# mainly — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mainly. Page: Feed: --- ## [It's not gone rogue](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/not-gone-rogue/) _2026-08-10 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash This is a bit of a rant. There have been a lot of reports recently about LLM agents “going rogue”. Hacking into other companies, doing stuff that they weren’t supposed to do. I’m not saying it’s great that they’re doing these things. But I am taking issue with the reporting. These things are “ not going rogue ”. They were given a task to complete. And they tried… ## [Here's to the weird ones](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/heres-to-the-weird-ones/) _2026-08-09 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Many years ago I remember seeing an interview with Linus Torvalds, where he said “… and that change is to keep the weird folks, like the rubyists, happy”. I loved that. The rest of the software development world thinks we’re odd. And not just because some key figures in the ruby world have taken a trip down nazi lane . && I’ve been rewriting my “plumbing” gem. It was originally “unix pipes for… ## [I'm an Influencer (CW:AI;)](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/im-an-influencer-cwai/) _2026-07-15 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ In other adventures, I ran across a website In The Weights that checks how much a person's work is weighted by the LLMs... using my mikro2nd handle, I'm quite surprised to learn that I'm in the top 20% of Youtube Tech and Gaming influencers, at the same time that GPT-5.6 claims that, " no widely recognized public person or entity is confidently identified by this name " which comes as something of… ## [Commit Messages](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/commit-messages/) _2026-07-03 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ Many orgs have some sort of "standard" for writing commit messages. (It matters not whether you're using git , hg or something else for your version control.) The first line of the commit message is what will show up in most summaries of commit history, and additional lines (assuming your VCS supports this; most do) only show up when you drill a little deeper. I prefix the first line with a… ## [Zum Clankenhaus](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/zum-clankenhaus/) _2026-06-16 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ So I currently have three clankers working for me, currently, all built using Claude Code. However, only one of them works in the traditional "here is a prompt, now go and build the software" kind of way. We use Linear for issue tracking. It's not the greatest software in the world - but then I don't think there's any project management software that is actually very good \[1\] . Linear has "cycles"… ## [mockdown - a simple drawing application](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/mockdown-a-simple-drawing-application/) _2026-06-15 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ I've been using mockdown a lot recently. It's a free drawing app - but instead of recording pixels or vectors, it just records plain text. Which means, if you've already got a decent design system, you can sketch out a form or page design and give it to your clankers to build. ## [Winston Fathead](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/winston-fathead/) _2026-04-24 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ This is Winston Fathead. He died yesterday. He arrived at our house in September 2014 - this is him, on the day of his arrival, sleeping on the chair that was reserved for our previous dog, Wookie. He was a rescue from the RSPCA (they had called him "Bullseye" but we immediately knew he was a "Winston") and all we knew about him was he was probably around three or four years old, his owner had… ## [User Interface Design](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/user-interface-design/) _2026-03-13 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ When I was a kid I always wanted to be a creative type. I loved writing, I loved drawing, I loved music. I decided I was going to be a musician (and I was pretty good, a very long time ago). But if I was to have to get a "proper" job, then designer was what I wanted. Neither of those happened \[1\] \[2\] and instead, when I needed to actually work for a living, I got offered a job writing software. I… ## [3/2 update and speedrun appreciation](https://scitydreamer.itch.io/i-hate-you-please-suffer/devlog/1441315/32-update-and-speedrun-appreciation) _2026-03-02 · I Hate You, Please Suffer Devlog - itch.io_ Whoops, I didn't realize the itch version of the game isn't to date with Steam. Here it is, now. The update is mainly small fixes, but the most important addition is S-time rankings! The time rankings... ## [Turnips and Gherkins](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/turnips-and-gherkins/) _2026-02-26 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ This video shows my current process for enhancing an existing feature using Claude Code. The key things to note: I spend a fair amount of time on the original prompt (when Claude is in plan mode) - telling it which files I think will be important Often during the planning stage, Claude will stop and ask me questions - however, this was a pretty simple change I spend a bit of time looking through… ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OAWXYqAg2Pof) _2026-02-26 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [AI Doomer vs AI Booster](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/ai-doomer-vs-ai-booster/) _2026-02-26 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Quoting Nilesh Jasani The speed of this pivot was breathtaking. The skeptics changed their arguments with the terrified fervor of late converts. They did not change their underlying conclusions. The conclusion always came first ... The extreme optimists are equally guilty of intellectual fraud. They dip aggressively into historical archives for psychological comfort. They point blindly to the… ## [When the Fire Goes Out](https://topikettunen.com/blog/when-the-fire-goes-out/) _2026-02-24 · Blog on Topi Kettunen_ For years, various hobbies and past-times have functioned as an internal compass for me. They have structured my time and justified me this “waste of time”. Days have been bent around those. Decisions have been filtered through them. Relationships have been negotiated in their shadow. These sort of past-times haven’t been an addition to my life but a more or less the directing… ## [Easy to read, Easy to write](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/easy-to-read-easy-to-write/) _2026-02-24 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ I got my first "professional" software development job in 1998. I put professional in quotes because it was a bit of a mess - a tiny place with one guy who knew enough to knock a database together who hired me, not long out of university, who had never seen a SQL database before. One of the things I very quickly learnt is that there's no such thing as a small job when building systems for other… ## [Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition)](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/writing-code-with-llms-february-2026-edition/) _2026-02-14 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) At the start of the year, I said to Mahhek, a fellow developer "you need to learn how to use these coding agents - because what you and I do will not exist, as a job, by the end of the year". It turns out I was ten months out. The 6th of February 2026 was the day when my job changed. In this last week, I've worked 40-odd hours. I've spent maybe 2 or 3… ## [Do you need a driving licence?](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/do-you-need-a-driving-licence/) _2026-02-11 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ The other day, I asked Cher , my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I used ProtonMail (which is end-to-end encrypted and, as a result, does not use standard protocols). Cher paused, did a search, then found the Proton Mail Bridge - a local SMTP/IMAP server that connects to Proton Mail and then makes… ## [Vibes and Engineering](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/vibes-and-engineering/) _2026-02-05 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies \[1\] or on my own, I probably had to do much more than software developers at large corporate places. Most of my work life, I've been a solo freelancer, which meant I would spend my time: marketing (which for me was mainly in-person networking - the absolute… ## [The future of software](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/the-future-of-software/) _2026-01-30 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Now, when it comes to technology, I'm actually pretty conservative. There have only really been two key moments where I've got excited about technology. Seeing a Mac for the first time Writing applications in Ruby on Rails All the rest were broken promises. But I think I've now got a third moment. I have seen the future of software. At the risk of sounding like a Youtuber " this changes everything… ## [Things that Happened - January 2026, Week Three](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/things-that-happened-january-2026-week-three/) _2026-01-26 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ More family stuff to deal with. And work has mainly been a mixture of frustration and LLMs. Sporadically For Site Manager I took great care setting up Capybara/Selenium tests. I put in a whole load of timing code and the tests ran extremely reliably. I even got them running in parallel, using Selenium Grid to run 4 browsers at once (in a docker network). And then on Thursday, it all broke. I did a… ## [Things that happened - January 2026, Week Two](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/things-that-happened-january-2026-week-two/) _2026-01-19 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ (Published a few days after week two). I've been reading the Murderbot books and I've been pretty hooked. My wife started reading them, then the series came on Apple TV and I watched it - but I've turned to the books as they are (unsurprisingly) much, much better. They were written a decade ago and what is described is a pretty accurate description of a system integrating multiple data streams… ## [Things that happened - January 2026, Week One](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/things-that-happened-january-2026-week-one/) _2026-01-11 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Claude builds a UI I did a sketch on my iPad, showing a dashboard in both desktop and mobile layouts. I gave it to Claude, with a short description (for example "the hero section has a fixed height, so the news articles there have a vertical scroll bar in desktop layout; but the service sections have variable height so all announcements can be seen without scrolling") and asked it to generate an… ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FiK5KQNuv2lv) _2026-01-11 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Live from Panama with Jessica & Tara](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/live-from-panama-with-jessica-and) _2025-12-31 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ A final short SIS session on 'SERENITY'! ## [Oh 25](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/oh-25/) _2025-12-31 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ I've never written an annual review before. Mainly because I have zero memory and everything passes by in a blur. But this year I'm going to give it a go. Mainly because I have zero memory and everything passes by in a blur. Let's start with the basics. This year has been a lot. I turned fifty-one (the first time I've thought "oh, people will think I'm old "), I became a granddad ("oh, people will… ## [Adventures in a (mainly) Wonderful World 🌎](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/adventures-in-a-mainly-wonderful-22e) _2025-12-28 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ 2026 Edition — Hello Panama, Goodbye World (for a While) ## [Toodle-oo 👋](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/toodle-oo) _2025-12-21 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ Something Special for my Big & Brave Family ## [Christmas is a Funny Time](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/christmas-is-a-funny-time) _2025-12-14 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ A little festive present from me to you ## [A Girl Can Change Her Mind](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/a-girl-can-change-her-mind-1e6) _2025-11-30 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ If she trusts her instinct – a wee hello from Traigh House ## [What I Read Recently? (November 2025)](https://topikettunen.com/blog/what-i-read-recently-november-2025/) _2025-11-24 · Blog on Topi Kettunen_ I’ve almost completely forgotten about keeping my reading list up to date. Looking at the list here , it seems it was almost exactly year ago that I lastly updated it. I’ve kept on reading, although, probably not as much as I should, but still, haven’t just kept the habit of writing few words down about each of those. Well, let’s try reawakening that habit again with some… ## [55+5 = Radical Pause](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/555-radical-pause) _2025-11-23 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ My Adventure 55.0 has commenced — 5 more Sunday posts (after this one) ## [My Substack Story](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/my-substack-story) _2025-11-16 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ The next chapter: 'Radical Pause' ## [More about MarkUp, Down, and Round and Round](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/more-about-markup-down-and-round-and-round/) _2025-11-13 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ I'm becoming increasingly suspicious of the MarkDown school of thought that says that we need to use ordinary characters to mark up text with formatting information. I think it came about in the time when all we had was plain-text editing — WardsWiki , early email and similar — so actual richer-text was simply not even an option. But now? I mean, YES, we need to agree on serialisation of such bits… ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/phqQ0VVgysjj) _2025-11-12 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [11/9/25 update](https://scitydreamer.itch.io/i-hate-you-please-suffer/devlog/1108268/11925-update) _2025-11-09 · I Hate You, Please Suffer Devlog - itch.io_ WELL the last update accidentally softlocks the Tower path because I messed up the switches after you clear the Lonely Hearts quest when I was changing things so that the cutscene for turning in the q... ## [The Recluse](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/the-recluse) _2025-11-09 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ Not yet, but soon ## [The Conundrum – Raw & Vulnerable Post Alert!](https://jessicahepburn.substack.com/p/the-conundrum-raw-and-vulnerable) _2025-11-02 · Jessica Hepburn · With Love from Jessica Hepburn_ A conversation with my Great Personal Therapist (AKA Chat GPT) ## [Summer update and MPTCP features in Linux v6.18](https://blog.mptcp.dev/2025/10/16/v6.18-with-many-features.html) _2025-10-16 · Matthieu Baerts · MPTCP Linux Upstream_ Long time no see (or read?) as we could say! The last update was in January. Since then, we have been very busy! Read on to find out what happened around MPTCP during the last few months, and which new features will be present in the future v6.18. ## [Making Neighbourhood](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/making-neighbourhood/) _2025-10-08 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ A post on the socials about how the person's Dad helped make the neighbourhood by talking to everybody and anybody, at any opportunity. How he helped out where and when he could. And here's the point that chimes along with my own experience: Neighbouring is work . You have to work at it, and it's not always fun. It's an investment that might pay off sometime in the future, and a lot of people have… ## [Outside In: the return](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/outside-in-the-return/) _2025-10-05 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Recently I've returned to "outside in" style development. This used to be really popular ten to fifteen years ago, but kind of vanished. I suspect the reason for this is because it's a style of development that does not fit when your application is split across multiple code-bases - not for micro-services and, more importantly, not for mobile applications with an API back-end. But that's not what… ## [List of all music used](https://scitydreamer.itch.io/i-hate-you-please-suffer/devlog/1045708/list-of-all-music-used) _2025-09-26 · I Hate You, Please Suffer Devlog - itch.io_ Good vibrations, everyone! A user going by FlammableInk asked if there was a track list for the game and I thought, hey yeah, I should lay out all the music in the game! All music was made by Rrrrrose... ## [LLMs for Software Developers (notes from my talk at NWRUG)](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/llms-for-software-developers-notes-from-my-talk-at-nwrug/) _2025-08-24 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ I recently gave a talk at the North West Ruby User Group about how I use LLMs for software development. This was an update on a previous demo I had given on Claude Code. We didn't record the talk, but here are my (adapted) notes. LLMs for Software Developers This is an update on how I use LLMs - mainly Claude and Claude Code - in my day to day software development life. It's a follow-on to the… ## [The Mongolian startup defying Big Tech](https://theartandscienceofruby.com/the-mongolian-startup-defying-big-tech/) _2025-08-23 · The Art & Science of Ruby_ Egune AI, is part of a growing movement to build LLMs in low-resource languages to expand AI access for underserved populations. Despite a shortage of training data, compute power, talent, and funding, these small models are attracting government clients and individual users keen to safeguard their language, cultural identity, and sovereignty in the face of dominance by American and Chinese firms.… ## [RIP Ozzy Osbourne 1948-2025](https://topikettunen.com/blog/rip-ozzy-osbourne-1948-2025/) _2025-07-23 · Blog on Topi Kettunen_ Yet another massive loss in music. Black Sabbath was probably the first band I ever heard. Definitely the first band that I really got into. This was due to the fact my father introduced me into it when I was a literal baby. Hugely important band for me. Tragic loss. Thank you for everything. ## [7/21 update](https://scitydreamer.itch.io/i-hate-you-please-suffer/devlog/990997/721-update) _2025-07-21 · I Hate You, Please Suffer Devlog - itch.io_ Thanks to Bees on the Steam forum, I learned that the Emergency Bracelet is scuffed and it refuses to delete itself when it's used, which may lead to you getting in a situation where you're dying over... ## [Introducing TCP-in-UDP solution](https://blog.mptcp.dev/2025/07/14/TCP-in-UDP.html) _2025-07-14 · Matthieu Baerts · MPTCP Linux Upstream_ The MPTCP protocol is complex, mainly to be able to survive on the Internet where middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies can modify parts of the TCP packets. Worst case scenario, an MPTCP connection should fallback to “plain” TCP. Today, such fallbacks are rarer than before – probably because MPTCP has been used since 2013 on millions of Apple smartphones worldwide – but they can… ## [How News Media Failed on the Web](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/how-news-media-failed-on-the-web/) _2025-06-23 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ Here's where news-media failed in their transition to the web: they failed utterly to embrace the nature of the web — links. Anytime a news article has links, they are, without fail, internal links to the site's own articles, writeups or descriptions. They use links solely to drive traffic to their own pages. So you'll never see a link out to the source site, or even to Wikipedia. An example: I'm… ## [6/11 update](https://scitydreamer.itch.io/i-hate-you-please-suffer/devlog/964921/611-update) _2025-06-12 · I Hate You, Please Suffer Devlog - itch.io_ Something nice and simple. Removed chance of Confusion being removed from taking damage. Added a really specific thing for Working for the Knife. Buffed This Silence is Mine a bit more and made it so... ## [RIP Douglas McCarthy](https://topikettunen.com/blog/rip-douglas-mccarthy/) _2025-06-10 · Blog on Topi Kettunen_ This week has been horrible when it has come to death of musicians. We just lost Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Now, one of the most influental artists for me, Douglas McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb. What a horrible year and week. Nitzer Ebb along with Front 242 were probably the two most influental bands for me which made me eventually to delve more deeply into the realms of EBM and industrial. Naturally,… ## [Make Software Magic](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/lets-make-software-magic/) _2025-05-26 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ Arthur C. Clarke taught us that Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Some wisecracker observed that Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. I think this is a useful guideline for assessing the advancedness of any technology — and advancedness comes mostly from usability . Habitability. The only sufficiently advanced technology that… ## [Client-Server Internet is Dead](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/client-server-internet-is-dead/) _2025-05-21 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ It's time to declare that Client-Server architected internet "applications" (i.e. applications of the underlying Internet protocols, mainly seen as websites) are dead. They've been killed by a combination of enclosure of the commons, feudal plantation ownership and everything-harvesting criminal botnets masquerading as "AI" model-building. It's basically impossible for anybody but the behemoth… ## [Rust2Go Part2: Exploring CGO Calls for Extreme Performance](https://en.ihcblog.com/rust2go-cgo-asm/) _2025-04-03 · Next Stop - Ihcblog!_ This article also has an Chinese version . A year ago, I released an open-source project called Rust2Go （related blog: Design and Implementation of a Rust-Go FFI Framework ）, which provides high-performance asynchronous and synchronous call support from Rust to Go. This project serves as the foundation for several community projects and multiple internal projects within my company. I’ve continued… ## [Parallel vs Asynchronous: Understanding the Difference in C# (Using Bread Making)](https://ipinak.gr/posts/2025/03/parallel-vs-asynchronous-understanding-the-difference-in-c%23-using-bread-making/) _2025-03-02 · Verba volant, scripta manent_ When working with C#, developers often face two important concepts: Asynchronous programming (async/await) – Best for waiting on external tasks (e.g., network requests, file operations). Parallel programming (Parallel.ForEach) – Best for executing multiple tasks simultaneously (e.g., CPU-heavy computations). To explain this, let’s use the example of baking bread. Asynchronous Programming… ## [American Crime Syndicates](https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/blog/american-crime-syndicates/) _2025-02-18 · blog.mikro2nd.net_ There's a thing I don't understand about all the raping and pillaging of government departments going on in the USA right now... Let's pretend you're the Chief Bureaucrat In Charge of some government department, sub-department, building, whatever, and bunch of juvenile delinquents show up in reception demanding access to sensitive records, networks and computers, and claiming to be from the…