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Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats

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Joined October 29, 2022

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My Ruby Web Framework:

https://brutrb.com

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Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 2w ago

I guess Rails is dead now? For real this time? We vibe code from here on out? Meanwhile, Ruby also seems deader than disco on account of Ruby Central divesting itself of almost everything it had previously been doing. I picked the wrong time to stop sniffin' glue.

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 44mo ago

Never ask a lawyer if it's OK to do something (it's always "no"). Ask them to explain the risks in doing so.

Never ask a programmer if something is possible (it's always "yes"). Ask them to explain what is involved doing something.

Never ask a doctor if something will make you better (it's always "maybe"). Ask them to explain the conditions under which a treatment/procedure will work and what could go wrong.

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Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @hypebot@tacocat.space

What a wild butterfly effect: Ruby Central invites DHH to RailsConf and now:

Almost out of money
Bad feelings/animosity with at least some of the major Ruby open source contributors
ED fired
board almost totally turned over
primary function (rubygems.org maintenance) now being hopefully outsourced to volunteers
some AI bullshit

All RC had to do was simply NOT platform him. No big statement, no virtue signaling, nothing. All they had to do was have RailsConf.

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 4mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Replying to

@CoralineAda@ruby.social i was just thinking that the places where the AI-brained CEOs have fired legal and HR are ripe for organizing. because what can the company really do?

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116533055774542200

Browser choice still sucks and you must choose one of:

- spies on you
- ugly
- doesn't work

I am sticking with Ugly for now, but keep Doesn't Work around for Apple Pay and Spies On You for websites built by shitty engineers.

The Wandering Shop

Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)

Reminder that you *can* delete the Chrome AI model this way, but Google can quite easily bring it back by just picking a new name and set of flags for their shitbaggery. The only 100% effective solution is to erase Chrome.

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jgarber@social.lol @annaecook@mastodon.social While some government licensing goes too far, I think a "license to reliably show up on time" could be useful, because all this padding is for people that cannot show up on time. I get it, some people just can't and I don't fault them. But I DO know how to show up on time, so let's have a formal agreement and third party certification so I can be trusted with the real start time :)

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

#Meta note on #Mastodon - why can I not "quote post" something unless I'm following the account but can just copy/paste the link to it in a new post? I don't understand why the difference is meaningful

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 10mo ago

Boosted by @octothorpe@mastodon.online

More and more websites don’t work on iOS without disabling content blockers. PayPal is the latest and most surprising.

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 4mo ago

Plex: extremely precious about metadata, shows you the stars, related movies, seasons, episode summaries etc. Plex Downloads: here's a fucking bag of .mkv files, randomly sorted, GL

Dave Copeland

@davetron5000@ruby.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca Yeah, but then this sort of thinking leads to "AI generates assembler because what is the point of C?" I still think fewer LOC = fewer errors/easier to understand. But would anyone CREATE a framework just for an AI? Probably not.