Mastodawn

Dave Paola Feb 6, 2023

snowy bat 🦇❄️Jan 30, 2023

In the spirit of sharing quality content, please enjoy my favorite meme of all time.

Dave Paola Dec 31, 2022

Anyone still using this? My feed is barren

Dave Paola Dec 23, 2022

Jaco G Dec 23, 2022

Why would one need a webcam combined with a mouse??

Also, what the heck is that dog doing??

Dave Paola Dec 11, 2022

Giles Paley-Phillips Dec 11, 2022

Still the greatest Nativity scene ever made

Dave Paola Nov 30, 2022

christa Nov 29, 2022

come work with me!

my workplace, Meedan (https://meedan.com), is hiring for a junior backend software engineer. we're a small, distributed not-for-profit working globally to address misinformation, with an eng team of ~13 people.

our work is open source; here's the main repo we work in: https://github.com/meedan/check

resume review begins dec 5. I'm one of the other backend RoR engineers; happy to answer questions!

https://meedan.bamboohr.com/careers/40

Meedan

A team of designers, technologists and journalists who build software and design human-powered initiatives for newsrooms, NGOs and academic institutions.

Dave Paola Nov 24, 2022

Has anyone deployed their own personal mastodon instance for purposes of customization? I want to build a better profile discovery screen…

Dave Paola Nov 23, 2022

The JRuby Team Nov 23, 2022

It's a Thanksgiving miracle: JRuby 9.4 is released! We've made a huge leap forward, now supporting Ruby 3.1 compatibility and Rails 7. Nearly all of the major features of 2.7, 3.0, and 3.1 are included. Give it a try and let us know if you run into issues!
https://www.jruby.org/2022/11/23/jruby-9-4-0-0

JRuby 9.4.0.0 Released — JRuby.org

Dave Paola Nov 23, 2022

Andy Croll Nov 23, 2022

Just found out someone got a job through https://firstrubyfriend.org. Their mentor hired them.

BRILLIANT.

Find a mentor in the Ruby community

Matching early career developers with friendly volunteer mentors from the community

First Ruby Friend

Dave Paola Nov 19, 2022

Switching to pocketcasts has been so fantastic that I now seek out walks and longer drives so I can listen to more podcasts. Had no idea how terrible the stock podcast app really was.

Dave Paola Nov 9, 2022

Today I'm announcing that Sierra Rails will begin piloting a FULLLY MANAGED junior engineer apprenticeship program. This program is designed to get junior engineers ramped up quickly, provide them ongoing technical coaching, and place them into your company as a productive team member that requires minimal management overhead.

I'm amped about this and would love to talk to you if your organization would be interested in participating in the pilot.