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We have "growth hackers" but no "stability hackers." "Disruptors" but no "preservers." Our entire vocabulary is oriented toward the new. We have no language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.

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The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us
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December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby.

A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more!

Demos below ⬇️
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Anthropic doubling rate Claude Code limits for the holiday period is a genius move. I have almost consistently hit my quota for the last 4 days, getting so many side projects ideas done. It's addicting
December 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I took some time and ripped out all slim templates from my medium-size personal app and replaced them with plain erb.

It's one less level of abstraction to deal with, and I get to enjoy the perks of herb linting and Reactionview (thank you @marcoroth.dev!
December 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM