Look at these lovely folks, wouldn't it be great to shake their hands in a week's time? thoughtbot.com/blog/meet-t...

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Today is Raffa's final day after nearly sixteen years. He's been in heart failure for a few weeks, and reached the point where we'd be keeping him around for us and not for him. Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply profound. Lots of tears at my place today.

Got all travel booked for @brightonruby.com. First time going on the Eurostar from Brussels, I'm really excited about this! 🚄🌊 And even though organising last year's dinner on the spot with 17 people and a fan 🪭 was fun (😆), this year I've made a reservation for 10 people at Dishoom's Permit Room 😋

In case you were wondering... olly.world/why-i-built-... #indieweb #buildinpublic #blogging

It's only five weeks away! Are you going to be there? I'm talking, of course, about Brighton Ruby. I'm really excited to hang out with Rubyists near the ocean. Also, pubs. brightonruby.com

Made a new blurg post about AI + OSS security. I was going to just complain on here, but I figured a short blog post would be better for my complaining 😂 tenderlovemaking.com/2026/05/06/r...

Designed a Brighton Ruby t-shirt for 2026! rubytshirts.com/collections...

Can you drop a link to this survey in your Discord/Slack? railsdeveloper.com/survey/

We made a game for Rails devs based on the conference! You can play your way through real places in Albuquerque, interacting with real people from the community. Choose your gem and face your destiny! game.blastoffrails.com

I wrote some more as a way to fight jet lag, hopefully it's still readable 😅: byroot.github.io/ruby/bundler...

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I'm excited for this year's Brighton Ruby lineup! It'll be my first trip to Brighton. RUBYISTS ASSEMMMMBLE brightonruby.com

Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby.com this June! Looks like quite a lineup for Ruby/Rails builders. I'll also be hosting a workshop the day before on AI adoption with your team. Ruby friends — who's going?

The inflection trilogy ends. (Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful) andycroll.com/ruby/teach-...

The dive into inflections continues. andycroll.com/ruby/handle...

Booked to speak at 2 conferences this year. Both in Europe! Topic: AI (obviously). Wish me luck writing talks that aren't out-dated by the time I'm on stage 3 and 6 months from now 😬

200 Passports leaving for Brighton Ruby

In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in. rubytshirts.com/products/th...

Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right? rubytshirts.com/products/se...

to_param lets you customize your URLs andycroll.com/ruby/to-par...

Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern. andycroll.com/ruby/use-st...

Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism andycroll.com/ruby/prefer...

Discovering Hong Kong or taking photos of my new fit from rubytshirts.com? Gimme both! #_why

If you're within my age demographic and you lived in Europe... then I don't need to explain this. rubytshirts.com/products/wo...

Shared the @tailwindcss.com and jekyll no build setup I use on my site. andycroll.com/ruby/simple...

Just to say we're up to a very healthy 2,400+ organisations on usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth.dev for a bunch of those :-)

My blog. I’ll extract it. Needs tailwind cli though.

Agent OS v3 is out. Legacy codebases are a challenge in AI development. Your agents can scan your files, but not the knowledge and decisions baked in between the lines. Agent OS enhances (doesn't reinvent) what Claude Code does well. New video & docs here: buildermethods.com/agent-os

Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0 andycroll.com/ruby/find-t...

Opening the CFP for Brighton Ruby 2026. All the videos are up for last year. Tickets still on sale. Please sponsor. (PLEASE)

Year in Review: 2025 andycroll.com/other/year-...

Back on the writing horse, in time for Xmas. except_on for validations andycroll.com/ruby/except...

Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth.dev rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/...

If you wanted to have loved one buy you a t-shirt because “you’re impossible to buy for” today is your last day to get it for Xmas. rubytshirts.com

I made some lovely Ruby loving foxes on a t-shirt in tribute to the long lost _why. rubytshirts.com/products/_w...

It's finally happening. I'm going to Brighton Ruby next June! ti.to/goodscary/br...

Or did the Joker ask the question first? rubytshirts.com/products/wh...

Logan Roy said it best about the Rubyists rubytshirts.com/products/no...

GitHub was the answer to "what if sourceforge didn't suck?" I'm kind of worried we're getting a new sourceforge 😢

So I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (again) last week. Stately, yes. Bananas, yes. Visually inspiring, also yes. So. T-shirts. Three of them.

And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stori...

In the words of the wise monkey Rafiki from the Lion King. brightonruby.com

It's scary getting up on stage. Especially when some guy in a sparkly jacket is throwing crazy ruby at you. Being able to give some prizes at the end is the least I can do. Big thanks to our prize sponsors: @honeybadger.io @judoscale.com @joemasilotti.com @andycroll.bsky.social

If I put together a 2/3day Rails-oriented, indie business/small team technical leader MICRO-conference for early/mid-Jan in the UK countryside… would that sound interesting? Everyone brings one strong opinion and one problem and we take it in turns to help each other out.

The game show works best when I have great contestants and I had some GREAT contestants this time. They brought the energy and the fun!

They'll be there for you. rubytshirts.com/products/ru...

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

It’ll be missed. Because it was so carefully curated. We do these things out of love.