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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026

"Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?" I can't remember who first said this, butI remember it whenever I run into more LLM-written text. Just got halfway through an otherwise good post and suddenly the tells popped up, and I felt like I'd eaten something rotten.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

Second talk of the evening is from Arno Fleming about making education and development fun for kids. We got to participate as the audience with arts and crafts ✂️📃

Arno explaining the audience how to cut and fold paper.

Arno standing in front of his final slide with contact details.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

The first talk of the night is from Stanislav Katkov about #Ruby documentation!

Stanislav giving a presentation in front of an audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

We’ve started with tonight’s meetup! Thank you for hosting today Catawiki!

Vincent from Catawiki is giving a presentation about how they work at Catawiki.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

Tonight. Join us at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup! 📺👀🍕 www.meetup.com/nl-NL/nl-NL/amsterda…

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Tom de Bruijn @tomdebruijn.com · 17/09/2026

I’m at #euruko today at the @appsignal.com booth! Come say hi 👋

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Tom de Bruijn @tomdebruijn.com · 20/01/2026

I get it whenever Apple Music tries to play a song I imported on another machine, and I can’t play (stream) it on this other machine because of the song not being licensed in my region. It could be some similar license issue?

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it. Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first. My CV: jaredwhite.com/cv My biz […]

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Paul Kinlan's "Dead Framework Theory" will be rattling around in my head for awhile. I have definitely encountered the "React/Tailwind because AI" mindset. The entropy is hard to ignore. But ugh... it feels like we're tying our own shoelaces together and trying to run. aifoc.us/dead-framewo...

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dead framework theory

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care about f...

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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 22/12/2025

God YouTube can be cool and good sometimes. What a brilliant video that not only has a great fucking message, but is also beautifully shot/edited. youtu.be/tWYxrowovts

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How Did The World Get So Ugly?

YouTube video by Sheehan Quirke

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david celis @davidcel.is · 19/12/2025

I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

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Writing Code Is Fun

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15/12/2025

"When it comes to stand-up, people want to show up and have an experience with other people." @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social shares why he thinks that, ultimately, AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube. Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

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Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special

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waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 11/12/2025

in case you were looking to sponsor cool rust contributors, there is a list now :> blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/08/m...

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Making it easier to sponsor Rust contributors | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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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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Daiz @daiz.moe · 21/11/2025

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

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Mike Perham :sidekiq: @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 14/11/2025

Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again. Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals. Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week. DesertBus.org

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Desert Bus 2025

A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 14/11/2025

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond. Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope! Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause! desertbus.org

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Desert Bus 2025

A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 10/11/2025

It's getting cold out, so join us for the November meetup at FeedbackFruits on the 27th of November! We got warm food and talks 🧣 RSVP here: www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...

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November Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Hello Rubyists! 🧣👋 Get ready for the November meetup! This time we'll be back in Amsterdam at FeedbackFruits! Join us for talks and chats with people from the community

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 27/10/2025

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely) this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly

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Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev · 26/10/2025

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

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Stop Giving Harm a Microphone

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 19/10/2025

The two most effective ways your company can support open source: 1. Let your developers have time for open source work. 2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.

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nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

If I'm following RC correctly: 1) RC Did Nothing Wrong b/c it always had the right to the GH org, RC always owned Rubygems; Bundler merged into Rubygems, so they own Bundler too. 2) But, we're gonna hand it back to Ruby core. 3) Nobody has to sign a CLA So what was the point?

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 13/10/2025

“I asked chat GPT”

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Tom de Bruijn @tomdebruijn.com · 12/10/2025

Maybe, maybe one day they’ll try and do a proper repair. Maybe.

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Tom de Bruijn @tomdebruijn.com · 12/10/2025

The tram I’m on in Amsterdam broke down. The fix? Turning it off and on again.

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Tom de Bruijn @tomdebruijn.com · 10/10/2025

Local Git push/pull: Quickly share changes between #Git clones of a repository on the same machine. No need to push changes to a remotely hosted repository and pull it in the other local clone. Is this a very niche problem to have? tomdebruijn.com/posts/git-pu...

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Git: Pull changes from a local repository

Did you know you can pull the changes from one Git repository's local clone to another local clone?

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Git: Pull changes from a local repository

Did you know you can pull the changes from one Git repository's local clone to another local clone?

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

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Martin Emde @martinemde.com · 06/10/2025

I'm excited to join my friends in announcing gem.coop, a new ruby community gem server that you can use right now.

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Signal @signal.org · 03/10/2025

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ruby community: Look, we can be angry about what's happening, we can raise our complaints, but under no circumstances should anyone _ever_ harass someone's families, coworkers, or friends. That is completely unacceptable, and wholly against the ethos of the language. We must do better.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 30/09/2025

The second talk of the evening is by Bob Smits about state machines and how their own state machine gem works ⚙️

Bob Smits giving a talk in front of the meetup audience.

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