This was worth eating shit on my bike and getting road rash on my elbow while working the polls

https://givebutter.com/wnbrb-our-next-chapter

I’m very much a certified Halt and Catch Fire megafan, but $70 for a used DVD copy of Season 2 is bonkers

My Blue Ridge Ruby talk got stealth-posted! I’m very proud of this one; it’s a dense one, but covers a bunch of ground & still manages to find a good (if frenetic) cadence. Plus, it’s got an all-timer bit for me.

https://youtu.be/CxQgGgngWCA

I wrote about Blue Ridge Ruby 2026, which I didn’t realize how much I needed, and where I gave my second talk.

https://microblog.thomascannon.me/2026/05/03/blue-ridge-ruby.html

Legion of Doom levels of “nightmare blunt rotation” here

https://people-work.io/blog/junior-hiring-crisis/

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, bucko!

Good riddance
https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/115657311502006405

I do regret that this is gonna get cut from a work presentation because it doesn’t fit in the flow.

“How’s today been?!”

From a junior interested in Ruby:

"I’ve recently gone down a rabbit hole, do you know who DHH is?
That’s a dumb question, I assume you do
Does the Rails community generally accept him?"

What if I told you this was like…the 3rd longest/draining conversation I’ve had today

It’s official: I’m now the CTO at my dayjob. 🎉🎉🎉

I’m speaking at XO Ruby in Atlanta on September 13 about a topic near-and-dear to me: making sure we’ve got the next generation of Rubyists! You should come hang out! The lineup looks amazing https://www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

Woohoo, Anchor Positioning will be part of Interop 2025 https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/752#issuecomment-2657328045

aaaaa ripping my hair out https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255#issuecomment-2611053256

Authentication is a table-stakes browser feature. 100% of users benefit from WebAuthn users benefit from WebAuthn handshakes being supported via the browser natively, without JS.

i cannot stand passive voice in a user interface! "an error was encountered" — and who encountered it, knave? who lowered their eyes from the error like a coward, meekly offering naught but a simpering generic alert to their charge, the user? have some spine

Every day is further proof that we simply need to use UTC across the board. No more timezones.

They have played us for absolute fools

I’ll have more to show and a proper writeup soon, but it’s extremely cool that LittleCRM has replies & threading, with realtime updates. And because it’s CableReady/mrujs, I was able to reuse a ton of code & keep the cognitive load to a ... https://microblog.thomascannon.me/2024/08/25/145836.html

Y’all couldn’t put any sort of weighted algorithm on this? Like, I know almost all of these are rude in some capacity, but this just feels like a footgun waiting to happen

I also realized that this doubles as #DS9 shitpost, which is…extremely on brand for me
https://ruby.social/@tcannonfodder/112527707469276177

#commuterbike #cargobike #solarpunk #bikedad