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Hello, this is Postmodern 🌊 er I mean 👋. You may remember me from such projects as, chruby, ruby-install, and bundler-audit. I have been contributing to Open Source since the early 2000s (first gig was volunteering as a Gentoo Arch Tester) and now maintain almost 100 libraries; most of them Ruby related. I have also been active in the Ruby community since 2008, back when we used RubyForge. As it were my luck, some of my projects ended up becoming popular and now I have feature requests and releases to deal with. Currently, I am "fun-employed" as we wait for the pandemic to end. This gives me some much needed time to recoup and do some Open Source work. Here's a short list of what I have planned:

  • [ ] Release new versions of ruby-install
  • [ ] Release chruby 1.0.0
  • [ ] Release new versions of bundler-audit (with JSON output and more!)
  • [ ] Create a DRY Ruby generator library (think: one library to replace all of those foo-gen commands).
  • [ ] Create a DRY Ruby CLI library, drawing from lessons learned from writing Ronin::UI::CLI::Command (ex: no other Ruby CLI library rescues Interrupt or Errno::EPIPE, causing them to print an ugly backtrace if you Ctrl^C or pipe it into | less and quit).
  • [ ] Rewriting my ore rubygem generator (using the aforementioned DRY Ruby generator library) to be more streamlined and accessible.
  • [ ] Develop a Processing-like framework for live video effects in Crystal.
  • [ ] Write a Ruby library for converting nmap XML into JSON.
  • [ ] Write a Ruby library around masscan similar to my ruby-nmap library.
  • [ ] Resurrect ronin (ssssh, more on that later)

cue Sara McLanahan music and montage of sad dogs

Sad dogs and cats

So for the small price of a latte, you too can help me accomplish these goals. OK, maybe that gif was a little too sad.

Q: What will you be spending the money on?
A: Beer. Maybe if you donate enough, Sake.

Q: What else do we get in return for giving you beer money?
A: Maybe I'll stream my development process on Twitch? Maybe I'll speak entirely through a vintage analogue vocoder? Unlock emotes?

@postmodern

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Featured work

  1. postmodern/chruby

    Changes the current Ruby

    Shell 2,382
  2. rubysec/bundler-audit

    Patch-level verification for Bundler

    Ruby 2,237
  3. postmodern/ruby-install

    Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, TruffleRuby or MRuby

    Shell 1,548
  4. postmodern/spidr

    A versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.

    Ruby 632
  5. sophsec/ruby-nmap

    A Rubyful interface to the Nmap exploration tool and security / port scanner.

    Ruby 238
  6. postmodern/rubygems-tasks

    Simple Rake tasks for managing and releasing Ruby projects.

    Ruby 72

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