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Ayush
@ayushn21.bsky.social
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Pink Floyd and Steven Wilson addict. Test cricket enthusiast.

Author of The Rails and Hotwire Codex. @bridgetownrb.com core. I write Ruby for money.

✍️ https://binarysolo.blog
📝 https://railsandhotwirecodex.com
📸 https://fslash42.com
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Ayush @ayushn21.bsky.social · Jan 2
It’s a new year and this is a (relatively) new social media platform so I thought I’d try an experiment.

Music is very important to me … I grew up listening to 70s rock … Pink Floyd is my favourite band to this day.
ayushn21.bsky.social
Taskmaster spoiler alert, LOOK AWAY NOW!!

I fucking called it! Weeks ago I said: “Maisie Adam, but almost by accident”. Much smugness will ensue.

#Taskmaster
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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ayushn21.bsky.social
If you have Apple TV, watch Pluribus. If you don't, get it and watch Pluribus. You'll thank me later.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
ayushn21.bsky.social
If you have Apple TV, watch Pluribus. If you don't, get it and watch Pluribus. You'll thank me later.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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larsum.com
I have made (most of) the game accessible without having to solve the puzzle here in case you can't be bothered:
larsum.com/emptymirror/
Once more I had high hopes to get to working on this early, once more it was hastily thrown together starting a handful of hours before it was scheduled.
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
ayushn21.bsky.social
This might be the most important book ever written. Nuke every MBA program in the world into orbit and replace it with this book.

For folks who work or have worked in a corporate environment, it will be triggering. You have been warned.
The cover of a book titled: “Wankernomics: A deep dive into workplace bullshittery”
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social
Wishing everyone a frightfully fun Halloween from Calvin & Hobbes! Stay spooky out there. 🎃
#CalvinandHobbes #HappyHalloween #SpookySeason
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
ayushn21.bsky.social
It’s hard to feel too bad for England to be honest, they’ve been average and ridden their luck all tournament. A semi final is about what they deserved.

It’s nice for South Africa to finally get one over England in ODI World Cups.

#CWC25
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ayushn21.bsky.social
Far too true… #CWC25
crickether.com CRICKETher @crickether.com · 20d
Remember this? #CWC25 🏏
THE HUNDRED FINAL: Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth by Marizanne Kapp Posted by Syd Egan 4 “Everyone has a plan,” the boxer Mike Tyson once said… “until they get punched in the mouth by Marizanne Kapp.” Well… okay… he might not have said the last little bit, but it doesn’t make it any less apt.
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
ayushn21.bsky.social
I’m an award winning cricketer.
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
For the first time in a long time, I have a professional CV!

(100% hand-coded HTML of course, and the PDF was itself printed from the HTML via a print stylesheet.) 😎

I'm looking to make a major impact on a fast-growing team with high-stakes full-stack architecture or design system planning […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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olly.world
“no tech titans have a cultural life, so they can’t possibly imagine what could be so creatively valuable you wouldn’t want a robot to desecrate it for cash”

Gold from Marina Hyde
It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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byroot.bsky.social
I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

byroot.github.io/opensource/r...
Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...
byroot.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ayushn21.bsky.social
The Aussies are irritatingly good at cricket. I’d love for Pakistan to win this but I reckon Aus have enough runs with their bowling attack …

#CWC25 🏏
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
ayushn21.bsky.social
"Across the lines of the earth
The powerful fail
to see a way to live in peace
Although it’s plain for us to see"
Clann - Earthsong 2025
YouTube video by Solstice
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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ashhiggins.bsky.social
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
ayushn21.bsky.social
The Ruby Central drama has me wanting to ...
"Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over" The above text overlayed on a picture of the actor Simon Pegg holding a pint of beer. A reference to the movie "Shaun of the Dead".
September 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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indirect.io
Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...
Bundler belongs to the Ruby community
I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...
andre.arko.net
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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mikemcquaid.com
Another day in Rubyland, another first-hand account from a departing RubyGems maintainer: gist.github.com/simi/349d881...
rc-wtf.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
ayushn21.bsky.social
Listen to Pia. Always listen to Pia.
larsum.com Pia Schwierz @larsum.com · Sep 23
If you still haven't watched this what are you even?
watch.eventive.org/wd/play/68b1...
(It's available to stream until Sep 30th)
September 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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robbyonrails.com
Kudos to the Bridgetown team on the 2.0 release. I was able to upgrade from v1.3 and re-deploy maintainable.fm in under 15 minutes. (without the use of AI)

github.com/bridgetownrb...
Maintainable Software Podcast: Curious Conversations on the Art of Software Maintenance
We speak with seasoned practitioners who have worked past the problems often associated with technical debt and legacy code. Hosted by Robby Russell
maintainable.fm
September 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
“Sidekiq withdrew its $250,000/year sponsorship for Ruby Central because they platformed DHH at RailsConf 2025”

joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
joel.drapper.me
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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tekin.co.uk
The Ruby community has a DHH problem
tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
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
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duckinator.bsky.social
Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
rubygems.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ayushn21.bsky.social
Quote post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

I’ve seen this movie well north of 20 times. I could probably recite half the dialogue from memory 🤣. Sometimes movies are better because they’re bad 😝
September 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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bridgetownrb.com
(Re)Introducing the only #Ruby #WebDev framework which bridges the gap between static Markdown sites and fullstack database-driven application deployments.
Bridgetown 2.0 “River City” has been released! 🎉
September 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM