There's a lazy narrative going around social media about how software eng jobs are dying, by screenshotting the image on the left - a massive decline in job postings.

Unfortunately, those posting it never looked closer. I did.

This is the "COVID effect." It's everywhere.

#TIL MySQL dump restore speed can be boosted multi-fold by disabling FK checks & unique checks.

After 15 years off the market, I’m available for hire!

I’m an effective, versatile and compassionate technical leader, and an accomplished Rubyist. I’m looking for remote Principal or Staff Engineer roles, at 4 days/week.

Find out more: timriley.info/posts/hire-me

A good error message makes all the difference!
Shoutout to @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social for saving me from my debugging hell while @googlechrome left me chasing shadows.

Persistence wins! Congratulations to the youngest World Chess Champion! @DGukesh ! 👑👑👑

This year's RubyConf India was absolutely fantastic! 🎉
I delivered a flash talk about war room stories, made many new Ruby friends, and met some old ones!
My biggest takeaway: **Ruby is going strong** 💎💎🚀🚀
Looking forward to next year already!
#rubyconfindia2024 #rubyconf #ruby

Looks like Redis Inc. is trying to take over the client library ownership. Issue open in redis-rs (rust client of Redis) with the ask to transfer the ownership. 👀
github.com/redis-rs/red...

Worked with @jhawthorn.com to make a change to Vernier today! This PR gives us visibility in to Fibers running in Ruby. It's especially handy for identifying Fibers that are stalling your event loop (if you're using that): github.com/jhawthorn/ve...

This morning I though I was done optimizing the ruby/json parser, so I was doing some final cleanups before the 2.8.0 release. But nope, I found two more ~10% wins back to back...

This will never end...

github.com/ruby/json/pu...