Also posting at jamis@techhub.social, @jamisbuck.bsky.social
Joined May 2007
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10 Jun 2014
The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that there's nothing that can't be learned.
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Feb 11
Not software, but I made a thing: "That One Time We Solved a Mystery" is a solo/co-op framework for any TTRPG to play mysteries with no preparation. I'm thrilled with how it turned out! I've had playtesters say it made them feel like "real investigators" ❤️
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Feb 11
Check it out on itch.io (jamisbuck.itch.io/totwsam) and DriveThruRPG (drivethrurpg.com/en/product/…). Currently on sale for half off -- just $5!
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29 Nov 2025
You can get half off all e-books at pragprog.com/ through Dec 1. This includes "Mazes for Programmers" and "The Ray Tracer Challenge", by yours truly. Use code "save50" 🧠💕
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23 Apr 2025
Joseph Grosso posted a very thorough (and glowing!) review of my book, "The Ray Tracer Challenge": medium.com/@jogrosso/the-ray… -- includes tips for troubleshooting and optimizing your renderer!
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20 Apr 2025
Sentinel Comics RPG is an amazing system. I made a random character generator for it: jamisbuck.org/scrpg (repo: github.com/jamis/scrpg-charg…).
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15 Apr 2025
BASIC was developed in 1964. 31 years later, in 1995, Java came out. Here we are now, 30 years since Java's release, and it occurs to me that Java is now the BASIC of any language being developed today. 🤯
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Jamis Buck retweeted
2 Mar 2025
Playing with maze generation in Swift & SwiftUI, with the great book "Mazes for Programmers" by @jamis!
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27 Dec 2024
Just finished converting an ancient cvs repo of mine to git, finally. Thread on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/jamisbuck.b…
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26 Nov 2024
Today, my wife and I are celebrating 10,000 days since we were married! We’ve ordered a few Lego(-ish) sets with a combined total of at least 10k pieces to celebrate. Feel free to do likewise :)
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11 Oct 2024
I’m very excited to be speaking at RubyConf next month, with Adviti Mishra. We’ll be talking about how we used fibers in a non-concurrent context to fix a stack overflow error caused by recursion. Come say hi!
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Jamis Buck retweeted
4 Sep 2024
At @MongoDB, they wanted to add a tighter integration between #Rails and #Mongoid (their ODM), so they created their our own CLI tool that extends the Rails CLI, adding the additional functionality they sought. Join former Rails core alumnus and Capistrano-creator @jamis at #RailsWorld to see how they did it, and how you can do it yourself. rubyonrails.org/world/2024/d…
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30 Jun 2024
The forums for my ray tracer book are back up, after a hiatus of some months. #embarrassing -- forum.raytracerchallenge.com…
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24 May 2024
Rubygems' security page hints at discussions occurring on a mailing list, on IRC, and on a wiki, but in all three cases the discussions are more than a decade old. Are there any more recent (ideally, *current*) discussions around Rubygems security (and specifically gem signing)?
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17 May 2024
I'm excited to be in Toronto in September, for Rails World! I'll be speaking about some of the work I've been doing at MongoDB, extending the Rails CLI to work with our Ruby ODM, Mongoid, and showing how you can do the same. See you there!
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30 Mar 2024
Going through some old files on my server, I stumbled upon this bit of history: jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-on-…
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30 Mar 2024
I also wrote jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-on-… about the same time, which eventually culminated in jamisbuck.org/ruby/rails-inj… (just a month before I was hired by 37signals).
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30 Mar 2024
I think we're all glad David was not swayed by my enthusiasm :) and even though I cringe at what I thought was a great idea at the time, it is fun to remember what a wild time that was to be involved with Rails.
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