Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 4hWhat I find every vibe coders journey endlessly funny is the pathway from “I can make something to exactly my specifications and tastes” then realising that nobody would want something that is exactly made to their specifications and tastes, and that can’t pay for their mortgage. 020
Reposted by Ruby QuailGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 642158763650
Reposted by Ruby QuailJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8hI don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer. 8566142
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 7hWorking full time and trying to go to MIGW stuff has killed me, I do not have energy 010
Reposted by Ruby Quailcécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 22hi'll make a proper post later BUT play the Parasensor demo ITS OUT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/...store.steampowered.comParasensor on SteamWhen Marisol accepts a job as a telecom technician, she finds herself in a quarantine zone where civilians are mutating into insects. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel ... 39338
Reposted by Ruby QuailChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19hYou guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist. 10728169
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 20hAlso I think most tech now is trying to push people away from tech. Automation over experience. 000
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 20hAll the money and attention went to a single technology, and one that has a fairly clear politic to it, and pretty awful figureheads 100
Reposted by Ruby QuailEsther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMargaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 8453195
Reposted by Ruby QuailGHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au · 07/10/2026Terrified to announce that Parasensor's demo is OUT NOW ON STEAM 📣😱 Become telecom technician Marisol and explore our freaky Footscray-inspired quarantine zone. 1 demo play = 1 flower for artist @unseconds.bsky.social who we suspect hasn't smelt a flower yet this spring :') #indiegames #indiedev 717067
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think there’s a big gap in empathy between the “yes the creators of these systems are awful, but their actions wont materially effect my life, and I find these systems useful so 🤷♂️” and the “these people and systems are making my life materially much worse, I don’t care if they can code” 020
Reposted by Ruby Quaildecryption @decryption.bsky.social · 07/10/2026ahh the slow decline of sizzle subscribers when i do 0 promotion of it - time to get in the clown suit, jump around like an idiot and hope people give me money thesizzle.com.au - australia's best technology newsletter, all the other ones are shit 1137
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I remember a colleague once saying that women and trans people being abused on twitter was our own fault and we should be better at blocking people. 2000 is a lot of people to block, not to mention blocking… sky news. 020
Reposted by Ruby QuailBec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026its so nice to come to bluesky where nobody like matt walsh will share yr lighthearted article about women changing their surnames ending with me saying i should be a judge and decide base on coolness. and approx 2000 people wont call me ugly and fat. and rita panahi wont discuss it on sky news 3732
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think a lot of them are quite insecure and anxious, like negativity in general really seems to irk them, I’ve been reprimanded significantly for posting very even handed critiques, I legitimately think it’s tech twitter brainrot. 110
Reposted by Ruby QuailLaura McGarrity @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Portrait, Lady Abigail Quail, 1878 🧶 #embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart #birdart 963272
Reposted by Ruby Quail✨🔹🦋⟣ NEO ⟢🦋🔹✨ @tokyozilla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026getting this out of my system, drew a gambel's quail 181335295
Reposted by Ruby QuailFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026when I started learning illustration i kept thinking "man, this is hard, I'd rather just roll a dice several times to get something approximately finished, that I can then use my human effort to clean up" 142213
Reposted by Ruby QuailMaddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting 252075500
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Games people are good people, it’s always nice to spend time with games people 040
Reposted by Ruby QuailTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026Like Stochastic Parrots, TESCREAL is also an acronym they hate and are talking about. In the comments agreeing with a poster about TESCREAL, was Joscha Bach saying that the acronym basically accuses everyone we disagree with of being Hitler. Funny he brings up hitler. "Very blue eyed" indeed. 211119
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026DST is the worst because I have to wait an extra hour for @puzzmo.com 030
Reposted by Ruby Quailborn miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it’s always “protect girls’ and women’s sports,” but never “protect girls and women” 17974210
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The best thing about dragon age is still that fantasy England was just like “girl Jesus had a dog, we are going to make this dog like our whole thing” 000
Reposted by Ruby QuailElissa @elissablack.com · 03/10/2026Daylight savings fucking sucks. I do not want more daylight in the evening. Make the sun go away faster please. The less the better. 1162
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It was partially filmed in my old uni building (which everyone fucking hates) and I will never forgive the film for that lol. That building should not exist. 010
Reposted by Ruby Quailrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life 462382358
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Games week is terrible because always by the end of it I’m completely in “I should quit my job and make a game” when that is definitely something I very much do not have the skill or drive to do successfully. That and starting a PhD are the big brain traps that I constantly gravitate towards… 140
Reposted by Ruby Quailworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10260961708
Reposted by Ruby QuailHeather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this. 63608230
Reposted by Ruby QuailNatalie 🦊 @nataliethistime.com · 03/10/2026Wrote an article about moving from GitHub to a self-hosted instance of @gitea.com secured by @tailscale.com. The process was pretty simple and I'd absolutely recommend self-hosting important data in this era of the internet. Have a read if you're so inclined - nataliethistime.com/blog/saying-...nataliethistime.comSaying Goodbye to GitHub | Home of Natalie RoseAfter years of loyal use, the platform has become unusable. This article covers using Gitea and Tailscale to host my own projects including container registry and build pipelines. 092
Reposted by Ruby QuailBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026I don't think LLM-based software systems are like homeopathy in the sense that they don't work at all; they're more like cars, in the sense that they do do the things they're meant to do but those things are not generally good for society. 711815
Reposted by Ruby QuailBoo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Two Vancouver indie gems right here. 🔥 1296
Reposted by Ruby QuailAshley Claymore @ashley-c.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm really excited with the amount of things we now have agreement on! Still some open design points to resolve before Stage 2.7 but have already had great input on these 🚀 1262
Reposted by Ruby QuailRua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's my bookiversary. (check comments for a link that works.) 2289
Reposted by Ruby QuailTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026You don't need to trip over yourself to tell lesbians that "it's okay to sleep with men!" Every institution, cultural norm and social pressure is constantly telling us it's okay to sleep with men. Most of our families would be ecstatic if we slept with men. We got the message. It's fine. Shut up. 171071178
Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What I find fundamentally weird, is the same devs that jump on every new model etc etc, where in many cases the ones who derided JavaScript so much for the constant new frameworks, like, at least be consistent 030
Reposted by Ruby QuailBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/10/2026I don’t begrudge anybody using—even enthusiastically—LLMs for coding. They’ve become mandatory in many workplaces. But if you’re promoting or normalising generative models then you’re allied with religious extremists, fascists, and grifters and you’ve already picked a side opposing the rest of us 3397