Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️

artist vs art

On behalf of Piotr It is with great sadness that I inform of the passing of Piotr on July 29th, after his long fight with cancer. He was a great man, great engineer, a wonderful husband, father, brother and son. A dedicated Ruby community member. He will be sincerely missed Piotr's wife, Monika

... and this is why I don't like to talk to journalists. I made an exception for The Economist: sent over 7 pages of details on the comp landscape and told them they can use it, plus quote from @pragmaticengineer.com as long as they link it. They used my chart, redrew it as their own, did not link.

It's happened: the trimodal nature of software engineering compensation made it to the Economist! Disappointingly though, they did not link to the original article (they never do AFAIK), they redraw the image, and do not call it trimodal. Feels like "ripping off" my research, not gonna lie.

@martalempart.bsky.social wygrała z @OrdoIuris o słynne zdanie, którego nie mogła przez lata wypowiadać. To znaczy, że nie musicie się bać mowić, że Ordo Iuris to finansowani przez Kreml fundamentaliści.

GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵

A couple comments about what I’ve been learning about algo engineering, but first off: if you’re interested in helping us improve Discover and all of our algorithmic systems, we are hiring algo engineers jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

The crowd at the Budapest Pride is massive, in defiance of Orban www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/e...

The singularity is awesome

Tried to use Gemini to fix a bug in Ruby. It made a change that caused Ruby segv, told me it's too dangerous to continue, and then gave me instructions as to how to report the bug 🤣

Going through some old stuff of mine I found a random side project I threw together back in 2017. It generates an image of a random city skyline at night, then produces a random name and description of the city. (Pretty silly, to be honest.) jamisbuck.org/skylines/

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

A husband and wife have been charged with defrauding Bełchatów, Europe's largest coal power plant, out of €5 million by supplying it for years with what they claimed was an "innovative product" to help reduce emissions but was actually just slightly modified tap water.

The Ruby extension v0.10.0 for @zed.dev is out, featuring Herb LSP by @marcoroth.dev and bundle-aware debugger support. Happy vide coding!

“The United States was the largest donor to Gavi, whose work is estimated to have saved the lives of 17 million children around the world over the past two decades.”

"this guy in his mid thirties lacks work experience" really hits different from the generation that writes the email body in the subject line

In case anyone wanted an update on Armenian politics

time to finally hang up this banger of a poster

LOL @rmac.bsky.social

macOS Tahoe Beta Forces Sharing FileVault Key: mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06... #mjtsaiblog

We have reached Peak Streisand.😭

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.

If you use VSCode or Zed, you should now get auto-complete by default in your Rubocop configs, powered by RubySchema.

🚨 One week before the CFP is closing for this year's Friendly.rb. - about 140-ish attendees - post-conf activities - incredible not-often-seen speakers - coffee corner - superails hack space

You think you have an ally but your ally thinks he has a cool new weapons testing polygon

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

Poland’s culture ministry has set up a special department, headed by a former military intelligence officer, to prepare for the evacuation of the country’s most important artworks and other cultural artefacts in the event of a Russian invasion.

I little write-up with details and thoughts. Includes a link to the complete code. katafrakt.me/2025/06/23/h...

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

I have been thoroughly nerd-sniped by USB-C PD. If any devices in my house take 9V or 12V, they will soon be taking USB-C. I didn’t say it would look pretty, though.

This is an excellent (a dozen years old!) companion piece by @petersobot.com to read on pipes: blog.petersobot.com/pipes-and-fi...

today i did my first CASIO F-91W mod by turning it into a Sensor Watch Pro with custom LCD and accelerometer

Gallery comments are live! You can now leave comments on a gallery or on individual photos. You can also reply to others and get notified when someone responds. All comments, whether for the gallery or its photos, are shown in one place so it’s easier to keep track of the conversation.

When using YAML 1.1, it will catch things like `Yes`. In 1.2, this behaviour has changed but it will catch `true`.