Pascal Laliberté

Travis Turner has no other match, as a speaker, to anyone else in the Ruby world. I think he might be outmatched outside the Ruby world too. Anyway, one of my favourite speakers of all time.

Gruber and others seem to be evaluating the Duo as an iPhone. Buttons in the wrong place, weird one-handed operation… I’d like to see if someone else will review it as the first real, top-grade, _pocketable computer_.

Hey #Ottawa. If you're a business owner or early in your #startup idea, and the following questions are on your mind, I'm running a workshop next Tuesday Oct 27 at 6pm. - Should every conversation be about sales? - What causes people to buy after a back-and-forth? www.meetup.com/founders-lab...

I'm overjoyed to hear @mark-carney.bsky.social visibly improving his French at a fast pace. It's no easy task, and it's not a cheap trick for a politician to pull this off. When's the last time this pace of improvement has occurred over the tenure of a notable statesman in Canada? It's remarkable.

Reading this, I felt like the best-selling iPad in 2 years will be a foldable. No front screen, sturdy but thin.

Now Apple is really not going to talk to Gruber daringfireball.net/2026/10/the_...

If you're a railway customer, you need to jump on this immediately. "We strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway" blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

You want to add AI to your app. Consider that AI is both an efficiency innovation and an empowering innovation. Efficiency innovation tries to say "hey my app is worthwhile because you can do more, more quickly". But they reply: "why not use the AI directly?" 💥 Make new apps 💥

"It's for everyone". That was the positioning mistake then, still a mistake now. "Everyone" = no one in particular. When you get the first output from an LLM, remember that it was trained to please everyone, so no one in particular. So by default, LLM output needs adjusting.

You might want to build a perfect product, but rare are the people in search of hypothetical perfection. Instead, people move from one "good enough" to another "good enough". Until it becomes an "enough is enough". That's when you suggest your product. everyonewantsprogress.com/0140-good-en...

Had a great time at @xoruby.com Montreal yesterday! Good presentations and conversations, and when I got home I still got to read my son a bedtime story 😄 (he was doing his best to delay things 🙈)

See you in Montreal this Saturday

If you feel at risk, you'll use generative tools liberally. But if you have something to gain, you might do the opposite of others. You'll use AI here, but not there. You'll write your own posts, speak in your voice, take your time. It's time for culture. everyonewantsprogress.com/0139-disrupt...

Most depressions are best interpreted as immigrations. Leaving a familiar place behind, figuring out the new reality in this new place. A friend, who immigrated here, told me that the majority of immigrants go through a depression. It made me realize the normalcy of depression. It's a passage.

NYC’s @xoruby.com is happening on Saturday 10/10 9am-5pm. I have an extra ticket available for free from an attendee who can no longer make it. Message here or DM

Excited to share I'm speaking at @xoruby.com on October 17th. Hope to see you there! www.xoruby.com/event/montre...

To the people saying "No one is going to vibe code their own CRM", you're 100% wrong. We are seeing that as a cancellation reason a few times per month, and we have extremely low-tech customers. Not saying SaaS is going away, but to act like AI won't replace some of it is silly.

The Toronto vibes were great and that was before we pulled out a huge stack of cash to distribute. 🤣 Join us! - Oct 10: NYC - Oct 17: Montréal www.xoruby.com/events/

Imagine vibe-coding Heinz Ketchup, a product both of automation mastery and taste. Every production now has automation in the mix. But you don't get to make a Heinz Ketchup-level experience by automation alone. Please continue exerting quality. everyonewantsprogress.com/0138-if-only...

TIL about Engels' pause: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels'...

Control rooms, spreadsheets, dense UIs, architecture, intricate details found in room design... we like them for the same reason we like nature, for the same reason we need occasional "forest bathing". FWIW, I hope VR tech will allow us to be overwhelmed by details in an additional way.

The themes for XO Ruby Montréal: - the love of the craft - taking a chance with entrepreneurship (trying many things) - having varied interests pays off All to help with the current moment. Ottawa, Montréal, Upstate New York, come hang out with us on Saturday October 17. #Ruby @xoruby.com

Probably the most powerful idea in marketing is the idea of enrolment. People enrolling on an idea, on telling others, on trying what you're offering. That almost all devs have enrolled in the gamble of AI delegation is holy-smokes level of enrolment. Just incredible.

To your friends in an identity crisis, remind them of the importance of keeping at least a small part of them to stay free. Or if you're in an identity crisis of your own, be a friend to yourself with this same advice. everyonewantsprogress.com/0137-identit...

Efficiency is all the rage these days. But remember that efficiency is cheap innovation. There other types of innovation, which create prosperity in other ways, and it's our job to understand buyers and their need for progress, to find those other types of innovation.

I don't write a lot of code by hand anymore, but I still read a lot of it. I'm still very happy that everything is in Ruby 👍

💎 XO Ruby brings Rubyists together: book clubs, community, and local events. Fall conferences in Toronto, NYC & Montréal, $100 tickets, no travel needed. Learn more: www.xoruby.com/ #XORuby

Jason Kottke moving to Japan is going to do good to me and my feed.

Parchment paper is meant to be crumbled before each use

Since owners have all the benefits in this new AI reality, your reminder to ignore the advice of owners, especially those who would reassure you, but even if they don't.

Secretly, when someone buys a product, they hope that event will do more than just solve a pain. They're hoping this decision will get to raise their status at the same time. everyonewantsprogress.com/0136-the-sta...

Modern Font Stacks: System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes; just instant renders. modernfontstacks.com

TIL you can add -ai to a query in Google to turn off AI Overview for that query.

Smart event for those in Austin next week. Apparently the tickets are going fast.

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

"Who even knows what will be true in a year?" If a person will be needed when the AI machine does the work, then there are some hard edges where things become a lot more clear. Where there are consequences, health implications, and migration is tedious. everyonewantsprogress.com/0135-the-har...

Listening to a podcast and hearing the tell-tale claudisms: "Those receipts come due" "Are load-bearing" And now I’m just not sure anymore if I’m listening to a real conversation or not.

If you know a Rubyist in Montréal that you think should be on stage at XO Ruby on Oct 17, please tag them in the comments, or send me a note. We're looking for our next speakers, and especially if you're underrepresented in tech and have a talk idea, please reach out.

Three cities, three Saturdays, and a bunch of folks making it happen! Toronto - Oct 3: Clio.com, @fullscriptdev.bsky.social, Phoenix.ca, Toronto Ruby NYC - Oct 10: Chime.com, WyeWorks.com, Montréal - Oct 17: Fullscript.com Leg Sponsors: @dnsimple.com, Typesense.com, @confreaks.bsky.social

iPhone Duo is not to be understood as a phone. It should be understood as the first all-in-one pocket computer.

iPhone Duo as a camera is going to be super fun

Okay, iPhone Duo is going to be smoking hot

These two badges of honour don’t hit the same: "I haven’t written a line of code since November" "I haven’t written a line of article text since November" One of them is excusable, the other one smells. We’re just getting acquainted with this stuff.

The best time to plant an iPhone review is a year ago, the next best time is today. Also: Gruber still has the best closing lines.

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

A newsletter is a mini product. People subscribe when they're ready for a change. Having a newsletter requires a fair bit of empathy as well, for you and for your audience, in both directions. And the smallest newsletter of all, you already have. everyonewantsprogress.com/0134-all-our...

Industry Standard Tools. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.” [industrystandard.tools]