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Rachael Wright-Munn

@chaelcodes.bsky.social

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Software Engineer since 2012 | Live coding on Twitch since 2019 | open-source contributor | Programming Game Enthusiast | Featured in "One Dreamer" video game! ✨

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 24d

I've been iterating on "Play with your Code"! Programming games make programming fun through a joyful developer experience. We're going to explore practical tips for your day job inspired by programming games!

I'm very excited!

Please come see it!!✨

Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 24d

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21!
sfruby.com

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 7h

For example, I've been to Ruby For Good's DC Event. They gather a bunch of people to do focused work on Ruby For Good projects every year. They use the word event, but retreat might work, camp doesn't feel right. Unconference is technically accurate, but doesn't feel right.

rubyforgood.org/events

Events

Making the world gooder.

rubyforgood.org

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 8h

Over on RubyEvents.org, they're adding support for events without talks or schedules. Things like RailsCamp or Ruby Retreat, but I'm thinking about other unconferences without recorded talks too.

What events in the ruby space have you attended, and what did you call them?
github.com/rubyevents/r...

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 1d

We visited the National Gallery of Victoria. These were a few of my favorites!

Ancestor of the poäng, made by Ubunji Kidokoro.

Gallery with red walls, completely covered in paintings from floor to ceiling.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm convinced Sora 2 is about serving ads to you with your friend's faces. It's something advertisers have wanted for an incredibly long time.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning

Succulent covered in cone-shaped bunches of yellow flowers. The original post's photo features small tufty yellow flowers on grass.

Photo taken by Chael at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning

White azalea with pink spots, evoking the white petals and pink base of the flower from the original post - photo taken by Chael at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne today.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning!

Some photos from the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne for you!

Beautiful tropical flowers in vivid yellows and reds.

An Australasian swamp hen and it's baby!! The baby is a tiny black fluff with the biggest feet.

Gorgeous succulents in pastel blue, green, and pink.

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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 2d

🙋 We're looking for volunteers for our 10/18 San Diego event. Exchange ~2hrs of your time to help us with set-up, registration, and packing up and get a free ticket.

🏙️ 10/18 in San Diego - Found Studio - 5490 La Jolla Blvd
✍️ Fill out our form: xoruby.com/volunteer

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 2d

TFW you go to write a sassy BlueSky post about GitHub's contribution graph widget, but then you remember that you have friends at GitHub, and maybe they know the people who built it, and ask yourself, "How would they feel reading this post?" and you have to write one about self-reflection instead.

An image of the GitHub contribution graph widget, GitHub's only widget, that honestly, no one asked for, and isn't particularly helpful on a mobile phone screen because it only updates once a day, and no one ever urgently needs this information in an easily accessible way.

But it might've been a hackathon project, or an experiment with making widgets for Android on an easy target. It was someone's project and they built it, and useful or not, it works.

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RubyEvents.org @rubyevents.org · 4d

Additionally to collecting stamps in your physical @therubypassport.com, you can now also collect and see these stamps on @rubyevents.org!

Adrian Marin's Ruby Stamps Page on RubyEvents.org.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 3d

Guess I'll have to go get some more.

Snow-capped mountains in Victoria. Photo taken from the sky with a plane wing.

Neon sun sits on the horizon with dark clouds below.

Rachael and Ken (my husband) on the plane. Rachael is smiling and Ken looks like he'd prefer to go to sleep.

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 4d

In the upcoming Herb v0.8.0 release, the Herb Language Server will support `Fix-on-Save`, `Format-on-Save`, or both! 🌿

This builds on the new `--fix` option in the Herb Linter, which can automatically correct offenses without formatting the rest of the document.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 4d

Awww... I'm out of vegemite. :(

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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 5d

At @xoruby.com Portland today with some old friends, new friends, and a whole lot more connection than is possible over Zoom.

We’re establishing a Return to Conference Policy.

A photo featuring Shane Becker taking a photo of the video camera display with Kayla Roepelle speaking on Open Telemetry.

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 5d

In the upcoming Herb v0.8.0 release, the Herb Linter will support a new `--fix` option to autocorrect offenses.

This isn’t dependent on the Herb Formatter and uses the `printer` architecture, so the Linter can fix only the offenses without touching anything else in the document!

Screenshot of a terminal showing Herb Linter output to shocase the new --fix option.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Is it new cities?? One of my friends in Phoenix was lamenting being unable to attend an event!

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Looping back to you.

rubycentral.org/news/source-...

This was confirmed in the Q&A!

Source of Truth Update – Friday, October 10, 2025

Yesterday, we released our Security Incident Report, a comprehensive review of the September AWS root-access event. The report reflects both independent and internal analysis, outlining what occurred...

rubycentral.org

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

I think we need to hear from the members of gem.coop whether they knew about André's proposal to RC, if it was considered as a funding option for coop, and whether they would consider it in the future.

@martinemde.com said they are not currently collecting data, but I think we still need answers.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Thus far, you've been level-headed, empathetic, and transparent. I appreciate that.

I think it's important that users of gem.coop know:

- Were you aware of André's proposal to RC of selling PII associated with gem usage data?
- Did you know he talked to Mike Perham about buying it?

Reddit comment from mperham:

Andre has always been exploring ideas for sustaining rubygems maintenance and paying the team a fair wage. That was the ethos behind Ruby Together.

In this case I have first hand knowledge since he pitched me on the idea: would Sidekiq, being a big sponsor of Ruby Central in the past, be interested if rubygems could somehow use the remote IP to identify the companies downloading the `sidekiq` gem so I could use that to upsell those companies to Sidekiq Pro, i.e. send them a cold email? Lead generation tools are common and valuable to literally every company. I pay $1000/mo and get a set of leads every month. Seems reasonable.

I can see how your worst case scenarios might paint this in a bad light. We never discussed edge cases or privacy concerns as he was just spitballing this idea. That's as far as it got and you can see the same level of thought in his email they published. Hope that clarifies the intent.

Email from andre@arko.net, sent on Aug 3, 2025
Subject: Secondary on-call proposal

Hi Marty, here's a written up version of the proposal that I mentioned on Friday. Let me know what you think.

### In Brief

I'd like to offer Ruby Central a contract to cover secondary on-call in exchange for a copy of the gem download access logs.

### Background

Since Ruby Central has run out of funds for a secondary on-call, and maintenance budget has been so limited, I've been brainstorming options. Yesterday I met someone who has had some success building a system to analyze download logs from a package registry and using those kids to determine which companies are installing the packages. From our conversations, the market overall isn't enough to run a company and hire employees, but seems like it could cover the costs of paying for secondary on-call. If it's more successful than expected, I would be open to potentially using it to pay the costs of primary on-call as well.

I believe this is a win-win because Ruby Central will get secondary on-call coverage that it needs but currently can't afford, and my consultancy will have a project to build that could bring us revenue in the future while we are still getting set up and are low on client work.

### Detailed proposal

My consultancy would sign a contact with Ruby Central to provide secondary on-call coverage, with rotations and shifts coverage handled by us internally. We could offer to respond to escalated alerts (from the primary on-call to us as the secondary) within 30 minutes, any time of day or night. In exchange, we would receive access to a copy of the RubyGems.org HTTP access logs.

If we are successful at turning download logs into companies using packages and versions, we would be happy to report back what we're able to determine, and make an agreement to provide that information for future RubyGems.org paid organizations customers.

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

If you were project lead, and you received this proposal, how would you respond? And why?

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I ask who the maintainers were I get a different answer. Do you have any sort of governance, documentation, or team structure?

This is the closest and most recent thing I've found. It lists everyone from gem.coop (and more), but doesn't include HSBT.

rubycentral.org/news/ruby-ce...

Ruby Central's First Annual OSS Report (2024)

This is a web preview of Ruby Central's FIRST Annual OSS Report, for 2024, sharing everything we've been working on over the last 12 months and the impact of our work. We will be publishing a finalize...

rubycentral.org

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Found it! It doesn't specifically reference his lawyer though, and thankfully the language is "own or create" and not "distribute".

Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Arko told Socket, “I have requested Ruby Central stop claiming to own or create ‘bundler’, although they are welcome to modify the source code and share it under some other name. Ruby Central has replied only to ask for time to review my request with their legal counsel.”

socket.dev/blog/gem-coo...

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe from when he trademarked Bundler?
andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...
Elsewhere he said that he's asked them to stop distributing Bundler, and they'd asked to review it with their legal team. I can't find that quote though.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chaelcodes.bsky.social · 6d

What I'm hoping to get out of these first 2, and my future follow-up questions, is how Martin, as a prospective project lead for gem.coop views this proposal.

Did he know about it? Did he support it? How would he handle it if it was proppsed to him? Does he view it as PII?

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