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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 26/01/2026

These aren’t just my gray dish towels. These are the gray dish towels in the world.

Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 24/01/2026

Skillet can now start up with an existing claude task list. $ skillet --task-list=mytasklist --prompt "Complete the assigned tasks" You can have another claude create and assign these tasks to a skillet worker (I think we could improve the interface though) github.com/martinemde/s...

GitHub - martinemde/skillet: 🍳 Run SKILLs & commands as Shell Scripts. Cook with Claude without the mess.

🍳 Run SKILLs & commands as Shell Scripts. Cook with Claude without the mess. - martinemde/skillet

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What sad is that a mass migration to a competitor is so unrealistic, and yet I still agree.

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And another thing! GitHub missed probably the one major thing we really needed them to do: separate AI actions from human actions. The "fine-grained" tokens are woefully inadequate for a situation where agents act on our behalf. GitHub ignored critical security controls to give us mediocre Copilot.

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It's so terrible. Things that used to be sync is now eventually consistent, and I'm using "consistent" loosely. More crashes and broken pages than ever.

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Claude Code commands deprecated in favor of skills - Martin Emde

Claude Code merged the duplicative slash commands into skills, and made skills better in the process. Happy to see this right as I was working on skills a bunch (the split was confusing, and a merger seemed inevitable). martinemde.com/blog/claude-...

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Anthropic pushed out a change to the docs that deprecates commands, pointing everyone te use the new improved skills with support for most of the same feature set.

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Why not both? It’s scriptable claude which was always possible but so ergonomically bad that you have to vibe something up every time and it’s always custom and never very good. The point is to easily elevate claude into the shell so it does a canned task in CI or in a simple bash for loop.

You’ll never have to deal with it again. Problem solved. New problems created but different!

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Lately it feels like the fan is just blasting at turbo speed and the ducts are full of shit but the fan is insane and the shit is hitting it all the time and the fan does not give a shit.

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Delete the app. 200 is too many. Kill it with fire.

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You can delete messages, right? There’s no hope.

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I’ve written countless throw-away headless claude scripts. - None work on the first try - Ugly prompts get buried in the ugly script - Permissions wrong, CLI flags wrong, nothing works - Output choices: Nothing / JSON flood. Agent Skills + Skillet fixes all of this: github.com/martinemde/s...

GitHub - martinemde/skillet: 🍳 Run Claude Skills as Shell Scripts.

🍳 Run Claude Skills as Shell Scripts. Contribute to martinemde/skillet development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10/01/2026

i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 11/01/2026

New focus & blur shaders in Ghostty enabled by my recent PR. I made a little "emulator" for them on my site where you can test them out. I've been absolutely nerd sniped by these lately. martinemde.com/blog/ghostty...

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 08/01/2026

Hmm, I would not describe it that way. It’s about running Claude as cattle, not pets, and using hierarchical project management and a special merge queue agent to integrate everything, overseen by a high level orchestrator. All continuous, no halting, not lost state.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 08/01/2026

Yep. There’s no way the future is “my mayor bungled the polecat sling and the deacon kicked boot and screwed up my rig.” But the agent managing workers with organized small work streams that get refined and checked, probably. At least it’s fun.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 07/01/2026

Will take a look. Lately I’ve been kicking gastown’s tires. It’s mostly broken but with cute animals that do work in a magical black box way that works well. Still getting the hang of it.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 06/01/2026

Oh totally. Sounds like you’re doing with token numbers what I’m using the percentage for. Either way you kind of need to get the feel for the agents reliability as the context grows. That’s why I added the percentage and colored progress bar. Thanks for the link!

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 05/01/2026

I can see number of tokens. Do you have a percentage I’m missing or are you just familiar with the number of tokens that means your closer to context rot territory or compaction?

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I should try it out. Thanks for mentioning it. I’m smitten with ghostty right now though. Custom shaders are super fun. Do you happen to know if the progress bar codes work in Alacrity as well? I’m curious what it looks like.

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Maybe tmux is partly to blame? I'm not certain. I was never a heavy tmux user by I did set up ghostty to map to tmux bindings (with a different prefix) so that I don't use tmux for the most part. github.com/martinemde/d...

dotfiles/home/dot_config/ghostty/config-keybind at main · martinemde/dotfiles

✨ AI-first dotfiles with chezmoi. Contribute to martinemde/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Oh interesting. I’ve seen ghostty go wild on RAM but my understanding is that it’s a bug. I’ve also been skeptical that’s it’s not just Tahoe, which is when this all started. (I’ve seen ghostty “use” 600GB of RAM which is obviously not actually happening when my combined SSD+RAM is <536GB)

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Here's a screenshot. It's fully customizable because it _is_ starship. Notice my context is about 20% full. Very useful at a glance.

A terminal with claude code using a custom status line, with a progress bar at the top.

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I made a claude code statusline that updates Ghostty's progress bar (that blue line at the top) as you fill up context. I know there's a lot of these out there, but this one uses starship directly for rendering, which was somewhat rare when I looked. github.com/martinemde/s...

GitHub - martinemde/starship-claude: ✳ claude code statusline rendered by starship

✳ claude code statusline rendered by starship. Contribute to martinemde/starship-claude development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 02/01/2026

Interesting approach: Suppress Josef's comment, then suppress anyone else that isn't in support of the new "governance." Making a deal with the person that broke the last deal is futile, but what do you achieve by suppressing the people saying that? Suppression just brings more attention.

Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 01/01/2026

Josef summed up problem of any new governance of rubygems in this comment: “The original governance was not the problem… The real failure was that one maintainer ignored it, and Ruby Core accepted that violation” github.com/ruby/rubygem...

Initial `ruby/rubygems` governance doc by schneems · Pull Request #9187 · ruby/rubygems

This provides a starting point for a Governance doc. It attempts to: Document the current state of norms with regard to Matz and Ruby core. Present a well-defined boundary between Ruby Central (RC...

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Mike Perham :sidekiq: @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Happy holidays all, hope you find time this week to apply for a Gem Fellowship, applications close on 1/1! 💎 🎄 gem.coop/fellowship

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 20/12/2025

Interesting, it's as if it's lossy but in a different way. We gain DPI and lose accuracy, whereas a deterministic lossy algorithm might stay accurate per dot, but with a lower dot density (like a lower res scan). The focus on the facial expressions is fascinating.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 20/12/2025

"If use big words at it, it use big words at you." - @kewe.me

The meta-framework you're describing is epistemological modes of problem-solving or knowledge acquisition strategies. More specifically, you're analyzing the dialectic between:

Deductive/Analytical approaches (planning, theory-first)
Inductive/Empirical approaches (iteration, practice-first)

Here are some established frameworks that capture what you're discussing:

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 02/12/2025

Applications are open! gem.coop/fellowship/ I love the name “Gem Fellow”

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 02/12/2025

Each time I read an article about someone’s appreciation for Ruby, like this great response by @robbyonrails.com, I’m reconnect with that little spark that made Ruby exciting. Thanks ❤️⚡️

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Why So Serious? | Robby on Rails

The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For som...

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Mike Perham :sidekiq: @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎 gem.coop/fellowship

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 06/11/2025

Are you writing service classes in Ruby? You need strong_service github.com/shkm/strong_... by @jamie.schembri.me for the best integration with ruby service DSL with zero dependencies and full rails compatibility.

GitHub - shkm/strong_service: 💪🏼 The best Service Object Ruby gem.

💪🏼 The best Service Object Ruby gem. Contribute to shkm/strong_service development by creating an account on GitHub.

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

!!! `jim release` can now: 1. build itself as a .gem, 2. pack itself into a single-file script, 3. publish both of these to GitHub Releases Try out the packed `jim.rb` file. It should be completely self-contained: github.com/duckinator/j...

A screenshot showing `jim release` building a "packed" gem, build a normal gem, and upload them both to GitHub Releases.

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 01/11/2025

You might say the reason they needed to do a switch atomically is because someone said “if you remove him I’ll add him back.” If someone says that to you, does that make it right to respond by using your power to move first to do it by force so you don’t have to answer the concerns being expressed?

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 01/11/2025

You know… Ruby Central’s takeover of rubygems GitHub org ONLY worked because it could be executed within seconds, and by doing so, prevent the possibility of revert. If the ownership change was a PR it would never have been approved. If RC is “right”, why did they need the atomic switch?

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 29/10/2025

I have also had this problem. It is very inconsistent. Maybe this is why.

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Loren @lorencrary.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

@sethmlarson.dev and I went through months of intense, complex work to climb a steep and slippery learning curve, only to be stopped short at the very end by a hard ethical line we couldn't cross—it was gut-wrenching. I'm proud of what we did and I'm proud of what we didn't do.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQt... My keynote, "We Who Remember Magic", from Rocky Mountain Ruby just posted.

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - We Who Remember Magic by Brandon Weaver

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 27/10/2025

Python Software Foundation had to make a tough choice here. I applaud them for sticking to their values. thanks for your leadership in this space @python.org pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 26/10/2025

Funny you should bring this up! I know some people that work on ruby packaging. I wonder if they need any help.