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Aaron Patterson

@tenderlove.dev

Ruby and Rails hacker working at Shopify, living in Seattle

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Since token prices are so subsidized by VC right now, I was thinking of starting a company to hoard them and sell them at a later date. Thinking of calling the company "Enron"? Or "Aaronron"?

06.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another RubyConf theme: Beautiful Ruby.

Ruby was designed to feel naturalβ€”simple on the surface, powerful underneath. Explore abstraction, modularity, and elegant design that makes code joyful to maintain.

CFP open: rubyconf.org

05.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Raccoon looking like a thought leader

Raccoon looking like a thought leader

Thought leader raccoon

28.02.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love hanging out at the Pub.... lic Library!

27.02.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Raccoon sitting on grass

Raccoon sitting on grass

Raccoon

Raccoon

Had a visitor in the back yard today!

27.02.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Rails using an HTTP3 server and it works

Screenshot of Rails using an HTTP3 server and it works

Serving Rails over QUIC/HTTP3 is Kantan?

25.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Clicked "show fewer shorts" and now YouTube is just showing me shorts about pants. jfc

24.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I'm late to the party but I didn't know Shorsey played curling

22.02.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been flailing my arms around a lot lately because I'm trying to be gesturemaxxing

22.02.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can improve your core strength by ractormaxxing!

18.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Heard on NPR this morning: "do you need to be fibermaxxing?"

18.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

At The Container Store?

16.02.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure why people dislike big box stores so much. Where else you can buy big boxes?

16.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, my inbox was full of these

13.02.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's up with all of these "complete your signup" emails?

13.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Wild that Capitol Hill to Bellevue will be faster than Capitol Hill to Ballard 😭😭😭

10.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My inner voice always pronounces "git init" with a British accent: "git, innit?"

10.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Wild that we're going to get Seattle and Bellevue connected by rail before gta6

10.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

They should make Tony Hawk's Pro Figure Skater. I'd probable just spam triple axels to MotΓΆrhead though

09.02.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard that in Haskell they like to do pun type shit

06.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Raccoon with mouth open

Raccoon with mouth open

Raccoon

Raccoon

Raccoon

Raccoon

Raccoon

Raccoon

Saw a really big cat in the back yard!I

23.01.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 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 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
Cat on bed

Cat on bed

Cat on bed

Cat on bed

Cat pics

15.01.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately it's a vbk and afaict Calibre can't read them

13.01.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, I made a huge mistake. Bought a book from Routledge because they said it came in EPUB format. Turns out what they mean is that it doesn't come in EPUB format and you have to download a proprietary ebook reader. ffs

13.01.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Is Ruby dying?" is acting as a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to stop treating this question seriously.

(Stream rant from 1/11)

12.01.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Wanna feel old?

Great, me neither

12.01.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If Stranger Things happened in the 80s how are we only hearing about it now?

09.01.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? The current state of app bloat.

smh if Google would bother to put in the work, I feel they could get the GMail app to 1G by end of Q1. akr.am/blog/posts/w...

06.01.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It might be. But to be honest I think the best solution is if we can popularize pre compiled exts. No compiling is faster than any compiling πŸ₯²

06.01.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0