Rick Benavidez

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Co-founder at LEANSTACK and on a mission to help entrepreneurs everywhere succeed.

Carpe Diem. He/Him.

TX/WI

https://rickb.dev/

@ivory šŸ’–
good morning, especially to everyone woken up by pagerduty because cloudflare is having a moment. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ #hugops
Cloudflare Status

Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

@kims Let's add @verge to the list of the good ones. Good reminder to add subscriptions where I haven't yet.

In 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 šŸ˜‰.

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/
Austin

Tacos, Music, and Idyllic Weather? Yee haw!

XO Ruby

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover.

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

I just registered for Ruby Central’s 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 Central’s 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,

Ruby Central
https://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 tooling…
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.