🗣️ Come check out Sam Livingston-Gray's talk, "Randomness In Tests (Don't Do It)". What a PRNG is, when you should use it, when it's safe to politely ignore, and when you should #KillItWithFire. 🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 113 SE Madison Street 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/portland/

🗣️ Come check out Ryan Davis's talk, "Let's Build A Computer". Most of us treat our computers like magic, but under the hood they’re just layers of simple logic stacked on top of each other... 🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 113 SE Madison Street 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/portland/

🗣️ Don't miss Kayla Reoppelle's talk, "Using OpenTelemetry to Build More Human-Friendly Systems". 🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 113 SE Madison Street 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/portland/

Housekeeping 🥺 Poignant project on dealing with the loss of a parent. Watch the video. It’s already 100% backed so this isn’t even a request for support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

We're looking for volunteers for our 10/11 Portland event. Exchange ~2hrs of your time to help us with set-up, registration, and packing up and get a free ticket. 10/11 in Portland - 113 SE Madison St. ✍️ Fill out our form: xoruby.com/volunteer

“Went to my first XO Ruby conference today. The Ruby community is the best!” - Brian Kim on #XORubyChicago If you're wanting to connect with folks, we're hearing that the Ruby community is a rather amazing one to be apart of 🔥

📣 We couldn't possibly put on XO Ruby events without our incredible volunteers. Thank you to Natalie F, Mike S, Alex, and Cedric for their support putting together #XORubyNewOrleans

I'm on Week 4 of The Artist's Way with the reading group @xoruby.com This week it's all about reading deprivation, which our lovely group leader also suggest **content** deprivation! I guess this is me signing out of bsky for a week! 🫡 🚪

📣 We couldn't possibly put on XO Ruby events without our incredible volunteers. Thank you to Rajesh D, Thomas B, Alen Z, and Reuben for their support putting together #XORubyAtlanta

Here's a write-up of @xoruby Atlanta! This was such a fun and cool event! www.chael.codes/blog/2025/09...

There's a lot to be excited about in the world of Ruby, even if the three-guy has some truly shit opinions and won't stop sharing them. Let's some love to the folks that are making this community better and get behind those efforts. skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/...

📣 We couldn't possibly put on XO Ruby events without our incredible volunteers. Thank you to Michelle Yuen, Anton Tkachov, Mina Slater, Mark Yoon, and Jonathan G for their support putting together #XORubyChicago

Incredibly proud of the work we've been doing lately at @beflagrant.com. We've built a company where we're asked to help children learn to read, ensure equitable salaries employees of large companies, and build technology to improve democracy. #reflection

A big thank you to our Emerald Sponsor @checkr for helping us keep RMR going - check them out if you're interested in streamlining your hiring with the fastest, most accurate background checks! checkr.com

In happy Ruby news, I am _so_ excited for @xoruby.com in Portland on October 11. Look at that lineup, it's like a Ruby reunion. (But don't be intimated if you're new, we're friendly!) And there are still tickets available. 👀 www.xoruby.com/event/portla...

🎭 New Orleans, it was so much fun to share XO Ruby with y'all! Thanks for the immaculate vibes, food, and of course, community. Shout out to @gronk-droid.bsky.social for the great shots as well. Can't wait for Leg 2 🚗

The Ruby community is powered by amazing sponsors! Huge thanks to everyone supporting #XORuby Chicago, making $100 tickets possible: 🏆 Foundational: Cisco 🎯 Event Sponsor: DNSimple ⭐ Event Sponsor: Flagrant 🔥 Event Sponsor: Confreaks More info: xoruby.com

“Thank you to XO Ruby and all the speakers and sponsors for such a wonderful event in Chicago. 
It was great to see and hear from many local members of the community old and new. 😊” - Michelle Yuen on #XORubyChicago An exceptional conference powered by an even more exceptional community ✨

I've been iterating on "Play with your Code"! Programming games make programming fun through a joyful developer experience. We're going to explore practical tips for your day job inspired by programming games! I'm very excited! Please come see it!!✨

Week 38 - Rails World 2025 recordings, Lexxy File Validations, and more!

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

Euruko vibes → next stop: SF Ruby Conf 🚀💎 See you there, Ruby friends! ❤️ #HeartOfCode #Ruby

Mississippi

So sad I missed this, but so thankful to @jremsikjr.bsky.social for including #NewOrleans in his tech conference roadtrip! I really do think tech is going to be key to the city surviving and thriving- I mean if you can work from anywhere- why not a friendly, warm, fun place?

*road noises*

Just a short Continuations: my Rodauth tutorial, and why I’ll be on a Zoom at 3am next week. timriley.info/posts/contin...

🚗 The first leg of XO Ruby is wrapped and Jim's on the road back to Wisconsin! If you're in or near any of the cities along the way, reach out to us to meet up. 📍  Jackson, MS (9/21) 📍 Memphis, TN (9/21) 📍 St. Louis, MO (9/21) 📍 Springfield, IL (9/22) 📍 Rockford, IL (9/22)

If you're into Ruby/Rails, you'll want to follow @xoruby.com Just sayin.

For lunch we walked 10 minutes to the nearby St. Roch Market.

😍 @xoruby.com New Orleans is complete and was great! Lots of new to me faces.

Better README docs with Jupyter Notebooks?

“Business value today comes from background work …”

We start each event off with a Fishbowl exercise to better understand what questions people in the room want to discuss. Then we dot vote and have an open conversation.

Good morning from New Orleans!

Hey Ruby friends at @xoruby.com New Orleans! Have an amazing day! There are three more after today! Go find the one nearest you! xoruby.com/events

The Ruby community is powered by amazing sponsors! Huge thanks to everyone supporting #XORuby Chicago, making $100 tickets possible: 🏆 Foundational: Cisco 🎯 Event Sponsor: DNSimple ⭐ Event Sponsor: Confreaks 🔥 Event Sponsor: Flagrant More info: xoruby.com

One more sleep until @xoruby.com New Orleans!

Inspired by @chaelcodes.bsky.social ’s @xoruby.com talk, and a love of Base16 as a color schema; I’ve put together a repo you can use to start making your own color schemes using the Tinted Theming project’s tooling: github.com/practical…

🎯 Make a splash with Rubyists, programmers, and tech-minded folks. Sponsor our 10/18 San Diego event and get your logo on our website, event tickets, and more. More info: xoruby.com/firestarter/

Mexico City has a new Ruby User Group ruby.org.mx

Oh, you’ll see me at a number of @xoruby.com events this year!

🎯 Make a splash with Rubyists, programmers, and tech-minded folks. Sponsor our 9/20 New Orleans event and get your logo on our website, event tickets, and more. More info: xoruby.com/firestarter/

XO Ruby New Orleans is TOMORROW 🥳🥳 It's not too late to grab your ticket! 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/

Friendly.rb is taking a break. We've had quite a few questions about that and wanted to share them publicly. blog.adrianthedev.com/friendly-is...

This morning I couldn't think of the name of the presence_in method from Active Support. But I knew exactly where I'd used it in an ApplicationController from a project I was working on 7 years ago, because the situation was the same.

George Mauer's talk, "https://Readme.md? We Can Do Better" asks but can we do better than the standard GitHub README? This session explores other supported README formats. Sat. 9/20, Marigny Opera House 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/

Catch Thomas Carr's talk, "The State of the Ruby AI Toolbox." Learn which framework fits your project for integrating LLMs, agent-based automations, and other AI features. Sat. 9/20, Marigny Opera House 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/

The countdown is on! 2 more days until XO Ruby New Orleans. Will we see you there? 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/