Had a blast at RubyConf Vienna, chapeau to all the speakers, artists (yes there was music) and organisers @misabegovic.bsky.social @hansschnedlitz.com & team.

Not a programming legend, but I had a great time moderating a panel with these great people!

My flight to Vienna is delayed because there's some Bangaranga at the airport! 🪩

We are back for the second day of @balkanruby.bsky.social! @marcoroth.dev kicks off the agenda with some hot takes about Hotwire and Herb. P.S. We found Nick! 😁 #Ruby #Rails #RubyFriends

We made it to the final talk of the first day of @balkanruby.bsky.social - the one and only @hansschnedlitz.com takes the stage to convince us that 3rd part reps are evil!

Balkan Ruby is about to start. I love the venue. This place rocks 💎

It's that time of the year again... Another #Rails survey done. Looking forward to the results on that one 👀 railsdeveloper.com/survey/

Here's a post that is equal parts "spatial queries in SQLite are neat" and "here are the weird corners you will absolutely run into." If you're using Rails with SQLite and want spatial queries without switching to PostGIS, this will save you some time. www.hansschnedlitz.com/writing/2026...

So happy to have Mario on board. bsky.app/profile/mari... — I also wrote my thoughts on it down! lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mar...

I've built a bunch of maps over the past few months, so I wrote up what spatial data in Rails with SQLite actually looks like. Usually people say PostGIS. Fair enough. But SQLite + SpatiaLite is pretty capable too. hansschnedlitz.com/writing/2026...

Let's welcome @hansschnedlitz.bsky.social Experienced Ruby developer and organizer of the Vienna.rb, Hans is going to show how some well-known gems can be distilled down to a single file you can simply copy-paste into any new project. 👉️ balkanruby.com/talks/34 #RubyCommunity #RubySpeaker #RubyConf

Pi is basically Vim for agentic coding. Minimal core, no bells and whistles, but an extension system that lets you shape it exactly the way you want 👌 www.hansschnedlitz.com/writing/2026...

We're kicking off Vienna.rb! Live now: Learning how to build games with Ruby by Marie-Therese Fischer! #ruby

Random find in Pi. Armin says Hi! 🤔 Wonder if there's more easter eggs. I bet there are.

I'm doing my part 🫡 ... and it's fixed already. Damn that was quick. github.com/badlogic/pi-...

We got a stamp! Grab your Ruby passport and Vienna.rb stamp to flex that you attended our Thursday meetup! www.meetup.com/vienna-rb/ev...

Copy-pasting code is underrated. Better than adding another dependency. Better than vendoring. Now I point an agent at a library and say "take their approach, adapt it for our project." The result fits like a glove. It's a great time to copy-paste. More on the ol' blog 👇️

I don't often write these days, but when I do it's about tweaking my Wayland setup 🤷 Anyways. Here's how you create custom menus for the Walker launcher. www.hansschnedlitz.com/writing/2026...

Time for another Vienna Ruby Meetup! 🎉 It's been three months since the last meetup. To make up for it, we got three wonderful talks covering a wide range of topics this time. Thank you to Meister for hosting us!

You see this tech stack in a job description. WDYD? #rubyonrails

Huh, would you look at that. I learned a lot writing those two Solid Queue posts, and I'm stoked that people enjoyed them 🤗 #ruby

🎩 New Ruby Magic: Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/10/c...

Welcome @rosagutierrez.bsky.social at Vienna.rb #66! The mastermind behind Solid Queue has something special in store - "Machines That Talk About Themselves". Sounds mathy, but we've been promised you won't need a math background 😉 RSVP here 👇

Kicking off november DRUG with special guest from rubyconf.at @hansschnedlitz.com 🤝💪

We love organizing #wrocloverb each year, but our monthly Ruby meetup is the cherry on top! Come by this Monday, Nov 17, for an evening of great talks from by @hansschnedlitz.com, @pankowecki.bsky.social and @mostlyobvious.bsky.social. www.meetup.com/drugpl/event...

This was a real pain in the ass. Please use it. searlsco.github.io/…

Save the date! Vienna.rb #66 is happening on December 3rd. Christmas is coming early with @rosa.codes and @realpawels.bsky.social visiting Vienna to give talks! 🎄 Come join, it's going to be a blast! 💎🎉 www.meetup.com/vienna-rb/ev...

Finally. Francophiles, rejoice! 🇫🇷 🎉

TIL StimulusJS supports keyboard event filters out of the box. I was so close to writing a bunch of custom JS before thinking to myself "nah, there's got to be a better way" . Of course, there was. #ruby

Already upgraded to Rails 8.1? If you're getting some pesky deprecation warnings, here's a one-liner to find the gems responsible 🕵️ #rubyonrails #ruby

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

AppSignal's new free plan gives you full access to our monitoring toolkit and is perfect for small apps and personal projects: blog.appsignal.com/2025/10/21/u...

Rails 8.1 will have dark mode for error pages. No more getting blinded when your app throws an error 😅 #rubyonrails #ruby

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

"David, please stop posting" 💯 #rubylang

TIL about Concurrent::Map compute_if_present. This method provides a simple interface to concurrently re-calculate a map value if it's key is present. Found this in the Solid Cable Source 🕵️ #ruby

Simi just wrote up an announcement that he’s done cooperating RubyCentral and it’s another very important read in this whole situation. Notably, he confirms everything in Joel Drapper’s write-up that’s already been circulating and really puts Ruby Central on blast.

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

TIL Minitest has a pride mode, so you can show your *fabulous* testing pride 🌈 Apparently, this has been a thing for forever; I just came across this now, digging through command line options. #rubyonrails #ruby

Great summary of the Ruby Central Drama over the last week. @joel.drapper.me may not be a professional journalist but he writes like one 👌

Catching up on Rails World talks 👀 Loved @ealpawels.bsky.social talk on MCP. Pretty motivated to add that to my next Rails app now 😁

I waste way too much time binging random crap on Youtube. If I need downtime, I might just as well watch something useful, right? I think I found a hack to help with that. Now I just redirect to RubyEvents and watch some talk 😅 #ruby

In case you missed it, browserslist now supports baseline out of the box. No need for `browserslist-config-baseline` anymore 👌 web.dev/blog/browser... #javascript

When considering any incident it is valuable to consider all perspectives and remember that at the end of the day we all love ruby and want it to succeed. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

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.

I've done my best to summarize the situation and offer my initial thoughts here: skillissue.jardo.dev/archive/ruby...

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

Sometimes it's okay to be a bit lazy. Nobody can give 110% all of the time 🤷

I'm looking into Inertia and evaluating various frontend options. Vue. Looks decent. Svelte. Looks sick, I like it. React. WTF, how is anyone without a PHD supposed to work on this? The merchants of complexity are at it again, I guess 🤯