Jason Garber

Web developer, musician, former community organizer, photographer, and occasional author.

Pronouns: he/him
Website: https://sixtwothree.org
Music: https://whoistheorchid.com

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2025-12-29 22:51:47 UTC

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Let me know when you find one!

2025-12-29 22:28:50 UTC

“Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?”
lol lmao

2025-12-21 20:13:41 UTC

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The sequel didn’t land for us, either. It was originally slated to be a TV series but got changed to a feature film during production. That sort of explains the underdeveloped characters, but doesn’t excuse the end product’s shortcomings.
Moana the First is great, though.

2025-12-06 19:00:32 UTC

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"Admission to National Parks, places which the führer would •never• visit, now free on His birthday."

2025-12-06 16:47:04 UTC

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The stage musical is •so good•. Music by Cyndi Lauper!
We were fortunate to catch it on Broadway in 2017 when Billy Porter and Stark Sands came back for a brief engagement in their roles.

2025-12-04 18:50:11 UTC

there’s a lot of critique you could level at the pixelfed guy but that he built a photos-only website isn’t really all that high on the list

2025-12-01 15:06:51 UTC

WIRED isn’t a serious publication? 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://archive.md/O7rEl

2025-11-07 23:25:11 UTC

lol lmao
http://rubycentral.teamtailor.com/jobs/6723164

2025-11-06 21:35:39 UTC

The only answer to OP’s question is, “DHH.”
https://ruby.social/@batsify/115504876780480680

2025-10-27 23:21:59 UTC

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not the roundtrip you had in mind?

2025-10-22 01:42:06 UTC

Also GitLab:
> Brian Robins, finance chief for San Francisco-based software maker GitLab, said GitLab is aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less.
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> “What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does,” Robins said.
The Washington Post, 9 March 2025
https://archive.is/okSlz
https://rigor-mortis.nmrc.org/@simplenomad/115414315159719647

2025-10-15 21:46:40 UTC

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Change the metaphor:
Ruby on Rafters

2025-10-12 15:50:31 UTC

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I have updated any of my devices, but have macOS 26 running in a VM, so my first-hand experience is limited. It hasn’t sparked joy, but I remember there being some developer-y things I’m missing out by sticking to old operating systems. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Also, Nielsen Norman Group’s history is a mixed bag. 😂

2025-10-12 15:07:25 UTC

“The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible, and constantly pulling focus rather than supporting seamless access to content.”
https://mastodon.social/@markmiller/115353909868528508

2025-10-12 00:43:09 UTC

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I love that!
I took swing lessons (I forget if it was more East or West Coast…) for a little while in high school when the big swing revival was the rage. It was a lot of fun and I’ve met a bunch of folks over the years that have stuck with it.

2025-10-07 02:53:16 UTC

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There's that, too. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2025-10-07 02:47:09 UTC

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That single-pager doesn't need 1,700 lines of CSS.

2025-10-07 02:45:46 UTC

I really like the potential of https://gem.coop, but y'all… Tailwind…? 🫠

2025-10-03 01:48:14 UTC

It seems I've missed the forest for the trees. I could be a Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Gold version 3 for the low low exam fee of $150 USD.
https://www.ruby.or.jp/en/certification/examination/

2025-09-30 19:37:51 UTC

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just look at what they took from us

2025-09-29 20:52:15 UTC

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for DHH to log the fuck off forever.

2025-09-28 17:04:55 UTC

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The quiet is such a privilege •and• you do end up missing the little chaos engines, right? 😄

2025-09-25 14:31:56 UTC

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community.
https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-community/

2025-09-15 22:51:13 UTC

i dunno y’all if i were vice president of these united states it seems plausible that there’d be more for me to do any given day than guest host some dead dude’s podcast

2025-08-20 17:51:57 UTC

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Swift seems hard •to me• because I don’t know it and don’t have a good sense of where to begin. But that folks steeped in the community are falling over themselves to adopt “AI” to build shitty apps for them is… bleak.

2025-08-20 17:50:39 UTC

Gross.
The closer I look at the Swift community, the more of this brainrot garbage I see. I •want• to find reasons to learn the language, but the prevalence of “AI” chuds is overwhelming and a big turnoff.
https://mastodon.social/@BitRigApp/115061447518174627

2025-08-15 12:59:43 UTC

I’m no political scholar, but wasn’t the Republican Party’s whole gimmick that the government should keep its filthy hands off the private sector?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/trump-administration-is-said-to-discuss-us-taking-stake-in-intel

2025-08-13 03:10:49 UTC

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An updated beta key was posted some time in the last 24 hours or so.

2025-07-19 02:10:41 UTC

“Thunderbolts*” was really quite good.

2025-07-08 22:24:41 UTC

Lotta dudes in that crowd cool with the racist transphobic piece of shit on stage, I see.
https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/114819823498916056

2025-06-26 13:11:44 UTC

Ah, yes, the most pressing issue in this country at the moment.
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/6/technology/blackburn-blumenthal-lee-klobuchar-and-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-bill-to-promote-app-store-competition

2025-06-19 18:03:03 UTC

I dunno, y’all, I’m gonna side with Apple on this one. I wouldn’t talk to John Gruber, either.

2025-06-17 20:44:13 UTC

A fast way to get me to nope right on out of the tech community group chat is to support your position by dropping a link to a blog post by known racist transphobe DHH.

2025-06-17 13:31:17 UTC

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Long COVID and LLMs, man. Lethal intellectual combo.

2025-06-09 12:56:52 UTC

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A consistent rhetorical flourish in Manton Reece’s writing is his addressing billionaires by first name as if they’re pals.
(Never minding the colossally bad takes, in this case defending someone accused of raping their own sister…)

2025-06-03 14:10:09 UTC

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If it’s unusual, then I’m right there with you. Been at this for 20+ years and only… two…? of my previous employers exist in any meaningful sense.
(Brand zombies like AOL and LivingSocial don’t count.)

2025-06-01 21:13:16 UTC

I started following a couple iOS/macOS developers thinking maybe that’s a good way to learn about that space. Every damn one of them is using “AI” as part of their workflow and now I don’t trust either them or their apps.

2025-05-17 22:38:39 UTC

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No lie, most of those interstitial introductions were more interesting to this household of uncultured USA-ians than a lot of this year’s entrants.
Switzerland looks amaaaaaazing.

2025-05-17 22:35:09 UTC

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Suppose we have the benefit here on the US East Coast of catching the replay after-the-fact and after the kids’ bedtime. 😅

2025-05-17 22:31:06 UTC

Y’all really only tune in for the #eurovision grand final…?

2025-05-09 13:29:24 UTC

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anyway smash that subscribe button and ring that bell
https://codeberg.org/jgarber

2025-05-09 13:23:51 UTC

I've migrated most of my GitHub repositories to @npub1fh7…ee83! Fifty-seven repositories so far which means I'm halfway to their soft limit of 100 per user. 😬
The migration has gone mostly well! I miss Dependabot as a built-in feature and Forgejo Actions doesn't (and never will) have feature parity with GitHub Actions, but it's still •really• good especially for something called out as alpha stage.
The differences and constraints have had me learning more about Git itself, though.

2025-04-29 22:38:04 UTC

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I think Allen had it right the first time.

2025-04-26 17:09:16 UTC

Beyond “rtfm,” does anyone have helpful guides or tips for setting up your own #Forgejo runners?
/cc @npub1fh7…ee83 @npub12r3…zz58

2025-03-31 00:38:52 UTC

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we’re all gonna die because lonely white men refuse to go to therapy aren’t we

2025-03-30 01:06:50 UTC

Watching one-by-one as well-respected designers and developers go in on “AI” and it’s just like… when did you contract brainworms…?
Your entire professional reputation is built on your unique ability and expertise and achievement and you wanna torch that for Sam Altman’s lying machine?

2025-03-28 15:23:46 UTC

oh this will go disastrously
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

2025-03-25 20:21:24 UTC

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more like bropen source amirite fellas

2025-03-08 21:52:21 UTC

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I grew up in Richmond, VA but, to my discredit (?), I’ve never seen GWAR perform.

2025-03-08 21:51:22 UTC

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fake blood, the entire VCU theater department’s budget for costumes and set pieces, thrift store instruments because they’re gonna get demolished

2025-03-08 21:44:10 UTC

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Slipknot: trash cans, empty kegs, sledgehammers, and military surplus gas masks

2025-02-13 01:31:23 UTC

look y'all these boots aren't going to lick themselves alright
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/113993248438440175

2025-02-03 17:08:06 UTC

Does anyone know if #Mastodon (or any other popular fediverse software) supports the part of the #ActivityPub spec (§ 6.2.1) that (if I’m reading it correctly) allows for pushing an object without a wrapping “Create” activity?
It’s described as a client-to-server behavior for actor outboxes, but I’m wondering if any server-to-server applications support it for inbox delivery.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#object-without-create

2025-02-03 03:08:10 UTC

Shopify’s a Nazi bar and their outsized influence in the Ruby community remains problematic for the health of the language.
https://mstdn.ca/@jace/113935853978233160

2025-01-25 01:34:57 UTC

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It pains me to say, but: yep, can confirm.

2025-01-18 16:07:02 UTC

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…and Frozen 2 is the rare sequel that surpasses the original!
“Show Yourself” is a masterpiece of a song.
(also not Stockholm Syndrome speaking 😂)