Rick Blommers

after four months of private discussions, I have an update on the Bundler and RubyGems situation with Ruby Central: andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/fou…

4. Stephen Margheim - On the tasteful journey to Yippee - wroc_love.rb 2025 YouTube video by wrocloverb

Here’s an early look at the new web framework I’m building with @fractaledmind.bsky.social. youtu.be/VWDfeMHBaH0

Got attacked by a botnet with more than 18000 IPs. ActiveHashcash saved that Rails app. I strongly believe that is the best protection since CPU is the most expensive in hardware and it does not annoy final users.

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.

Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML joel.drapper.me/leaky-strings/

People of The American Oblasts love their free speech.

Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk - Bert Hubert In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, fre...

My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

I'm using Phlex in several projects, and I'm extremely happy with it! (Thanks Joel!)
I didn't realize it doesn't have any dependencies. Very nice!!

Release font-awesome-6.7.1 · gamecreature/QtAwesome Expand Duotone to support Solid, Regular, Light and Thin Add Sharp Duotone styles Deprecated Duotone (without style)

Of course the fixed logo needs to be in QtAwesome.
Just released a new version (github.com/gamecreature...)