrifice, finally freeing us all from the horrors!! 💖💖💖
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornell is 💯 going to end up paying through the nose for this. I hope Jane Doe burns the institution to the ground. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Wtf do you even put in a punitive essay about gang raping someone? Who tf thought that was a good idea?
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 01/10/2026
TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
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Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League
I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See you in San Francisco? Early birds end today!
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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminder that when you feel your mental health is particularly bad, you have full permission to take a sick day. Feeling mentally sick is the same thing as feeling physically sick, and it's ok if you need rest. I need this reminder often so I'm reminding you too.💗
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 30/09/2026
Coming up at the top of the hour is our weekly @codepen.io School with @shaw.city and I. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shsi... Twitch: www.twitch.tv/codepen Ya know: a little edu-tainment programming, showing off new CodePen features, stumping each other, etc.
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CodePen School | Q&A, Live Coding, Tutorials & More
YouTube video by CodePen
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Aaron Allen @aaronmallen.dev · 30/09/2026
Today I have published the first issue of "Hanami, why?". This is a new series I'm starting where we will dive in together to learn about #hanami. aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-i… #ruby #hanakai
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 28/09/2026
dog people: i'm trying to find a dx for Fizzy, who for about a year now has had bouts of what we call "bad leg." Her back right leg (on which she's had sx to remove a cancerous tumor, with some muscle removal to get it all) gets weird and stiff. It doesn't seem painful? More crampy?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 28/09/2026
Look! A new talk from @nmeans.dev! Ideal if you like to geek out about film making, Apple history, and end with a general lesson about how new technologies can be adopted by experienced professionals for their own, and their industry's, betterment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=27vs...
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RBQ 2026 Closing Keynote - 114 Miles to the Final Cut
YouTube video by Convivial Tech
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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You may just have to wait for the video of Travis Turner's closing remarks. Is it aliens? Is it God? Or just drugs?
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WNB.rb (Women and Non-Binary Rubyists) @wnb-rb.dev · 28/09/2026
October is for meeting IRL! WNB.rb is helping members connect in person through self-organized mini-meets. Grab a drink with other WNB folks in your area. We'll cover one drink per person. Learn more: wnb-rb.dev #WNBdotrb #RubyLang #RubyCommunity #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech #NonbinaryCoders
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A thing I’ve come to realize is we couch this knowledge in terms of our own experience. There are lots of people who are just being introduced to Meta and AI. Communities are built of many levels of experience and constantly refresh with new people who lack the context for how we got here.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So 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.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
GET ON YOUR FEET GET UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN
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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Literally every story involving a genie and a bottle ends up with the genie back in the bottle. Read more children's fiction people ffs.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Do you know your voting deadlines? Depending on your state, you may be running out of time to register to vote in the midterm elections. Take 10 minutes today to make sure you’re ready to vote by November 3 & vote early if you’re able. #HandsOffOurVote
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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