we raised chickens growing up and I still think they’re the ultimate life hack something wandering around that turns soil, water and bugs into your breakfast let’s goooo

i should have a poster on my wall that says "next time you want to start a message with 'sorry', DON'T"

twelve years ago this week I volunteered on the community radio station I built to provide real time updates on a nasty, big fire which came right up to our town. worked in hand (but not alongside) with the fire crews. they all signed a fire map for me and I still have it :)

there's so many services out there where it's hard or broken to cancel. just monzo virtual cards everything now and they can enjoy my deleted/frozen card when they start trying to extra charge me (adobe/nibble/theffballers have all bitten me)

THIS! Omg imagine an engineer who doesn’t have the stdlib memorized or can’t bubble sort in 0.387s but has exceptional _taste_. Or other subtle attributes like situational awareness, curiosity, communication, empathy (you can’t write great product without user empathy)

I think my most important impact in my life has been giving people my undivided attention and genuine interest in them It’s not a legendary framework or company And I’ve wrestled with this But I’ve been lucky enough to be close enough to people to see the spark in them

Claude Command of the day: # ~/.claude/commands/fix-ci.md Use the `gh` command to work on fixing current CI issues and don't stop until we have a fully green build.

cancel your primary debit card today then as the failed payments start pinging. force yourself to go and re-add your payment details to the provider. if you can't be bothered re-adding your payment details, they aren't worth whatever your monthly charge was

Three years ago I had developed NO AI morals as well. That was a thing for sci fi movies. But now here we are all developing them. Prominent engineers saying things like “when I’m dead let me die” (eg about trying to recreate their likeness through LLMs); or abusing LLMs, etc

We need a @Rails ETF - $SHOP - $DOCS - $CHYM - $GTLB - $PCOR - $ZEN ....

Here's a bit of coding agent magic fairy dust for the day: Don't tell the agent to do something. Tell the agent to _begin_ doing something. The LLM will, on average, make wiser choices about how much work to bite off.

status in Bordeaux playing Balatro on my phone with a nice Armagnac

my favourite waltz

One of the great privileges of owning an independent company is that you get to try all sorts of stuff no one else would ever give you permission to do. And you get to greenlight other people's oddball ideas too. You can — and should — provide cover for weird attempts, strange

live look at my vibe coded personal project

I understand the math but my brain hurts when trying to accept that you only need 23 people in a room to have a 50% chance two people share the same birthday

baby is sleeping so I had Claude add sorbet and type my whole application RBS style and also do a sorbet type check hook after every ruby code edit so it stays in order. while cleaning my office and eating lunch

Two weeks and a day until the BelfastRuby x PyBelfast meetup at TeamFeePay. We do have a headcount limit, which we'll hopefully not hit, but if you're considering it RSVP here early lu.ma/ppyuhvwz

At the #SFRuby tonight, hosted by GitHub ❤️

Just walking through your life do you ever say things like “are we cooked, chat?” to an empty room when something bad happens just in case they’re watching