Notices by Denis Defreyne (denis@ruby.social)

@thomasfuchs Pff, I‘ve been saying “thank you” to ATMs for decades

TIL “genai” is short for “genitalia”

Lough Neagh sure has some H. P. Lovecraft vibes

#LoughNeagh #HPLovecraft #lovecraft

@mametsuko I literally have “Lubricate bike chain” on my to-do list for today

@aral LinkedOUT 😮

@aral Coincidentaly, LinkedIn is down

WordPress is a good alternative to AeroPress.

I got laid off today. Eek!

Looking to hire a senior/staff engineer? I might be exactly what you need.

Some more details on what I offer here: https://denisdefreyne.com/notes/get-me-a-job-2025/

repost = ❤️

#GetFediHired #Ruby

@skinnylatte I love all your photos!

Ruby is great because it will let you write the most cursed code

#Ruby

Israel continues to casually commit war crimes as if it’s nbd

ME: Oh, it’s getting dark! Time to wrap up for the evening and start thinking about dinner.

THE CLOCK: 14:38

Presented a slide today at work in a mixture of Comic Sans and Chalkboard 💪

Once in a while, I open LinkedIn and it’s chock full of “AI is great” people, showing of their latest AI images and videos, which…

uh…

still look like shit.

I can pick out the AI-generated images and videos even from tiny thumbnails.

@mattly I believe that’s a tuple (fixed-size) rather than an array, so it wouldn’t have push().

Surely the US would not elect a convicted felon, right?

Literally every single thing ChatGPT tells me is provably wrong.

Generative AI is a fucking train wreck.

#generativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT

@vonneudeck @thomasfuchs Where did you find this information?

I did research on his background but couldn’t find anything that would suggest he is pro-Hamas.

@vonneudeck @thomasfuchs

There are no Google results for the combination of Ghassan Abu Sitta and Kim Robin Stoller — are you sure this is correct?

WIP: A tool to manage a local developer environment.

Per-directory Ruby/Node versions.

A `ddenv up` invocation does everything needed to install the dependencies, and avoids needless work.

Piggy-backs on Homebrew, ruby-instal, node-build and so on.

No VMs or Docker; native tools for maximum speed and the tightest feedback loops.