Tilting at entropic windmills.
Rubyist, founder of Seattle.rb, Author: #minitest, flay, flog, etc.
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Have you heard about the recent controversy of copyleft-washing? Some folks are making alternatives to free software and releasing them under a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license. In order for this to be legal, it must not be a derivative work, so the publishers will often claim it is a "clean room" re-implementation.
By way of example: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
Now somebody has packaged up that process as a delightful satire website. https://malus.sh
Happy 24th Birfday to Seattle.rb! Thanks to @zenspider, @drbrain, and Pat Eyler (and everyone who followed them) for making this happen!
Release 1223: Hoe v4.6.1 released with a minor enhancement to sow and a neverending battle with rdoc.
https://zenspider.com/releases/2026/02/hoe-version-4-6-1-has-been-released.html
Release 1222: minitest v6.0.2 released with a bunch of fixes for minitest's bisect! 😘
https://zenspider.com/releases/2026/02/minitest-version-6-0-2-has-been-released.html
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...
Release 1121: rubygems-api v1.0.0 released anew into the world! 🐣
still a little bit rough around the edges. Lemme know!
https://zenspider.com/releases/2026/02/rubygems-api-version-1-0-0-has-been-released.html
Kerrick Long (code)
Pat Castaldo