Aaron Patterson

I got the iPhone Duo and it's much larger than I expected

I saw You Can See Everything and I was worried they meant I "had the ability to see everything but wouldn't get to see everything". I was wrong. You definitely get to see everything

I also wrote a post for work with an intentionally rage bait title. Hello compiler friends I'm sorry in advance railsatscale.com/2026-10-21-r...

Static Analysis for the Uninitialized

ZJIT is now as fast as YJIT: railsatscale.com/2026-10-09-z...

Every time someone presented a clever algorithm or optimization I'm pretty sure I made the Sickos "YESS" face

Heading home from SPLASH. It was a really great conference, and I feel very inspired with optimization ideas. Can't wait to hack on stuff

This talk is so good but I don't think it's being recorded 😖

"The tools are set up to isolate us"

I wish more programmers were as introspective as Kent Beck

"I'm not the only one to have mental health issues with regard to augmented development" 💔

"I call it (AI) the genie. Because it grants your wishes but doesn't give you what you wanted" 🤣

"Yes, you're weird. No, you're not alone" ❤️

"Inspiration is preparation plus panic" 😂

Hey, Rails peeps. Hot Cell is a suite of gems that helps you secure Active Storage against image library zero-days. I just released v1.0! mike.daless.io/posts/2026/1... Links to Rails World video and slides as well as the project repo and docs are in the post.

Portland?

Heading to Oakland for VMIL. I've never been to Oakland so I'm very excited. If anyone has restaurant recs lmk!!

I'm so excited for VMIL! The program looks great! conf.researchr.org/home/splash-...

Should be on in about 10min!

Hi everyone! I'm going to do a live stream tomorrow at 9am PDT (16:00 UTC) with @bernsteinbear.com. We're going to hack on ZJIT! Join us if you have time!! youtube.com/live/h9_FyHY...

Apparently I'm not the only one, and it's for reasons worth naming

That’s fair, and you’re right to push back on this

I am very tired of reading AI generated English. But it's worth being precise about why

Stop trying to make fetch happen, Aaron

Had some good bbq in Austin!

Today is a big day for Herb! It's built into Rails 8.2 by default for all HTML+ERB views. My talk at #RailsWorld in Austin today answered three questions: What is Herb? What ships in Rails 8.2? And what does this enable? Herb v0.11 and ReActionView v0.6 released alongside it.

I think everyone should visit the Peace Museum in Hiroshima at least once in their life

Support Local Variables arxiv.org/pdf/2609.01502

Go @amandabrooke.bsky.social !!!

Ruby 4.0.7 Released www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026... This is a routine update that includes bugfixes. We recommend upgrading your Ruby version at your earliest convenience.

Apparently they're rolling out a change where you need 2FA just to use the crosswalk. That's right, you gotta have street creds

Join me at @sfruby.com's Ruby Conference and get your pixel card too 👾 clouds.sfruby.com/e/2026-bits/...

I'm going to Oakland for VMIL and I'm really excited to go because I've never been

They should have called it the iPhone Razr

Many people don't know this (or simply refuse to believe), but millenniums are already in their 1000's!

This project is so cool. Guy is building a real life Space Cadet pinball machine www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7q...

5 gallon is definitely on my bucket list

They are here🎉 The RubyConf 2026 talk recordings are officially live. Every keynote, every session, every moment you wished you could have been in two rooms at once. buff.ly/ui5I84d Which one are you watching first?

JIEIEIBIRU is sending me (not via post, I am just loling)

Rewatching Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind and my wife assures me it's Frodo and not spider man, but either way this guys sucks

We'll present a paper about ZJIT at VMIL'26! conf.researchr.org/details/spla...

"You're not supposed to put that in your ear. That's my Q tip"

Last time I was in Boulder I went to Efrain's and got the green chili and I can't stop thinking about it

How was this show not on adult swim I'm dying lol