Mike Dalessio

@flavorjon.es

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Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby. OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem. Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.

Tweet from 2021: I would really like the Democratic Party to stop playing not to lose, and instead eliminate the filibuster and start governing, and take some goddamn risks. Dems saying "we'll lose much more than we'd gain" are missing that "playing to not lose" is completely the wrong strategy when the issue is voting rights. What you do is put all your chips in on this one hand, this is it, this is the whole ballgame.
A hand-written list of cookie names, paper clipped to a longer hand-written list of cookie names. "Gooey butter vanilla cake bars", "Glazed citrus ginger shortbread", "Cinnamon roll brownies", etc.
De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" album cover and disc
Let's build together at RailsConf's Hack Spaces on July 9th. I'm Mike Dalessio, maintainer of the sqlite3-ruby gem.
A screenshot from Jason's video with my avatar annotated everywhere it appears!
A looong list of cookie recipes - Linzer - Unchocolate chip cookie - White chocolate macadamia - Red velvet etc.
Car salesman: slaps roof "1.0's got all the primo features!"