We reached out to @judoscale.com at the last minute to fill a sponsorship that fell through and they responded without question. Thank you Judoscale for answering the call and supporting the community. Please check them out for all your autoscaling needs! judoscale.com

Today we want to thank @appsignal.com for supporting community events everywhere, including Blastoff Rails! It isn't cheap to put on a conference and they came through to help make it happen. Please go support them! www.appsignal.com

A big shoutout to Adrian Marin and Avo for sponsoring Blastoff Rails this year. He was one of the first people to support when this conference started to take shape. Please go check out his company Avo, a Rails framework for internal tools! avohq.io

Are you still having fun when you code? Have you ever wanted to make a game with Ruby? @matheusrich.bsky.social is here to reignite that fire in you!

@inazarova.bsky.social is the Rails community's resident startup whisperer and her keynote talk at Blastoff Rails this year will be the 3rd installment of her Startups on Rails report!

Avi Flombaum has really locked in what makes AI work with Rails. You don't want to miss his talk!

What's the deal with writing tests with AI? How does joining a college yearbook staff lead to a career in programming? Check out our latest speaker interview with Ifat Ribon!

What is his talk about? What does Costco have to do with it? And does he prefer red or green chile? All these important questions are answered in our first speaker interview with @nykida.net

Thank you @chael.codes for doing the stream on Blastoff Rails: The Game!! I had so much fun!

Tomorrow at exactly midnight UTC - @travis-code.bsky.social and I will be going live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/chaelcodes) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=p28I...). We'll be playing Blastoff Rails - the Game!

I had so many wonderful conversations with so many incredible people, enjoyed every talk, and was blown away by what a cool town Asheville is. Blue Ridge Ruby was an awesome conference!

We updated Adrian Marin in the game to reflect 3 things that I admire about him. 1) he is the friendliest dev you will meet, 2) he is one of the great minds behind the Ruby passport and 3) he is sponsoring the conference through Avo. Thank you Adrian for all you do! And thank you Avo for sponsoring!

Blastoff Rails: The Game got some updates! A few new characters, easter eggs, and some tweaks to the difficulty after some feedback from players. game.blastoffrails.com

This was a ton of fun to make! Give it a play and let me know what you think! Oh and if you find hidden characters let me know as well 😉

We extended Blastoff Rails early bird ticket pricing through the weekend! If you are thinking of getting a cheap ticket to an awesome conference now is the time! www.blastoffrails.com/tickets.html

I got to hang out with Drew Bragg on the Coding Coders podcast and we talked about a ton of random stuff from personal software to AI workflows and of course a shoutout to @blastoffrails.bsky.social podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/epi...

Early Bird ticket pricing is going to expire March 31st at midnight! Don't wait and miss out on these prices! $175 is an incredible steal! www.blastoffrails.com/tickets.html

Here comes a "studies show"

My first attempt to do video content for this conference. Enjoy!

@kevinjm.bsky.social I didn't know you had a beauty product side business. You are an incredibly busy guy 😆

@inazarova.bsky.social @andrewm.codes @matheusrich.bsky.social to name a few!

So excited for these talks! Big conference update!

We are putting the final touches on our speaker lineup. Even though it was expected, it was extremely difficult to make those final choices. We are so excited for you to see what's coming. Stay tuned!

Was having too much fun with midjourney and this happened

@inazarova.bsky.social and I had a chat about the @sfruby.com! We go deep into venues, marketing, and so many more conference details. Check it out! rubyconferenceproject.com/2026-01-27-i...

I added a fun new "Things to Do" page to the Blastoff Rails site. Albuquerque is a great place to visit and you will probably want to stay after the conference is over. 😜 www.blastoffrails.com/things-to-do...

CFP is now officially closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk! We are so excited to review them all and see this conference really take shape!

Now is a great time to be working on talk proposals! The CFP deadline for @rbqconf.bsky.social is tomorrow, then @blastoffrails.bsky.social and @tropicalonrails.bsky.social on the 10th. Here's the full list from RubyEvents: www.rubyevents.org/cfp

Don't forget you have until January 11th to submit a talk for Blastoff Rails next summer! www.papercall.io/blastoff

Trying out Google Veo 3.1 video generation and their "Veo Studio" is actually an app inside their AI Studio so you can see the code and ask for features in a separate chat pane with Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Any feature you wants gets built before your eyes. Mind Blown.

My favorite part is where he drops the laptop 👨‍🚀

Great conference and great to see so many friendly, familiar faces! @sfruby.com

I have talked to multiple people who mentioned that because everything is moving so fast it is difficult to submit a good CFP for an AI talk that won't happen for several months. So I am trying out a new thing!

I sat down with Amanda Perino of the Rails Foundation to ask her how Rails World comes together. She really pays attention to the finer details of the conference experience and I really enjoyed this interview. I hope you will to! rubyconferenceproject.com/2025-10-03-a...

If you are thinking of submitting a talk to the Blastoff Rails cfp, listen to this episode of Remote Ruby for a peak behind the scenes! www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis...

@rmrubyconf.bsky.social was awesome! Met so many great people and left inspired. Already looking forward to next year!

Our CFP is officially live! It is open for a couple months so you can ponder your best ideas (or several) but don't overthink it. Also, if your talk is selected we pay for your flight and hotel!

Another fantastic interview with a Ruby conference organizer! This time with Hana Harencarova. I really hope I can make it to Helvetic Ruby someday. Their 2026 event will be in November in Zurich! rubyconferenceproject.com/2025-08-30-i...

@cirdes.bsky.social is one of those people that knocks things out of the park. He did it with @tropicalonrails.bsky.social and he did it with this interview. Glad I got to chat and get some of this conference organizing knowledge. Please check it out!
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