I'm looking forward to XO Ruby in Atlanta this weekend! I'll be coming down Friday afternoon and staying until Sunday, and looking to hang out with folks. Will I see anyone there?

We are #hiring full-time #remote (European timezones) Senior #Ruby Engineer. Our current tech stack is Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Kafka, K8s. Mostly working on majestic monolith, occasionally on one of the smaller services.

Just had the most spontaneous unexpectedly-awesome experience this morning in the Netherlands. It all started with me posting about having a (tourist-trap version of a) Dutch pancake. @laurensnl saw the tweet and offered to treat me to some real Dutch food. Turns out…

If you're writing a review of your insights from #RailsWorld on your blog by Sunday (included), consider submitting it to https://t.co/NEYaSENHUT. We're thinking of creating a Rails World section in @shortrubynews and would love to include your article.

This was a great conversation. ☺️ If you happen to be at #RailsWorld you can catch Jason here!

Stuck at London Heathrow for 6 extra hours after my connection was canceled. 😭 #RailsWorld

1st September. A new school year in the UK. I'm starting 1:1 mentoships. Looking for some juniors to help - First Ruby Friend style. If you're looking for 1:1 chats with a Senior+ dev, CV reviews, tech test examples or pair programming and project help, then hit me up :)

Every developer should have at least two sources of income: one from the day job and one from their side project. It was difficult in the past due to payment infra but now 2025 you can easily sell to anyone anywhere in the world with Stripe/Paddle. Developers have the most

I’m looking for a #Ruby freelancer to assist with a few small projects over the next few months. Bonus points if you’re familiar with @Shopify, and double bonus if you’ve heard of @fulfilio! DM me if you’re interested or know someone who might be a good fit.

Happy to see a new issue of One Ruby Question from @bhumi1102 this week! And I appreciated this from the postscript: "Understanding the system is the edge."

wrapped up rails camp in alaska yesterday, and my heart is so full 🌼 i’ve never been part of such a beautiful developer community. as an organizer, i’ve watched camp friendships deepen year after year into genuine care and protection of each other’s well-being. it’s magic, and

Pretty pumped to make it into Ruby Weekly for backpacking. ☺️

Ruby on Trails is back for the second year in a row! 🎒🥾 We'll be doing a 19-mile section of the Appalachian Trail, September 24-28. And we've got room for 2-4 more participants. If you're interested, check out the details and contact me! https://t.co/LyPchlBQsg

Things I've learned the hard way about web development: * automated testing is always worth it in the long-run * limit your dependencies where possible, and keep up with dependency upgrades * don't write code in anticipation of future needs * integrate code changes often, no

Reminder: Rocky Mountain Ruby early bird tickets end today https://t.co/4H4pZvPkv3 Join us Oct. 6th & Oct. 7th (and spend the previous weekend exploring Boulder! Also, if you'd like to apply for a scholarship ticket for RMR https://t.co/gbzae1Ow7X is the spot to apply.

Next month I’ll be at @friendlyrb in Romania 🇷🇴 presenting "Poly-table Inheritance”, Before the talk, I’m running a short questionnaire to see how familiar the community is with these patterns, to help me shape the talk. 👉

I find this approach leads to fewer surprises, as it keeps like things together, and the namespacing calls out the intention more clearly, and at the same level (as opposed to many sub-levels of namespacing that these things could be distributed across).

There are some common "tells" when working, that point me this way: - Distinct authentication pattern - Custom layout (or no layout) - Special header handling - Difficulty fitting RESTful conventions (e.g. UsersController#autocomplete action)

- headless: endpoints accessed by Ferrum - autocomplete: typeahead search requests - embeds: iframes served to other sites - hovercards: lazy-loaded hover elements

Top-level controller namespaces like :api and :webhooks are fairly common in Rails apps, but I like to make top-level namespaces for many other things with distinct access patterns: