Peter H. Boling

Peter H. Boling @galtzo

About: Frontier Operator. Human of Earth, maker of code, director, team leader, mentor, linux system admin, FLOSS advocate, barista, student, and builder of web applications great and small for 25 years.

Location:
Detroit, MI
Joined:
Jan 17, 2021

Peter H. Boling
articles - 33 total

🐠 ANN: appraisal2 v3.0.6 - support frozen appraisal lockfiles

An issue was reported by Richard Kramer, and made me aware of a use case that I had never personally...

Learn More 1 0Feb 18

Hostile Takeover of RubyGems: My Thoughts

I'll keep this post evergreen, as the situation evolves. Also, when you are done reading - hire...

Learn More 11 2Feb 6

⚡️ setup-ruby-flash

Find out how fast my workflows can go! -You, possibly GH Marketplace Dogfood Current...

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💲FLOSS Funding

Two things are true. Many open source contributors have been laid off recently, and have...

Learn More 2 0Nov 6 '25

💎 ANN: omniauth-identity v3.1.5 (Hanami/ROM Support)

3.1.5 - 2025-10-13 TAG: v3.1.5 COVERAGE: 93.58% -- 437/467 lines in 14 files BRANCH...

Learn More 3 0Oct 14 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.17

Announcing oauth2 v2.0.17 — Static Hash for verb‑dependent token mode...

Learn More 6 0Sep 18 '25

💎 ANN: kettle-dev v1.1.20 w/ improved CHANGELOG handling

1.1.20 - 2025-09-15 TAG: v1.1.20 COVERAGE: 96.80% -- 3660/3781 lines in 25 files BRANCH...

Learn More 6 1Sep 15 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.16 w/ full E2E example (& Instagram Compat)

Actually Instagram compatibility came in oauth2 v2.0.15, but I didn't make a separate post about it....

Learn More 7 1Sep 14 '25

👩‍🔧 How to Check License Compatibility in GHA

Other posts in my Compatibility Matrix Series ActiveRecord / SQlite3 Compatibility Matrix RRRRb...

Learn More 7 3Sep 13 '25

💲ANN: awesome-sponsorships

🪧 How do you get more open source sponsors? Now that I'm doing FLOSS full-time, I have to either...

Learn More 6 1Sep 12 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.14

oauth2 v2.0.14 has been released with: 📝 Added OAuth 2.1 draft specification as inline...

Learn More 6 0Sep 1 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.13

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.13 supporting token revocation via URL-encoded params, complete examples, YARD...

Learn More 6 0Aug 30 '25

💎 ANN: stone_checksums v1.0.2

Why are all gems now built in 1980? Bundler v2.7.0 had a change that went largely unnoticed:...

Learn More 7 0Aug 27 '25

💎 ANN: kettle-dev v1, part 1

This new gem ships with a ton of features, far too much for one post. So this will be a series. ...

Learn More 6 0Aug 25 '25

💎 ANN: kettle-test v1.0.0

💎 ANN: kettle-test v1.0.0 - A widely applicable standard test harness. Time travel, silence for dot...

Learn More 6 0Aug 22 '25

Continuity: Moving RubyGems to Org

Many of my RubyGems had their source repositories at https://github.com/pboling, which is a personal...

Learn More 6 0Aug 9 '25

💎 ANN: omniauth-identity v3.1.4

Photo (cropped) by Mike Hindle on Unsplash 3.1.4 - 2025-07-28 TAG: v3.1.4 COVERAGE: ...

Learn More 6 0Jul 29 '25

💎 ANN: rspec-stubbed_env v1.0.3

https://github.com/pboling/rspec-stubbed_env https://rubygems.org/gems/rspec-stubbed_env ...

Learn More 7 0Jul 29 '25

💎 ANN: appraisal2, a hard fork

Appraisal2: https://github.com/appraisal-rb/appraisal2/ I elaborate a bit on the reasons behind the...

Learn More 5 2Jul 28 '25

The Ruby OAuth Collective

Announcing The Ruby OAuth Collective: https://opencollective.com/ruby-oauth The ruby-oauth projects...

Learn More 6 2Jul 2 '25

🚛 `oauth-xx` org => `ruby-oauth` org?

Photo (cropped) by Brandon Griggs on Unsplash Update Rename is complete! Read more:...

Learn More 7 5Jun 27 '25

💎 ANN: OmniAuth::OpenID v2.0.2

Photo (cropped) by Diogo Brandao on Unsplash NOTE: OpenID v2 is not OpenID Connect (OIDC). OpenID...

Learn More 6 0Jun 8 '25

ActiveRecord / SQlite3 Compatibility Matrix

This matrix covers the versions of Rails / ActiveRecord against the versions of the sqlite3...

Learn More 5 1Jun 6 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.12 (w/ support for kids)

Before I get to the new kid (IETF RFC 7515 JSON Web Signature - JWS) support, for key discovery and...

Learn More 6 0May 31 '25

💎 Ann: shields-badge v1.0.0

Do you ever lay awake at night thinking... How is the CI looking for kettle-soup-cover? What...

Learn More 5 0May 30 '25

💎 ANN: oauth2 v2.0.10 released

Photo (cropped) by Domino Studio on Unsplash I've just released oauth2 v2.0.10. It's a big release...

Learn More 6 2May 17 '25

Life After Github?

In my last post I decided I would leave GitHub for freer libre pastures. I plan to work on...

Learn More 7 0Jul 14 '22

I'm leaving Github

I Am Using GitHub Under Protest Update: I did move the repo to GitLab. And CodeBerg. It...

Learn More 70 23Jul 7 '22

I use shared hosting as my build server. Here's how.

Hugo is a framework for building websites. It is particularly adept with blogging, and sites that are...

Learn More 7 1Jun 29 '22

RRRRb Matrix (Ruby, RubyGems, RuboCop, Rails, Bundler)

Other posts in my Compatibility Matrix Series How to Check License Compatibility in GHA (License...

Learn More 17 3May 22 '22