Robby Russell

🌱 Excited to share the full draft of my Reclaim Hosting Open 2025 Rewilding the Network – Making New Connections session: "Leap into Open Publishing with Docsify-This". Preview the interactive session guide: https://lnkd.in/gK4N6Grc Here's what makes this unique - the guide itself is published using the open-source project Docsify-This, so potential participants can experience firsthand how a simple online Markdown file can be transformed into a visually styled, responsive web page through URL parameters alone. ✨ What you'll see in action: • Automatic sidebar navigation that adapts to any screen • Auto dark/light theme switching based on system preferences   • Optional 'Edit this Page' link for GitHub or Codeberg Markdown files • Various styling options with zero technical setup This demonstrates the core philosophy behind Docsify-This: to empower educators and content creators to start focusing on writing while the platform handles presentation, hosting, and distribution. Docsify-This is designed for easy entry and exit - try it with your content risk-free. Your Markdown files can be used by other tools if your needs change. The session will be hands-on, with participants publishing either their own content or provided examples, and experimenting with different styling options through live URL parameter changes. Hope to see you there! #OpenEducation #EdTech #Markdown #Publishing #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource

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I love Rails. I've built my wealth on it. That's exactly why I think we need to have an honest conversation about its biggest blind spot. Eileen M. U. gave a brilliant talk at Rails World last year: "The Myth of the Modular Monolith." After 6 years of modularizing Shopify's monolith, she concluded: "You can't solve human and cultural problems by changing your architecture." She's right kinda of about the culture part. But stopped one step short. Rails doesn't just allow tight coupling. It incentivizes it. ActiveRecord makes every model globally accessible from anywhere. Any controller, any model, any job can reach into any table through any association chain. There's no boundary enforcement. No import restriction. No compilation step that says "this module shouldn't know about that one." When your framework makes coupling the path of least resistance, blaming developers for coupled code is like blaming water for flowing downhill. Shopify tried to fix this with Packwerk. It just give you a map not a real solution. Rails Engines? Been there, done that. They are miniature apps that provide functionality to their host applications. They don't enforce real isolation and they weren't designed for progressive extraction. But this isn't a Rails problem. It's a missing tool problem. Look at what Nx did for the Node/TypeScript ecosystem: → Module boundaries enforced at the import level, not via YAML to-do lists → Dependency graph visualization built in → Affected-only CI: only test what actually changed → Clear public API per module, everything else is private by default → A real path from monorepo module to extracted service Nx didn't replace Node. It gave Node developers the guardrails to build modular systems naturally. The right thing became the easy thing. By default. Rails deserves the same. Imagine a Rails-native tool that: • Enforces module boundaries through autoload paths, not opt-in linting • Gives each module a public API (explicit exports) while keeping internals private • Generates a live dependency graph from actual code usage, not manual YAML declarations • Runs affected-only CI based on that graph Not a replacement for Rails. A companion that makes Rails' conventions work at scale. Eileen is right: culture matters. Education matters. Leadership incentives matter. But culture alone didn't give us CI/CD. Tools did. Culture alone didn't give us code formatting standards. Linters did. Culture alone won't give us modular Rails applications. Rails gave us developer happiness for building products. Now we need the same philosophy applied to building organizations of code. The myth isn't the modular monolith. The myth is that we have the right tools for one. Who's building this? 🎥 Eileen Uchitelle — "The Myth of the Modular Monolith" (Rails World 2024) https://lnkd.in/dabvzHQm

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Can tech and nature thrive together? Apple's new project is restoring 14,000 acres of redwood forest in California using its Restore Fund, a bold bet on nature-based climate solutions. #ClimateAction #RestoreFund #TechForGood https://lnkd.in/gMT3AG8P

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5 Perspectives on Storytelling and Real-World Change -- From the panel discussion at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France - 2025. Compelling stories stem from tangible impact, from local projects to global policies. Panelists share how they are implementing solutions, from community efforts to international frameworks, showing what fuels powerful narratives. Panelists: Patricia Ricard - 30+ years in environmental protection. Chairwoman, Paul Ricard Oceanography Institute; founder of the Ocean and Climate Platform; IUCN Patron of Nature (2024). Francois Bailet - Senior Legal Officer at the UN (DOALOS), shaping international ocean policy. Simon BERNARD - Co-founder of Plastic Odyssey, pioneering solutions for large-scale plastic pollution. Damien Leloup - Co-founder, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology; manatee researcher for 20+ years; former crew member on Cousteau’s Calypso. Gaelin Rosenwaks - Marine scientist, explorer, photographer, filmmaker, and author. Founded Global Ocean Exploration. Author of Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Oceans and filmmaker behind Finding Physty. Visit the link to keep watching: https://www.rhodes.film #unoc3 #unitednations #ocean #conference #saveourocean #nature #un #wildlife #plastic #pollution #capacity #whale #manatee #science #sciencefacts

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Thursday’s theme got me thinking about something that feels a little wild but also strangely natural: bio-AI hybrids. This whole idea of “living code” keeps popping up in 2025, and honestly, the more I look at it, the more it feels like the next big shift. Well, the simplest way to imagine it is to treat these systems like cells. They learn, adapt and evolve based on the environment they’re placed in. Genetic algorithms push that evolution forward, while the silicon does the heavy lifting. It’s early days, but the results are already pretty incredible. Take AlphaFold 3. Its diffusion models can predict protein structures with around 80% accuracy. It uses equivariant graph networks to understand how proteins fold in 3D space. That’s a huge step for drug discovery and material science. You can almost feel the industry reshaping itself around this capability. Of course, it also raises some tough questions about where gene-level optimisation should or shouldn’t go. But that’s the nature of every major breakthrough. At AJ Consulting, I’ve started leaning on these hybrid ideas for sustainability work, especially simulations for eco-materials. It’s a space where biology and AI actually make sense together, and the early experiments look promising. Our infographic this week is built around this “living code” idea. If you’re curious about what bio-AI could mean for practical projects, feel free to drop a comment or DM me. NDA is completely fine. #AI2025 #BioAI #LivingCode #SustainabilityTech

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If things seem to have stopped working, it didn't happen all at once. The thinning of our civic life has traceable causes: "For almost three decades, a handful of technology platforms have done something more destructive than competing with our institutions. They redefined what “value” means. In the old economy, value was the product; the reporting, the performance, the creative work. People paid for it because it was intrinsically worth something. But the platforms shifted value from the content to the traffic that the content generates. The “quality” of the content is irrelevant. A Beethoven symphony and a cat video are identical to the algorithm. The only question is which one generates more clicks, because clicks—not content—are what gets monetized." We need to redefine what gets measured as value to start rebuilding civic life. https://lnkd.in/gk65RZ5h

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Designing systems for a yet undefined future is hard, so don't take this as a criticism. But if you are expecting MCP, LLM or Agent usage to be slow moving or a manually curated list you are missing the forest for the trees.

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uncannyuse now has schema pages for Reality Composer Pro components—showing the exact USDA block RCP writes, field-by-field with types and sparse-authoring behavior, plus annotated fixture examples. 20 components covered so far. https://lnkd.in/dpsT2A-8

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Over the past few months, I’ve been building something I wish existed years ago. Today, I’m introducing the ROLLIN Accessibility Data API: https://joinrollin.com/api ROLLIN provides real accessibility data for physical places — currently covering 80k+ restaurants, bars, and cafes across multiple states, with more added continuously. Each location includes a structured accessibility score (0–100) and detailed feature breakdowns like wheelchair entry, restroom accessibility, and more. This isn’t a static datasets. It’s part of a living system designed to continuously improve through multi-source verification and community feedback. The goal is simple: make accessibility data usable — not buried, fragmented, or stale. Developers can now query accessibility data by name, coordinates, or region using a simple REST API. Free tier available. This opens the door for accessibility-aware applications, smarter discovery platforms, research, advocacy, and better decision-making across industries. Accessibility is infrastructure. It should be as queryable as location, weather, or traffic. This is just the beginning. Docs: https://joinrollin.com/api #api #joinrollin #accessibility

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