Jared Norman

I guess I'll introduce myself to Bluesky. I'm Jared, but you can call me Jardo. Computers bend to my will. I'm based in Victoria, BC, and help organizations build eCommerce systems that make Shopify stores jealous using Ruby on Rails and Solidus.

there's some neat ideas in here, but as someone who cares about existing stores, I promise Solidus will never ship a major update with the words "no bridge" in it so many times. https://spreecommerce.org/docs/developer/upgrades/5.6-to-6.0

we use sonnet for commit messages no, not the model. 14 lines, with rhyme scheme and meter. no more empty claude speak. evocative imagery. erudite aura.

love seeing more rubyist thinking about concurrency https://island94.org/2026/09/converting-a-ruby-block-interface-to-start-stop-methods-with-a-fiber

more great work from ivo https://ivoanjo.me/blog/2026/09/22/how-a-ruby-profiler-works/

I was at this talk and it was great https://ivoanjo.me/blog/2026/09/23/updating-a-c-extension-for-a-modern-vm/

this week in Solidus ❥ better i18n! (#6677, #6679) ❥ prep for supporting Rails main (#6654 merged, with #6653 and #6706 in review) ❥ new Admin feature: product creation (#6654) ❥ a bunch of bug fixes (#6697, #6690, #6705, #6662)

zig is cool and there's a new version https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html

"Everyone has a testing environment. If you're lucky, you *also* have a production environment."

you know the karaoke good when someone puts in Nazi Punks Fuck Off and it's not the person you thought put it in

another take https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby

"no way to prevent this" says only planet where this regularly happens

postgres: it's good https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability

drafting the "two recent major cybersecurity incidents..." intracompany comms and then they hit you with the third recent major cybersecurity incident

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

actually, 4 is a very hard to guess number, and is secure from modern attacks

new ruby cometh https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/12/ruby-4-1-0-preview1-released/

it's the season

kinda behind on my to-listen queue so I've piled it all into one playlist. let's see if I can catch up by friday. 18 hours of music to go. https://tidal.com/playlist/b6638e37-6eb6-4ff5-9254-2dff6c4bb43b

it would be so cool if this tech wasn't being developed by the worst people on earth https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html

Static Analysis for the Uninitialized

I AM AN EXPERT SOFTWARE ENGINEER. I AM VERY CONFIDENT IN MY ABILITY TO SHIP BUGS AND FIX FEATURES.

cool different look at one of the infinite number of ways you can design around change https://dudulski.pl/2026/08/05/state

@2-45.pm fellow green lung enjoyer reporting in 🫡

BREAKING: Bank of America is warning that the AI boom is starting to look like a classic boom-and-bust cycle.

“Building gem.coop” by @kaspth.com

fuel for designing my secret ractorized thing https://railsatscale.com/2026-09-16-ractor-age-rails-a-how-to-guide/

ty anyone who voted for Dead Code! we didn't crack the top ten, but I try to keep the content more varied... though obviously we talk about Ruby/Rails a lot

Welp... Got laid off from Podia today. Kinda a lot to process for a Thursday. I'll have something more coherent to say eventually. For now, send Ruby/Rails leads. Or dog pictures.... Both are good.

turns out lots of reasons https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/09/why-is-big-tech-bad/

I've found worse places to work from.

"Get in losers, we’re going benchmarking"

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

whoa https://railsatscale.com/2026-10-09-zjit-is-now-as-fast-as-yjit/

it's a tough because you just know that a ton of people who don't know better have used llms for tasks like this https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

homebrew turned v7 when I wasn't looking https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/

very seriously excited about what people will do with rubydex. you should look at it and do something cool if you are reading this. https://railsatscale.com/2026-09-08-introducing-rubydex-linter-structural-checks-for-ruby-projects/

*my* worry is the transformation is coming no matter how realistic we are about the technology and how much targeted pushback there is https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/09/commodified-intelligence/