Martin Emde

With the amount of programming that’s getting done “while I slept,” you’d think AI is making us all really well rested…

Just ran across this post by @andrewnez.bsky.social that puts words to my deep feeling of betrayal by Ruby Central in their awful governing of rubygems. "Package Registries Are Governance Providers," meaning their failure betrays the core promise of a package registry. nesbitt.io/2025/12/22/p...

These aren’t just my gray dish towels. These are the gray dish towels in the world.

Skillet can now start up with an existing claude task list. $ skillet --task-list=mytasklist --prompt "Complete the assigned tasks" You can have another claude create and assign these tasks to a skillet worker (I think we could improve the interface though) github.com/martinemde/s...

And another thing! GitHub missed probably the one major thing we really needed them to do: separate AI actions from human actions. The "fine-grained" tokens are woefully inadequate for a situation where agents act on our behalf. GitHub ignored critical security controls to give us mediocre Copilot.

Claude Code merged the duplicative slash commands into skills, and made skills better in the process. Happy to see this right as I was working on skills a bunch (the split was confusing, and a merger seemed inevitable). martinemde.com/blog/claude-...

Lately it feels like the fan is just blasting at turbo speed and the ducts are full of shit but the fan is insane and the shit is hitting it all the time and the fan does not give a shit.

I’ve written countless throw-away headless claude scripts. - None work on the first try - Ugly prompts get buried in the ugly script - Permissions wrong, CLI flags wrong, nothing works - Output choices: Nothing / JSON flood. Agent Skills + Skillet fixes all of this: github.com/martinemde/s...

i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily

New focus & blur shaders in Ghostty enabled by my recent PR. I made a little "emulator" for them on my site where you can test them out. I've been absolutely nerd sniped by these lately. martinemde.com/blog/ghostty...

With Steve Yegge’s Gastown, we have a new mantra. Move fast with broken things Love it. github.com/steveyegge/g...

Here's a screenshot. It's fully customizable because it _is_ starship. Notice my context is about 20% full. Very useful at a glance.

I made a claude code statusline that updates Ghostty's progress bar (that blue line at the top) as you fill up context. I know there's a lot of these out there, but this one uses starship directly for rendering, which was somewhat rare when I looked. github.com/martinemde/s...

Interesting approach: Suppress Josef's comment, then suppress anyone else that isn't in support of the new "governance." Making a deal with the person that broke the last deal is futile, but what do you achieve by suppressing the people saying that? Suppression just brings more attention.

“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“

Josef summed up problem of any new governance of rubygems in this comment: “The original governance was not the problem… The real failure was that one maintainer ignored it, and Ruby Core accepted that violation” github.com/ruby/rubygem...

Happy holidays all, hope you find time this week to apply for a Gem Fellowship, applications close on 1/1! 💎 🎄 https://gem.coop/fellowship/

"If use big words at it, it use big words at you." - @kewe.me

Applications are open! gem.coop/fellowship/ I love the name “Gem Fellow”

Each time I read an article about someone’s appreciation for Ruby, like this great response by @robbyonrails.com, I’m reconnect with that little spark that made Ruby exciting. Thanks ❤️⚡️

Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎 https://gem.coop/fellowship/

“the real opportunity comes post-fire: what continues to grow after and what entirely new species take root in the ashes.” ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wil...

Are you writing service classes in Ruby? You need strong_service github.com/shkm/strong_... by @jamie.schembri.me for the best integration with ruby service DSL with zero dependencies and full rails compatibility.

!!! `jim release` can now: 1. build itself as a .gem, 2. pack itself into a single-file script, 3. publish both of these to GitHub Releases Try out the packed `jim.rb` file. It should be completely self-contained: github.com/duckinator/j...

Read the new white paper by @sethmlarson.dev about the challenges and vulnerabilities caused by package repository archive formats. alpha-omega.dev/blog/slipper...

PyPI serves billions of requests daily- but sustaining it isn’t free. The PSF joined the OpenSSF & others in calling for organizations to invest in sustainable open infrastructure. Learn what this means for #PyPI, the PSF, & how our community can pitch in:

@sethmlarson.dev and I went through months of intense, complex work to climb a steep and slippery learning curve, only to be stopped short at the very end by a hard ethical line we couldn't cross—it was gut-wrenching. I'm proud of what we did and I'm proud of what we didn't do.

Python Software Foundation had to make a tough choice here. I applaud them for sticking to their values. thanks for your leadership in this space @python.org pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

Let's move Ruby forward. martinemde.com/2025/10/25/m...

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

Malicious compliance

Updating my LEGO White House

What comes through loud and clear from Shan is the lack of respect for open source authors. She actually says it’s none of my business why I was removed from rubygems. I don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back. youtu.be/nKpo68g9dEk?...

rubyassociation.doorkeeper.jp/events/190436 12/20 にRuby リリース30周年イベントをやるのでみなさん来てください

You must always have a secret plan.

We need this. github.com/orgs/communi...

Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

We spun up this feature petition with GitHub that I think would genuinely help a lot of projects and companies, open source or not. github.com/orgs/communi...

In 2025 we need philosophical attitude more than ever: being calm, thoughtful and meaningful. I want to be that kind of person. In this complex era, I want to dig into things, talk with people, think about problems and make decisions. I want to be communicative, respectful and free.