Rob Yurkowski

Didn't enjoy the style that much either, even though I finished it. Check out Miles Cameron's Artifact Space!

I wrote my most personal blog post to date.

It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community.

afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

YouTube video by Lincoln St. Woodworks The only finish woodworkers need

Re: finish, I've finished red oak plywood with pre-mixed water-based polyurethane, and while it's okay, it did darken the color significantly. In retrospect, I would have mixed my own.

I found www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLm... super helpful when I was considering what to use!

I've just released Papercraft 3.0: a new rendering API, improved support for XML templates and more.

noteflakes.com/articles/202...

#ruby #papercraft

Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal
Cvirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage immunity, blood vessels & organs, increasing their risk of heart failure, diabetes & cognitive, behavioural & psychiatric disorders. And there’s no cure

Are you a lefty by chance? Because I've got a fountain pen and the whole 'pushing vs pulling' thing wound up making it a challenge to use, and this sure looks like you're holding it in your left hand :D

Can you commit to doing one minute of it _right now_? Then come back :D

This is so relatable. For me, the big struggle is stopping what I'm doing at all; if I can get myself up once or twice (say, to do _just_ 3 minutes of dishes and then coming back for another 27m), that usually works.

Usually.

Good luck!!

GitHub - digital-fabric/roda-papercraft: Papercraft plugin for Roda Papercraft plugin for Roda. Contribute to digital-fabric/roda-papercraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've just released roda-papercraft, a Papercraft plugin for Roda. More goodness for alternative Ruby web frameworks!

github.com/digital-fabr...

#ruby #roda #papercraft

New community gem server from the rubygems team just dropped: https://gem.coop

Solidarity. Every winter, I am so miserable and a pain in the ass right until the last week of February, when suddenly my patience and joie de vivre re-emerge from hibernation.

Sharing this because I learned it the other week: naming the file docker-compose.yml has been superseded by calling it just compose.yml!

We’re seeing companies ship software nobody in the company understands, with edge cases nobody is aware of, and a host of bugs. LLMs lead to code bases that are harder to understand, buggier, and much less secure.

LLMs for coding isn’t a productivity boon but the birth of a major Y2K-style crisis

I’d like to reiterate what I said a while back: integrating LLM-based tools into all corporate and personal workflows is outright dangerous. Even when run locally, most LLMs in use are trained and tuned by corporations that are now deeply in bed with a lawless authoritarian takeover of the US

I could reclaim a significant portion of my teens and twenties if someone just sent flexbox back in time, lol

💯. Proper componentization—whether that's with WebComponents or React or Vue or even something server-side like ViewComponent—is wildly helpful too, once you have done it enough that you're no longer shooting your own feet.

Plus native CSS is nested now! Absolutely bananas.