André Arko

i really miss waffle js! is anyone in the bay area interested in co-hosting a similar monthly js/web creative meetup with me?

happening right now!! come view & make weird websites with @jzplusplus.com & me! 🩵

OH So far, the aeronautics industry has failed to teach airplanes to consistently act in the ways that avoid crashing into the earth

rv 0.7 is out! spinel.coop/blog/rv-0.7-...

Today I have published the first issue of "Hanami, why?". This is a new series I'm starting where we will dive in together to learn about #hanami. https://aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-introductions #ruby #hanakai

every website party should include browser cookies you can eat

@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

OH Functional programming is when Rust people read your code and go "what the fuck (laudatory)". Imperative programming is when Rust people read your code and go "what the fuck (derogatory)"

jj updates talk by @indirect.io : "Beyond jj: config & tools ecosystem" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjb... blog post: andre.arko.net/2026/09/16/b... #jj-vcs

This (by @indirect.io) is very useful:

i am simply the sleepiest that anyone has ever been

this is the last weekend of my art show with @shirleywu.studio! we used ceramics, beads, and data from the Japan Meteorological Agency to capture the dates of sakura blooms and ginkgo and maple leaf color changes over the last seven decades. 🌸🍁🍃 luma.com/calendar/cal...

say hello to peak 🏔️, the app running gem.coop github.com/gem-coop/peak

Me sewing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me seam ripping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

thank you to everyone who came to @shirleywu.studio & my show's opening weekend! we're so grateful for the love and support! if you haven't seen it yet, it'll continue to be on view for the next two weekends! 📆 sept 5–sept 20 sat & sun, 1–6pm 🗺️ 78 gough st, san francisco luma.com/calendar/cal...

I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

unfortunately for us, utility requires a political framework, and every discussion of usefulness is a proxy for people's value judgements, rather than a search for an objective truth to club people over the head with

I just had my mind completely blown when I learned you can in fact export passkeys from 1Password to Apple Passwords! but only if you do it on your phone. @rmondello.com is the best everybody rmondello.com/2026/09/07/swi…

it turns out "the future is unevenly distributed" is a kinder way of saying "the future is stochastic" in the stochastic terrorism sense

T.Rexes are closer in time to smartphones than to Stegosaurus

Andromeda is so far away that every photon we see of it left Andromeda before humans existed

this art show opens this weekend and runs through sept 20th! 🌸🍃🍁 hope to see you there!!

@shirleywu.studio & i are bringing the ceramics and data visualization art installation we did in tokyo last year to san francisco! luma.com/calendar/cal...

I still think dev2dev open source funding is fundamentally flawed and a red herring for support seeing this also makes me think it’s probably a similar recession indicator to tattoo artist bookings

Spinel Dev Log for July 2026 spinel.coop/blog/spinel-...

"groff is this true??" i say as i open a man page

❌data modelling ✅ Data, modelling

I want to read this book so badly

I wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…

OH finally a way to combine my hobbies

OH: '"how do I continue behaving like a professional when coworkers are behaving like high schoolers trying to cheat on their math homework", the hardest problem in computer science in 2026'

do you think "webapp" stands for "weblication application"? or "website appsite"

we need a name rectification law, like patent invalidation but for wildly misleading names. "Anthropic" actually trying to create a machine god? it's named "Cyberic" now. "Vitamin Water" doesn't have vitamins? it's named "Sugar Water" now. "OpenAI" not actually open? it's named "ClosedAI" now.

rv 0.6.0 is out! spinel.coop/blog/rv-0.6....

Factory Frustrations: Optimized for Isolation spinel.coop/blog/factory...

Meet Spinel 👋 spinel.coop/blog/meet-sp...

UI means user interface and UX means user exerface

I wrote a history of rv until now, what we've released, and what our plans are andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-…

🔥New Blog Post: Ruby Hello World on Linux with rv: Quickstart Guide 💡Discover rv, the fast Ruby version manager. Step-by-step guide to install Ruby on Linux (Fedora) with rv, set up RubyMine, and run your first Hello World. #ruby #rubymine #linux blog.devandreacarratta.it/en/ruby-rv-h...

#GemCoop namespaces are now out of beta! gem.coop/updates/7/ I am *SUPER* excited about this!

has the time come? will we finally be able to convince companies that we shouldn’t treat our teammates like strangers? I for one would love to Stop Using Pull Requests: a4al6a.substack.com/p/stop-using... (this isn’t about open source… yet)

DSLs are a bad idea because programmers are not good at designing programming languages. It’s like letting the nouveau riche spec their own mcmansion

With new gaming hardware getting more expensive by the day, it's finally time to start making games again for the hardware everyone already owns. That's right, the sun rises once more for the Nintendo DS

this weekend is the last weekend of the indo net cafe! come watch award-winning indonesian film "daly city", and read pieces by @aprilsoetarman.bsky.social & @mayli.bsky.social! 78 gough st, sf sat & sun 1-6pm