🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇲🇹 Ruby engineer, immigrant in 🇳🇱. I talk software, life, sometimes music. Writing at schembri.me Moaning at moanings.schembri.me ??? at haiku.schembri.me Currently building dogbooks.app and musicilike.net. he/himhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.mehttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mksuc2x2zc2pSo. @rubyconitaly.bsky.social is coming up! Who that I know is going to be there, so I can spend half the trip mustering up the courage to say hello?01 May 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksuc2x2zc2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mkpgvo5cpk2k@mackuba.eu Hey man, didn't you write a labeller or two in Ruby? I know you've done a lot of work but I can't seem to find this stuff. Probably a me problem.30 Apr 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpgvo5cpk2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mknsjet5q226I gave @tangled.org another look. At first I was sceptical because I wasn't sure about hosting repos on PDS, but it turns out... that's not how it works. And the nomenclature is easily figured out. I think I like it. Let's see where it goes.29 Apr 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknsjet5q226https://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mknjnnhwts24I think we need to separate what we want when we talk about moving away from GitHub. Hosting repos is a solved problem, and there are several viable options for business. For me I’ll miss the project discovery aspect most, but that has required more curation since LLMs everywhere anyway.29 Apr 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknjnnhwts24https://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mkkyzaqges2gEnjoyed watching this couple get it on yesterday.28 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkyzaqges2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mkasnqaqys2iI only eat grass-fed tofu. I’m soymaxxing, you’ve probably never heard of it.24 Apr 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkasnqaqys2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mkanfueldk2iThe trouble with realising you can just make banana bread is that all the bananas start going uneaten until they’re only good for banana bread. The flip side is that you have banana bread which is probably in my top 3 favourite things.24 Apr 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkanfueldk2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mka7usrza22iWholesome [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Apr 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka7usrza22ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mk3tuhzaes2sFollowing Charles Nutter's inspiring talk about JRuby @jrubyproject.bsky.social at @wrocloverb.com, I'm happy to announce that Strong Service is now tested against JRuby 10.1. https://github.com/shkm/strong_service/pull/522 Apr 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3tuhzaes2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mk3nm7kpk22sReally enjoyed this talk! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3nm7kpk22shttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjyn22dlrc2sWondering how much bandwidth has collectively been wasted by the MacOS default minimise animation on screen share.21 Apr 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyn22dlrc2shttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjwt7qcogk2gHad a fantastic time at @wrocloverb.com. Didn't speak to as many as I'd have liked (because difficult) but the talks were amazing and the people I did talk to were even better! No long write-up because I'm exhausted, but I'm really happy I went!20 Apr 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwt7qcogk2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjlzzku5ds2nThe Dutch public transport app vastly overestimates my physical abilities.16 Apr 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlzzku5ds2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjko5v566k2oAnyway, on a positive note, the weather is just great at the moment and we seem to have a pheasant living next to us so that’s whimsical.15 Apr 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjko5v566k2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjkmbojtfs2oThis allbirds thing is just peak whatever the heck is going on right now.15 Apr 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkmbojtfs2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mjjhdpt4dc2cAI tooling is legendarily bad at introducing concepts. A new repo pops up promising to make you more productive with LLMs and immediately dumps 15 cutely named new concepts without explaining what the point of it all is. It all feels so abstract.15 Apr 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjhdpt4dc2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mioxpwsjd22lToday I put my hand in a glove and squeezed the juice out of a moth pupa that was apparently inside all over my finger. I’m still recovering. Put your garden gloves somewhere safe from… gross things.04 Apr 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mioxpwsjd22lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mimahxp5i223I hadn't heard of this band before but I'm really enjoying this release. Getting classic melodic death metal vibes alongside Behemoth-esque black #metal. Also, what a cover. musicilike.net/s/r/VQ9_tqiE https://musicilike.net/s/r/VQ9_tqiE03 Apr 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimahxp5i223https://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mijj4kbb322qEvery time I find out that a customer is using a dev environment to test / learn / workshop something and inevitably becomes reliant on it, I die a little inside. Please don't let this happen.02 Apr 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijj4kbb322qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3miivggrjzs2nNothing says, “we will milk you for everything you’re worth,” like a notice entitled, “We respect your privacy.”02 Apr 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3miivggrjzs2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mibyoovnvs2dYou know it's time to stop working when your last message to claude was in caps and filled with expletives.30 Mar 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibyoovnvs2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/jamie.schembri.me/post/3mibtgwffek23There’s a special place in hell for people who don’t read their Slack messages, but they’ve yet to get the memo.30 Mar 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:b7i4j3fb3ltoyvorclobat7j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibtgwffek23