Joel “this is bs” Drapper
joeldrapper@ruby.social
<p>Full-stack <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ruby</span></a> / <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Rails" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rails</span></a> / <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/TypeScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TypeScript</span></a> / <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CSS</span></a> engineer, CEO of <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/HTMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HTMX</span></a>, formerly at Clearscope and Shopify — author and maintainer of the gems <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Phlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Phlex</span></a>, Morphlex, Literal, Quickdraw — cohost the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https:/
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Post #4321052
I don’t post on Mastodon anymore because I find AT is much better. Follow me on the ATmosphere. AT: @joel.drapper.me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joel.drapper.me Mu: https://mu.social/profile/joel.drapper.me Tangled: https://tangled.org/joel.drapper.me Mastodon Bridge: @joel.drapper.me
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Post #2881719
There&#39;s a Ruby gem with a two-letter name that keeps a server running in the background so you can run commands with no startup latency. Does anyone remember what it‘s called?
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Post #2881718
It’s funny how he’ll happily do stuff like this in Turbo, but we can’t have keyword arguments in Rails because it’ll break the git commit history. 🤔 Majestic `options = {}`
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Post #2881717
Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML https://joel.drapper.me/leaky-strings/
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Post #2881716
After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover. https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
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Post #1120807
I’m not going to be able to do open source for a little while apart from working on urgent security issues. Sorry 😔
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Post #921304
If you attend, sponsor or speak at Ruby Conf this year, you are taking a “fuck you” stand against all open source maintainers.
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Post #737288
E Corp had the video that proved Ruby Central was full of shit taken down from YouTube. Here’s another link (not mine) that still seems to be available. http://gofile.me/6g3JG/oTY79Vk3b
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Post #737287
@rgarner I think Marty is actually a decent person and I don’t think it was him. Unlike others, he hasn’t defended Ruby Central’s actions.
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Post #737286
I appealed the YouTube takedown but I also uploaded the video to the internet archive. https://archive.org/details/gmt-20250917-160422-recording-640x-360