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chad fowler

@chadfowler

programmer, general partner @blueyard + music at @chadfowlermusic. prev @wunderlist, @microsoft, @rubycentral, @rubyconf @railsconf @rubygems @pragprog

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Republicans in Congress have voted to devastate millions of people across our nation — kicking Americans off their health care, shuttering hospitals, eliminating food assistance, and raising costs. This is Project 2025 in action.

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One thing I don't see enough of in the discord around AI-first engineering and/or AI-assisted coding teams, is practical/empirical observations from tech leadership (i.e., CTO, VP of engineering, senior engineer, etc). What things are you doing to enable your team? What

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Decades later and if I’m honest I’m still trying to learn to play saxophone like Vernon Reid plays guitar. Vernon’s playing in the extremely popular Living Colour is ironically a big influence for me dedicating myself artistically to creative music and the avant-garde. Great

Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots: The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff

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Looks like chad fowler and I will both be a rubyconf.at next May. Wish it were sooner, but Vienna in May sounds like it will be delightful.

chad fowler (@chadfowler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to be speaking at rubyconf.at next year! This is likely to be my last Ruby conference talk ever. Go submit a talk and let's meet in person!

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This will be a good one. If you're interested in stablecoins, chain-agnostic applications, crypto consumer use cases, or just nerding out, join in and ask questions

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Honored to participate in Cosmos Institute's philosopher-builder conversation. We must garden emergence, not dictate structure--vital in the AI era. Human flourishing means breaking from defaults: instead of systems that harvest engagement, we need tech that helps people grow.

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When I wrote the first edition of The Passionate Programmer (my first book), I didn't know how to start, so I imposed the constraint that the entire thing should be based on The Four Noble Truths from Buddhism. I forgot to thank the Buddha in the acknowledgements. Oops.