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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. nyti.ms/3KTwGve

A photo shows a 7-Eleven store with the headline: Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

So glad I grew up in the 90s with parents who were too busy to force me to be supervised at all times.

Exploring my neighborhood solo was such a joy and blessing.

Paul Davidson @elementalpaul.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not sure how I feel about these kinds of questions on Reddit. Already a few decades ago is becoming some kind of mythical time that people aren't sure was real.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

Just add “the product is open source”

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

Being burnt out + not having access to my adhd meds for weeks is such an abysmal combo. 💀

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 2d

Incredible ASMR

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 5d

Imagine writing such a provocative headline and putting it behind a paywall lmao

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 6d

Waking up to more Ruby drama makes me feel sad and tired.

I wish folks could come to the table in a more humble and reconciliatory fashion.

Is that even possible at this point? Maybe not…

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 6d

"One of the reasons I like programming is because it's logical. It's predictable."

"LLMs are not predictable. You can use the exact same prompt and can get a different response every single time"

I feel the same way and this is why I don't understand the appeal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUk...

AI Coding Sucks

YouTube video by Syntax

www.youtube.com

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 7d

My mom was kind enough to let me know about @sfruby.com 😅

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David Hill @davidhill.dev · 10d

Marty and I had a great chat with Irina Nazarova about the upcoming SFRuby conference and meetups.

www.buzzsprout.com/2509083/epis...

Irina Nazarova: SFRuby Conf - The Ruby Gems Podcast

Irina Nazarova shares her journey revitalizing San Francisco's Ruby community through local meetups and the upcoming SF Ruby Conference. She explains her mission to connect startups with Ruby develope...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 9d

Friends, this is our new account for all things SF Ruby!

San Francisco Ruby Conference, Nov 19-21 @sfruby.com · 9d

Hello, Ruby World! sfruby.com

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 9d

We did it!! 🥹👏

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 9d

We did it!! 🥹👏

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thoughtbot @thoughtbot.com · 13d

For over 20 years, thoughtbot has helped shape the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.

From building OSS tools like factory_bot to frameworks like Administrate and Superglue, our team has worked in the open to make Rails stronger and more resilient.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 13d

I definitely agree with that.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 13d

I am not saying it couldn’t have been done better. We had employees who didn’t even know it was happening before receiving the marketing email. There was just such a lack of leadership, and no consistent leadership, and communication channels were disorganized… I wouldn’t call it malicious.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 13d

I genuinely don’t think the lack of communication was meant to be malicious. Not alerting sponsors sooner was undoubtedly an oversight and one can certainly argue that inviting him was a bad calculation.

We also waited on the external comms because the decision and details around it weren’t set yet

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 13d

…and a “full circle” moment as it was the last RailsConf ever. There was no discussion that I heard about inviting him to future RubyConfs or platforming him in any other ways.

We also had 3 different executive directors within the span of time that the decision was brought up and finalized.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 13d

*sheepishly raises hand as the person who managed external communications for this particular thing*

From my somewhat limited perspective, having not been involved in the decision or with the initial conversations myself, I genuinely believe that most folks truly wanted it to be a unifying gesture

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Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com · 14d

Here's a coupon for $50 off the admission fee for SF Ruby (sfruby.com)

luma.com/sfrubyconf20...

I'll be doing a workshop on Dynamic Ruby, and even if you don't want to see that, there is a full slate of great speakers -- I'd love to see you there.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 14d

Do you think part of that is taking pride in the fact that Ruby is a Japanese invention (for lack of a better word) or a cultural feeling of social responsibility to contribute back?

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 15d

I’m sorry you’re going through this :(

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 15d

I really like these ideas 👀 I was advocating for supporting Ruby Events in some way but we didn’t have the bandwidth I think. But it’s so mission aligned. As well as the other things you mentioned.

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Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 15d

Also please don’t hyphenate “open source” (because it bothers me 😅)

Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io · 15d

I think that’s a very healthy way to approach it