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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 30/07/2026

I'm not happy about the state of leadership in Rails (to put it mildly) but I like this perspective.

reddit comment: I’m a transwoman. There’s a strong possibility that DHH doesn’t think that I have the right to exist the way I do in my daily life. The way he talks about other marginalized groups is even worse. It sucks, more so because I love Ruby and I love Rails.

Despite this, I don’t think the SWAN is cooked. I can still be nice and write code that makes me happy. And DHH can’t stop me from doing those things with Ruby or Rails no matter how much of an asshole he is. He might own the trademark, but the source is MIT. He can go pound sand.

This might be a naive take, but I refuse to let shitty people take the enjoyment out of the things I like.

Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 23/07/2026

I don't know who ran justactiverecord.com because I loved it but it's fully down now. It seems the domain is free, so I bought it and am going to reinstate the wonderful meme there. If you're the original author and owner - hit me up.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 17/04/2026

this year's #wrocloverb starts on friday and ends on sunday. and it opens with a throwback for me: headius about jruby is a conference talk i saw on my first ruby conference, euruko 2008 in prague.

talk slide titled "jruby users worldwide"

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 10/03/2026

On March 10th we seem to celebrate Men's Day (40 Martyrs of Sebaste). Ask a friend what's up and if he wants to grab a coffee, beer or just hang out.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 13/01/2026

How're things with the thought leader, is he still "optimistic" about Trump now that Trump wants to basically start a war with Denmark?

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 16/12/2025

just when you begin to think he's maybe not that bad, just trying to make it in a weird industry, he pulls of shit like this ram deal

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 31/10/2025

this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 10/10/2025

Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 30/07/2025

Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 29/07/2025

ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 29/07/2025

Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 24/07/2025

"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 16/06/2025

My new laptop has an integrated GPU and a 2800x1800 screen, a combination which makes running new games sound impossible. But thanks to Gamescope's integer scaling and this iGPU being pretty decent (HX370), I got Oblivion Remastered look decent (no blur) and run at 35+ fps.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 10/06/2025

Heroku's outage now lasts over an entire work day and their communication on the matter is bad. Even their status page had an outage and there's no details on what's happening beyond "Engineers are continuing to investigate an issue accessing Heroku services.".

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 15/04/2025

hear me out: a battle vest but based off of patagonia. will show that wearer can do tech business in the day and head-bang at night.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 10/04/2025

Current status: not the biggest fan of ActionMailer, it gets ugly when you want to do specific thing on some of the exceptions, and then test that.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 28/03/2025

I just pulled the plug and migrated (back) from Logseq to Obsidian, with all my journals and pages, and I've added my keep-it-markdown (export from Google Keep) notes as subdirectory. It already feels so good! Blogpost incoming.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 20/03/2025

not sponsored and not affiliated, just a happy customer since 2019: pcloud is offering lifetime plans for world backup day. they're stackable if you already have a lifetime plan with them. apps work, has rclone backend, commandline client is oss.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 17/03/2025

UUIDv7 is awesome and included in Ruby 3.3 standard library, so there's no reason not to use it when you need sequential, timestamp-including identifiers that don't depend on central id-issuing authority.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 11/03/2025

ultimate leadership book just dropped! (yes, it's real)

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 11/02/2025

How's it going Shopify? It's been a while. ... Jesus fucking Christ.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 20/01/2025

TIL that Gemini 1.5 Flash also does vision and has a decently sized free plan (1500 requests per day) with low prices beyond that. Time to add it as third image description engine for my funny images archive.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 18/01/2025

That Rednote app sounds like a terrible place to be, especially if you're hailing from the Land of The Free™.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 05/01/2025

Bluesky's design allows for multiple recommendation algorithms to choose from (I'm also in the "ignoring for-you" camp) so I'm looking forward to those: arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239 (Also never passing the opportunity to link this whitepaper 😀)

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 31/12/2024

To finish 2024 on a high note, during the Christmas break I've added descriptions to ~33k funny images gathered since 2009 and I described the entire thing in a blogpost. Happy 2025! tomash.wrug.eu/blog/2024/12/31/soup…

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 22/12/2024

I'm out of the-home-with-gaming-rig for two weeks and my soup archive image descriptions are far from done. So this time let's see how an RTX4070 for $0.23/hour fares in running llama3.2-vision on those remaining ~30k images. So far pretty good!

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 20/12/2024

Courtesy of llama3.2-vision, lunr.js (thanks @nathell.bsky.social!) and some help from copilot, my entire soup archive -- around 34k images collected from 2009 to 2020) -- will soon have a full text search of images by description of their contents.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 18/12/2024

Microsoft has just announced free Copilot plan with the ability to plug-in Claude-3.5 engine. And since I've got some work to do on my Windows-running gaming rig, generate descriptions for 36k funny images - I gave it a try to write me some Python. Does the job!

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 17/12/2024

this reddit comment about paramount's "yellowstone", from a thread about the series finale, hits hard like a dodge ram truck.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 30/11/2024

sapkowski's new witcher novel, "crossroads of crows", is really good. better than previous "season of storms", shorter but denser, without distractions, and even with filling some gaps in lore. 5/5.

Two paperback copies of Andrzej Sapkowski's new Witcher book, "Crossroads of Crows", in polish.

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Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz @tomash.eu · 15/11/2024

Testing JustCrosspost which is a very promising product. This will land on X, BSky and Mastodon. And what's a better way than with a Doctorow quote to which JustCrosspost is the solution?

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