Jon Rowe

Time to revive a tradition… Berlin I am in you!

@jamesjefferies "I have altered the installed packages, pray I do not alter them further"

@ifixcoinops man that was an adventure

@rick Frogs together. Strong.

@jamesjefferies As a rubber duck is it just a sticky button because it's been emptied? We have one that needs a press or two to "shut off" from time to time.

I’m mostly looking for remote contracting/consultancy roles, ideally 30 hours / 4 days a week but can do 40/5 and I’m based in the UK but I’ve worked with a variety of US clients and an 3-4 hour overlap is no problem. You can find me on Github and I have a summary of experience that I use in […]

👋 I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

I’ve worked […]

Periodic reminder: @rubycentral is smearing Andre in public so they can justify their hostile takeover of the rubygems/rubygems repo after the fact.

An actual community-focused organization would have followed the RFC process which was already in progress.

@Floppy if it’s the site I think it is, I found it interesting to see an addition from the core team who didn’t sign the original letter but still stood up here

Oh look … a UK government e-petition demanding the government not introduce Digital ID cards. 🪪 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

@getajobmike It correlates with my understanding and concerns. The hosting infrastructure, and control over it / funding for it is seperate to the development team behind it.

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,

Too little... too late @rubycentral this change should have been announced and publicised in advance of you actually doing it, with a clear timeline, and time for the community to respond **before** you did it.

https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-the-stewardship-of-rubygems-and-bundler/

@mawhrin @purinkle Bring back Merb I say...

Dear David Dear David, Ruby has brought me immense joy during my life and I’ve made many close friends thanks to a shared love of the language. Rails, thanks to the contributions of you and hundreds of others, has allowed me to experience that joy at work too. However, I can’t describe how disappointed I was to read your recent blog post “As I remember London”. I remember when you visited the London Ruby User Group. We didn’t speak but you came to the after-talk drinks at a packed Lamb and Flag pub. I’m sure when you looked around that pub you saw, like me, a couple of hundred rubyists of many different nationalities, backgrounds, ethnicities. I’m sure several of those rubyists shook your hand, welcomed you to London and made sure you had a drink. That, to me as a Londoner, is London in microcosm. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) does not campaign for “Britain for the Brits”. He campaigns, as I’m sure you’re aware from the Wikipedia page you cited as evidence, for Britain for White Brits. As a White Brit he doesn’t make me feel proud, or patriotic. He makes me feel scared - scared for my wife, my non-White British friends, my neighbours, the teachers of all races and religions who teach my kids. But we won’t give up. We did survive the Blitz (my grandparents fought the Nazis). Britain hasn’t gone anywhere. Minaswan, Chris

Dear David: https://chrislowis.co.uk/2025/09/17/dear-david

I read *that* blog post and it can fuck absolutely right off.

@Edent @threedaymonk This is why I find Mozilla so depressing, they could be the bastion against Google that we, and the web needs, but instead they're too busy chasing the next shiny thing to focus on making a browser to the point where by you have to consider forks of it (libre wolf in my […]

I’m mostly looking for remote contracting/consultancy roles, ideally 30 hours / 4 days a week but can do 40/5 and I’m based in the UK but I’ve worked with a variety of US clients and an 3-4 hour overlap is no problem. You can find me on Github and I have a summary of experience that I use in […]

Hey fediverse, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full […]

@rick as they're now a Microsoft AI produce they have to normalise hallucinations

@b0rk I use solarized light, but the base theme is outdated in places, I've previously edited it on old vim but picked up a modified version for nvim because that uses truecolor which the original version doesn't support at all, your examples look like this in that:

@rick Obama! Obama! Obama!

Today is my last day at Shopify. I joined in 2016 and had the time of my life, great engineering and people, they brought me to Canada and for that I’ll be eternally grateful. But they’re also proudly hosting swastikas for sale, taking the idea of “make commerce better for everyone” a little […]

@nicd Take with a pinch of salt of ‘I'm an amateur maintaining my own car’ but the fault code will appear if the condition that triggered it happens again.

You're clearing the particular computers memory of having seen the code.

@nicd just wondering if its something they've observed

@nicd Want to bet its because of kids renaming `.exe` to `.ex` and telling people to rename it? Like the old zip -> txt email hack?

@jamesjefferies Well you can definitely get it going down one of Sheffields many hills, just need some help to go up one 😂

Anyone have experience with getting rubocop running in a monorepo environment?

I have a strange issue where by running it in the directories produces no results, but running it from the root picks up the individual configs and runs them all together, unless I configure all cops in the root […]