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Balkan Ruby is an international Ruby conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our fourth edition (2018, 2019, 2024) will take place on April 25–26, featuring talks about the long term. Join us! balkanruby.com?discount_cod...

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As Eastern Europeans, we find the X leadership's stance on geopolitical issues troublesome. We don't want any part in that. Hello, Blue Sky #rubyfriends. ✌️

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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

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we used to respect the computer

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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This is a wild story with a really cool DIY project at the end.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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lol

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EU Council: “You were right all the time about Ruzzia, dear Baltics, sorry we didn’t listen to you”. Baltics: “We need to build more weapons and coordinate our armies, they might attack the EU soon”. EU Council: “Ah, come on, always so negative”.

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Poland has again been rated as the worst country in Europe for access to contraception in an annual ranking, a position it has held since 2019

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By inspiration from @krzyzanowskim.com, I'm working on a variant of Swift translated to Polish, called Jerzyk 🐦 #jerzyklang

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*stares in historian*

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Unicode is pretty cool

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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My friend Ryan Davis, Minitest author and Ruby extraordinaire, is looking for new employment. He has: 25 years Ruby exp; ~100 gems w/ ~2 billion downloads. Loves: languages / runtimes, profiling & optimization, debugging, testing, OSS, etc. Hit him up, he's great! zenspider.com/ryan/Resume.html

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🇺🇸🇵🇱🇭🇺 I'm afraid that all the expert output about the rule of law crisis in Hungary/Poland being a consequence of these countries being "young, not yet fully developed democracies without a long history of developing trust in institutions" is about to age very badly.

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Menshittification 🙄

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[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane

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You can do anything in Ruby. Pairing with @fractaledmind.bsky.social yesterday, he was sketching out some new AST nodes for Plume, he was using this trick with const_missing and OpenStruct so he didn’t need to define the new AST nodes up front.

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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TIL there's an ISO8601 notation for time *intervals* too… 🧐 #ruby #rails

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RIP Marian Turski. Do not be indifferent.

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Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

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™ One direction . . #streetphotography #durhamnc #blackandwhite #monochrome

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