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Rails 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 fix 21 security issues, including a critical Active Storage bug in apps using ImageMagick. Here's who is affected, what might break when you upgrade, and what to do if you can't upgrade yet.

I went through ten weeks of my non-coding Claude chats to see if they saved me time. The best ones went past the question I typed.

GitLab found memory corruption bugs in Ruby's regular expression engine that could lead to remote code execution. Here's who is affected, which Ruby versions fix it, and how to check your app.

Two critical PHP runtime bugs allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Updating WordPress won't fix them. Here's how to check your PHP version and what to patch to.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2026 in Boulder was two days, one track, and a lot of AI. Nearly every talk still found its way back to the people doing the work.

Rails World happened this week in Austin, and I wasn't there. So did I miss anything? A look at big-conference FOMO, what small conferences give you, and what I want from a technical conference as a staff engineer and speaker.

OpenAI says its agents did benign tasks on RubyGems. JFrog counted 3,022 malicious packages, one file was named hack.rb, and the agents kept coming back after they were blocked.

An OpenAI agent swarm uploaded hundreds of malicious gems to RubyGems.org, chaining a RubyDoc.info RCE with a CDN key-theft bug and repackaging scraped UK government data as a gem for exfiltration. Op

The /journal skill from my breadcrumbs post is now a Claude Code plugin anyone can install. One glanceable callout per topic, colored by season with an icon for the weekday, three Notion calls per run. What it writes, how to set it up, and what a review found in a skill I had run daily for three months.

I read back six months of my own work journal and found three different note-taking systems, only one of which I remember deciding to build. This is what the volume of information actually did to my notes, what got better, what I lost, and how I capture things now.

A critical Active Storage vulnerability allows arbitrary file read and possible remote code execution through libvips variant processing. Here's what to check and how to patch.

PR volume went up, ticket quality didn't, and the gap got filled with LLMs on both sides of the review: bots reviewing, bots replying, bots occasionally arguing with bots about priorities that only existed in a teammate's head. Our CEO named the actual problem, and it's bigger than code review.

I wanted to get better at prompt engineering. Not the trick-the-robot kind, the boring-but-useful...

I have a TRMNL on my desk. If you haven't seen one, it's a little e-ink display from trmnl.com that...

The first morning of Blue Ridge Ruby, John Athayde stood at the front of the YMI Cultural Center and...

RubyGems.org published its first public roadmap this week. That's new, and it's worth noticing. I've...

A couple of years ago I wrote about copying text between tmux panes. At the time I was still figuring...

For the March WNB.rb meetup, I tried something different. Instead of our usual speaker format, I...

We recently migrated our Docker build workflows to use a shared reusable workflow. The migration...

I've written some critical things about Ruby Central. I've also written about choosing to contribute...

A few months ago, I wrote about a move that bypassed the maintainers who had built the RubyGems and...

By christine September 23, 2025, edited and updated September 25, 2025 And Why We Should...

I like the convenance of using Hot Corners to lock my screen. It just works for me. I know way, way...

Reading Time: 2 minutes WordPress.com announced the release of the ActivityPub plugin on their blogs...

My problem? I only want to copy text from one tmux pane, not across two. But I was finding that my...

Are you part of the twitter migration? Me too! I chose Mastodon as my social app of choice, and...

So about 4 years, I found myself in need of writing a biography for speaking at a conference. I...

aka How to Install vim-plug in Neovim Me and Vim have a love/hate relationship. I love...

Before, I’ve chatted about git, but I wanted to dive on today some learning that I did recently on...

I still feel new to the world of terminals, consoles, and yes, shells. Being a Java engineer for 12...