Joshua Wood

Hey new followers! 👋 This is my personal account. I sometimes post about: - photography, books, movies - (ex)religion, misinformation/info literacy, political extremism - business, software, community My day job is running a SaaS company in the devtools space. Welcome to Bluesky. 🦋

So! Blue Ridge Ruby 2027 is happening (yay!) I’m on the conference committee (yaaaay!) Tickets will be on sale soon, and we’d love to have you there! blueridgeruby.com

Did a bunch of work on the NAS last night. Updated media profiles, organized files, etc. Freed up about 5 TB. Also rediscovered my lossless music collection. Maybe it’s time to start collecting again.

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

bluesky is tbh a more enjoyable place for ai than twitter. lots has changed since like 6 months ago

Went to see Wildwood (amazing), naturally ran into the Unipiper afterwards

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Give this to your agent https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

This is gonna be a long decade

Abstractions and architecture make code easy to extend and modify. DRY is about domain logic, not lines of code. Agents and humans benefit from code that is designed to be extended and modified and is implemented in as few places as possible.

> calling it a "brilliant but playful docudrama" and comparing it favorably to The Social Network (2010) ok please fuck right off (new movie about Sam Altman/OpenAI)

What did I just watch

Gem Coop recently published an update on the Gem Fellowship: gem.coop/updates/8/ We're explicitly trying to fund more projects this year. If you maintain an open-source Ruby project, and could use funding, you should consider applying when applications open on December 1st 2026!

Blessed are the tastemakers: for they shall be called the children of Claude.

honeybadger in zed and herdr on my mac running in a nix shell inside a remote nix host over LTE via tailscale, what a time to be alive also with rootless docker + local port forwarding for worktrees

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.

A group of top-tier Rails developers I know and worked with (plus myself) were unfortunately laid off today. Any company would be fortunate to pick them up. If you or anyone you know is hiring, send me a DM 🙏

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? literally no one: You’re right to push back. There IS a gap in my CV. Let me explain it for you:

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

Hopefully I'm approaching the plateau of productivity with LLMs, and not the precipice of pathology

basically what we’re working on lately @honeybadger.io www.honeybadger.io/agents/

This is just an idea but what if you _don’t_ fund an X-Files unit if you’re trying to hide government secrets

look, it works! joshuawood.net/llms-debugging

something I don't like about the current state of tech is how things are actively moving to secret/unwritten rules in an effort to prevent AI from gaming systems. backchannels have always been a thing (both good and bad) but feels like they're becoming the ONLY option

This has also been my experience with SwiftUI. The agents will just grind on those UI tests forever.

Portland area folks. A friend has a pup to rehome to an only dog home. Meet Fiona. rehomewithlove.com/en/listings/...

Things I still believe about software: - good software takes effort - slower is often better - the hard work is human - it should make people’s lives better

Haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been vibe coding a cross-posting app. Preventing me from posting is its #1 feature.

The trees are turning colors and there are gloriously crunchy new apples and there are migrating geese flying through the air. The Earth is beautiful and every one of us are a part of it

Bonjour, Ruby. 🇨🇦 XORuby comes to Montréal Oct 17, 2026. It's a single-track conf, top Ruby speakers, $100 ticket, zero travel needed. Details: www.xoruby.com/event/montre... #XORuby

Personal data sovereignty is becoming my number one personal computing concern lately, heh. Like I'm still fine using apps/SaaS, but if they lock up my data, they can fuck right off.

The fact that DHH credits Marc Andreessen as the person who personally stepped in to help him during the 37signals no politics at work fiasco explains a lot about David's embrace of psychotic optimism imo.