James Adam @james@ruby.social

In other news, we've now hit 500 users on https://ruby.social!

This is great news, but puts us on a higher tier of costs in our hosting, so since some folk have asked about it... if you'd like to contribute to the running costs, you can now do so via Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/rubysocial

This is absolutely not required, and getting more Rubyists to join is still the best thing you can do to help, but if you'd like to also throw some gold in the chest, now you can 😄

Hey folks! Welcome to ruby.social! 🎉

I'm hoping this will become a good, friendly community for Ruby-folks to chat and discover new friends. But for that to happen, you need to sign up!

https://ruby.social -- all are welcome

For the first time in quite a while, I wrote a non-conference-talk-transcript blog post! I wanted to share a little about the text editor I’ve been using, and gather a few things together that I wish I’d known when I picked it up.

Getting Started with Spacemacs: https://interblah.net/getting-started-with-spacemacs

#emacs #spacemacs #code #editors #vim #evil

Lovely talk by @tekin about the benefits of investing time in keeping a clean and useful #git history, particularly the tips at the end.

https://vimeo.com/280579162

Don't worry @mperham, will stay 😄

(although you could be extra nice by becoming a super supporting anyway 😉 )

The Ruby.social Patreon now has a couple of benefits available for supporters:

Super supporters can now nominate a custom emoji which will be added to the instance for their (any anyone else's) use!

Companies/bigger organisations can now also show their support of Ruby.social with a logo and link from the homepage.

Find out more:

https://www.patreon.com/rubysocial

A quick instance update

As of now, we've blown way past the 500 users from a week ago, and are now at 673 Ruby-friendly folk. Welcome!

We also have 8 supremely-generous people/organisations contributing to the Patreon, which is now pretty close to covering the hosting costs. Update about that here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/thank-you-21264872

Some (many!) of you may have been followed by an account that looks like a verified Twitter account impersonating Taylor Swift. It's actually a bot -- here's the context:

https://raki.social/@33b5e5/100681340222917675

While the context of the experiment may be of some interest, part of our rules mean we exclude "follow" bots, of which this is one. As such I've suspended that account from appearing on this instance.

Don't forget, you can also mute and block accounts directly.