To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ruby and the release of Ruby 4.0, the first 32 talks from the SF Ruby Conference main stage are now live on YouTube! This includes keynotes from @marcoroth.dev, @palkan.bsky.social, and @paolino.me. We’re working on uploading the rest next week.

"SF Ruby was a technical statement. We’re fighting skepticism with running code. We’re bringing Ruby-powered startups into production at scale. We’re building the tools the ecosystem needs."

@sfruby.com (#sfruby) was a huge success 🔥 Huge thanks to @inazarova.bsky.social for bringing the community together and to @evilmartians.com for supporting this initiative from day one. Grateful to every coordinator and to the volunteers who supported this event from behind the curtains.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what 2025 looked like: 44 companies trusted us to build, stabilize, and redesign their products, helping them raise $644,224,994 from leading VCs.

October’s SF Ruby meetup hosted at Founders Cafe is now live on our YouTube! Presentations by: - Chamod Gamage from AngelList - @aergonaut.com from Binti - @motdotla.bsky.social from dotenvx - @camertron.bsky.social from @cisco.com - @milesgeorgi.bsky.social from @foob.news shorturl.at/St4uW

At Evil Martians, we take supply chain attacks seriously. Postinstall scripts are the weakest link in npm security, and the fix is almost embarrassingly simple. Here's a guide to increase JS app security from one of @en.sitnik.ru's recent projects:

“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...

We see a surge of leads looking for "vibe code cleanup". So, at this point, we're out to make vibe coding more efficient! @inazarova.bsky.social experimented with vibe coding while building a feature for @sfruby.com’s website, but it wasn't perfect.

Any @laravelphp.bsky.social engineers here? We recently made @anycable.io available for Laravel! This handy open source project gives you: - Go-powered performance - Massive connection scaling - Best-in-class real-time reliability Read the docs: docs.anycable.io/guides/laravel

Michael Grinich (@grinich.bsky.social), CEO and founder of WorkOS, describes product-market fit as a force that keeps pushing you forward… even when you make seemingly catastrophic mistakes. And you usually know you’re close when enterprise teams start knocking on your door.

Martian Designer @objartel.bsky.social thinks vibecoding apps are missing out on easy revenue and design is the main gap! Luckily, design tools have given us many of the answers over the years. Here are 5 patterns worth adopting:

Our new post about migrating Ruby tooling from Parser to Prism for 3.4. Weird edge-case syntax, shifting AST shapes, translation layers, and what it took to make Unparser handle modern Ruby. evilmartians.com/chronicles/u...

Big thank you again to @inazarova.bsky.social and the whole @evilmartians.com team and all the volunteers (like Gary here!) for this incredible event. It feels so so good to have our Ruby friends here in our wonderful city. It’s a beautiful gift. 🎁 AND we got a Rails X cake! (Iykyk)

A really big thank you to @inazarova.bsky.social , Amanda Kinney, and the whole @evilmartians.com crew for putting on such an incredible event. And thanks to @bradgessler.com and @chael.codes for the pics. Let's build the future with Ruby!

We look at 5 concepts from design tool UX (even from games like Zelda) that can open vibecoding up to a much larger audience. evilmartians.com/chronicles/v...

5️⃣ Denis Lifanov from @evilmartians.com published an article on migrating 750GB of data from PostgreSQL to PlanetScale MySQL for @WhopIO with zero downtime, maintaining feature development throughout.

Huge thanks to the @evilmartians.com team and @inazarova.bsky.social in particular for organizing the SF Ruby Conf. Kudos to the sponsors: Chime, @bolt.new, Cisco, gusto, @temporal.io, @scoutmonitoring.bsky.social, @planetargon.com, @hackclub.com, @gitbutler.com, and others. sfruby.com.

We analyzed 300+ startups founded in 2024 and thousands of @github.com repositories to learn why @react.dev maintains dominance. Should your startup follow the crowd or go a different route? evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

New blog post! Whop powers thousands of creators and communities. When big influencers (millions of subscribers) brought their communities, real-time features—chat, notifications, feeds—it pushed Postgres to the edge. The DB was the bottleneck killing Whop’s scaling efforts.

Come join me at SF Ruby, I think the program looks great!

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...

Heading back to SF next month for sfruby.com. @planetargon.com is sponsoring, and I’m hoping to meet teams giving their software a second act. Thanks to @inazarova.bsky.social and the @evilmartians.com crew for the Cloud Card of me. Tickets and details → sfruby.com

Made a new PostCSS plugin for generating more realistic smooth shadows like on smoothshadows.com Now designers usually rely on generators, but the resulting code is often hard to maintain. github.com/postcss/post...

An excellent guide to creating a search function on a website using @astro.build and @svelte.dev. Thanks to this guide by Evil Martians, we have implemented a search on the ESLint Perfectionist website. It will be released soon. 🚀

Agentic traces contain perfect info about agent behavior with every plan, action, and retry. But it’s lost in a sea of JSON. So we built AgentPrism: open source React components that turn traces into visual diagrams for debugging agents. Plug in OpenTelemetry data and see your agent’s process.

Your snappy statically generated @astro.build site deserves a search that likewise feels instant. Here’s how to get build-time indexing and client-side search that’s fuzzy, performant, and accessible. evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...

The Martian summer was not to be missed: open source, blogs, podcasts, talks, meetups, and getting ready for SFRuby, Nov 19-20. Read this one and catch up. evilmartians.com/chronicles/m...

🚨 Free Font of the Month 🚨 Martian Grotesk by @evilmartians.com Ideal for use on the web, the typeface’s vertical metrics guarantee equal space above and below text, enabling text labels to be positioned evenly on buttons. ↳ Download link (at the bottom of the page): buff.ly/vcWXjg0

Use Vite & TypeScript to build a true API-first repository command center. Get a dedicated contract-first documentation workflow, keep contracts the single source of truth, cut bottlenecks & give your team a fast, reliable way from design→implementation. evilmartians.com/chronicles/c...

Why is accurately detecting the Safari/iOS versions you’re dealing with key for modern web dev? Find the answers + our tips on painlessly identifying Safari/iOS versions in this new post! evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...

The best funnel builder on the planet, ClickFunnels is one of the largest Rails monoliths. Together, we fixed a problem that isn't always a priority, but which has productivity costs that can be an annoying drain if allowed to multiply: flaky tests. evilmartians.com/chronicles/f...

Thank you, @euruko.org 2025 and beautiful Viana do Castelo for the fantastic event, execution and energy of the Ruby community! From so many @evilmartians.com 💙

Every large enough Rails app has extracted some services for performance and scalability reasons. You can do this without losing the joy of building with Ruby and Rails. Keep the recipes in Ruby, and only upgrade the "dumb" (unaware) kitchen tools. Here's how.

Scaling Rails doesn't have to mean rewrites or microservices. Read this new post to see how and why to keep your business logic in Ruby, while firing up your kitchen with Go, C, and Rust! evilmartians.com/chronicles/b...

‼️ Friends, please pay attention: grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules if you found it, don't panic: update dependency remove npm cache

⚠️critical CVE in set of popular NPM packages: socket.dev/blog/npm-aut.... They contain malware that injects code & replaces transaction addresses; user wallet funds redirect to attacker-controlled addresses! check malicious versions in projects’ node_modules: “grep -r "const _0x112" node_modules”

12 years of PostCSS → 400M+ downloads/month. Lessons from the journey: collaborate early with other maintainers, keep libraries build-free for easier debugging, and focus on simplicity. Great read on OSS longevity 🌟 #OpenSource evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

Evil Martians cut Whop’s CI time in half in one week. This post walks through profiling to find hidden loggers, taming factory overhead, switching to smarter parallelization, and fixing the flaky tests that surfaced along the way. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

⚡️ Irina Nazarova (@evilmartians.com): Cutting CI Build Time in Half for Whop ⚡️ Sergey Karayev (Superconductor ): Getting the Most out of AI Coding Agents for Your Rails App Grab it here: youtu.be/IMAABWxnbUM

New post on adding Luau support for JetBrains IDEs! Covers how to balance PSI and LSP approaches + hurdles and gotchas to watch when adding a language to @jetbrains.com IDEs. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

I started a new open source project: Multiocular shows what’s changed in your node_modules after dependency updates. Right now it just shows a diff, but I have many of idea. It is part of my long-running fight against Supply Chain Attacks. github.com/multiocular-...

From lexers and parsers to PSI trees, building language support in IntelliJ is a path full of pitfalls and possibilities. This post is a guide for anyone staring down that road! evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

Active Push gem launched by @JacopoBeschi @evilmartians.com wrote about Rails Renaissance @yarotheslav.bsky.social shared about how to use email_image_tags @davidteren talked about flunk and fail_after in minitest @beautifulruby.com shared about Phlex components and a lot more code samples

Ruby and Rails startups manage to inspire me every single day, thanks to @evilmartians.com. My dream is that they inspire YOU too. And it's happening! Here are the first ten Ruby startups that will demo their products at the #SFRuby conference in November, to inspire and connect with you all 💙

Huge shoutout to our team for helping me turn the RailsConf talk and lots of thoughts into this post about the cycles that technologies and innovation go through, why Rails emerged after a big drop in visibility, glimpses of what the future holds–and our roles in it!

Rails is thriving. Read how Ruby on Rails survived the hype cycle, why startups are still betting on it, and what it means for your next project. evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

Adopting a circuit breaker pattern from day one? Our new post explains this approach and how it can now fit into Ruby projects of any size. Plus, we showcase a gem to help you contain cascading failures before everything flat lines. evilmartians.com/chronicles/c...

I was impressed by how smooth the CFP process felt for SFRuby. So I'm glad this is now open source! It's fun to poke around in there, particularly that they're using Associated Objects in one place 🥳 github.com/evilmartians...

We’re launching a new series of full open source apps, starting with Redprints CFP, built with Rails + Inertia.js! It powered our SF Ruby Conference’s proposal management process. Now, it’s your turn! evilmartians.com/chronicles/r...

We share what have we learned creating PostCSS and the huge ecosystem around it. Get 8 key lessons from @en.sitnik.ru, creator of PostCSS. evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...