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This week's Skill Issue contains my best attempt at a summary of the Ruby Central/RubyGems situation, plus a few of my thoughts as a (mostly) outsider trying to make sense of it. skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/...

skillissue.jardo.devComplicatedToday's Skill Issue contains no whimsy. Sorry. When I started writing it, the discourse (I hate using that phrase) was focused on DHH's latest round of...

Jared Norman

@jardo.dev

Please correct me if I have anything wrong. It was tricky trying to stitch together everything and I absolutely don't feel like I have the whole story currently.

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Jake Hash

@jakehash.com

20 Sept 2025

I bet you’ve seen this by now but Valerie made a post that states they have not taken any money from DHH bsky.app/profile/vale...

Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀

@thomasfuchs.at

20 Sept 2025

Shopify is their biggest sponsor and DHH is on the board of Shopify ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

david celis

@davidcel.is

20 Sept 2025

all this means is they haven’t done it _yet_

Jared Norman

@jardo.dev

20 Sept 2025

He's on the board of Shopify, who they do take money from. I also don't know if there's a relationship with the Rails Foundation, which could also be what's being referenced. I don't know.