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Justin Searls

Orlando
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I make things that nobody's asking for. I used to post things that nobody was asking for, but then I stopped. Learn about me at justin.searls.co
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People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing

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By Justin Searls
| justin.searls.co
Thursday, Oct 9, 2025 [TL;DR, Ruby Central has alleged that after he was notified that the board had voted to remove his production access to RubyGems.org, Andre Arko accessed the Ruby Central AWS account without authorization and proceeded to change the root password. ] For context, last week I wrote a post bringing to light a number of things Andre Arko had said and done in the past as a way to provide some context.
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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco

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By Justin Searls
| justin.searls.co
Sunday, Sep 28, 2025 We are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate has been eating at me ever since the news first broke, but I've tried to keep the peace by staying out of it.
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Distributing your own scripts via Homebrew

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By Justin Searls
| justin.searls.co
Saturday, Sep 6, 2025 I use Homebrew all the time. Whenever I see a new CLI that offers an npm or uv install path alongside a brew one, I choose brew every single time. And yet, when it comes time to publish a CLI of my own, I usually just ship it as a Ruby gem or an npm package, because I had (and have!) no fucking clue how Homebrew works. I'm not enough of a neckbeard to peer behind the curtain as soon as root directories like /usr and /opt are involved, so I never bothered before today.
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