Toby
@tobyond.bsky.social
Ruby, rails, javascript, and SQL appreciator. Pour over coffee lover. Music obsessed, musician. Reader of (probably) too many books. Aussie, living in Netherlands.
Every time I think a boolean is sufficient, some new feature pushes it toward an enum, or some kind of multiple timestamps. Every, damn, time
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Every time I think a boolean is sufficient, some new feature pushes it toward an enum, or some kind of multiple timestamps. Every, damn, time
As annoying as this AWS outage has been, it's a warning signal to engineering teams across the globe that our reliance on monopolistic cloud providers is bad for business
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As annoying as this AWS outage has been, it's a warning signal to engineering teams across the globe that our reliance on monopolistic cloud providers is bad for business
I keep thinking about an interaction with one of the major ai tools recently:
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I keep thinking about an interaction with one of the major ai tools recently:
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
[me] How to do x?
[llm] Have you tried y?
[me] Ok, I just tried y, it didn't work.
[llm] I see you tried y, that's how you fix x, what else can I help you with?
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in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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Eliminating the headphone jack did this to society.
I was in the bathroom at LAX and the woman in the next stall just took a whole ass call on speakerphone in the goddamn bathroom like wtf
August 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Eliminating the headphone jack did this to society.
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A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
Starting to lose count of the number of times I spin up a new app to try out a new JS framework, and realize that I really prefer vanilla JS, and that their abstraction is too much mental overhead for my productivity
May 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Starting to lose count of the number of times I spin up a new app to try out a new JS framework, and realize that I really prefer vanilla JS, and that their abstraction is too much mental overhead for my productivity
With tariffs throwing international shipping into chaos, it’s only a matter of time before the toilet paper wars return right?
April 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
With tariffs throwing international shipping into chaos, it’s only a matter of time before the toilet paper wars return right?
Trusting in your web framework’s magic is like swiping a credit card, smooth and effortless upfront, but the bill always arrives. Sometimes when your app scales, other times just when you color outside the lines
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Trusting in your web framework’s magic is like swiping a credit card, smooth and effortless upfront, but the bill always arrives. Sometimes when your app scales, other times just when you color outside the lines
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Meets JD Vance. Dies hours later. My guess is the Pope was unable to overcome that level of stupidity.
April 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Meets JD Vance. Dies hours later. My guess is the Pope was unable to overcome that level of stupidity.
Why do get the feeling the next decade of software engineering is just gonna be cleaning up the crusty spaghetti left behind by someone who 'vibe coded' their way into production at 2am in an over-caffeinated stupor?
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Why do get the feeling the next decade of software engineering is just gonna be cleaning up the crusty spaghetti left behind by someone who 'vibe coded' their way into production at 2am in an over-caffeinated stupor?
Melbourne Airport:
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Melbourne Airport:
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
Agent: "Your carry-on is over the limit, that will be $42."
Man: "Why is that so important? It’s only just over."
Agent: "We need to stay under the weight, this is very important to the safety of your flight."
Man: "It can’t be that important if you’re not weighing us!"
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Bumper sticker that says, "Bought after the pedo diver thing... during the Grimes thing... you know what, this is on me. My bad"
March 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Bumper sticker that says, "Bought after the pedo diver thing... during the Grimes thing... you know what, this is on me. My bad"
After converting a personal project to Hanami, it blows my mind how elegantly it solves many issues I've faced with other frameworks. Bravo! I'm going to have to migrate some much larger projects over
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
After converting a personal project to Hanami, it blows my mind how elegantly it solves many issues I've faced with other frameworks. Bravo! I'm going to have to migrate some much larger projects over
As much as I love the aesthetics of symbol keys in a ruby hash, the mix of symbols and strings in ruby hashes in different projects can be a genuine nightmare. Pick a lane people!
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As much as I love the aesthetics of symbol keys in a ruby hash, the mix of symbols and strings in ruby hashes in different projects can be a genuine nightmare. Pick a lane people!
[open source repo with zero updates for 6 months] "Clearly abandonware!"
[personal repo with zero updates for 4 years] "This is fine."
[personal repo with zero updates for 4 years] "This is fine."
March 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
[open source repo with zero updates for 6 months] "Clearly abandonware!"
[personal repo with zero updates for 4 years] "This is fine."
[personal repo with zero updates for 4 years] "This is fine."
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It's rarely pointed out, but no country in history has ever willingly given up as much power and influence as the USA just did.
Nation states crave power and influence. They seek to build it, and work hard at not losing any.
But here the US is going hog wild on losing as much of it as possible.
Nation states crave power and influence. They seek to build it, and work hard at not losing any.
But here the US is going hog wild on losing as much of it as possible.
March 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It's rarely pointed out, but no country in history has ever willingly given up as much power and influence as the USA just did.
Nation states crave power and influence. They seek to build it, and work hard at not losing any.
But here the US is going hog wild on losing as much of it as possible.
Nation states crave power and influence. They seek to build it, and work hard at not losing any.
But here the US is going hog wild on losing as much of it as possible.
We often judge a company's success by its profits and stock price, but most people probably care more about its minimum and median wages.
After all, if planning on spending money there, it's good to know you're not just contributing to income inequality.
After all, if planning on spending money there, it's good to know you're not just contributing to income inequality.
February 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We often judge a company's success by its profits and stock price, but most people probably care more about its minimum and median wages.
After all, if planning on spending money there, it's good to know you're not just contributing to income inequality.
After all, if planning on spending money there, it's good to know you're not just contributing to income inequality.
My nvim LSP has been broken for a week now, and honestly? I haven’t rushed to fix it. Turns out, there’s a certain serenity in coding without an overzealous autocomplete breathing down my neck. No little suggestions. No judgmental squiggly lines. Just me, code, and occasional linting issue in PR's
February 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My nvim LSP has been broken for a week now, and honestly? I haven’t rushed to fix it. Turns out, there’s a certain serenity in coding without an overzealous autocomplete breathing down my neck. No little suggestions. No judgmental squiggly lines. Just me, code, and occasional linting issue in PR's
One underrated perk of living in the EU: when most of your app's users are in the US, you can deploy while they’re asleep. Rails update? Ruby update? No problem, something breaks, you’ve got time to revert before anyone notices.
February 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One underrated perk of living in the EU: when most of your app's users are in the US, you can deploy while they’re asleep. Rails update? Ruby update? No problem, something breaks, you’ve got time to revert before anyone notices.
The more time I spend running sql queries the more I realize that the boolean column is almost always a mistake. visible, enabled, active should almost always be a datetime: marked_visible_at, marked_enabled_at, marked_active_at
February 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The more time I spend running sql queries the more I realize that the boolean column is almost always a mistake. visible, enabled, active should almost always be a datetime: marked_visible_at, marked_enabled_at, marked_active_at
On the topic of alt ruby frameworks, Roda has been my favorite Ruby framework for a while. I've used it in projects of all sizes. Here’s a Roda/Phlex/Sequel/esbuild template that I’ve been using to make it easier to spin up larger projects github.com/tobyond/roda...
GitHub - tobyond/roda-base-template: A modern pure ruby, Roda application template with Phlex for views, Sequel ORM, Esbuild for javascript and CSS bundling, Tailwindcss, and Zeitwerk integration.
A modern pure ruby, Roda application template with Phlex for views, Sequel ORM, Esbuild for javascript and CSS bundling, Tailwindcss, and Zeitwerk integration. - tobyond/roda-base-template
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February 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
On the topic of alt ruby frameworks, Roda has been my favorite Ruby framework for a while. I've used it in projects of all sizes. Here’s a Roda/Phlex/Sequel/esbuild template that I’ve been using to make it easier to spin up larger projects github.com/tobyond/roda...