Despite my absolute lack of love for Ruby on Rails (and revilement for certain persons at the project), I have embarked on my tenth year of working for pay on very large, very highly used, and — how should I put it — very well-loved Ruby on Rails codebases.
It’s been lovely. I was pretty worried about energy requirements, having not worked full-time since 2019, but so far I am managing. Despite the whole Situation with the tech industry, I have gotten away without interacting with a single LLM yet, and I am betting I can just hold on like this until the bubble pops. So far I am mostly doing security-related work and getting out small fixes or improvements fast, and that suits me very well. I have very chill coworkers. Working in the open like I do with all my personal stuff is such a nice change from a career of mostly closed-source work.
The work has also made it a lot easier to feel for my largest open-source baby, Comrak, especially given my job now directly involves using it! I just now pushed out a bit of a monster release candidate, and I’m feeling good about it.
Selamat malam!
