iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know. If you make a video about a teenager who died in 1995 whose parents and friends are still around, please consider pronouncing her name correctly. And if told you mispronounced it, offering only a shrug and "I meant no disrespect" is an ugly look. I'd rather watch AI slop.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you're reading this, and you're a Speech Language Pathologist (or know one), please reach out. Our 21-year-old wants to pursue this as her career, and we want to speak to someone for guidance on how she can best achieve that.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Don’t worry - we talked them out of buffing Bigfoot. I think.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My friend Chris wrote an important book. We've never discussed his experience in these areas (we were busy making music, art, and theater [and drinking]), so I'm looking forward to learning more about it and him.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Gamer love number go up, developer love number go down.

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Kyrylo Silin @kyrylo.org · 12/05/2026

Last week, a customer nearly left Telebugs because of a mistake I made at the design level. Their queue database grew to 95GB in a single day. Their app was processing ~40,000 jobs daily, and I had designed the main ingestion job to carry large payloads directly in the job arguments.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I spend a lot more time thinking about to not be wrong than how to be right. That wasn’t true 20 years ago. It’s good to grow even if it’s frustrating to need to grow.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

noelrappin.com/blog/2025/11... Smalltalk is often referenced, but rarely explained. I never had a chance to work with it in its heyday, so stuff like this is really cool to read. @pascallaliberte.me - it's like @noelrappin.com sensed our curiosity emanating from Hotwire Office Hours!

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Why do we roast people who like the gross candy? That should be your first round draft pick for friendship, you short-sighted buffoon.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Maybe it's due to expectations, but of all musical fandoms, the kindest and gentlest in my experience are the metalheads.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Make your #Rails #Minitest tests friendly: `require "colorize"` Then add `.black.on_red` for your failed assertions. Add `black.on_yellow` for your failed setup assertions. I also prepend the message with "SETUP:" Now you can quickly see the problem and not even need the trace in some instances.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In a #Rails app, migrations are the same thing as command line history and should be treated accordingly.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I spent $125 for #Hotwire Office Hours with @pascallaliberte.me. It's the most useful expenditure for improving my toolkit outside #Rails conferences. And I could even speak back! This was high-effort, direct feedback and discussion, not just idealized sample code. Incredible value and tons of fun.

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Justin Searls @searls.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Proposal: move RubyGems (the gem and bundler CLI tools) to the same Ruby org that governs the language itself. It's an accident of history that Ruby, its dependency tools, and its dependency hosting are managed by three separate entities. (And it hasn't gone great.)

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Things I worry about that I probably shouldn't. world.hey.com/sean.hogge/t... #Ruby #RubyCentral #RubyGems

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It still feels like we need more discussion about #Hotwire specifics - not Hotwire feelings. Many of us have been solving the same problems, but we need share so that we can all settle on the convention. I have many that work that are inelegant, and that ain't Rubyful.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Finally gave Overmind by @darthsim.me a coveted* single-letter alias for my shell, alongside Rails, Vim and Lazydocker. I apologize for the delay in officially recognizing this wonderful project. *I like to imagine Sergei felt a disturbance in the source as I saved the rc file

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So true. I want to find a way to capture the spirit of building under severe constraints with the joy of all the incredible tech we have at our disposal. Vim isn't faster because it's better - it's faster because it had no choice.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I bet if compilers branded themselves as the Dark Souls of programming, we’d have the “no hit run” equivalent (no compiled program can raise an exception) within the year. And I would still watch the live streams and never participate directly.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This from the same man who wants to bring back Columbus Day is the lowest-pitched dog whistle ever.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Just got the confirmation from my boss: #RailsConf is a go for our entire team. Normally I prefer smaller conferences, but this is the end of a memorable era I'm ready for the meta-troll where @tenderlove.dev gives multiple closing keynotes by playing an augmented C chord. Get it? 'Cause Ruby is bu

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Please stop trying to validate the skills of senior engineers over #VibeCoding. First of all, it seems melodramatic. Secondly, the longer they vibe code their way into unmaintainability, the more we can charge to fix it. We can all be the new #COBOL guys if we just let it play out.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 02/05/2025

My third weekly niblet is up! This week our topic is "On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates". charity.wtf/2025/05/02/o... It talks about why I support pronoun disclosures, and normalizing the practice of sharing pronouns, but hate mandates and pressure to share. (And why I personally don't.)

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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down t…

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m always terrified when the dogs are in the car and drive like a grandma with cataracts. They, on the other hand, seem to have zero cares. He’s down from unhealthy 60 to a rowdy 45 lbs, and that weird lump I felt is his floating rib. The vet only laughed at me a little for that one.

A scraggly brown dog lounging in the front seat of a car without a care in the world.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I wonder if everyone does this: when I'm writing a new feature for a #Rails app, I write the invocations first, in as many ways that will actually be used. Then I write the code that responds to those messages. I find it gets me closer to the elegance I see in others' work.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I don't know why Medium's plagiarism irks me so much. Seriously, it probably shouldn't to this degree. But look at medium.com/@ashwinborka... Pick a post at random. Google the first coherent sentence. None of it's original. Why does this feel so slimy? Why does reporting it do nothing?

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Read writing from Ashwin Borkar on Medium. Ruby On Rails

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#Rails is rose-tinted. It simulates, through conceptual compression, the feeling of building sites in the 90s without the facts of building sites in the 90s. The ConCom™ is incredible. If you're young still, fire up a Windows 95 VM and build an IIS site that puts form input into a DB. I dare you.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I disagree than Slim and Haml are worse than ERB. 😖 When people hate on Phlex as an abstraction, they’re just grumpy they have to learn the signatures for tags. It made me grumpy for the hour it took to learn. After that, you fly. Vanishing the yield sold me: tables no longer suck to write.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Is there any browser that, when in dark mode via the OS or browser setting, doesn’t set the default new blank tab background to white? I really don’t need a flash bang as punishment every time I open a tab without content.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I had a beautiful script full of #kamal app exec commands, scp & tar, gzipping and gunzipping. Then I realized that the #docker host exposes mounted volumes, so a single line rsync will replicate production to development or staging. And yet I still haven't replaced MySQL with SQLite...

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Are people willing to hear yet that Severance has great everything except story?

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@travisturner.bsky.social - I read your article about copywriting errors. It has some errors in it, so I wanted to help get them fixed and pay down the global irony debt. Your name on the article links to Twitter which you (rightly) deleted so I knew you'd be here. Where can I send the typos?

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The 90s: a time when we only lost our religion, not our bodily autonomy and freedom from government kidnapping.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We treat one-hit wonders like failures or disappointments. But we treat one-app wonders like pharaohs even after their next 5 apps fail. People still think Zuckerberg is a genius, but @eve6.bsky.social is washed. One was awesome that one time and the other made Tumblr for the KGB.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Everyone calls it "generative AI" but I have yet to see evidence of anything other than "replicative AI." We haven't replace all construction companies with LEGO - why can't we see the difference with LLMs?

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Setting a Tesla on fire is actually saving a life since that only happens when no one is inside it.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In #Ruby, if you define a variable in a conditional that can't be reached, it will be assigned `nil`. So you can still check for a truthy value even if that branch, logically, isn't executed. I think I knew this on some level but if asked if this was true, I would have said "no" before today.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is a heart-breaking, objectively reasonable concern. Stay away from us until we test negative for authoritarianism. And don’t let us come to you, either. I would rather watch America die alone than take friends with us.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You’ll never appreciate or understand the cloud more than by doing it yourself first. You’ll also learn which parts you are happy to outsource (email) and which parts you prefer privacy and control (simple web apps). It’s not all-or-none, and skill has no correlation to cloud usage.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

America is the embodiment of that classic API dilemma: is this a 4xx or a 5xx error situation?

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Again, from game programming in #Ruby where I pass around lambdas like they're candy: I like this method of doing #Rails things in order from most to least preferred, saving the most expensive (dollars and IO) for last. What are the other approaches that aren't conditional spaghetti?

Code showing usage of the lazy method on Ruby's Enumerable, demonstrating a way to establish a series of potentially expensive operations that will return the first result without processing the remaining items.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I learned to love Comparable#clamp by doing game programming. In #Rails, I usually see Array#min and Array#max instead. To get better at Rails, get better at #Ruby. To get better at Ruby, use it outside Rails.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is what Kansas City deserves and I'm thrilled that, in sports at least, justice still exists somewhere. I hope everyone in Philadelphia has fun without injury. #SuperBowl #Chiefs

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Lots of the Wheel of Time hits different now that I’m 3 times older than my first read. But the division of the White Tower… it’s uglier to me now in all the ways I think Jordan wanted it to be.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

We were never able to write a second hit because of dei

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Zuck was inspired to replace mid-level engineers with AI by his daughter graduating from Lego to Minecraft. So, naturally, if his daughter had been able to watch someone else play with Lego instead, she'd be way better at Minecraft and more profitable for her company.

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Sean @seanofthedev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you routinely post using caps to convey emphasis... I can't follow you. I'm sorry, but it's simply too reminiscent of the unhinged and ill-informed. On a petty note, it's just bad writing. Remember that crazy chapter in Khazad-dum where Gandalf used all caps at a Balrog?

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