Mike Perham :sidekiq:

History lesson: our railroad track width is based on the width of Roman chariot wheel spacing, for backwards compatibility.

https://lamebook.com/a-history-lesson-4/

Meta hired a 24 yr old AI researcher, offering $250 million over 4 years. Absolutely bananas. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/

Good stuff. Global configuration is always footgun-ish and I'm happy to see JSON move away from it.
https://ruby.social/@byroot/114960079167472730

Feedbin is a wonderful and affordable RSS service I use every day, built with Ruby and Sidekiq!
https://feedbin.social/@feedbin/114937228701755135

@renchap maybe a per-user db in SQLite or the Lua sandbox in redis?

Outsource your IT services to a 3rd party.

Pro: save $2-3m/year.
Con: lose $380m every once in a while.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/how-do-hackers-get-passwords-sometimes-they-just-ask/

"systemctl start -v <service>" will now show you the service log output during bootup. Excellent!!!
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/114545892813068498

Any JavaScript-expert Sidekiq users want to help track us down a UI race condition? https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/6768#issuecomment-3108598950

This is super cool. Looks like they are scraping the new metric data in Sidekiq 7+. https://honeybadger.social/@honeybadger/114875029510812069

select birth date month [3-column selection list with month names split into random letters] day [0, with the option to endlessly increment or reduce by one] year [1900 with a slider]

Does anyone have any good knowledge or pointers to articles on how to upgrade Redis without app downtime?

A customer really wants to avoid downtime but I don't know of any resources which discuss how. Issues like data loss due to replication lag are possible if app is up. The only (poorly […]

Weird, this flight has dry ice running thru the air con? Waiting for the laser show to start…

A guy just tried to take my laptop while I was sitting 10 ft away from it in the Sheraton lobby. “Are you stealing my laptop in front of me?”

nate berkopec (@nateberkopec@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image I keep coming back to this, from Birgitta via Martin Fowler's recent post on LLMs - we are entering the age of non-deterministic development.

The non-determinism and unpredictability means one can shirk responsibility for anything it does. That’s a huge plus to the grifters pushing it.
https://mastodon.social/@nateberkopec/114830011498781796

The #sidekiq game night is on the top floor of the Sheraton. 8pm-late, see you there! #railsconf

I'll be working on @sidekiq at Table 10 in the hackspace. Questions and conversations welcome! #railsconf

Philadelphia looking nice tonight #railsconf

Me, being happy

Loving this Photo Booth from @flagrant at #railsconf

A pic of me, from an upward angle

Good morning #Railsconf, things are looking up!

For anyone attending #RailsConf this week, I’ll definitely be looking for a nice activity at 5pm Tuesday. I’d love to coordinate!

The IRS gives me two options to submit this PDF form: fax or mail.

How's that on-ramp to the information superhighway coming, IRS tech folks???

The key to coding productivity is your Mental Model: your own understanding of how all the software and APIs are interacting.

With AI, you aren’t strengthening the mental model in your head and really that’s what employers are paying you for: your experience just boils down to the knowledge in […]

I think people would be surprised at how few productivity tools or utilities I use as a programmer. I have only two tips to improve your coding productivity:

- read lots of code, especially your dependencies. Being curious will teach you the entire app stack.

- write lots of tests. Test-Driven […]

Cc @rubycentral https://ruby.social/@collin/114729459934331022

Welcome to wanderer The self-hosted trail database

wanderer, a self hosted trail logging app, has added federation via ActivityPub. You can now follow, like and comment on trails shared from other instances.

https://wanderer.to/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Thinking about skipping Railsconf due to the presence of That Guy. Do I really need to attend the last one? Is this really necessary?

Fascinating breakdown of Facebook's secret, very very illegal "localhost tracking" tech.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

I'm looking for security consultant recommendations! I support a non-profit that’s building PII-storing open source software that integrates with government data storage systems, and they would like a third-party security assessment. This is *not* about compliance, this is straight-up wanting […]

18F’s profound legacy of procurement reform Back in March I wrote about the elimination of the United States government’s two leading digital government teams. Beyond their digital service work, these teams also did a lot of heavy lifting to change processes and policies that held back better service delivery – including around procurement. As 18F and USDS were suddenly shut down, anecdotes about the hundreds of millions of dollars saved by helping departments and decision-makers make better technology choices quickly emerged.

New blog post! 💻💰📉 “18F’s profound legacy of procurement reform” https://sboots.ca/2025/05/30/18fs-profound-legacy-of-procurement-reform/

With quotes and links from @waldoj @danhon and many others, and gratitude to everyone who was part of this work. #18F

Active Job Continuations by djmb · Pull Request #55127 · rails/rails Continuations provide a mechanism for interrupting and resuming jobs. This allows long running jobs to make progress across application restarts. Jobs should include the ActiveJob::Continuable modu...

Was there any public RFC or design process behind the Active Job Continuations API? There's absolutely no discussion on the Github PR.

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55127