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Frontend developer. Amateur Rubyist. Component-driven development geek. Working on Lookbook (https://lookbook.build) in all the spare time I don’t have.

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See you there Rich :)

10.03.2026 09:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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announcing the 2026 Gem Fellowship Last month I announced my latest venture to support the Ruby open source community: the Gem Fellowship. I want this grant program to support and fund existing Ruby-related open source project maintainers and their ongoing efforts: fixing bugs and adding features for those libraries we know and love.

Announcing: the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship https://gem.coop/updates/2026-fellowship/ #ruby #oss

02.02.2026 19:16 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

16.01.2026 16:04 👍 33 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 1

I might risk the transfer just to get to play with the button… 😂

20.12.2025 09:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Humans need clear context to generate useful code too! It utterly baffles me why people are suddenly happy to do this for robots when they weren’t doing it for other humans before. Human with nebulous, loose spec vs robot with clearly defined requirements just doesn’t seem like a fair comparison.

29.11.2025 09:19 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It’s a real shame. I really loved the direction, accessibility focus and ideas in it. But I’m guessing this was out of his hands. Sad day :(

08.11.2025 09:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah I would have been nice but I signed up as a supporter literally yesterday a few hours before it was taken down so it’s pretty understandable. I would guess it’s been a rough time recently to get to a point where you have to yank your project entirely. It’s a real shame though.

08.11.2025 09:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was literally in the middle of building something with it when the repo disappeared... I thought it was just Github having a moment but clearly not 😕 I hope @cory.laviska.com is okay.

07.11.2025 21:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Lit is Joining the OpenJS Foundation! Lit is officially joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project!

Pretty huge, Lit is no longer tied to Google #freelit

lit.dev/blog/2025-10...

14.10.2025 13:57 👍 74 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2

The only catch is that you'll have to listen to me ramble on a bit about some of the lessons I've learned while building an open source Rails engine (Lookbook) as a relative Ruby n00b. But I'll try and keep that bit as short as possible to maximise pizza and drinks time 🙂

30.09.2025 13:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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October Meetup: Lessons learned from building an open-source Rails engine, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup Join us for a talk with CoverageBook's very own front-end developer, **Mark Perkins**, on his experience building open source projects with Ruby on Rails. Mark is the creat

Like free pizza and/or drinks? 🍕☕️🍺
Live in or near Brighton? ☀️🏳️‍🌈
Then come along to the Brighton Ruby meetup next Tuesday (7th Oct)!

👉 www.meetup.com/brighton-rub...

30.09.2025 13:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0