Dan Mayer

@danmayer@ruby.social
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I am a believer in distributed teams, OSS software, and Ruby. He/Him
Developer Bloghttps://www.mayerdan.com
Githubhttps://github.com/danmayer
Family Bloghttps://millermayersadventures.com
Welcome summer
Seriously, never put two search boxes anywhere near each other on the same web page... a very confusing user experience.
ok, folks, my old Kindle bit the dust... I am going to get a new one, Do you have any thoughts on the color Kindle? Scribe? or just paperwhite?
Claude code is pretty impressive. I have it up and running on a side project I use for learning, and it is much better than the free co-pilot, which seems to fail even pretty simple tasks... Claude code makes some mistakes but is able to put together a reasonable first pass on most little feature enhancements I request while I make dinner and come back to do code review and quick human fixes.
@knittingknots2 I’ve had conversations people here on the platform who were/are apologists for Schumer. I’m not having any of it. People recognize we’re in existential danger and the politics as usual crowd need to get with it or GTFO. Also, I think AOC is killing it and showing real leadership FWiW
Seriously how is it no one is making guitar hero or rock band games anymore? I blame the split where they were both just oversaturating the market and imploded... But I wanted to introduce it to my kids and realized there are no games with instruments like that anymore... I am sure there is still a market for it.
another fantastic post by @byroot on pitchfork, but really working with Ruby at scale. https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/03/04/the-pitchfork-story.html
The Pitchfork Story

A bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork.

byroot’s blog
Ever have that feeling when you might finally have enough of the details to propose something you have had a feeling about for nearly a year?

Well #FediHire, I'm on the market again! 25 year #Ruby / #Rails (and more!) powerhouse looking for employment. Reached 3rd highest contributor at my last gig despite 200k+ commits, 15+ years, and hundreds of developers. Have ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. You know me.

Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc.

https://www.zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html

please #boost ❤️

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One of these days I'll be able to call it a curriculum vitae!

Ahh it didn't pick up the new image due to caching... It is updated on the site