Made some really cool changes and updates to my app last night 👀 And tonight I’ll do my first user feedback session live on stream! 💗 ~8pm UTC

Finally streaming again! Vibe coding my Rails travel map app, but with more intentionality and with a greater focus on data modeling to create a more accurate picture of how a person experiences places they've traveled to. 🌍 Join! youtube.com/live/ftPuag4...

Ruby friends in LX 😍

Going to stream again in a few 👀

HNY!

Okay I think I am kind of bored of vibe coding… Just prompting really isn’t that interesting. Need to think of ways to mix it up and maybe do more of it manually? Idk. I also don’t feel like I’m learning anything. 🤷‍♀️

Going live to keep vibe coding my Rails travel map app! Going to attempt to undo all of the changes I made Saturday and focus on new features like travel notes and preferences (that can later be used for AI recommendations?) Hang out! 👇 youtube.com/live/l-Pc84p...

Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️

Going live again for a bit, working on some UX stuff and a new feature that I was too tired for last night. Hang out while I vibe code my Rails travel map app! youtube.com/live/niLrt8z...

Little demo of my Rails travel map app so far… 👀 Vibe coded in ~8 hours while streaming. All built in my browser with @github.com Codespaces, Copilot, using various models (mostly Claude Sonnet 4.5). It’s my first app! Lots more to do. But what do you think?

Going live now vibe coding my Rails travel app! Will focus on UX improvements maybe, or new features? You tell me! Join and hang out. ☺️ youtube.com/live/G-TY69D...

Gonna stream again in a little under an hour! Come join and help me decide what I should do next. UX or new features??

If I do another vibe coding my Rails app stream tomorrow, should I focus on: - UX improvements / design / making it more responsive on mobile - New features

Deployed -- omg my little Rails app actually works!! 😭 travel-heatmap.onrender.com Vibe coded entirely in my browser in ~6 hours. Sign up, create your own travel heat map, and share it with your friends!! 🗺️

3 hours in — still here, still vibing. Just upgraded to GitHub copilot pro to get more tokens and trying to make a cool little Rails app with a world map and heat map overlay to visualize countries visited and frequency of visits. Come join!!

Okay friends, I'm going ~live~ on youtube to vibe code my first Rails app! 😅 No idea how this is going to go, but please join and hang out! youtube.com/live/WQkuP3A...

Making dinner then I think I’m gonna ~go live~ on YouTube and vibe code my first Rails app! 😆 Plz join (eta 30 mins ish) but I don’t want a ton of advice because I want to try to figure this out myself. 🙃 But we’ll see how it goes.

I’m very honored and grateful. Rails has given me a lot, and giving back through open source has always felt like the natural response. Looking forward to continuing the work. ❤️ I wrote a short note on my blog: marcoroth.dev/posts/rails-...

Finally — ep 2 of Ruby Around the World! 🌍 I spoke to Bernard Banta, keynote speaker at Ruby World 2025 in Japan. He’s working on Ruby open source for offline mobile banking(!!) and is the Chairman of the African Ruby Community (5K+ members). youtu.be/OIGc5Yup3cM

One of the challenges of having ADHD is if you don't let me do side quests once in a while, I'll crash. Hard. The side quests are where the dopamine is.

If you’re a startup selling developer tools or services and want to elevate your ✨marketing✨ in 2026 or monetize your OSS hmu. ☺️ I have 2 spots for fractional clients starting in Q1 and also open to project-based contracts. Preference to clients in the Ruby ecosystem ofc. 💎

This is brilliant github.com/basecamp/fiz... 🙇🏻‍♀️👏🏻 @marcoroth.dev

Really grateful to everyone who has subscribed to Ruby Around the World on YouTube, watched the first interview, shared it, or featured the project in their newsletters. 🥲 Hard to believe 131 people are following along now!

Going to be opening up spots for new fractional marketing clients in the New Year. 👀 If you’ve ever wondered about working together, let’s chat! ✨ Will be updating this soon but you can see my general services here: www.seafoam.media/services

Editing my second episode of Ruby Around the World 🌍 with Bernard Banta! Banta was the keynote speaker at #RubyWorld this month and is the chairman and organizer of the African Ruby Community (5K+ members). I am also INCREDIBLY excited about his Ruby open source work...

The San Francisco Ruby Conference (@sfruby.com) just concluded and I'm incredibly honored and grateful to have been part of it. The conversations, ideas, and encouragement over the past few days were a reminder of how special the energy of the Ruby community really is! ♥️ #sfruby #sfruby2025

One day after we discussed this at #SFRuby. Things happen when you get together in person.

Active Agent events are flowing I created a draft PR that will allow us to finalize the data model, add error handling, and then we can create a default monitoring dashboard! @tonsoffun.bsky.social @rhiannon.io github.com/honeybadger-... #SFRuby

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@tonsoffun.bsky.social it was me, I was the first download

Was so hyped for Vova’s closing keynote at #SFRuby today! I posted a few videos on Twitter that are too large for Bluesky. The Family Feud take on what needs to be reconsidered in Rails was great, & loved the “vibe-boarding” demo with @bolt.new! 👏 Definitely watch the recording when it comes out.

Almost 70 YouTube subscribers since Tuesday — thanks everyone!! I’m so excited to keep sharing more of these incredible interviews from #RubyWorld in Japan! 🇯🇵 Stay tuned for another next week.

Was very much looking forward to @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy’s #SFRuby talk on building a business based on open source, OSS governance, etc. Definitely one of the best I’ve watched so far, along with Sarah Mei’s talk earlier today!

Wow I’m so thrilled 🥲🥲🥲 rubyweekly.com/issues/776

If you run into me at #SFRuby I might harass you about subscribing to my new YouTube channel. 😅 Linking it here to make it easier! youtube.com/@rubyaroundt...

Good morning #SFRuby Conference! ☀️ I’m excited to have an overbooked workshop for Active Agent this morning and can’t wait to show many of you how to build AI in Rails. For anyone who can’t make it, we’ll be sharing a video after the event!

Also — Good morning, San Francisco Rubyists!!! 😍 So excited to exist in this beautiful space together for the next two days! #SFRuby

The incredible @inazarova.bsky.social kicking off #SFRuby this morning! 👏 Irina, thank you so much for making this happen for the Ruby and SF community! We appreciate you! ❤️

#SFRuby roll call? 🙋‍♀️

And yes I vibe coded this site yesterday in a few hours with @bolt.new :) I’m pretty impressed. rubyaroundtheworld.com

I’ve never tried the YouTube AI feature to summarize videos but it’s pretty good… maybe in part because I was so scrupulous about making sure the captions were good. 😅

🚨 INTRODUCING: Ruby Around The World A YouTube series & newsletter aiming to bridge gaps between local Ruby communities globally, starting in Japan. 🇯🇵 My first guest (& newsletter collaborator) is @okuramasafumi.com, Chief Organizer of #KaigiOnRails! Subscribe 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBU...

Herb v0.8 is here! 🚀 The biggest release yet, packed with new language bindings, Linter Autofix support, Linter Fix-on-Save, a new `.herb.yml` config file, formatter improvements, Tailwind Class Sorting integration, and a ton of performance, tooling and LSP improvements! 🌿

Congrats to tonight’s speakers at the Tokyo Rubyist Meetup — @tonsoffun.bsky.social & @hayat01sh1da.bsky.social! 👏 A talk on what the “Rails Way” is followed by an exploration of @activeagents.ai and using Rails conventions for AI feature development was the perfect 1 2 punch. 🥊 #EatSleepCode

At the Tokyo Rubyist meetup in Meguro! 🇯🇵 First up is @hayat01sh1da.bsky.social giving an awesome talk on what the “Rails Way” REALLY is.

Coming soon 👀

What should I call my YouTube channel? Wrong answers only.

Amazing to meet and spend time with Bernard Banta, RubyConf Africa organizer and keynote speaker at #RubyWorld! 🤩

New YouTube channel dropping soon? 😅

She’s back at it, filming interviews with sponsors and speakers at #RubyWorld! Great to listen to this convo, can’t wait for this to be published!