Mike Perham
@mike.contribsys.com
CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
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Mike Perham
@mike.contribsys.com
· Jan 24
Ruby.social
If you are interested in the Ruby programming language, come join us! Tell us about yourself when signing up.
If you just want to join Mastodon, another server will be a better place for you.
ruby.social
I've decided to focus my Ruby social media on Mastodon and ruby.social so this account will be pretty quiet.
@getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy should continue to work if you want to see my Mastodon posts here.
@getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy should continue to work if you want to see my Mastodon posts here.
Cooperative identity, values and principles. If you’re interested in open source governance, cooperatives match well with an egalitarian group of project maintainers.
ica.coop/en/cooperati...
ica.coop/en/cooperati...
Cooperative identity, values & principles | ICA
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ica.coop
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Cooperative identity, values and principles. If you’re interested in open source governance, cooperatives match well with an egalitarian group of project maintainers.
ica.coop/en/cooperati...
ica.coop/en/cooperati...
@amandabrooke.bsky.social Hi Amanda, can you point me to the Rails Foundation Form 990 for 2024? It appears to be overdue?
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@amandabrooke.bsky.social Hi Amanda, can you point me to the Rails Foundation Form 990 for 2024? It appears to be overdue?
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🔥 XO Ruby is seeking sponsors for our multi-city tour!
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🔥 XO Ruby is seeking sponsors for our multi-city tour!
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
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This is leadership
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is leadership
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The assumption that she has absolute authority over our communal resources is absurd.
She really does not seem to understand that Ruby Central exists in service to Ruby developers. It is an administrative role, not governing.
She really does not seem to understand that Ruby Central exists in service to Ruby developers. It is an administrative role, not governing.
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The assumption that she has absolute authority over our communal resources is absurd.
She really does not seem to understand that Ruby Central exists in service to Ruby developers. It is an administrative role, not governing.
She really does not seem to understand that Ruby Central exists in service to Ruby developers. It is an administrative role, not governing.
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What comes through loud and clear from Shan is the lack of respect for open source authors. She actually says it’s none of my business why I was removed from rubygems. I don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back. youtu.be/nKpo68g9dEk?...
Technology for Humans: Shan Cureton
YouTube video by reinteractive
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
What comes through loud and clear from Shan is the lack of respect for open source authors. She actually says it’s none of my business why I was removed from rubygems. I don’t know where you got the audacity but you should put it back. youtu.be/nKpo68g9dEk?...
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After a year hiatus, my series on all things Ruby concurrency is back! This post digs into the interrupt mechanism in Ruby threads. These interrupts revolve around bit masks, so it's got some Ruby bit work as well!
Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃
jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...
Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃
jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...
Bitmasks, Ruby Threads and Interrupts, oh my!
👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into several parts:
Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 ...
jpcamara.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
After a year hiatus, my series on all things Ruby concurrency is back! This post digs into the interrupt mechanism in Ruby threads. These interrupts revolve around bit masks, so it's got some Ruby bit work as well!
Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃
jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...
Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃
jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...
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Ruby Association has 16 Platinum sponsors and roughly $100k in annual income. Platinum sponsorship is ~$3200 (500,000 yen).
I think they could add a zero to their Sponsorship tiers and pay for a few ruby-core members to work full-time.
Their 2025 budget […]
I think they could add a zero to their Sponsorship tiers and pay for a few ruby-core members to work full-time.
Their 2025 budget […]
Original post on ruby.social
ruby.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ruby Association has 16 Platinum sponsors and roughly $100k in annual income. Platinum sponsorship is ~$3200 (500,000 yen).
I think they could add a zero to their Sponsorship tiers and pay for a few ruby-core members to work full-time.
Their 2025 budget […]
I think they could add a zero to their Sponsorship tiers and pay for a few ruby-core members to work full-time.
Their 2025 budget […]
Reposted by Mike Perham
XO Ruby, a series of traveling events is heading to Austin on October 25th!! There are only 80 tickets available and they are going FAST
www.xoruby.com/event/austin/
www.xoruby.com/event/austin/
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
XO Ruby, a series of traveling events is heading to Austin on October 25th!! There are only 80 tickets available and they are going FAST
www.xoruby.com/event/austin/
www.xoruby.com/event/austin/
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We're trying something new and we'd love if you experimented with us.
We're inviting you to join us for a talk from @timriley.info on @hanamirb.org later today.
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Details available here: www.xoruby.com/event/san-di...
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Details available here: www.xoruby.com/event/san-di...
San Diego
Where 70 degrees is a lifestyle.
www.xoruby.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We're trying something new and we'd love if you experimented with us.
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I appreciate that gem.coop is taking governance seriously out of the gate. mikemcquaid.com/bootstrappi...
Bootstrapping gem.coop Governance
gem.coop was announced on Monday. As part of that announcement it was mentioned that I was helping gem.coop set up a governance process, continuing the work I’d first started helping with on RubyGems.
mikemcquaid.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I appreciate that gem.coop is taking governance seriously out of the gate. mikemcquaid.com/bootstrappi...
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XO Ruby Portland is tomorrow! 🥳🥳 Will we see you there? It's not too late to grab your ticket!
🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/
🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
XO Ruby Portland is tomorrow! 🥳🥳 Will we see you there? It's not too late to grab your ticket!
🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/
🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm
🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/
Reposted by Mike Perham
Gem.coop governance just dropped. I’m really curious to learn more about the voting methods they note.
https://github.com/gem-coop/governance
https://github.com/gem-coop/governance
GitHub - gem-coop/governance: gem.coop governance
gem.coop governance. Contribute to gem-coop/governance development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Gem.coop governance just dropped. I’m really curious to learn more about the voting methods they note.
https://github.com/gem-coop/governance
https://github.com/gem-coop/governance
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Sidekiq 8.0.8 has been released, you can now configure a maximum runtime for iterable jobs to avoid long-running jobs from hogging all threads. 🎹🎶
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/Changes.md#808
https://youtu.be/tLxDRePUwEY?si=EcNvKvEV9VE8KfEn&t=38
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/Changes.md#808
https://youtu.be/tLxDRePUwEY?si=EcNvKvEV9VE8KfEn&t=38
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sidekiq 8.0.8 has been released, you can now configure a maximum runtime for iterable jobs to avoid long-running jobs from hogging all threads. 🎹🎶
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/Changes.md#808
https://youtu.be/tLxDRePUwEY?si=EcNvKvEV9VE8KfEn&t=38
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/Changes.md#808
https://youtu.be/tLxDRePUwEY?si=EcNvKvEV9VE8KfEn&t=38
Sidekiq is the headline sponsor for XORuby Portland. This Saturday, see you there?
🔥 XO Ruby is seeking sponsors for our multi-city tour!
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
Help us bring Ruby developers together across 6 cities. Your support strengthens the Ruby community nationwide.
www.xoruby.com/firestarter/
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sidekiq is the headline sponsor for XORuby Portland. This Saturday, see you there?
Reposted by Mike Perham
I’ll be speaking, join us and meet the lovely Bay Area Ruby community!
only 7 weeks left until the SF Ruby conference! come for the incredible speakers, stay for the confusing SF weather
plus tickets get more expensive in 3 days, so now is the best time to join us luma.com/sfrubyconf20...
plus tickets get more expensive in 3 days, so now is the best time to join us luma.com/sfrubyconf20...
The San Francisco Ruby Conference ♦️ · Luma
Full program is live. Tickets are on sale now.
The San Francisco Ruby conference is the place to meet the most ambitious Ruby and Rails founders, leaders, open…
luma.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ll be speaking, join us and meet the lovely Bay Area Ruby community!
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~20 years of Ruby/Rails experience
~5 years of engineering management
~15 years public speaking at confs
…a lifetime as an artist and designer
I'd be great as:
-StaffEng
-Senior EM / Director
-VPE (at small/medium size company)
shanebecker.dev
~5 years of engineering management
~15 years public speaking at confs
…a lifetime as an artist and designer
I'd be great as:
-StaffEng
-Senior EM / Director
-VPE (at small/medium size company)
shanebecker.dev
October 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
~20 years of Ruby/Rails experience
~5 years of engineering management
~15 years public speaking at confs
…a lifetime as an artist and designer
I'd be great as:
-StaffEng
-Senior EM / Director
-VPE (at small/medium size company)
shanebecker.dev
~5 years of engineering management
~15 years public speaking at confs
…a lifetime as an artist and designer
I'd be great as:
-StaffEng
-Senior EM / Director
-VPE (at small/medium size company)
shanebecker.dev
I’ll be speaking, join us and meet the lovely Bay Area Ruby community!
only 7 weeks left until the SF Ruby conference! come for the incredible speakers, stay for the confusing SF weather
plus tickets get more expensive in 3 days, so now is the best time to join us luma.com/sfrubyconf20...
plus tickets get more expensive in 3 days, so now is the best time to join us luma.com/sfrubyconf20...
The San Francisco Ruby Conference ♦️ · Luma
Full program is live. Tickets are on sale now.
The San Francisco Ruby conference is the place to meet the most ambitious Ruby and Rails founders, leaders, open…
luma.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ll be speaking, join us and meet the lovely Bay Area Ruby community!
Good morning! Have you switched to the new community gem server yet? It's as easy as this:
github.com/sidekiq/side...
github.com/sidekiq/side...
Use community gem server · sidekiq/sidekiq@96f867c
github.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Good morning! Have you switched to the new community gem server yet? It's as easy as this:
github.com/sidekiq/side...
github.com/sidekiq/side...
a Gem Cooperative emerges, from @socket.dev socket.dev/blog/gem-coo...
Gem Cooperative Emerges as a Community-Run Alternative to Ru...
Former RubyGems maintainers have launched The Gem Cooperative, a new community-run project aimed at rebuilding open governance in the Ruby ecosystem.
socket.dev
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
a Gem Cooperative emerges, from @socket.dev socket.dev/blog/gem-coo...
Reposted by Mike Perham
Reposted by Mike Perham
Hanami 2.3 beta1 is out!
This release introduces Rack 3 support, plus a wide range of improvements and fixes.
We’d love your help with testing. Please give it a go!
hanamirb.org/blog/2025/10...
This release introduces Rack 3 support, plus a wide range of improvements and fixes.
We’d love your help with testing. Please give it a go!
hanamirb.org/blog/2025/10...
Announcing Hanami 2.3 beta1
Rack 3 support and so much more. Help us with your testing!
hanamirb.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hanami 2.3 beta1 is out!
This release introduces Rack 3 support, plus a wide range of improvements and fixes.
We’d love your help with testing. Please give it a go!
hanamirb.org/blog/2025/10...
This release introduces Rack 3 support, plus a wide range of improvements and fixes.
We’d love your help with testing. Please give it a go!
hanamirb.org/blog/2025/10...
Reposted by Mike Perham
Ruby Central took what wasn’t theirs to take, and they must immediately hadn’t it back.
We can talk later about the lying and gaslighting that followed. But what they must do right now is hand back the GitHub organisation and open source packages to the maintainers.
We can talk later about the lying and gaslighting that followed. But what they must do right now is hand back the GitHub organisation and open source packages to the maintainers.
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ruby Central took what wasn’t theirs to take, and they must immediately hadn’t it back.
We can talk later about the lying and gaslighting that followed. But what they must do right now is hand back the GitHub organisation and open source packages to the maintainers.
We can talk later about the lying and gaslighting that followed. But what they must do right now is hand back the GitHub organisation and open source packages to the maintainers.
Reposted by Mike Perham
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
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The way that certain people in this community attack André, while turning a blind eye to DHH’s (objectively far worse) behaviour. It’s fucking disgraceful.
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The way that certain people in this community attack André, while turning a blind eye to DHH’s (objectively far worse) behaviour. It’s fucking disgraceful.