Tekin Süleyman
@tekin.co.uk
He/Him | Ruby & Rails consultant | Git wrangler
Founder of @jointogether.online co-operative
Organiser of @nwrug.org
tekin.co.uk
Manchester, UK
Founder of @jointogether.online co-operative
Organiser of @nwrug.org
tekin.co.uk
Manchester, UK
If (once again) people of colour being first on the chopping block on UK Traitors isn’t the perfect illustration of baked-in societal racism then I don’t know what is. Literally every time.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
If (once again) people of colour being first on the chopping block on UK Traitors isn’t the perfect illustration of baked-in societal racism then I don’t know what is. Literally every time.
Happy New Year all!
I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.
I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Happy New Year all!
I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.
I’ll be otherwise occupied for the next while hanging out with my new bestie. See you on the other side.
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I got this email:
"Rich,
Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>
Claude Haiku 4.5"
Thanks AI!:
"Rich,
Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>
Claude Haiku 4.5"
Thanks AI!:
ThanksAI.md
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December 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I got this email:
"Rich,
Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>
Claude Haiku 4.5"
Thanks AI!:
"Rich,
Your creation of Clojure <sycophantic blather worthy of a third grader's homework assignment to write a letter to a public figure you don't know, using sources you don't understand, to express an emotion unfelt, with no intention whatsoever>
Claude Haiku 4.5"
Thanks AI!:
@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@freeagentapp.bsky.social is your onboarding flow broken? I can't see any way to "complete" the last two items. No matter how many times I follow those two top links, the actions remain and the flying start banner persists.
As much as Act 3 is occasionally kicking my ass, Hollow Knight Silksong is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time. So much character, inventiveness and attention to detail wrapped up in wonderfully balanced gameplay mechanics.
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As much as Act 3 is occasionally kicking my ass, Hollow Knight Silksong is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time. So much character, inventiveness and attention to detail wrapped up in wonderfully balanced gameplay mechanics.
Clearing out the office and found this vintage number from 2005. Ruby 1.8; Rails pre-1.0?
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Clearing out the office and found this vintage number from 2005. Ruby 1.8; Rails pre-1.0?
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Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester!
Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million.
Register here to attend:
nwrug.org/events/milli...
Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million.
Register here to attend:
nwrug.org/events/milli...
NWRUG Event: Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails, Thursday 16th October
This month, Ryan Townsend will be sharing stories about how he started, scaled, and liquidated a Rails-based startup that at its peak reached £5M ARR:
Ryan h...
nwrug.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Last call for our meet-up happening tonight in Manchester!
Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million.
Register here to attend:
nwrug.org/events/milli...
Come and hear @twnsnd.com share his story about how he started, scaled and eventually liquidated a Rails-based startup that reached a peak annual recurring revenue of £5 million.
Register here to attend:
nwrug.org/events/milli...
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Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails
nwrug.org/events/milli...
nwrug.org/events/milli...
NWRUG Event: Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails, Thursday 16th October
This month, Ryan Townsend will be sharing stories about how he started, scaled, and liquidated a Rails-based startup that at its peak reached £5M ARR:
Ryan h...
nwrug.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just one week to go until our next event! Come hear @twnsnd.com share his story – Millions on Rails: A Two-Decade Retrospective on Scaling With Rails
nwrug.org/events/milli...
nwrug.org/events/milli...
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show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽
Rubular
Ruby-based regular expression editor/tester
rubular.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Shout out to Michael Lovitt, creator of rubular.com, easily one of my most used Ruby-related websites 🙏🏽
I have a growing number of unpurchasabels on my shopping list because Siri doesn’t understand me saying “puy lentils”. Alongside “toilet sauce” we now also have “foil lettuce”.
September 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I have a growing number of unpurchasabels on my shopping list because Siri doesn’t understand me saying “puy lentils”. Alongside “toilet sauce” we now also have “foil lettuce”.
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@rhiannon.io 's entire thread here, honestly. Ruby Central lost the plot here and has made a lot of bad calls, but hopefully this can serve as a catalyst to restoring it to what it should be.
The bar tbh 🥃
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
@rhiannon.io 's entire thread here, honestly. Ruby Central lost the plot here and has made a lot of bad calls, but hopefully this can serve as a catalyst to restoring it to what it should be.
Brandon is right. Ruby Central needs broader funding to avoid even more consolidation of power in the Ruby ecosystem. I for one am committing to do my part.
RE: Ruby Central funding, and a consolidation of power with companies like Shopify.
For years now the lead funder of Ruby and Rails initiatives has been Shopify, full stop. They've contributed heavily in both time and money, and through that have left a substantial impact on Ruby and Rails.
For years now the lead funder of Ruby and Rails initiatives has been Shopify, full stop. They've contributed heavily in both time and money, and through that have left a substantial impact on Ruby and Rails.
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Brandon is right. Ruby Central needs broader funding to avoid even more consolidation of power in the Ruby ecosystem. I for one am committing to do my part.
The Ruby community has a DHH problem
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
tekin.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The Ruby community has a DHH problem
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Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
davidcel.is
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
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Final reminder: Tonight at NWRUG we're hearing all about building mobile apps using Rails and Turbo Native.
Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm
nwrug.org/events/septe...
Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm
nwrug.org/events/septe...
NWRUG Event: Turbocharged Native Development, Thursday 18th September
This month Steven Harrison will be give us a guided tour of Hotwire Native:
I've often seen the requirement of a native application used as a reason to only ...
nwrug.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Final reminder: Tonight at NWRUG we're hearing all about building mobile apps using Rails and Turbo Native.
Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm
nwrug.org/events/septe...
Register to attend and join us from 6:30pm
nwrug.org/events/septe...
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This Thursday! Come hear Rahoul (AKA Baz) update us on his latest experiences using LLMs for software development. #ruby
nwrug.org/events/softw...
nwrug.org/events/softw...
August 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This Thursday! Come hear Rahoul (AKA Baz) update us on his latest experiences using LLMs for software development. #ruby
nwrug.org/events/softw...
nwrug.org/events/softw...
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In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.
July 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.
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This Thursday! Come hear Caius expound the virtues of tugging on those mysterious threads that we happen upon during our day to day code weaving #ruby
nwrug.org/events/tuggi...
nwrug.org/events/tuggi...
NWRUG Event: Tugging threads, Thursday 17th July
After last month's Brighton Ruby break we're back for another edition of Ruby in the North West, AKA NWRUG. This month we have our very own Caius (https://ru...
nwrug.org
July 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This Thursday! Come hear Caius expound the virtues of tugging on those mysterious threads that we happen upon during our day to day code weaving #ruby
nwrug.org/events/tuggi...
nwrug.org/events/tuggi...
Looking for a small meeting space (10-15 people) with a screen in central Manchester to host the next @nwrug.org. Any suggestions?
July 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Looking for a small meeting space (10-15 people) with a screen in central Manchester to host the next @nwrug.org. Any suggestions?
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As a next step for Herb, I'm happy to announce the release of the Herb Language Server and VS Code extension.
Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.
Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!
Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.
Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!
June 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
As a next step for Herb, I'm happy to announce the release of the Herb Language Server and VS Code extension.
Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.
Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!
Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.
Still early. Feedback is very much welcome!
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Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs.
Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.
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Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.
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Noah Gibb's Educational Ticket
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May 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs.
Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.
forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...
Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.
forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...
“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”