Mike Perham :sidekiq:

It is so frustrating, lots of my customers are seeing Stripe-sent emails not delivered to their inbox. And I can’t debug why…

Fascinating article, Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby

I’m trying to figure out if Spinel-native framework compilers like roundhouse or tep are genius or madness. And do I need to build one for Sidekiq? https://github.com/rubys/roundhouse https://github.com/oripekelman/tep

The 2027 Gem Fellowship is quickly approaching. This year we are putting out a call to any companies using Ruby: Join us in supporting the maintainers! https://www.mikeperham.com/2026/10/15/coming-soon-the-2027-gem-fellowship/

So much AI-powered business spam in my inbox. It’s great! 🙄

Seen at @Euruko, really proud of our 2026 Gem Fellows. 2027 is coming soon!

This is important work from Apple, good computer engineering to improve trust https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/

It kills me that Amtrak can't provide a usable train from Portland to San Francisco, it takes 18 hours to go 600 miles. The same trip by car takes 10 and jet ~2. 🚫🚅

@1password I’m a family customer and cannot begin to express how disappointed I am with your sponsorship of Omarchy, an organisation led by DHH, a white nationalist who has outright called for the ethnic cleansing of Europe. I’m just one subscription, but if you continue this, I won’t be giving […]

"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers." (via @nelson https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

While I appreciate the desire to help, someone who’s not an expert submitting a drive-by, AI-written PR to fundamentally change Sidekiq internals is not welcome.

I'm prototyping Ractor-safety in various Sidekiq features and have the entire Sidekiq test suite passing green with the Ractor-safe LocalPool in https://github.com/mperham/ratomic instead of using connection_pool. Still a LONG ways to go but encouraging...

Looking for a tech job? Noisy Creek, the parent of the Portland Mercury and other alt-weeklies, is looking for: Digital UX designer: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/4380523 Head of Technical Product / Technical PM […]

Classic gpg: % gpg -v -v -v -v --list-keys gpg: using character set 'utf-8' gpg: enabled compatibility flags: gpg: using pgp trust model (tells me nothing useful for debugging, absolutely useless output)

My DEB/RPM package building house of cards for Faktory has mysteriously stopped working. I'm wondering if I should just stop publishing RPM/DEBs for it, most customers seem to be using Docker. FWIW DEB/RPM building is a nightmare and should be avoided at all costs.

It’s Quieter in the Twilight - a nice documentary about NASA’s nearly 50 yr old Voyager program and the small team who keep it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIP1p5gAoak 🛰️

Amtrak cancelled my train to #XORuby tomorrow morning so I will be unable to attend. 😭

RE: https://aus.social/@mattro/117042537299206873 SpaceX junk left in 2024, collided with the Moon yesterday.

Anyone in (or near) Seattle and into Ruby: #XORuby is happening Saturday! Looks like tickets are still available according to their web site. https://www.xoruby.com/event/seattle/

Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re learning out how to do this […]

Learn the difference between someone who is nice vs someone who is kind. https://www.thesaurus.com/articles/nice-vs-kind

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harpaa01/116993120522403868 I’ll be there! #xoruby

I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

RE: https://ruby.social/@spinel/116965667079861714 RV now supports private gem servers like Sidekiq’s. Hurrah! 🎉

@sferik btw your GitHub profile does not point to your active Mastodon account but does point to your inactive X account.

This new gem from @sferik looks to be extremely useful for regression testing fast paths within a code base. Extraneous allocations can cripple a fast path and hugely affect performance. https://github.com/sferik/minitest-memory/

I've spend a non-trivial amount of time trying to avoid using native Ruby gems on my servers. It's been increasingly difficult and now appears to be impossible since ruby-core has moved basic functionality like `date` and `bigdecimal` into gems. Now my system requires a gigabyte of compiler […]

I worked with the fine folks at @flagrant to rework my corporate brand over the last few months. They published this nice case study about the work. It was a pleasure! https://www.beflagrant.com/work/contributed-systems-rebrand-and-refresh The final result is here: contribsys.com

One year of rv, an update from @indirect https://andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-plan-and-progress/

It seems like the latest generation whole home wifi mesh systems aren’t using Powerline for the backhaul anymore. I was relying on this since our house isn’t Ethernet wired. Any recommendations?

I've started publishing SHA256 sums for each sidekiq gem release. Is anyone aware of any better tooling for integrity verification for published binaries before I homebrew a bunch of scripts? It's pretty awkward as is. https://sidekiq.org/sha256sum.txt

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116715954580036781 One of the nice things about watches is they become part of YOU. It’s normal to wear the same mechanical watch for decades. Treating it like a 5 yr disposable item sucks.

Considering how big each company is, it’s incredible to me that neither Stripe nor Gusto have a native iPad app. This UX is awful.

Got Sidekiq questions? The Ruby Users forum is the newest place where you can get Sidekiq help anytime. https://www.rubyforum.org/t/get-sidekiq-and-faktory-support-in-the-ruby-users-forum/414

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 I'm seeing this with Sidekiq too. Lots of small PRs with minor changes, adding test coverage, fixing edge cases which never occur in practice, etc. I can't speak to rsync but it's nothing to worry about for Sidekiq (and to be clear, I still do […]

It sucks that in 2026, @digitalocean still doesn’t support IPv6 for droplets built via images.

Ruby 4.0 warning: it looks like a GC change in 4.0 means Sidekiq may leak memory on every job failure. v8.1.6 will be released tomorrow with a workaround. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/7006

Another day, another rabidly racist post from Der Leader. At this point I don’t know how anyone remains on rails-core. How do you live with yourself?

Towards a safer Timeout API in Ruby. https://beautifulruby.com/code/tcp-user-timeout It's a bit of a blunt solution, some sockets may want a 0.1s timeout while others want a 10s timeout. I think a Fiber-local Context API (like Go's but not manually passed around) might be another interesting […]

Reminder: you can go to lobste.rs instead of hacker news, mute the “llm” and “ai” tags and never have to see AI articles again. ❤️