Silvia Uberti

Hot Cell v1.1.0 is out with a new client class that works on legacy Ruby versions back to 1.9.3 for folks with legacy Rails apps to secure. basecamp.github.io/hotcell/docs... This version also improves error handling, see the changelog at github.com/basecamp/hot...

On our way to CERN! ⚛️

I've managed to make Kamal work with Apple container. No more Docker Desktop, no more OrbStack, nothing. Just Apple's ~native containers. A quick recipe for those who are interested: lovli.fyi/tHf9

Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are turning on the tunes in their cars, defying a ban imposed by the Taliban government despite the fear of getting caught by morality police. The music that used to flow constantly out of restaurants, cafes and shops in the capital Kabul has been muted for five years

I'm honored and humbled to join the Rails core team. I'll be focusing on security and improvements to Active Storage and Action Text. Please reach out if you have thoughts on what would make your work easier.

There’s no substitute for competence.

So. Much. This. Can we please have more of these mindset and approach?

Despite all the rolling tools and agentic coding breakthroughs, I still use AI for guided, surgical work, where I'm in complete control of the broader architecture, including having a strong mental model of it. I simply cannot function delegating everything to an agent.

Happy Euruko week! Who’s going to be in Brno for the conf? Also: what’s the most popular dog breed in Brno? The Brnese Shepherd 🥁

I don’t think we need to make computers fun again. They never stopped, if you ask me.

If you're installing mise via Homebrew, please know that the docs advise against doing so: lovli.fyi/isFa I've made a custom tap that pulls the official release as a cask, and auto-updates: lovli.fyi/GdX7 Feel free to use it directly or fork and customize it as you please!

Don’t be that person. Don’t be a meat proxy. nomeatproxy.com

Nothing to add.

Three things I built lately: madcp - MCP harness: invoicing, Basecamp, Toggl, HEY, X, Bluesky (more to come) mcpme - shell access to my device aicli - chat with AI from the shell Try them, tell me what you think. Feels like first touching a computer and seeing the internet.

Happy International Childfree Day to those who have chosen the childfree lifestyle! lovli.fyi/O4Jt

Today we celebrate the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, and the arrest of Mussolini. Happy 25th July! 🇮🇹 👏🏻 Siamo 👏🏻 tutti 👏🏻 antifascisti! lovli.fyi/0izp

I may be late to the party, but I installed the Infuse app last night and it’s awesome! Currently using it for streaming from a NAS to the Apple TV and it just works great. Not free, but worth every €c. 🧑‍🍳💋

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

isn’t the world burning enough, jfc 🤦🏻‍♂️ @bsky.app this is not cool folks, do better

I'm accidentally finding myself looking at X a lot lately, and it's definitely affecting my mood. I'm sure it's not filled only with deplorable opinions, but those are the only ones I'm running into. Shout out to my ATProto people for making me feel less lonely.

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

Breathing air in the Po valley today feels like breathing risotto.

I've just deployed a major refactoring of Lovli's frontend, which is MUCH lighter on static assets. I've dropped Pico CSS (in favor of Tailwind, -65KB) and a whole icon font (-300KB). I've also fixed some UI glitches that have been bothering me since day one. HMU if you see anything weird! lovli.fyi

Oh wow Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will be the pilot of Artemis III 🤩 lovli.fyi/mgpI

Everybody’s yapping about AI, but it’s not real progress until the house does all the chores by itself while I’m at the bar having aperitivo, and I’m gonna die on this hill.

hey I know this guy! 👋🏻 @sang.io lovli.fyi

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you @batsov.net

💀👹🚀🤣 lovli.fyi/9HRo

fact

I think...uhm....yes, I think I'll leave this here. lovli.fyi/tEI9

Deep in the Peruvian jungle, archaeologists have discovered a 600-year-old pre-Incan citadel containing human remains, tools and ritual offerings

🇬🇧 Beer for baldies: London event celebrates the hairless with free pints A London event dubbed 'Bald Fest' offers free pints to people with smooth scalps and those willing to have a head shave in a bid to celebrate the hairless.

Guido van Rossum, Python’s original author, publicly expressed his disappointment in PyCon US opening keynote yesterday for being “just a product pitch”. I stand with Guido.

When the world accelerates, invest more in understanding the fundamentals. Nobody knows what technological progress will bring tomorrow but we know it will sit on top of the foundation of fundamentals.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Outstanding work by @rubyconitaly.bsky.social’s team in organizing one of the most anticipated Ruby events of 2026. My most heartfelt thank you goes to them, to the speakers, as well as to all the old and new friends that made this day so special. Alea iacta fuit!

Happy Liberation Day, Italia! Siamo 👏🏻 tutti 👏🏻 antifascisti! O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao 🇮🇹

I could go back to Makefiles just as an excuse for using this. Absolutely stunning. lazymake.vercel.app

I remember playing The Sims, making the characters become scientists, and watching them reading books like “P = NP and other simple demonstrations”. Still makes me laugh these days. So brilliant.

FWIW, I’ve been using this trick for almost a decade I think, and it’s worked wonders: lovli.fyi/cOyU Aliases to `dotfiles`, plus one branch for each computer. Just regular git workflow, no additional tooling.

Happy Pi day, everyone 😎

Me, watching video reviews of laptops, wondering what’s wrong with people who SLAM those lids closed as if they weren’t literally slabs of glass with LCD screens inside: 👁️👄👁️ Dude chill, ffs. Disbelief.

Technology should serve you, not trap or burden you.

Imagine seeing this, then going back to civilization and invent KPIs.

I am working these days on a change to Zeitwerk that will remove a hack. When I wrote the gem, autoloading had been brittle for more than a decade and I wanted to mimic the classic autoloader as much as possible for users' peace of mind. But there was a corner case that had no clean solution.

I'm looking for #Ruby or #Elixir work, can start immediately. Freelancer, getter-of-things-done, many years of experience, feel free to DM for more info. Can work worldwide. Happy to work with other languages/frameworks and devops as needed.