Ray Gervais
raygervais.bsky.social
Ray Gervais
@raygervais.bsky.social
I've been playing quite a bit with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the capabilities of following an Agentic Development Lifecycle in enterprise environments. The results so far have led to concepts such as Durable Execution being far less daunting to those who haven't used before. Love the possibilities
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I miss tech Twitter and the various technical subreddits. They just aren't the same anymore and sadly, many didn't move elsewhere, they just stopped using entirely.
September 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The irony of me penning in the lyrics of Linkin Park's One More Light during a somber moment and my own dying on me
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Casually trying to recreate a document using @typst.app . It's been fun so far, and vastly more powerful out of the box than Markdown on its own
May 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The toxic urge to install Android 16 Beta on my daily driver is strong
May 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm contributing officially to open source from within a bank. That is unreal to think about some days
May 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Contributing to open source as part of work. Cool
May 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Just beat Midnight Suns, my GPU is more relieved between the two of us
May 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the
direct.mit.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) version 3.0 is finally out now
#OpenSource #Linux
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) version 3.0 is finally out now
Not gaming news but big news in the open source world - the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) version 3.0 is finally out now.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I should get back to blogging
March 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I swear, some days I love the cloud so much and what we can achieve with it. @cncf.io, @kubernetes.io, @golang.org, etc.

And other days, it keeps me up wondering if farming is easier on mental health.
March 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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My latest article is on the front page of HN 🧘🏻‍♂️🎯.
February 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else.

Constantly reevaluating and learning.
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Building out a POC of using @temporal.io Nexus, can't wait to document and maybe blog about it!
January 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Man, I love KDE Plasma 6 until I uninstall it on Manjaro. So much is broken, perhaps I need a fresh clean install, or to move to a new distro.

As I contemplate this, I also keep looking at the Mac Mini as a solution to my (now) aging computer. It's just not keeping up.
December 30, 2024 at 8:18 PM
How are my friends doing over here? Enjoying the holiday so far?
December 23, 2024 at 11:19 PM
The fact that password books still exist and are sold shows just how much of that market is still untapped -in my opinion
December 18, 2024 at 4:22 PM
29 today, here's to another adventure
December 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Me: 'I’ll just fix this one bug.'

5 hours later: 'What if I rewrote the entire app in Rust?'
November 27, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Today, I've debugged so much Go and Python code that I can recommend one or the other based on the project and developers tolerance of compiled vs interpreted, and how the read stack traces.
November 26, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Optimistic, but equally cautious about this one too. I suppose I should add to my profile and see how it compares.

Glad to see so many like @humphd.bsky.social here
November 21, 2024 at 4:30 AM