Tom de Bruijn

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus! I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus. What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year? Head to desertbus.org right now!

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?" I can't remember who first said this, butI remember it whenever I run into more LLM-written text. Just got halfway through an otherwise good post and suddenly the tells popped up, and I felt like I'd eaten something rotten.

Second talk of the evening is from Arno Fleming about making education and development fun for kids. We got to participate as the audience with arts and crafts ✂️📃

The first talk of the night is from Stanislav Katkov about #Ruby documentation!

We’ve started with tonight’s meetup! Thank you for hosting today Catawiki!

Tonight. Join us at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup! 📺👀🍕 https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/nl-NL/amsterdam-rb/events/316172422/

Join us at Catawiki tomorrow for our September Amsterdam #Ruby meetup! 👀 www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb... It's not too late to RSVP!

I’m at #euruko today at the @appsignal.com booth! Come say hi 👋

It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it. Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first. My CV: https://jaredwhite.com/cv/ My biz […]

Paul Kinlan's "Dead Framework Theory" will be rattling around in my head for awhile. I have definitely encountered the "React/Tailwind because AI" mindset. The entropy is hard to ignore. But ugh... it feels like we're tying our own shoelaces together and trying to run. aifoc.us/dead-framewo...

God YouTube can be cool and good sometimes. What a brilliant video that not only has a great fucking message, but is also beautifully shot/edited. youtu.be/tWYxrowovts

I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

"When it comes to stand-up, people want to show up and have an experience with other people." @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social shares why he thinks that, ultimately, AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube. Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

in case you were looking to sponsor cool rust contributors, there is a list now :> blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/08/m...

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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/

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. https://gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

The internet is down ⚡ so while you're checking social media, remember to RSVP for next week's Amsterdam Ruby meetup! www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...

Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again. Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals. Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week. DesertBus.org

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond. Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope! Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause! desertbus.org

It's getting cold out, so join us for the November meetup at FeedbackFruits on the 27th of November! We got warm food and talks 🧣 RSVP here: www.meetup.com/amsterdam-rb...

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely) this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

The two most effective ways your company can support open source: 1. Let your developers have time for open source work. 2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.

If I'm following RC correctly: 1) RC Did Nothing Wrong b/c it always had the right to the GH org, RC always owned Rubygems; Bundler merged into Rubygems, so they own Bundler too. 2) But, we're gonna hand it back to Ruby core. 3) Nobody has to sign a CLA So what was the point?

Ooohhh rust-lang/rust is finally changing its default branch to main! blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

“I asked chat GPT”

The tram I’m on in Amsterdam broke down. The fix? Turning it off and on again.

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

Local Git push/pull: Quickly share changes between #Git clones of a repository on the same machine. No need to push changes to a remotely hosted repository and pull it in the other local clone. Is this a very niche problem to have? tomdebruijn.com/posts/git-pu...

Local Git push/pull: Quickly share changes between #Git clones of a repository on the same machine. No need to push changes to a remotely hosted repository and pull it in the other local clone. Is this a very niche problem to have? tomdebruijn.com/posts/git-pu...

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

I'm excited to join my friends in announcing gem.coop, a new ruby community gem server that you can use right now.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

The second talk of the evening is by Bob Smits about state machines and how their own state machine gem works ⚙️

You can find the talk slides on Derk-Jan’s website: www.derk-jan.com/talks/embrac...