Jan Lelis

@janl
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Tech for the people
Emoji / Obscure Code / etchttps://ruby.social/@idiosyncratic

We have this knowledge-sharing meeting at work. Once a week colleagues share random bits of work that they think others could learn from. In that meeting you can also ask any question about the codebase and you'll get a profound answer. It's one of my favorite times of the week.

However, over the last couple of weeks I noticed a new pattern emerged and it has to do with #ai. Colleagues would preface their questions with "I know I could also Cursor/Claude the same question but maybe someone here knows...".

We're a fully remote company, there are very little human touch points like this and now people start feeling like they cannot ask another human a technical question. It really saddens me.

The essence of this meeting is human knowledge exchange, making real connections. I don't want this to be outsourced as well.

Announcing: the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship https://gem.coop/updates/2026-fellowship/ #ruby #oss
announcing the 2026 Gem Fellowship

Last month I announced my latest venture to support the Ruby open source community: the Gem Fellowship. I want this grant program to support and fund existing Ruby-related open source project maintainers and their ongoing efforts: fixing bugs and adding features for those libraries we know and love.

gem.coop
This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop
The Enclosure feedback loop

speculation about the way (paid) software development will become LLM-only

🩸drip Update 🐛:Tiny Bug Fix!

We squashed a small bug that corrects the chart display of sex, pain, and mood values after unselecting them: no more ghost values lurking around.

Update iOS 🍎 https://dripapp.org/ios & Android on Fdroid 🤖 https://dripapp.org/fdroid.

Your Data, Your Choice 💜

#dripapp #periodapp #opensourceperiod #yourdatayourchoice

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We've deployed Forgejo v14 a hour ago.

Forgejo v14 includes user-facing changes and improvements, which can be read at https://forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v14-0/

If you find regressions or bugs, we ask you to report them at https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/

Forgejo v14.0 is available

🌸 Here’s your State of Hanami for 2025.

We took our first steps into a new era: we made a substantial release, began unifying our ecosystem, launched our sponsorship program, and saw a real uptick in community activity.

Read all about it! https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/

State of Hanami, December 2025

Everything we did in 2025, and our plans for 2026.

Hanami
The package manager in GitHub Actions might be the worst package manager in use today: https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning

Andrew Nesbitt

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

In Praise of dhh

A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.

I have some consulting capacity available the coming months. I have a proven track record of making tech teams more effective, through a combination of technical and non-technical work. I work around communication and documentation, dev experience, architecture, alignment between biz and the dev team, and software/product development process, as well as doing staff-level engineering work.

DMs are open! Ping me if you like to have a chat!

🔁 = ❤️

Bill Gates saying that "Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity" and efforts to fight climate change should be shifted elsewhere is like saying nuclear war won't wipe out humanity, so we shouldn't invest efforts in arms control or diplomacy.

I know from personal experience that Gates has always misunderstood and minimized the threat of climate change. But this also reflects how insulated the truly rich are from the consequences the rest of the world is already experiencing.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/bill-gates-climate-change

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change

In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.

CNN