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Facinating write up of the recent rubygems drama's, in what's being named the #RubyGemsFracture

Brings up critically important conversationbs on running small self organising affinity groups and navigating community owned governance.

My take is this is not as simple as left vs right and that there are many parties involved who have really behaved quite terribly.

So much in this one.

#ruby #RubyOnRails #Governance #SelfOrganising #TealOrganisations #RubyDrama #Shopify #DHH

https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/

RubyGems Fracture Incident Report

By: Richard Schneeman This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September 10-18, 2025, which I’ve named “RubyGems Fracture.” Preamble I joined Ruby Central’s Open Source Committee on October 22nd, 2025, after the GitHub access changes. I was

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A Message from the Ruby Central Board

Over the past several months, there has been significant discussion, disagreement, and concern about RubyGems, Bundler, and Ruby Central’s role in stewarding RubyGems and supporting the Ruby ecosystem. Because this matter has involved ongoing legal discussions, we have been limited in what we could say publicly. Our priority has

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@tante So um... funny thing I read on LinkedIn today... #DHH
Nachdem #LadybirdBrowser sich von #dhh sponsorn ließ, wurde ich skeptisch dem Projekt gegenüber, das an sich so fantastisch anfing. Aber die Story geht weiter. #KI wird zum Portieren des C++ Codes nach #Rust genutzt. Ich geb auf, ich habe kein Interesse mehr an diesem neuen Browser.
Link: https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/

Oh hey, John Oliver covering, among other things, one of the dudes whom #DHH endorses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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I do think there are problems in Laravel and Tailwind CSS as frameworks and tools, but I mostly avoid those because their respective authors are good buddies with DHH and are showing no signs of cutting ties or questioning his views or actions.

A proper leader would take a definite stand against racism and fascism to make it evident that they want their community to be safe.

#Racism #Fascism #Transphobia #Laravel #TailwindCSS #RubyOnRails #DHH #DavidHeinemeierHansson #TaylorOtwell #AdamWathan

@nay granted, everything got #enshittufued and #Framework have failed tgeir users by sponsoring assholes like #DHH

#Musk is not a "tech bro" - he can't code.

The e.g. equally vile #DHH is a tech bro.

Words matter.