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You can still have Ruby for the humans You can still have impressive perf Dozens of beautiful Ruby Desktop applications have already been built on this release Don't believe me. Copy paste " make me something beautiful: github.com/scarpe-team/... " and see what happens.

Turned on the wrong glass hob. After six years chef cup bit the dust 🫡

would you rather eat a sponge (from the grocery store. fresh. but still a sponge) or have your hair replaced with cool whip for a month. (if you wash it off it grows back. it will be messy)

@alexanderadam.bsky.social has a very famous and very special copy of the poignant guide It is filled with countless amounts of art and poetry and notes from people in the community (including Matz!!) Today I was honoured to make a contribution

Rain 2.0 Everything has changed If you’ve played before, give it another whirl rain.schwadlabs.io

NEW RELEASE FROM SCHWADLABS: WaitTimesNI I’ve been scraping live A&E wait times data in Northern Ireland every 15 minutes since Nov 2023. (With a few gaps) The result is WaitTimesNI. Visualize trends across all emergency and minor injury centres. waittimesni.schwadlabs.io/heatmap?hosp...

Rain is growing rain.schwadlabs.io

213 players Nearly one trillion Rain 150,000 clicks 0 have beat it yet (besides me) Thanks for playing rain.schwadlabs.io

Building Rain: An Idle Game About Letting Go schwadlabs.io/blog/buildin...

An incomplete game But a game nonetheless Enjoy rain.schwadlabs.io

Rise of the Writer schwadlabs.io/blog/rise-of...

companion: an instrument panel for your agentic workers written in Ruby. delightfully unnecessary. schwadlabs.io/companion 🛸 coming soon

Absolute scenes at Belfast RubyFest 2026. Julian Cheal, Christian Bruckmayer and Thijs Cadier put on a clinic for top-tier Ruby talks. Everyone had a blast. People are already talking about bigger things next year. Got home at 2am. Belfast Ruby is on the map. 🚀

BELFAST RUBYFEST TONIGHT LETS GOOOO

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Here are the top three results if you google “url shortener”. The fourth is the one I’ve just built. Enjoy r1r.io

Never to early to think ahead. Our CFP for our next Belfast Ruby event if you'd like to speak! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Only about 10 slots left for Belfast RubyFest. RSVP today! luma.com/yl6v0cy9

@evanphx.dev do you still have a copy of the old RubyForge DB? From a Ruby History perspective I would find it interesting to host a readonly/archived version of the site. Preserving discussions, forums, etc.

We have folks from five different countries coming already for this event. Sign up today, come over and have a blast! I’m organizing! You won’t regret it. luma.com/yl6v0cy9

Over half the slots for Belfast RubyFest 2026 have gone in the first 24 hours since I announced the event. If you want to come to Belfast and have a great time with other fellow Rubyists, RSVP now!! luma.com/yl6v0cy9

GET HYPED FLY TO BELFAST HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE Belfast RubyFest 2026 is here. Headcount is strictly capped, so RSVP today. luma.com/yl6v0cy9

For Noah. * v0.5 * Scarpe now has a site - complete with Shoes documentation and our robust Scarpe architecture documentation scarpe-team.github.io/scarpe/ * Improvements, features and bugfixes: github.com/scarpe-team/...

Noah Gibbs was the largest engineering force behind Scarpe the last few years of his life. In honor of his memory I will be doing some hacking on it Christmas Eve. If you’d like to hack on it as well (LLM it up if you’re new!) I can refine some nice user-friendly issues.

A hidden message by @_why HIDDEN: April 13 2013 DISCOVERED: October 2025 by Nick Schwaderer

Another successful BelfastRuby in the books! Thank you @altabyte.bsky.social, @petr.codes for your wonderful talks! And a huge shoutout to Stora for hosting and sponsoring!! 🙌

ARE YOU READY FOR BELFAST RUBY TODAY!? LET'S GOOOOO luma.com/r42ger8m

I’ve started using Notion yesterday. Notion users what tips and advice do you have?

Calling my shot for 2026 I'm working on something big Cool Interesting And I'm gonna want to talk about it

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RSVP Now for our next BelfastRuby meetup, with hosts Stora on November 5! 🎉 We will have amazing speakers Rob Graham and Petr Hlavicka See you there! luma.com/r42ger8m

Hi, I’ve found some encrypted data, or a message, embedded in a cryptic GIF from 12 years ago I’m the first to uncover this; but I don’t really know where to start Any experts in this space with any tips?

My first writing in nine months “A Claude Commands and Hooks Primer - Building a Memory and Personality System for Claude Code” blog.schwad.org/schwogs/7

this is when i peaked

Might try to sell some software. Like actual software. Like you go and buy it and download it and enjoy it.

\(^-^)/ Big thanks to @schwad.org for organising a Belfast Ruby meet-up last night, and giving me an opportunity to speak 🤝 My Hotwire tips deck for anyone that's interested: hiddenloop.com/remark/heyho... Next meet-up scheduled for Jun 10th, incl. @marcoroth.dev and others lu.ma/BelfastRuby

screencasts but it's just me doing screen studio with absolutely no post-processing just sharing me screen and talking about random stuff without a lot of structure but honestly you'll never know what you're gonna get $12.99/m

I did a thing. If you know a Rubyist or Ruby-friendly person near Belfast, let them know. Our goal is to reach the heights @inazarova.bsky.social has achieved with SFRuby 😅 www.meetup.com/belfastruby/...

If you saw I’d published a proper book, what would you expect that book to be?

"Papillae: the surprising, hilarious and unbelievable way your tongue got its lumps and bumps" - Schwaderer, Penguin Press, 2026 "Join Schwaderer, a software engineer, as he takes you on a deep dive of the world's most interesting topic you've never thought about" - Washington Post 5/5

4 years. I have worked at Shopify for four years! 3 out of 4 Shopifolk are newer than me. Am I old? It has been a joy to be on the front lines of Ruby, Rails and Commerce. (P.S. If you'd like to learn more about my experience at Shopify, and love Ruby, DMs are open)

Matz said his favourite Ruby method was ‘eval’. What’s yours?

A few of my own words about Noah Gibbs blog.schwad.org/schwogs/6

A little side project I know Noah would’ve thought was neat. A television from 1979 I’ve set up (through short range analog broadcast) playing television from 1979-1981 all day long. I just turn it on whenever and TV is going. Video sourced from Marion Stokes archive.