Gavin Montague

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Software developer in Northern Ireland, currently Head of Development @ itison.com
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

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If Apple still had courage they would've opened the keynote with this. @atpfm

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.

Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.

They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386

Going from 1 to >1 threads is a harder sell than you would probably guess at medium-large Rails shops, because the math is such that:

"Would you like to deal with security and correctness bugs introduced by multithreading in exchange for about a $300 lower AWS bill every month"?

In the UK? Like working with Rails? Want to be on a team of nice, professional people?

We're hiring:

https://apply.itison.com/apply/SLpFTJZ0Ir/

Experienced Ruby/Web Developer - itison - Career Page

Apply to Experienced Ruby/Web Developer at itison in Remote.

I'm looking to organise training in Swift for a team of web-devs. 6-ish people, all smart and don't need the section of most courses about what a for-loop is. Recommendations for either short live-but-remote courses or decent learn-at-your-own-pace resources?

Fiverr & Apple Intelligence advertising: "Are you a terrible person who is bad at your job? Our product is for you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0MoYKwVTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYjgEx6NWfc

Apple Intelligence | Writing Tools | iPhone 16

YouTube

> Mozilla mention that “AI Chatbot access is being gradually rolled out to all users” as of this release.

Zawinski's Law mk2: All software expands until it has its own LLM.

So I don’t have to wade through and entire ecosystem of phone reviews: whats the best non-Google Android phone? I think I’ve finally had my fill of Apple rent-seeking and will be jumping ship.

Costume Party

HOST: What are you
ME: I'm a harp
HOST: Your costume's too small to be a harp
ME: Are you calling me a lyre