hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

I haven't mentioned it yet here, but Programming Ruby 4.0 does have a new beta out that runs all code against Ruby 4.0.0 final, and also covers Minitest 6.0 and a couple of other late breaking changes: pragprog.com/titles/ruby6...

finally made this public - been using snowflake IDs in a few projects and figured I'd package it up. rust does the heavy lifting (because I wanted to see if I could do it) > github.com/luizkowalski...

Happy New Year! 🎉 2025 was an incredible year for Ruby Events around the world and also for the @rubyevents.org platform! To celebrate, we're releasing RubyEvents Wrapped! A look back at talks, events, speakers, sponsors, and the Ruby community's year!

Did it! The APIs have been remarkably stable for the past 2-3 years of the gems being out, so if you were ever unsure about adopting either, now's a great time to get onboard 🍾🥂 kaspth.com/posts/happy-...

Remember that tomorrow is your last day to apply for the 2026 Gem Fellowship! https://gem.coop/fellowship/ We will announce winners in Jan/Feb.

I'm scared of making my gems 1.0 for some reason, even though they've been stable for 2+ years. so new years day seems like a fitting time to mark them 1.0 🍾🥂

It’s late, and you get alerts that web requests are failing. Page loads hang endlessly. The server isn’t responding, requests are queueing up. What do you do?! "When good threads go bad" is a deep dive into stuck threads, how to deal with them, and what to avoid. jpcamara.com/2025/12/30/w...

Alright friends, today’s the big day…we’re opening up tickets and CFP for Blue Ridge 2026! 🎉 We’re going to be at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville, NC on April 30 & May 1. We’d love to have you join us this spring in our favorite mountain town. ⛰️

I put the transcript from my @deadcode.website appearance up on my blog. I'm really happy with how it turned out. kaspth.com/posts/dead-c...

I do love how condensedly cursed you can make ruby code

rv 0.3 is out, adding code signatures, automatic install during run, and ruby 4.0.0-preview2 (as well as ruby 0.49, why not). check it out! github.com/spinel-coop/...

Happy to announce that Gem Fellowship applications are now open! If you're a Ruby open source maintainer, this grant program is for you. 💎 https://gem.coop/fellowship/

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

More cool Ruby gems, this time related to databases and Active Record! First, alternatives to Active Record 😉 github.com/jeremyevans/... – from the creator of Roda; why not try out both together? github.com/rom-rb/rom – from the creators of Hanami; again, it's worth exploring both

We're doing something a bit different (and cool!) with APM at Honeybadger... Josh writes up some of our thoughts on the blog:

After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life. I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness. Join me in building a better future: okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

I loved this post wholeheartedly okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

🪩⚠️ Alert: @sfruby.com is in 10 days ! ! ! What's inside: 💎 two dozen new and hot Ruby startups like @bolt.new 💎 authors of RubyLLM, Herb, Active Agent, Inertia Rails, ZJIT, and more 💎engineers scaling Ruby and Rails at Chime, Cisco, Intercom, Shopify 💎afterparty by GitButler 🪩 (see part 2)

I bought this this morning and I’m over half way through it. Probably the best $25 I’ve spent in years. I use web components for my blog posts and have known for a while that there are big gaps in my knowledge, and this has filled a whole bunch of them.

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

I've also been realizing how much I'm borrowing from CSS's cascade conceptually. Oaken is really just Cascading Setup Scripts.

One of my design goals for Oaken is to maximize the amount of power & flexibility users get for extremely little internal code. Here's a PR to show that, see the documentation to implementation ratio github.com/kaspth/oaken...

Once you realize the web is really just a giant game / graphics engine that gives you a DSL for content, and a DSL for styling, and a scripting language for anything extra...it all kinda starts to make sense. the "scripting" language is the escape hatch for the cases the DSLs can't handle.

I've had this super weird idea for a while...could I build a useful/functional Rails app that doesn't use any words in it's UI? I just registered wordless.fyi and I'm thinking about trying to build it this weekend...should I livestream it?

I often find cool Ruby gems that I think should be more widely known. Here are some related to testing: github.com/palkan/n_plu... – RSpec and Minitest matchers to prevent N+1 queries github.com/kaspth/oaken – fixtures + factories + seeds for your Rails development & test environments 🧵 1/3

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

rv.dev version 0.2 is released, adding support for bash, fish, and nushell, as well as macOS on x86 and linux on ARM. we have added Ruby 3.3 as well as 3.4, and compiled in YJIT support for every version. try it out! github.com/spinel-coop/...

It's no secret: We are proud sponsors of the #Hanami framework. ♥️ They recently launched their new sponsorship program and they're actively looking for new sponsors 👉 sponsor.hanamirb.org

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

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is HALF PRICE during the Steam Autumn Sale! Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. What lies beneath the soil? Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Big ideas don’t have to live rent-free in your head. Kasper Timm Hansen explains how his riffing files free up mental space while capturing complexity in a way that’s quick, flexible, and surprisingly lightweight. Find out why this makes exploring solutions so much easier.

Once today is done, so will be the pre-orders for Mindful Design.

Hotwire devs! October 6-10 is the week for solving these: - turbo-streams, trubo-frames cleanup - the Rails Way for edge cases in Hotwire - complex screens - morph surprises - janky interactions - third-party UI components, and more Pricing & details: hotwiresupport.pascal.works

Last call for Extraordinary Machines apps! Deadline - Oct 6 + $500 “procrastinator discount." You’ll walk away with: • Strategic insights to use right away • A network that actually responds • Upgraded leadership toolkit • Clarity on what’s next shorturl.at/G6OhL

What if the best path forward in your code isn’t a giant leap, but a series of small, playful steps? Kasper Timm Hansen describes how riffing lets you hop between possibilities, uncover hidden insights, and arrive somewhere you never expected.

I'm jumping on this preorder 👀

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Ever started a feature and felt paralyzed by not knowing where to begin? Kasper Timm Hansen shares how a simple scratch file technique can turn that overwhelm into clarity. 🎧 Tune in to hear how “riffing” reshapes the way developers explore problems.

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

As much as things are difficult, part of what I've leaned on is that there's still new ideas to contribute and that that can be very worthwhile. So if this is your first intro to riffing, I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for listening ❤️

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

The recording of the talk @emckean.bsky.social and I presented at Open Source Summit Europe is now available. Go here for video, highlights, links, and acknowledgments: ddbeck.com/osseu2025/

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Nobody appreciates a shitpost more than @thomascannon.me ❤️

Everything is really scary and chaotic for Trans individuals right now. Regardless of whatever lies and fear that is spread, we know that the world is better with Trans people in it. You are all worth fighting for, and we will continue to advocate for your rights and your safety.

I put the 1.0 layer of polish on it; just for @kaspth.com to nail me dead-to-rights with a blindside.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

This talk started so much conversation and dialog, because we all know we need junior developers to keep our community alive, but no one wants to pay for them. "People need food and housing to learn." "Juniors are an asset, not a liability." www.rubyevents.org/talks/empty-...