good morning, especially to everyone woken up by pagerduty because cloudflare is having a moment. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ #hugops
Co-founder at LEANSTACK and on a mission to help entrepreneurs everywhere succeed.
Carpe Diem. He/Him.
TX/WI
Rick Benavidez
- 53 Followers
- 134 Following
- 18 Posts
GlyphIn light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts.
Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot š.
Hey y'all -- this weekend, @xoruby comes to Austin, TX. Great venue, a great speaker lineup, and an opportunity to meet new people and see old friends -- I'm personally really looking forward to it. Grab a ticket and come join us! https://www.xoruby.com/event/austin/
Joel āthis is bsā DrapperAfter listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, Iāve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover.
Johan HalseI just registered for Ruby Centralās QA session on Tuesday and if you care about the future of the Ruby ecosystem, you probably should, too: https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-the-stewardship-of-rubygems-and-bundler/
Strengthening the Stewardship of RubyGems and Bundler
Ruby Community, At the heart of Ruby Centralās mission is our responsibility to steward the open source tools that power the Ruby ecosystem. That commitment is only as strong as the people and processes behind it. Over the past several months, we have been carefully reviewing how RubyGems.org,
Aaron Hhttps://armahillo.dev/community/2025/09/19/rubygems-takeover/ -- Here's the rundown of everything I've been able to find about this so far. #ruby #rubygems #rubycentraltakeover
Code is Sisyphean - Articles about development for a variety of audiences. Particular focus on Ruby on Rails, usability, and helping newer developers learn the ways of the olds.
Articles about development for a variety of audiences. Particular focus on Ruby on Rails, usability, and helping newer developers learn the ways of the olds.
Every time I touch front-end toolingā¦
Curious if anyone is familiar with the democratic technology space. Definitely the specific tech (e.g. EveryAction, ActionBuilder, etc), but also other things around sharing/communications. Working on supporting a local group on the tech and operations side, and trying to find the best/simplest/least expensive next steps for them.
Anil DashOne of the most irritating current tech industry trends is the feigned martyrdom and grievance politics of pretending media is *too* critical of tech. Journalists have been too soft on big tech! And worse, the crybaby behavior about it has spread from the thin-skinned VCs to all kinds of early-career folks. Exact same propaganda technique as MAGA.
āļø Information āļøThe American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.