Tekin Süleyman 🍉 ☕️

Rails' embarrassing racist daddy is now calling for the ethnic cleansing of Europe over on his blog, but it's fine because he's nice to people at conferences.

Ah the four genders

“AI displacement does not offer a fixed endpoint. The process is ongoing and accelerating, with no stable post-AI equilibrium to adapt to. A worker who retrains into the safe role of this year may find that role automated within two years. There is no permanent absence to grieve, only a moving frontier. Workers are being asked to accept a process rather than an outcome, and the process keeps advancing.”

“Tech layoffs are engineered to produce exactly this condition. They are framed as strategic pivots, restructurings, and efficiency measures. The language is designed to read as ordinary corporate hygiene, and it forecloses mourning by refusing to name a loss at all. There is no ritual for the end of a profession, no obituary for a career, and no socially sanctioned grief leave for the worker who has watched the meaning drain out of work that technically still pays“

https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/

The central conceit in my Branch in Time talk was based on the surprising behaviour when calling .order() on an Active Record association that already has one baked in. Great to see default_order added as a way to avoid this surprise.

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/39525

@samsterby@mastodon.green congrats Sam!

I’ll be speaking at @brightonruby@ruby.social this year. Come and say hi!
https://brightonruby.com/

Yer da is doing unreviewable drive by pull requests using his spicy autocomplete again
https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/2056

Happy Twin Peaks day to all those that celebrate

Interesting webinar happening next month for all you tech folks.

https://tech.unions.org.uk

The Ruby community has a DHH problem.
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem

Something for your Ruby toolbox if you've not come across it before: Defining a template string as a format specification that you can then interpolate named arguments into.

For example:

GREETING_TEMPLATE = "Say %s to %s"
puts GREETING_TEMPLATE % { greeting: "Hi", name: "Bob" }

The String#% method being a neater/more convenient way of calling Kernel#sprintf