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José Albornoz
@eljojo.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
sane, reasonable posts written by a decent human.

I graduated from one of Canada's top ruby schools with really good grades.

[bridged from https://ruby.social/@eljojo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
growing up as a kid in Chile in the early 2000s meant being exposed to this non-stop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7xSL4lfcU
January 21, 2026 at 12:14 AM
i finally got to lay my hands on a thermal printer 😈
January 20, 2026 at 4:44 AM
bring html tables back
January 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
today is "the best day of winter", a yearly tradition i started a long time ago by writing it down in my calendar and telling it to remind me about it every year.
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
nara.network is an art project i started in 2021, it's a distributed database / network of computers that talk to each other forming opinions.

i revamped it recently, it's looking better than ever
January 14, 2026 at 7:52 PM
spotify recommended me a song that I really liked, felt like an instant classic, came out just a few months ago. I wanted to share it here, so I looked it up on youtube and it turns out to be AI made 😭😬 wdyt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiFeHVWai9w
January 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
i went to a goth club the other day and all i want to listen to is darkwave now
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
XChaCha20-Poly1305 is a serious computer term
January 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
going thru old commits in my vimfiles
January 11, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by José Albornoz
the guy who gave us enshittification is back at it again, teaching us how we can de-enshittify tech https://youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
"as we know there's no economic incentive for provider's to protect their customer's privacy" - epic talk from CCC on how service providers sometimes broadcast sensitive data unencrypted using satellites

https://youtu.be/fM5w7bFNvWI?t=1826
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
the past few days i've been building a website that lets me see how the servers in my network talk to each other, it calculates this information statically using nixos
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I just got my tickets for the Canadian Shield Bikepacking Summit, and you should too! today is the last day of sales #ottbike https://bikepackadventures.ticketspice.com/2026-canadian-shield-bikepacking-summit
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
my oldest-still-running NixOS server just turned 6 years old a few days ago
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
here’s a late christmas present from me to you: low-tide, a service to run at home that handles media downloads in the background for you: https://github.com/eljojo/low-tide

it gives you a personal website to download youtube videos or other media
GitHub - eljojo/low-tide: download manager web ui with pluggable backends
download manager web ui with pluggable backends. Contribute to eljojo/low-tide development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
techno] DJ set of the day <a href="https://ruby.social/@fnordfish" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq8-GOOPN7E cc [@fnordfish
Robert (@[email protected])
827 Posts, 161 Following, 103 Followers · Freelance software developer. Working with Ruby and other ruby-flavored languages
ruby.social
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
i have an idea, let’s all pool our money, like wikipedia but for money. there’s a giant bank account, we all get a card. let’s do this 🔥
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
today i'm gonna be playing at a club , i'm mildly freaking out
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
RE: https://fantastic.earth/@deobald/115712442884790847

terrifying read. i keep a hard copy of as much icloud data I can for this exact reason, it's just too much to be locked out of
the “hey” in the domain first made me worry this would be dhh whining but it’s a real person’s story:

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

the solution to this problem isn’t just another corporation you believe you can trust.

#upstreamfirst #localfirst
苹果公司已锁定我的Apple ID,我束手无策。恳请帮助。
Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (hey.paris) 12:55  ↑ 170 HN Points
hey.paris
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
when you live in Canada you're exposed to content like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eE2zsXgoYA
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
i’m making an online radio, high quality underground electronic music 24/7, check it out https://bahn.club
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
i always thought that clang and gcc were like the same thing but turns out they aren’t! *surprised pikachu face*
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the week after black friday is when i always remember all those things that i've been meaning to buy for a long time
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
lats night I DJed at an art party, sharing some high quality underground music. we had a ball! check out the recording https://tomasphere.com/paint-the-music-nov-2025/
Paint the Music 11-25
Paint the Music 11-25
tomasphere.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM