Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula

In 1954 IBM promised FORTRAN would virtually eliminate coding and debugging.

In September 2025 I wrote a satirical proposal to rewrite Rails in Rust, and picked Rust because it was the one language David would never touch.

A country where no citizen has ever felt a constraint.

ChatGPT ships in 2022, I ask it one vain question, and four months later I have 20,000 commits of an operating system I am about to regret.

flashrom 1.8.0 shipped three days ago.

A Bus Pirate bug pointed me at flashrom's Gerrit queue years ago, and I walked away the moment I saw the thread full of corporate email addresses.

The follow-up to The Framebuffer People.

I spent two months cloning almost every OS posted to r/osdev and running the code through an analyzer.

MongoDB closed to fight AWS in 2018.

Parts 1 and 2 were about people who at least pretend to contribute.

curl and Jazzband and Ghostty didn't close the door because of an abstract "AI problem."

curl killed its six-year bug bounty.

Remember Tarus Balog, the AWS employee who rescued my deleted account when nobody else would?

2 million new packages in 3 years.

Jensen Huang says spend $250K/year in tokens or you're "using paper and pencil."

Vibe coders celebrate 30k LOC Rails blogs and 8-container analytics stacks.

LLMs are exoskeletons.

Your static instruction file works for Claude Opus and breaks for Claude Haiku.

How Blackship uses explicit state machines, topological ordering, circuit breakers, and lifecycle hooks to manage FreeBSD jails reliably.

Announcing Blackship - declarative jail management with dependency graphs, state machines, circuit breakers, and ZFS-first design.

Docker, Podman, Bastille, CBSD, iocage, pot.

I just watched Claude Code ignore the MCP spec in real-time.

Skills are tutorials.

A .AI founder complains about slow DAG queries while using MongoDB (a document database) for graph operations.

LLMs are pattern matchers, not entropy generators.

A CEO tweets about touching 2400 files with a single Cursor prompt. 16 hours runtime.

LLMs don't trust tool results.

In 2024, I authored LRDL (LLM Requirements Definition Language) - the exact same concept as TOON.

A sketchy DM.

Discord's AI banned me for "child safety violations" while I was reading news.

I spend time in scammer communities studying grift patterns.

Deputy Woods laments the abandoned ZeroDrink dispenser built by Zero Xi before he transferred to Golang Habitat.

Joel Drapper's technical investigation reveals the smoking gun - Ruby Central's "security measures" left Andre with full production access while removing his GitHub permissions.

Grep Monads thinks he's helping by giving everyone templates, cheat sheets, and quick references.

There's a difference between being rude and direct.

The smoking gun revealed - Shopify threatened to pull funding unless Ruby Central seized control of RubyGems. hsbt was the insider who enabled it.

Hours after Ruby Central's Q&A, board member Freedom Dumlao broke ranks to explain his vote.

Ruby Central's Q&A happened, but the real story emerged from a board member's confession and a maintainer's devastating rebuttal revealing the full scope of the governance breakdown.

Ruby Central forcibly removed the people who built RubyGems for over a decade, replacing them with a 'Director of Open Source' whose last Ruby code was a conference tutorial in 2010.

How the observability industry's vendor lock-in tactics led to building Lapsoss and the Liberation Stack - community-owned tools that put developers back in control

The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability.

After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning.

The unfiltered story of Rails Lens: ten years of frustration, harassment, theft, and finally breaking free to build something better.

Learn how to break free from the laboratory system, spot genuine technical leaders, and redirect your empathy to protect the real victims.

From FOREX scammers to tech influencers: How the same laboratory system weaponizes your empathy, farms your confusion, and sells you certainty.

The rise of single-maintainer projects like SQLite and curl isn't an anomaly - it's the future.

Why open source maintainers burn out: an autopsy of entitlement culture.

A seemingly harmless message is broadcast across the galaxy, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in every ship's logging system.

The crew finds a planet that was literally "coded" into existence using a Terraform-like tool.

The crew must mediate a civil war on a planet that cannot agree to deprecate v1 of their planetary API.