I interrupted a family meeting of quail in my yard. It’s their yard now.

Putting together my companion app for Tales of the Shire has suddenly made me question the existence of all the meat meals in the game. It implies there is an adorable, cozy, little hobbit slaughterhouse. Is it candle-lit?

My old boy Frankie has decided we’re not doing anything productive today. I am cat bed.

Hullo hobbits! Tracking is now working on theburrowbook.com (Tales of the Shire Companion App)! Now you can track your hooked fish and cooked meals. #talesoftheshire

What’s the value of owning the place where open source lives?

code can be forked
maintainers can leave
users can abandon

Then what lives in the repositories?

Trust. Trust lives there, but only if everyone agrees.

If you destroy trust to become owner, then what do you own?

A kingdom of ashes.

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...