I'm happy to announce I have officially become a Trekkie (aka Trekker)! I have finished watching all 7 seasons of The Next Generation and all 3 seasons of Star Trek The Original Series, and now I am in the middle of season 1 of Deep Space Nine!
Live long and prosper!🖖
#startrek #trekkie #trekker
Rehearsing with my band MusiArt and a choir for upcoming St Patrick’s Day shows.
Another blow out win with my Curling team in the competitive Royal Victoria Curling league. 11-4. #GoodCurling
Practicing balance is the difference between expert Software Engineers and average Software Engineers!
#softwareengineering #balance #softwareengineer #softwareengineers #programming
Going all the way in one direction only is often a symptom of laziness/lack-of-skill by devs who are unwilling to think carefully, learn both sides of a spectrum of practices, or make an effort to choose the right balance of Software Engineering practices for each specific situation they encounter.
... or go full Static Typing without appreciating Dynamic Typing when it yields much simpler code, or even go full over-engineering without appreciating just-enough engineering when it is good enough.
... or go full Composition via languages that don't support inheritance like Clojure without appreciating the benefits of Inheritance when it better maps to real world concepts, ...
Balance is a lost art in our industry. People nowadays either go 100% FP with languages like Elixir without appreciating the benefits of OOP when they yield more productive/maintainable code, ...
That said, I have observed cases in which devs over-employ composition over inheritance when in fact inheritance would provide the most readable and understandable code that is closest to the business domain model. Balance is important in Software Engineering!
I recommend often to favor composition/delegation over inheritance when inheritance is being abused just for code reuse without following the Liskov Substitution Principle.
In summary, AI fails and doesn't get the job done! As they say in sports, almost winning isn't winning! 🤣
#ai #artificialintelligence #programming #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #vibecoding #vibe #coding
General template for all #AI posts online:
- Describe how AI is enabling you to do amazing things!
- Note how AI still has issues and isn't all the way there in Software Development!
- Follow that by the excuse: "But, AI keeps getting better! It's gotten so much better in the last 6 months!"
🤣🤣🤣
Rehearsing with my band MusiArt.
My Royal Victoria competitive Curling league team had a good Curling game tonight. We smashed through the other team 10-2 causing a surrender (the photographed score board has 9-2 after 5 ends only). Some American Curlers were visiting our Curling club from a Boston Curling club today. #GoodCurling
#softwareengineering #software #dev #programming #code #ai #artificial_intelligence #artificialintelligence
I am very sorry. I messed up. In my excitement about the topic of this talk, I made the mistake of attempting to present the event one week early. I just realized it's not till Feb 18 according to the original schedule. See you next week instead and sorry again for the confusion.
Last minute reminder this Ruby Meetup event is happening tonight.
Reminder that the #Montreal.rb #Ruby #Meetup #talk "Crystal: Ruby with Static Typing" is happening on Feb 11, 2026 at 7pm at Anticafe Place Des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
RSVP: www.meetup.com/montrealrb/e...
#montreal #presentation #crystal #crystallang #softwareengineering #programming
Are you intelligent and disciplined enough to make the hard choice by going against the flow when everybody else is deciding to be an idiot?!!
That's why they give the better Software Engineers among us job security at their expense while having the "illusion of productivity"! I know of a team that literally got let go due to lack of productivity despite using AI while my team with far less use of AI outperformed them.
Many devs just don't see the big picture when they assume that 5 mins compared to 2 hours is a gain in productivity! They just aren't attentive enough to details to be aware of everything holistically!
#ai #genai #artificialintelligence #agenticai #aiassisteddevelopment #programming #software #dev
Arber Xhekaj puts one hell of a hit on a Canuck!!! #GoHabsGo
Canucks vs Habs 2026-01-12
Habs score a goal right in front of me! #GoHabsGo
Canucks vs Habs 2026-01-12
I’m at a Hockey game at the Bell Centre tonight.
I added this FAQ question to Glimmer DSL for Web's README:
Can I build a modern UI with a modern style/look/feel using Glimmer DSL for Web?
github.com/AndyObtiva/g...
#glimmer #dsl #web #ruby #rails #frontend #rubyonrails #softwareengineering #webdevelopment #programming #software #dev
The Montreal Nets land a free throw!
#letsgonets #montrealnets #montreal #nets
Wow! Giannis Antetokounmpo’s younger brother, Alex Antetokounmpo is playing in the game with the Wisconsin Herd in this NBA G league game! In any case, Montreal is up 101-96 vs Wisconsin right now.
#letsgonets #montrealnets #montreal
I’ve got courtside seats for a Wisconsin Herd vs Montreal Nets NBA G League game. #LetsGoNets
All the issues mentioned in the second half of the talk did not really affect us. My MTA Software Architecture works with all of these features transparently. That said, we did enhance Sidekiq with MTA support to make it play well with our organization tenants in both standard & scheduled jobs.
I did leverage the modern Rails 6.1+ "Multiple Databases with Active Record" support mentioned in the talk, albeit repurposing it to work with Postgres Schemas instead of Databases dynamically using our own OrganizationTenant model that fits our specific business needs.
