Adam Chalmers

"I'd rather be feared than loved" -- man who is actually being laughed at

rv 0.5.1 is out! Download it on Homebrew or at this link: https://github.com/spinel-coop/rv/releases/tag/v0.5.1

We now support musl thanks to Eric Case, and fixed a performance regression thanks to David Rodríguez. So now setup-rv GitHub Action should be just as fast as setup-ruby!

RE: @adam_chal@hachyderm.io

I think this is the fastest way to run a Ruby project. Would love to be proven wrong if someone knows a better way.

rvx installs and runs Rails in 8 seconds, vs. gem exec rails in 18 seconds

rv 0.5 is out! rv now works on Windows, it supports installing and running Ruby gems as tools (e.g. rvx rails) and running your local scripts or projects with rv run.

(rv is a very fast Ruby manager/installer/runner)

https://spinel.coop/blog/rv-0.5-cli-tools-windows/

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

it's on x. it's on bluesky. it's literally on instagram bridged with the fediverse. it's crossposted to the IPFS. you can torrent it. it's mirrored on adamchalmers.com. it's only at adamchalmers.com. it's on a decentralized HTTP server routable via adamchalmers.com. go to adamchalmers.com.

my wife: "The doctor said I can do this."
me: "Which doctor?"
my wife: "Me."

@absolucy@social.treehouse.systems Thank you so much for the tracing-oslog crate!

My end of year blog post: https://blog.adamchalmers.com/2025-reflections/

if I could go back in time and give myself advice when I was a fresh grad working his first real programming job, it'd be: stop eating spiders.

Tomorrow is austinsystems.org big December meetup! We're doing lightning talks (strict 10 minute limit) and we'll have pizza and beer. Hope to see y'all there!

Reminder: Austin Systems will meet Dec 17! It'll be our end-of-year holiday party, we'll be doing lightning talks (strict 10 minute time limit) and have some beers etc there. Sign up at austinsystems.org!

We had a great https://austinsystems.org last night! Joey set up a tiny Cloudflare network to show us how to program NICs. And Sean demoed audio effects in Python (the math behind reverb, vocal harmony, autotune etc).

Next month we're doing lightning talks (10 mins or less). Perfect for showing off a cool project, a ridiculous hack, a cursed bug, or anything really. All details are at https://austinsystems.org. You can join our mailing list or Discord too.

Everybody please shut the hell up and listen: there's a 20th anniversary edition of Confessions on a Dance Floor, and it mixes all the songs together into one non-stop mix.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m-cCUfWgzlLDVEV5QBOm4ijqXNvwP4rjI

Did you know GitHub lets you hide text behind a clickable "show more" toggle? It's very useful, e.g. posting source code without making your issue hard to read.

https://gist.github.com/scmx/eca72d44afee0113ceb0349dd54a84a2