What a wild butterfly effect: Ruby Central invites DHH to RailsConf and now:
* Almost out of money
* Bad feelings/animosity with at least some of the major Ruby open source contributors
* ED fired
* board almost totally turned over
* primary function (rubygems.org maintenance) now being hopefully outsourced to volunteers
* some AI bullshit
All RC had to do was simply NOT platform him. No big statement, no virtue signaling, nothing. All they had to do was have RailsConf.
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Dave Copeland
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Dave Copeland
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Dave Copeland
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Dave Copeland
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Not enough to make bad software everyone hates. Not enough to buy Heroku, let it wither, and then let it die. This shitbird has to make jokes about the gestapo coming for his employees.
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2026-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2026-2
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Dave Copeland
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Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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Dave Copeland
@davetron5000@ruby.social
Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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More and more websites don’t work on iOS without disabling content blockers. PayPal is the latest and most surprising.
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