Back home from a fantastic @sfruby.com conference and 10 days in San Francisco. A packed schedule of talks, hack day at #angellist and many great conversations. The #ruby community really still is something special. Thanks @inazarova.bsky.social and team who put in so much in to make this happen.

In a fast moving world of AI, self driving taxis and robots, I love that my favourite cafe in San Francisco hasn’t changed since I was a regular when I lived here 20 years ago. Literally same menu, same pastries, same guy behind the counter. Great to be back! #sanfrancisco #caffetrieste

Heading to San Francisco today for @sfruby. Looking forward to seeing #rubyfriends and catching up with old friends in the place that was home for 10 years! #ruby #sanfrancisco

Happy Birthday Ray Charles. Would have been 95 years old today! I wrote up one amazing and humbling day I had working with him in 2000 here mileswoodroffe.com/articles/thr...

Just arrived in Viana do Castelo for @euruko 2025. So far so good. Looking forward to the conference, talks and of course #rubyfriends. #euruko2025 #ruby #portugal

New blog: mileswoodroffe.com/articles/out... Asked a bunch of folks at Rails World about this and even though an edge case, quite annoying if you happen to bump in to it! My current "solution" is bit questionable, but did mean I could use this witty title for the post ;) #rails #turbo #iframes

Arrive in Amsterdam for #railsworld. Super cool hotel is a great start. This is a view from my window. Dylan on the turntable. Love it! Off out to find some lunch. Looking forward to see so many #rubyfriends and great talks. #ruby #rails

If you’re a Rails developer and interested in native apps, get this book now! I was lucky to tech review it earlier in the year and read every last word, typed every line of code. It’s fantastic. Great work Joe 🎉

Picked up my guitar for the first time since I tripped and broke a couple of fingers in March. Managed a few chords! Next challenge, get running again after smashing my knee in the same epic mishap 😅

I never met Ozzy, but always seemed like a great bloke from afar. I did see him play from side of stage when I was working on the Warped Tour and it somewhat absurdly linked up with OzzFest in 1998 in a field in Wisconsin. It was dubbed "Skating meets Satan" as I recall! RIP Ozzy. Brummie Icon 🤘

Sad to hear of Michael Madsen's passing. I had a loose connection with him as he was the star of a movie that I co-wrote some songs for and played on. Not exactly Reservoir Dogs calibre, but was fun and makes a good story that I reminisced about a while back... mileswoodroffe.com/articles/hol...

This was fantastic. @rosa.codes obviously a fountain of knowledge on Solid Queue with some unique insights from Basecamp/Hey. @robbyonrails.com asking the questions right after I was thinking “I wish he’d ask…”. 10/10 recommended #rails #ruby

New Post: "For experienced Rails developers, there’s orders of magnitude of productivity gains to be had. Right now. No joke." mileswoodroffe.com/articles/cla...

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs. Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June. forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...

#Euruko2025 Tickets are available now. Hope to see you in September in Portugal! 2025.euruko.org #Ruby

Spring Best Sellers Sale Week 3 - The Red Carpet - ♥️ Ruby/Rails ♥️ 40% Off – This Week Only! Code: 2025RAILS at checkout pragprog.com/titles/... by @joemasilotti.com

While in #Japan for #rubykaigi I took the opportunity to explore 3 more of the 12 original castles. All these are on #shikoku, and all a long way up! 1. Matsuyama 2. Uwajima 3. Marugame

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

This was a fantastically detailed talk by @coe401.bsky.social at #rubykaigi about the race to get Happy Eyeballs implemented in TCPSocket .new just in time for Ruby 3.4! Shoutout to the live translator too. That was an action packed, fast paced performance! #ruby #happyeyeballs #translator

Another great #rubykaigi talk, this time from @tenderlove.dev showing how his work on Ruby 3.5 should make Class#new at minimum 1.4x faster. And yes, we are excited! #ruby

24hr+ journey to #rubykaigi in #matsuyama - Bus 2hrs, Flight 14hrs, Shinkansen 4hrs, Shiokaze 4hrs - but all so worth it! Still only day 1 afternoon and already had dinner with @matz.bsky.social and other rubyists, met countless #rubyfriends and seen some stellar talks! #ruby

Great talk and deep dive on PIDs and bringing PIDFDs to #ruby from long time #rubyfriend and #karafka creator Maciej at #rubykaigi

Very interesting new tools launched and great talk from #rubyfriend @marcoroth.dev at #rubykaigi. Excited to dig in to Herb! github.com/marcoroth/herb 🌿

En-route to #rubykaigi in #japan and impressed already by the merch game this year 😉 #ruby

The #RailsWorld CFP closes next week! Submit your talks here to speak in Amsterdam rubyonrails.org/2025/3/7/app... #rails #rubyonrails

Our learnhotwire.com course is now $50 off in Early Access! We're currently at 110+ lessons and over 8 hours of content recorded with more to come. It's the most comprehensive Hotwire course you will find. 💪

More people are signing up for tomorrow's session, I'm really looking forward to demystifying the Rails source and help the community level up 😄 lu.ma/sgjrzf3w

Quick overnight business trip to Geneva! Managed to get a 5k run in along the Lake yesterday, 3hr meeting and back to Bristol for dinner. #planes #trains #nikes

Just realised my time working with Bob Dylan was 25 years ago this week!!! How can that be? It’s a lifetime ago. Still fresh in my mind (and the rehearsal tapes I made) but still….. 25 years!? #dylan #25years

The talks at South West Ruby in Bristol earlier this week were fantastic! @lewispb.bsky.social and Sam Giles both raised the bar. Looking forward to the next! #ruby #rails #nfc circle.southwestruby.com/c/meetup/sou...

Looking forward to #RubyKaigi in Japan next month after missing out last year! Hope to see many #rubyfriends as always. Let me know if you’ll be there! rubykaigi.org/2025/

Hot off the press: Rails World 2025 CFP now open! Can't wait to see what folks will talk about in Amsterdam. rubyonrails.org/2025/3/7/app... #rails #ruby #railsworld

Balkan Ruby is an international Ruby conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our fourth edition (2018, 2019, 2024) will take place on April 25–26, featuring talks about the long term. Join us! balkanruby.com?discount_cod...

🚨 Lightning Talk CFP 🚨 Send me your talks. forms.reform.app/goodscary/l...

New in Beta Hotwire Native for Rails Developers https://pragprog.com/titles/jmnative Add Hotwire Native to your Rails app; start creating native iOS and Android applications, and make your app look and feel native to their platform. Congratulations @joemasilotti.com !!

Don't miss beta access to the definitive book on Hotwire Native. Buy it now!! I did a meticulous technical review of chapters 1-6 a few months ago, and can confirm it's superb. Just bought the beta myself to support. Well done @joemasilotti.com! #rails #ruby #hotwirenative #rubyfriends

Happy 25th Anniversary to those who remember...

With one more run planned in 2024 I wondered how far I’d done this year. Turns out it’s just over 500 miles! Didn’t set a goal but this feels like a good accomplishment! 🎉 #running #fitness #theproclaimers

Throwback to Christmas 1983 where it all started for me with the ZX Spectrum. Visiting my cousin and dug this out of the attic! Defender in ~30 lines of code 🔥 #sinclair #zxspectrum #BASIC

Today marks 22 years since the untimely passing of #joestrummer. I was lucky to work with Joe at the Sun Theatre in Anaheim, CA in 1999. Flyer from that show in the pic here. He arrived with Rudy - a friend of mine - who introduced me as “the Specials sound guy”. Went well from that point! #rip

Great wrap up of 2024 in the Rails Foundation by @amandabrooke.bsky.social Such a huge amount of progress and more to come in 25! So great to be involved. Viva Rails! #rails #ruby rubyonrails.org/2024/12/18/w...

I noticed a lot of new “users” in one of my side projects, and immediately wondered what was going on, was this it, had I finally struck the startup gold? Obviously I hadn’t, but nice to dream for a moment. Aha! It’s a visit from our old friend Little Bobby Tables! mileswoodroffe.com/articles/rai...

New Getting Started with Rails Guide by @excid3.com is absolutely the #1 place I’ll be recommending to anyone interested #rails. This is a fantastic place to jump in. Come and join us! guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_star...

New from the Rails Foundation: Rails 8 Unpacked with Typecraft! So great! #rails @typecraft.dev youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Some incredible new #rails resources coming from the Rails Foundation in the next few days. Look out for the amazing new official “Getting Started Tutorial” from @excid3.com and the fantastic “Rails 8 Unpacked” series of 9 videos from the inimitable @typecraft.dev. #ruby #rubyonrails

Week 49 - @thoughtbot.com Hotwire Essentials tutorial, Solid Cable in Production, and more! hotwireweekly.com/archive/week...

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Yikes. The ⚠️ emergency alert system on iOS is certainly… alerting! Red weather warning here in the south west UK. Time to batten down the www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1Password has joined the Rails Foundation. "1Password is joining the Rails Foundation for three reasons: Rails is where the future is, Rails is where the community is, and Rails is where the challenge is." blog.1password.com/1password-jo...

New Blog: "I realised that there often aren’t that many blog posts or examples - including my own previous posts - that go into details beyond a demo on localhost. Let's fix that now!" #rails #solidcable mileswoodroffe.com/articles/sol...