Nothing beats your last day of PTO in bed with a freaking migraine, counting the time left until the next painkiller intake.

Working on internal tools can be so rewarding. Nobody makes big announcements for the projects because they don’t sell. Even when building something specific for a user facing feature, mentions in announcements are rare. Everybody just expects that it works and they all freak out when it does not.

Nature is incredible. apnews.com/article/iran...

“The promise of Rails is being fulfilled. People just haven’t caught up with this reality yet,” says @inazarova.bsky.social. We wrote about SF Ruby and reveal the real reason we decided to host the conference. Find it here: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Hey friends, our next #SFRuby meetup is on December 18, at Intercom! It is a Holiday Edition: bring vibes, home-cooked sweets, and your Xmas (and cold :🥶)-inspired talks! Sign up at luma.com/sfruby Submit a talk at forms.gle/C9HQzaT5jvwA...

15 years ago I used to listen to a French Alt radio station that was broadcasting a very specific acoustic version of a K’s Choice song they sang for a German radio station. I found the recording on YouTube at the time and it’s the only way I listen to that song. The video has 20k views and 80% of

The new question Ruby conferences have to add to their registration forms now (in addition to t-shirt size) is "do you need a Ruby passport?"

Is there out there any **reliable** app to manage Windows devices (parental control) that is not Norton? Something I can control from my phone even when I am on the other side of the globe.

When there’s something strange In the apps at work Who is on-call? Aurelie!! (It’s always me. Like al-ways.)

Not sure you’ll guess what I listened to today

People leave bad HOAs, not bad condos.

Cooking planning for Thanksgiving. Nothing happened as planned.

Your annual reminder that your cranberry sauce should be ready by now.

Great weather here in SF today. This was taken from Fort Mason where the SF Ruby is hosted. You can still grab tickets at sfruby.com

Friendly PSA for everyone travelling to @sfrubyconf.com: Bring your Ruby Passports with you 🙌

For those who have taken a sabbatical in the past, what did you do during this time off?

Here’s to 41! 🥂 (<= that’s kombucha , I am old now, I can’t manage alcohol anymore and need to think about my digestion)

Guess who's got two free tickets to give away for the first edition of @sfruby.com? 👉 🙋‍♂️👨‍💻 👈 Just comment below the answer to this riddle to get a chance to get one. p [ [65, 118, 111], [105, 115], [116, 104, 101], [98, 101, 115, 116] ].map { |w| w.map(&:chr).join }.join(' ')

10 years ago today we were certainly above Greenland, in a plane on our way to San Francisco just the 4 of us, our clothes, video games, and ziplock bags full of little cars and Legos. What a ride it has been 🧡

I bought Feastables!! We were supposed to be the cool house in the street. Only 3 kids came. I am so done with Halloween…

Talking Halloween plans for my 14yo and his friends. Him: Mom we can’t go trick or treating anymore, we’re 6ft tall, nobody wants to give us candies Me: yes you can, all your friends are not that tall, look at your friend A Him: HE HAS A MUSTACHE

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...

OH yesterday: « AWS being down is the tech version of a snow day ».

Yeah! Join Aurelie at sfruby.com ! But like do it NOW because prices go up on Thursday! 😱

Woke up, AWS on fire, I am on-call, might go back to bed.

This pickle ball thing is so loud…

It’s funny how very small sentences can provide much information. For example, if I say “my hip hurts”, it gives you an idea of my age and also what’s the weather like outside.

And I think peak French music was 90s and 00s French rap.

You’re 39, everything is fine, healthy as hell. You turn 40 and suddenly your teeth are plotting against you, your back hurts, and your knee is in pain even though it’s your son who got hit.

This November in San Francisco... 💎❤️ Grab your tickets before October 20 at sfruby.com youtu.be/m2P9PZwi8W4

Alright, I'm in... ☺️ Who else will I see at SF Ruby?!

youtube.com/shorts/sCtPr... Meet the new and ambitious Ruby & YC startups at the SF Ruby conference already on Nov 19-21, and let’s build the future in Ruby, together! We pushed the price down to $350, which means you get the tickets for $300 till October 6 with code SEP29OCT6. sfruby.com

Here's a coupon for $50 off the admission fee for SF Ruby (sfruby.com) luma.com/sfrubyconf20... I'll be doing a workshop on Dynamic Ruby, and even if you don't want to see that, there is a full slate of great speakers -- I'd love to see you there.

Opening Bluesky nowadays.

Isn’t it the cutest swag?

I mean sure they’re right, stop taking acetaminophen, just take paracetamol instead.

Linkin Park concert last week and Silent Hill this week… my 16yo self would be so proud of me.

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21! sfruby.com

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

In case you don’t know the app My Shake, it works extremely well. We just got a 4.5 very close, I woke up to the sound of the quake and the app started to yell to get cover right away while the house was still shaking.

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

The topic and description for my workshop at SF Ruby, “The Dynamic Ruby Toolkit” is now up sfruby.com/schedule/#dy.... Come join everybody there — looks like a great program. And sign up for the workshop!

Meanwhile, I wrote my first test with Jasmine. Honestly I thought it was just the name of a birth control pill until yesterday.

Yesterday I brought my 40 yo self to a concert, alone, and it was actually a ton of fun. I sang awfully bad and loud, but who cares since nobody knew me? Nobody likes what I listen to and I never find anybody to come with me, so from now on, I will just go by myself.

This “let’s do the work of a PM ourselves” joke is getting old.

16 absolutely badass #Ruby startups are all set to demo at the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20. Everything comes together as an incredible level: speakers, sponsors and startup demos. See for yourself, tell me if you agree, and grab tickets for you and team 🏃‍♀️

My team at Zendesk has an opening! What we are looking for: - a Ruby dev (2+ years exp writing production code) - some experience with Node.js / Typescript - someone in the area of Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

⚡️ We launched the general ⚡️ ticket sale⚡️ for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025 The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥. Friends, help us share the message!

I dreamed someone entered my house at night. It was a guy. In a bathrobe. Realized it was Sheldon from BBT. But he had yellows eyes. In fact it was Tooms. Eugene Tooms. Welcome to my therapy session.