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Remi Mercier

@remi@ruby.social
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Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!).

I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

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Joined November 07, 2022
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · Jul 09, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

You know you've found a gem of an English teacher when that person consecutively:

  • brings back from a trip malt vinegar for you to put on your chips
  • recommends you https://shop.moderntoss.com/products/periodic-table-of-swearing-poster

during the same bloody a lesson.

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · Jun 09, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @robb@social.lol
@robb@social.lol So glad to have my certificate! Thanks Emily! ❤️
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 23, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

May be we just call AI output "AI vieille culotte" instead of AI slop.

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 23, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

"Slop" is also French slang that means briefs/panties (mostly used up).

And now, I can't unsee the parallel.

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 23, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Andrew Murphy still very much on point here: https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/ai-didnt-kill-your-junior-pipeline-you-did

Andrew Murphy

AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did | Andrew Murphy

AI didn’t kill the junior pipeline; companies did, because someone saw Claude write a for loop and decided that meant they could stop training humans. The result is an industry cheerfully pulling the

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 12, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Last week, I attended the first edition of @rubycon@mastodon.social in Rimini 🇮🇹.

On a whim, I signed up to give a lightning talk on a topic close to my heart: my reconversion (from stained-glass maker to Rails developer) and what it taught me about our responsibility as a community toward the next generation of developers.

🤌 My notes and thoughts: https://remimercier.com/what-about-the-juniors/

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 12, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Discovered @miranj@mastodon.social this morning. I really enjoy when dev shops put content in the world, and these resonate with my current thoughts. Check em out!

https://miranj.in/blog

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 11, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Last day in Rimini!

Thank you @rubycon@mastodon.social for organizing such a lovely event. And thank you, y'all lovely Ruby people. Baci !

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 09, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Second day in Rimini! No Ruby nerdery today, only Renaissance paintings nerdery!

(and coffees, cakes, piadine🤌)

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 05, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @mlevison@agilealliance.social
@mlevison@agilealliance.social That's a false dichotomy. In the case of GH, it's not a OR situation. It's an AND situation.
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 05, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @mlevison@agilealliance.social
@mlevison@agilealliance.social A industry-wide trend moving towards token consumption rather than code quality leading to skeleton teams struggling to keep with everything, so SSL certs slip unnoticed?
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 05, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @monospace@floss.social
@monospace@floss.social For Github specifically, this might be a question of their current trajectory as a company making their organisational weaknesses show more and more.
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 05, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @monospace@floss.social
@monospace@floss.social Hahaha, yes. You're right, and on the other hand, I experience a lot more lack of care since we all started using AI to make things move faster. So not necessary a direct causality but maybe a tiny bit of correlation?
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · May 05, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social

Looks like Github has not renewed its SSL certificates. Yet another disruption.

Sure, AI makes you code much faster, but it also makes you introduce bugs much faster too.

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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · Mar 18, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @mijustin@mastodon.social
@mijustin Funnily enough, I *can't* listen to an audio podcast for the life of me, but I will hapilly sit in front of my laptop watching video podcasts for *hours*. Something about being forced to completely engage with it, while when listening to audio, I just do something else and don't focus on it.
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Remi Mercier @remi@ruby.social · Jan 28, 2026
Remi Mercier
@remi@ruby.social

Freelance Ruby on Rails developer, writer, former stained-glass master (yup!). I share what I learn about building software on http://remimercier.com. Swears a lot when nobody's watching. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans lives matter

ruby.social
Replying to @soulcutter@ruby.social
@soulcutter I use it *all* the time. If there is a list of legitimate communication hacks, this one is in it.
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