#MINASWAN
personification of minaswan
September 27, 2026 at 11:38 AM
normalize the inverse of minaswan; when you stop being nice, so do i
September 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
(this is mostly a joke, it would be bad to normalize inverse minaswan further. but it would also be satisfying)
September 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
thinking about ruby's "MINASWAN" meme coupled with "hippies are nice but not kind, punks aren't nice, but kind" meme
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
MINASWAN for me, not for thee.
October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I think it’s important to remember that the prevailing philosophy in the Ruby community is MINASWAN (Matz is nice and so we are nice) not DINASWAN (David is nasty and so we are nasty).
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A little moment of bragging — got an @xoruby.com pin from @jremsikjr.bsky.social while attending @rmrubyconf.bsky.social.

Looks great and will be a nice reminder of the XO Ruby series and the warm MINASWAN community it represents.

#RockyMountainRuby #XORuby #Ruby #community #MINASWAN
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really disappointed to see this type of vitriol & attack from someone I have respected for over a decade. Be better, Rafael. #MINASWAN
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve on the Ruby Central board and a wild handful of years!! Looking forward to being involved as an attendee and participant in the future 🎉🎉🎉 #rubyconf #railsconf #rubyfriends #minaswan
November 16, 2024 at 1:46 AM
MINASWAN
May 4, 2023 at 6:03 AM
Yep. This is as far away from MINASWAN as it can probably get. It's our duty to speak up.
"If you are trans, a migrant, black, overweight, childless, have ADHD, then in DHH’s view you are somehow inferior. Instead of raising up and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, DHH choses to exclude and punch down. This is not something the Ruby community can continue to simply ignore." 🎯
The Ruby community has a DHH problem
tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...
September 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Kindness can, and should, be an intentional design constraint in programming languages and their communities. Ruby was started with the philosophy of creating a joyful experience for programmers, and MINASWAN must be reclaimed.

brennan.day/kindness-as-...
Kindness as First-class Citizen in Programming
The world needs more intentional kindness. There's a manufactured backlash against empathy from Elon Musk to Gad Saad's 'suicidal empathy.' Kindness alread…
brennan.day
September 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
P.S. And, DHH made it sound like Shopify is making the same decisions as him, so good riddance to them as well given their discriminatory unethical ways. Go enjoy Native Rusting and let real MINASWAN Rubyists continue using Ruby the right way!
September 23, 2026 at 11:36 PM
@jremsikjr.bsky.social thank you for putting together such an awesome XO Ruby in Austin! 💎🌵
The warmth and generosity you bring remind me exactly why I fell in love with the Ruby community. ❤️
MINASWAN always ✨
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Dramatic entrance from @matz.bsky.social as he rose up from a trap door on the stage lift before his keynote! Building on the theme he talked about at EuRuKo the focus was a Programming Language for the AI Age #rubykaigi #minaswan
April 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We are at the last #RailsConf in Philadelphia this week! If you want to talk about Ruby, Rails, or our open engineering positions at Niva in NYC, feel free to say hi! 👋 😃

#ruby #rails #railsconf2025 #minaswan
Niva is hiring!
Niva is hiring!
jobs.gem.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
RIP MINASWAN, ???–2025
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
MINASWAN and DIADSWAD
July 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
MINASWAN but make it bigoted
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Totally fair to hate IMHO i think it’s a pain in the ass for big projects lol

But it’s pretty! And MINASWAN!
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I hope Ruby Central does better. I hope the new team is supported by Ruby Central, and the community gets the transparency they deserve.

I guess I'll close this out by mentioning one of my guiding principles for many years now, because it seems relevant, especially since folks mentioned "MINASWAN".
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can there be a MINASWAN in the age of LLMs?
July 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Exactly 2069 years ago today, poor Caesar, just 5 years after crossing the Rubicon, was stabbed to death 23 times by senators and his own son, Brutus.

Not very MINASWAN of them, for sure!

You can secure your ticket here, no stabbing required: ti.to/rubycon/ruby...

#Rubycon #AleaIactaREST
March 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
rubykaigiでacceptされたminaswanの叫びが聞こえる
February 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
#RailsWorld was a good one.
But for #BalticRuby conference next year will be focusing more on #Ruby and then #Rails alternatives, so #Hanami is going to be one of our tracks.

That was awesome to meet @matz.bsky.social there and keep #MINASWAN mood.
September 28, 2024 at 6:48 PM