Tekin Süleyman

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

This Thursday! Come hear Caius expound the virtues of tugging on those mysterious threads that we happen upon during our day to day code weaving #ruby

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Looking for a small meeting space (10-15 people) with a screen in central Manchester to host the next @nwrug.org. Any suggestions?

Random bits of scenery that you inexplicably cannot simply walk around.

Herb HTML+ERB Language Tools

As a next step for Herb, I'm happy to announce the release of the Herb Language Server and VS Code extension.

Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.

Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!

Despite a rocky start I would probably agree. AI, or specifically LLM-based stuff, is a feature, not a product. Apple at least has form on turning interesting tech into compelling products, by integrating them in the right ways into their devices and OS’

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Current status: waiting for Mario Kart World to download, but it's taking aaaaaages...

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs.

Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.

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“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”

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I am going to try to start keeping an eye on those as well and sharing interesting stuff I find from time to time.

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Are you mad!? Inject weekly episodes of it into my vains from now until the end of time! Television at its finest.

Join us this Thursday as @cpytel.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @thoughtbot.com leads us on a look back at Rails AntiPatterns 15 years later. How exactly have best practices changed since Rails 3? Full details and registration: nwrug.org/events/rails...

but code review is the only technique you can apply to ai generated code because all the other techniques go hand in hand with actually authoring it yourself

thing about software is that the methods you use to produce it impact the confidence you have that it does its intended job. code review is just one of those methods and it is relatively weak, especially next to deliberate design processes, formal methods, testing, etc

Apologies, this has strong LinkedIn-post energy – but it’s a useful analogy.

Hitting a wall with my 5km runs reminded me why software teams often end up slowing themselves down.

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"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

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If you the are most senior technology leader at a start-up or scale-up and have a challenge that you would like support with then please book one.

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We’re back for another Ruby meet in Manchester! Next Thursday we’ll be looking at generative AI, with a live coding demo by @rahoulb.bsky.social using AI agents, followed by a discussion of the pros, cons, ins and outs of generative AI in software dev.

Info/registration: nwrug.org/events/april...

Looks like quite the collection! I’m sure a bunch of that would interest them. I’ve been told that it’s best to drop them a line: wcml.org.uk/contact-us/

Mayday rooms in London or possibly the Working Class Movement library in Salford. I can reach out via some contacts to see if you like?

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Although perhaps not the easiest to explain 😅

I released Ruby 3.1.7 and 3.2.8 now.
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3.1.7 is final version of Ruby 3.1 series and Ruby 3.2 will be started security maintenance phase from 3.2.8. I strongly recommend you update your Ruby to 3.3 or 3.4 series.

Our March meeting is tonight (20 March). Join us at the Colony, One Silk Street in Ascots at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm) to work through the Noisy Animals kata. Thank you to Fatsoma for sponsoring

Full details, including the all important registration link, available at

We're doing the Noisy Animal kata this Thursday evening in Ancoats, Manchester. All are welcome, no matter your level of #ruby experience.
Registration here: www.tickettailor.com/events/nwrug...

'Building Git' by James Coglan A deep dive into the internals of the Git version control system and the computer science behind it

for the whole of this month, I'm offering 50% off my book "building git", which teaches you a huge array of software and system engineering topics while learning how git works. use voucher code "SMARCH" shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

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NWRUG is back tomorrow for our lightning talks night! Full details and registration: nwrug.org/events/febru...

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