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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, bootstrapped and venture-funded startups, Boston, Celtics, democracy Boston, MA
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What Google Zero means for web publishers

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Celtics just announced Jaylen Brown underwent surgery to remove a portion of his torn meniscus and will return in time for training camp without limitations

Are there any open source Rails applications which use Packwerk?

"autho" and "authe" or "enticationauth" and "orizationauth"

50% chance this is just more market manipulation.

🪶 Tryna teach the lads some skills so they can get a job, but they’re just gaggling around

I've been using Windsurf in RubyMine for about a month now. One practice I've adopted is to keep it in chat mode. Fairly often, it goes on a rampage of coding, often doing more than I've asked and in a way I don't want. Keeping it in chat mode solves that.

A look at the work of Phil Eng. 🔥 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/m...

Ruby friends, how do you feel about this code: ``` DEFAULT_ROLES.each(&account.roles.method(:find_or_create_by!)) ``` Versus: ``` DEFAULT_ROLES.each do |role_attrs| account.roles.find_or_create_by!(role_attrs) end ```

This is super exciting. Looking forward to trying this out. github.com/rails/rails/...

Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."

The Art of Cutting the Right Corners

If you've upgraded a Ruby on Rails application from a version prior to 5.2 and you're using the Encrypted Credentials mechanism, you might not know that the git diff command can show you changes to the credentials file even though it's encrypted.

New column ... free and unlocked for everyone ... A premature end to this season goes down as a huge missed opportunity for the Celtics www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2025/05/17/k...