Jason Meller
@jmeller
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VP, Product @ 1Password and Kolide Founder
New York City
Joined April 2008
Anything good I ever built in my life was either in a room like this or in a coffee shop.
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These legends are what gave Ruby the credibility for me to take it seriously once I was introduced to it informally by a co-worker (Dustin Webber) my co-worker when I was still at GE in 2009.
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From Rich's HN post: "[Chad, David, and I] sat around a table the first night [at RubyConf in Austin 2003] with a CVS repo on a USB drive and passed it around and committed code until we had a functioning gem command. I demoed it in my talk the next day"
I am happy to see that RubyGems and Bundler have moved to the Ruby Core team. Being one of the originating authors of RubyGems (and host of RubyGems for 4 years!) this was always about making Ruby easier to use and share code as a community. I still write Ruby almost every day
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Great news for all who depend on a Ruby ecosystem that's healthy and secure. I know Ruby Core will do an excellent job in collaboration with @rubycentralorg. What an amazing outcome made possible by a few people doing a hard but necessary thing. https://t.co/cHlp4iEIEn
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We just solved authentication for AI Agents. Announcing 1Password + Browserbase, enabling secure agentic password autofill for your browser agents. Available exclusively on Director dot ai and Browserbase. Full post below.
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I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. https://t.co/cgRySjoVlr
byroot.github.io
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly,...
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I was involved in attempts to improve RubyGems governance, mediate between RubyCentral/RubyGems folks and helping the gem-coop folks setup their new governance process. Given recent events, I'm stepping back now that the initial governance work is done:
mikemcquaid.com
gem.coop was announced on Monday. As part of that announcement it was mentioned that I was helping gem.coop set up a governance process, continuing the work I’d first started helping with on RubyGems.
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IMO my view on this is I don't think it was a well known as Ruby Central believed it was that they needed cash. I think if they were this hard up, a lot of folks would have been willing to step up. This proposal to me is totally out of bounds on what we as a community expect.
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This is absolutely crazy!
New info in new Ruby Central blog. Biggest things are: 1. In August, Arko made a proposal to Ruby Central to monetize the Rubygems[.]org HTTP access logs. 2. Shortly after access was revoked, the AWS root creds were used to try to lock out the Ruby Central staff from prod.
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Glad to see this info in the blog. I engaged immediately with Ruby Central when I saw Joel Drapper's blog post about Arko still having access to prod and helped them review logs to figure out what exactly happened.
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New info in new Ruby Central blog. Biggest things are: 1. In August, Arko made a proposal to Ruby Central to monetize the Rubygems[.]org HTTP access logs. 2. Shortly after access was revoked, the AWS root creds were used to try to lock out the Ruby Central staff from prod.
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AI & LLMs are the first transformational new tech where Millennials won't be natives. This means Gen Z, a generation with markedly different values and incentives, will be able to leverage it to have an outsized influence on society. Same thing Millennials did with the web.
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Biggest parenting gap between Gen X and Millennials: Gen X sees tech as enablement; Millennials see it as half enablement, half empty calories. How each approaches "screen time" for kids is informed by this perspective. One generation later, the same will play out with AI.
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All great stuff in here https://t.co/adu8J1HJ2f
github.blog
All GitHub.com users can now register a passkey to sign in without a password.
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One thing I got flack for in my #RailsWorld talk is I didn't spend enough time on what a good Passkey UX looks like. Fair. IMO GitHub the best Passkey implementation of any Rails app I've used. The key is to promote passkeys as an enhancement to your users . Check it out 👇
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You'd think the hardest part of building a cred manager like 1Password is securely storing creds. Yes that's hard, but not the hardest part. The hardest part is enabling people to effortlessly use secrets in the places they are useful, while maintaining their safety in flight.
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