Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn
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Dev team lead and developer at AppSignal.
Organizer @amsrb, Rails Girls NL. Made lintje.dev
#Ruby #RustLang #Git
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Tom de BruijnDec 26
Jeffrey Rogers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Dec 22

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, no safety tests. Yes, this is real. Join thousands fighting to stop this dangerous plan.

https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12-omnibus-food-petition-EN?akid=s6771546..rxpO5Z

Tom de BruijnDec 26
amosDec 22
remember: if it's stupid and it works... it's still stupid.
Tom de BruijnDec 9
Ruben Bolling 🪲Dec 9

I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.

https://boingboing.net/2025/12/09/this-physics-professor-transformed-his-country-to-98-renewable-energy-in-five-years.html

This physics professor transformed his country to 98% renewable energy in five years

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked him with a phone call in 2008 asking him to be the country's energy secretary.

Boing Boing
Tom de BruijnDec 9
abadideaDec 9
I appreciated this video’s attempt to figure out what’s going on with AI water usage numbers and explain why any given decontextualized number (whether big or small) is misleading, and how it needs to be understood within its whole system/compared to other things society already wrote off as acceptable (but maybe shouldn’t have) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??

YouTube
Tom de BruijnDec 6
Andrew NesbittDec 6
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
Tom de BruijnNov 27
Amsterdam Ruby MeetupNov 27
We’ve started with tonight’s #Ruby meetup! Thanks so much to Feedbackfruits for hosting us tonight!
Tom de BruijnNov 26
Chris HallbeckNov 25
What’s your score on the apple test?
Tom de BruijnNov 25
Amsterdam Ruby MeetupNov 25

This Thursday: A new Amsterdam #Ruby meetup! 👀

Don't forget to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb/events/311810884

November Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Hello Rubyists! 🧣👋 Get ready for the November meetup! This time we'll be back in Amsterdam at FeedbackFruits! Join us for talks and chats with people from the community

Meetup
Tom de BruijnNov 24
Tomas EkeliNov 24
Feels like it's time to share this old gem again:
Tom de BruijnNov 21
Mike Perham Nov 20
Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.
gem.coop