I finally got around to reading "How does Sidekiq really work?" by Dan Svetlov dansvetlov.me/sidekiq-inte.... Dang, it did not disappoint. What an enjoyable and in-depth read! A few things that stuck out to me 1/11 🧵

3️⃣ @jpcamara published a new article about Bitmasks, Threads and Interrupts: Concurrent, colorless Ruby jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/...

Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Thanks to @honeybadger.io @joshuawood.honeybadger.io for the helpful post on dynamic exception matchers 🙏🏼 www.honeybadger.io/blog/level-u...

After a year hiatus, my series on all things Ruby concurrency is back! This post digs into the interrupt mechanism in Ruby threads. These interrupts revolve around bit masks, so it's got some Ruby bit work as well! Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃 jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...

Time to tighten up my talk, the conference is coming quick! Also just noticed the AI whoopsies on the text 🤭

Yesterday, we launched the 152nd edition of @ShortRubyNews. @RailsBlocks sponsored this edition. Visit railsblocks.com to access a ready-to-use collection of 250+ UI components with minimal dependencies. A big discount is waiting for you inside the newsletter.

www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis... who am I going to see at SF Ruby conf?? @sfruby.com

Incredible validation for Falcon as a Ruby web server, and for Async in Ruby. I spoke about concurrency at last years RubyConf and had to call out Falcon - it's the server i've been most excited about in the past few years.

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

We never needed while loops. The power was always within us.

Come join us for the San Francisco Ruby Conference in November! It's going to be a great one, especially after seeing how thriving the monthly meetups are. I'm also looking forward to share the latest advancements in Herb and ReActionView in my talk 👀 Hope to see you there!

Github, you will never convince me that this emoji represents laughter

A few months ago, I recorded a podcast with Jack from @tuple.app 🥹 It's an episode in their Distributed podcast (tuple.app/distributed/). I talk about async work, long-form writing, Slack withdrawal symptoms, and my personal approach to work. If you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X9h...

0.5% of the Ruby community rn: 😩 The other 99.5%:

Working on my real-time talk for #SFRuby conf, I think it'll be a good one! Real-time collaboration in Lexxy anyone?

Much needed clarity from @apiguy.dev (freedom) open.substack.com/pub/apiguy/p...

‼️ Friends, please pay attention: grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules if you found it, don't panic: update dependency remove npm cache

Postgres COUNTs, why do you vex me so?

Now that my RailsWorld FOMO is cooling down, I’m excited to engage with some @friendlyrb.com FOMO next week 🥹

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Did an early draft run of my real-time collaboration talk at the #bostonrb meetup. Getting amped for #SFRuby conf! See you there? sfruby.com

What do you do when someone asks if you’re in a band? Listen to my chat with @jerod.bsky.social & @adamstac.bsky.social on The @changelog.com Podcast to learn this and more about my upcoming 7500mi @xoruby.com tour. changelog.com/podcast/657

Remember to read the Thinking about Code and Around Code sections to find inspiring conversations with @joel.drapper.me, @jpcamara.com, @jeremysmith.co, Gavin Morrice, @kyrylo.org, @inazarova.bsky.social

Yesterday we published the 146th edition of @shortrubynews This edition was sponsored by @judoscale.com and @adamlogic.com You can read it for free at newsletter.shortruby.com/p/edition-146

Huge shoutout to our team for helping me turn the RailsConf talk and lots of thoughts into this post about the cycles that technologies and innovation go through, why Rails emerged after a big drop in visibility, glimpses of what the future holds–and our roles in it!

Resisting the urge... to write a post... about how crazy... encoding in and out of... base64 is...

I've been reading Ruby Weekly since - let me check my inbox - *SPITS OUT WATER* - 2013?!? And that was already the 126th edition 😱 @cooperx86.bsky.social you are a machine!! It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it! rubyweekly.com/issues/762

Using feature flags to grant features to customers as a one-off (when they otherwise wouldn't have that feature because of plan limitations) is so handy. We put a @flippercloud.io check in the has_feature? method of our Account model. A+ would recommend.

I've dug into Thread#kill/#raise _alot_ over the last year, and what sticks out the most is that from what I can find, no other language still supports this, and many never did. It seems that because we have it, it's still used in various places (though much more judiciously these days)

I tried out Bake, an alternative task runner for Ruby. jardo.dev/lets-get-baked

The @shortrubynews edition 144 is out. This edition is sponsored by @judoscale.com and @adamlogic.com Here are some highlights from this edition: Launched and Events

We'll see how this goes! bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21529

In a moment of serendipity, @jardo.dev and @jhawthorn.com made a nice last minute addition to my post with their recent regex abomination— errr, invention!

I took a journey into the heart of Ruby to learn the secrets of the /o regex modifier, and I emerged wiser, but also so deeply tired. jpcamara.com/2025/08/02/t...

Are you a #Ruby and #Rails enthusiast? Don't miss Edition 143 of the Short Ruby Newsletter—packed with the freshest updates, cutting-edge innovations, and key insights from our vibrant community. This edition is sponsored by @judoscale.com and @adamlogic.com

While taking @bensheldon.bsky.social’s advice to consider thruster on Heroku (island94.org/2025/07/cons...), take it one step further by using anycable-thruster! rubygems.org/gems/anycabl... It makes it super simple to deploy anycable alongside your app on Heroku (or any platform) @anycable.io

I'm thrilled to be bringing my workshop on how to deep-dive into Rails in person to SFRuby. Come join and let's get you upskilled 🔥

Super honored to be part of this program, hope you can join us in November in San Francisco!

@fito.codegardener.com and I are thrilled to be speaking at SF RubyConf this November! So many amazing speakers! Hope to see you there!

So excited and honored to be speaking at SF Ruby conf in November! I’ll be talking Realtime with Rails, Anycable and Yjs! Hope to see you there!

Set it up! Next Tuesday, we'll dive into Oaken and I'll show you how you can take advantage. It'll be fun! lu.ma/e9927y5m

Pro Tip: Read whatever Ivo writes. ivoanjo.me/blog/2025/0...

News: 💡Ruby&AI Hackathon at Sentry HQ is already this Saturday✨! A few seats available: lu.ma/znhcct7v 💡SF Ruby meetup at Figma (Jul 22) is *sold out* 🙌 with 260 signups! Waitlist is activated. See and sign up to all events at lu.ma/sfruby

My brain is full of open source, blogging and growth ideas, thanks to #rubyfriends! Thanks @rubycentral.org @rosa.codes @codynorman.com @jeremysmith.co @manu-j.com @andyatkinson.com @adrianthedev.com @inazarova.bsky.social @jesper.dev @kaspth.com and so many others! Hope to see everyone again soon!

I did some sort of rubber duck blogging about a patch I'm currently working on: byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

@rosa.codes do solid queue recurring tasks have to be active when a schedule hits? For instance, if I am deploying code and solid queue is restarting during a recurring task window - would it be missed?

I'd be happy to work with ruby-core on Ractor APIs that actually improve their usability, I'd even sponsor their development. We need truly thread-safe data structures that can be shared. Expecting Ruby apps to remove global mutable state is not realistic.

If you read @byroot.bsky.social 's "What's the deal with Ractors?", and were bummed at how poorly they handled JSON parsing, then @jhawthorn.com has brightened your day! Frozen interned strings are now stored in a lock-free hash, making the Ractor example 2x faster than the single-threaded example!

As announced at RubyKaigi today, I've been working on a new HTML-Aware ERB Parser that I just released today. Introducing Herb — a fast, modern, and HTML-aware ERB parser, designed from the ground up for smarter developer tooling. #rubykaigi #rubykaigi2025