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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I stayed loyal. I never updated the terms and conditions of our relationship. This company has been sus for decades anyway. Consider myself a former member of sub club.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A list of favorite cities I’ve visited, in no particular order. - Chiang Mai. Read it was overrun by digital nomads. I liked it. - Tbilisi. - Boulder. Not many cities I’ve seen in the USA offer this outside major metros. - Rome. Very special. - Kotor. Good place to rest. - Myrtle Beach.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 15/09/2025

Scaling Rails doesn't have to mean rewrites or microservices. Read this new post to see how and why to keep your business logic in Ruby, while firing up your kitchen with Go, C, and Rust! evilmartians.com/chronicles/b...

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Baking with Rails at scale: recipes in Ruby, cookware from Go, C, and Rust—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Scale your Rails app without rewrites. Learn to keep business logic in Ruby and delegate heavy work to specialized tools, built with Go, C, and Rust, for performance and scalability.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Every large enough Rails app has extracted some services for performance and scalability reasons. You can do this without losing the joy of building with Ruby and Rails. Keep the recipes in Ruby, and only upgrade the "dumb" (unaware) kitchen tools. Here's how.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

@lucianghinda.com Hey! Heads up, I found that Short Ruby News has been flagged as spam for me for a couple of weeks. I couldn’t find it so took a look in there. As far as I know, I’ve not done anything to flag it from my side.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The term “AI slop” is reaching a critical mass of adoption. But I think underlying this is an increasing acceptance of AI “not slop”.

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Roman Shamin @romanshamin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’ve announced my departure from Evil Martians. I can’t express how grateful I am for 11 incredible years ❤️ But I’m excited for the next adventure. I’m open to roles in product ownership, design engineering, or design leadership. Let’s chat if something comes to mind!

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Sure, Coyote is ostensibly the “bad guy”, but I actually think any objective observer is forced to acknowledge he’s not the one who instigates these situations in the way that the popular narrative would suggest. Just look at that little smirk on Roadrunner’s face.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I rarely get political on here …but this guy has long been a menace to society.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 13/02/2025

Watch this talk from @en.sitnik.ru (our Frontend Team Lead) at #FOSDEM about local-first and a new kind of privacy-focused architecture: 🔗 ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDE...

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Friends, a bunch of cool announcements for the #SFRuby meetup on February 11: – Our third confirmed speaker is @palkan_tula 🔥 – We will do a livestream 🎥 – 155 people signed up Details below 👇

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is like an anti-depressant in “news article” form. It shocks the part of the prefrontal context (pink part) that normally secrets “cozy dopamine” on slow news days. I reckon two “Luddite Christopher Walken” posts (and a 3 hour binge of McHale’s Navy) is just what the doctor ordered.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 14/01/2025

We’ve updated one of our classic posts to add more real-world examples from our work and useful links for 2025! So, read the article and uncover secrets and insights based upon years of Martian work designing interfaces for developer tools. evilmartians.com/chronicles/d...

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Devs in mind 2025: how to design interfaces for developer tools—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

What interface design differences exist between commercial software and, creative, developer tools for pros? Let's analyze and find out how to better design tools!

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 07/01/2025

Building a dev-facing product and looking to fundraise in 2025? We analyze the top 16 active VCs and investors right now: get the data, see who might be the best fit for your product, and tips on how to effectively connect. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

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The 16 most active developer tool investors and VCs going into 2025—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Building a developer-facing product and eyeing a fundraise in 2025? Here are the current active investors and VCs. We analyze the top 16, who might be the best fit for your product, and how to effecti...

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Think about this: phones are better than Pokedexes. But the latter is much cooler?

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Pachi @facilethings.com · 07/12/2024

If you're somewhat in the local-first space, don't miss the interviews that Johannes Schickling (@schickling.dev) does on his podcast every two weeks. This week it's been James Arthur (@thruflo.com) from Electric SQL. Solid gold! 👌 www.localfirst.fm/18 #localfirst

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#18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite - localfirst.fm

A podcast about local-first software development.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My best writing advice: focus on absolutely nothing but what you’re writing, lose track of time, remind to eat, — and just have fun with it! For editing, I always pretend I’m the Leonardo DiCaprio version of Gatsby popularized by the GIF. He wasn’t really an editor, but it sure feels right.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Blog mantra 1: erect a wooden scaffold, gather your implements—and then, lying on atop aforementioned scaffold (aided by lo-fi beats to relax/study to), exhale—exhale your holy words onto the ceiling of your Sistine Chapel. And then… you must, must delete it. Now, you are ready. 🙏

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Svyatoslav Kryukov @skryukov.dev · 29/11/2024

🚨 ATTENTION ALL DEVELOPERS 🚨 🔥 BLACK FRIDAY EXCLUSIVE 🔥 Slash 70% off your development time with RUBY ON RAILS! The framework where less code delivers more features. NO PROMO CODE NEEDED. Simply run `rails new`!

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imgproxy @imgproxy.net · 29/11/2024

Do you know why we feel butterflies in our stomachs? Because today we learned that Bluesky uses imgproxy! Considering this is our very first post, could there be a better start? 🦋💙

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I had 136 follows on X, probably a lot of which were bots. I now have 75 followers here. Do you know what this means!!? No seriously, what does this mean?

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Any tech editor/writer/author starter-packs? Or time to make one?

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If you were going to a course on Ruby / Rails (humor me) what would be your textbook? And would you GRADE on a CURVE?

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

And now, I’m finally ready to talk about Ruby and Rails.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In Chicago, I once summoned an Uber. My friends and I got in the car. But I quickly realized — wrong car. Driver refused to accept this. “No! No! I can take you! I will take you!” A nervous sweat poured from my eyeballs. What would you do? Because …we got out. But what if we had stayed?

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Top funniest I’ve seen: - Tim and Eric @timheidecker.bsky.social + Eric - I think you should leave timrobinson - they came together @davidwain.bsky.social - STELLA @davidwain.bsky.social , @michaelianblack.bsky.social, m. showalter - Nathan for you - comedy bang bang @scottaukerman.bsky.social

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I have no idea where this photo was taken.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hideo Kojima changed my life, but will anyone else change my life again? I’m begging for that same experience. I remember stretching out Metal Gear Solid 4 for weeks. I didn’t want it to end. It felt like the last ride. In some ways—it was. It was a bit maligned at the time. How spoiled we were.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I once worked in a performing arts theater. Concerts, standup comics, plays, etc. One day, CEO lined us up. If any girls had visible fat, she called it out—in front of us all—told them they needed to do something about it. AFAIK, she’s still in the industry. This was in Kentucky. But there’s more….

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bryan Bartlett, another radio friend. experienced. wanted to vacate his position. Called me in one day, told me he planned to recommend me. didn’t get it, didn’t care, didn’t try. Then I read he too had left us. I think I understood why it happened — but never understood why it happened.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My radio “mentor” was the late John Hingsbergen, who left suddenly, tragically—too soon. I still think of him often. We didn’t talk much before he moved on. always felt I let him down. John was consummate, objective journalist. But I let my opinions spill out there. At times, I hear his voice.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Future of writing is completely in uncharted territory. Totally excited for it. If my job / hobby becomes extinct, I support it wholeheartedly. Yes it will suck a time. But then, I will look for the next way. Where did it go? It will have had to have went somewhere. Maybe over there. 👉

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

And it seems no writing is ever good enough. It’s a great feeling, it means a drive to push yourself still exists. I got into writing because I knew many great writers produced their best work in their old age. Athletes, as we’ve recently been reminded… not so much.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

There are no minimum character limits to communicate a message. There is no need to embellish or add fluff. It’s not literature. No need to inject storytelling. Nothing with that is wrong necessarily, but the scaffold being built upon must be a clear message. I have shed a few tears about this.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tech writing, copy, advertising, documentation, all of it is much the same. Halfway through a sentence and you realize that the author has no frame of reference for the knowledge base held by anyone other than themselves.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Beginning writers are sometimes terrified to read back and edit their own work. they avoid it and throw it out there in an embryonic state. seen it with with a ton of resumes, too. put it out, forget. But they were right to be afraid. In my case, even the good stuff wasn’t good enough.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Writing is a very difficult thing because thinking is a very difficult thing. It’s not about intelligence, it’s about awareness, focus, willpower, and funny little comments like this one at the end here. Anyone can do it, but some don’t want to do it.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We need more movies where kids get sucked backwards in time. This is an untapped market right now. Please someone connect me. I’m working on a spec script where a kid goes back to the year 2023. Open to feedback.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The presence of Moo Deng is a specter that continues to haunt Thailand’s mass produced tourist T shirt industry. But these have potential in the States. Moo Deng has still got it.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My review of this red bean Bizzard: probably not going in my active rotation.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The west needs most mascots like this.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So many clickbait pseudo productivity biz grifter engagement farming listicle posts start with a phrase like “I’m obsessed with _____” And I’m obsessed with that.

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Travis Turner @travisturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

But a Good Samaritan requires no reward! Thankfully, this old man and his wife agreed with that sentiment, returning me to the RadioShack—with the joy of the empty hand. I estimate his age to have been around 124. even though he stiffed me, I still hope he’s out there now, maybe with a Roku.

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