A love letter by XKCD: What are you doing? Lenthening the sunset Pushing back the night Giving me a little more time Here with you. youtu.be/U8F7UNK9jco

TIL: Wubular github.com/RubyElders/wubular > Wubular is a modern re-imagining of Rubular, built with Ruby compiled to WebAssembly. > It lets you compose and test Ruby regular expressions directly in your browser — no backend server required.

Hot take: Developers who are happy to complain about friction within a process, generally don't lift a finger to resolve it.

Hot take: Developers will complain about other people's flaky tests but defer dealing with their own for as long as possible.

Hot take: Developers will complain about a build that takes two minutes longer than they think it should, but will gladly spend two days gold plating something.

A vision statement should be an inspirational postcard from an aspirational future. It should be brief. It should draw a picture. It should make you wish you were there! the.codegardener.com/vision-missi... #management #vision #mission #values

I’m in!!! Are you?

Hot take: The Rails Way™ favors modification over extension.

Software that is designed to be modified is software that is hard to change. Software that is designed to be extended is software that is easy to change.

# My new favorite strategy for getting things done. def actualize(vision) think_big start_small deliver_value earn_trust grow_influence end vision = 1 do actualize(vision) vision += 1 end #ruby #vision #gtd

Thank you for the follow!

@drbragg.dev What’re you doing in early September?

@fito.codegardener.com & I welcomed our first ever guest, Ryan Findley, to The Code Gardener Podcast recently. Hope you enjoy!

Compliments are a reflection of the light you are putting out into the world. Accept them gracefully. Others have a better view of your aura than your inner critic does. (left) What your inner critic sees. (right) What others see.

Compliments are a reflection of the light you are putting out into the world. Accept them graciously by recognizing that other people have a better view of your aura than your inner critic does.

Hi all! 👋 I was laid off and am looking for my next senior front end developer role. I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume/ Leads/reposts appreciated!

Speakers are slowly being announced, but registration is open now! www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/

I'm going to be speaking at @xoruby.com Atlanta on September 13th. XO Ruby is a brand-new (traveling) single-day Ruby conference. If you're a Rubyist in the southeastern US, you should check it out! (And if not, take a look at other 5 stops this fall.)

I'm speaking at @xoruby.com in Atlanta, you should come if you care about your team's survivability & the future of our language. 😉 www.xoruby.com/event/atlanta/ Also: first rehearsal of this talk came in at 19m, so I need to sloooooowwwww doooowwwwnnnnnnn

@fito.codegardener.com and I picked up our microphones again a couple of weeks ago! Here's a link in case it flew by in your feed before you could click on it...

@fito.codegardener.com and I are thrilled to be speaking at SF RubyConf this November! So many amazing speakers! Hope to see you there!

The RailsConf 2025 talks are up on the Ruby Central channel on YouTube! Here's @fito.codegardener.com and I giving our talk called "Derailing Our Application: How and Why We're Decoupling Our Code from Rails." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFG...

The #RailsConf 2025 talks are up on the Ruby Central channel on YouTube, including the lightning talks. Here's my lightning talk, entitled "The Other Side of Fear." (You should really watch them all, but this link is teed up to my talk at 57:55.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XucQ...

It’s been a minute, but attending the last RailsConf last week had @fito.codegardener.com and I feeling nostalgic and wanting to share…

Won’t you be my Ruby Friend? rubyfriends.app/profiles/KVVY

Pretty good rubric. 👍 www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/07...

Thanks to every #RubyFriend that made #RailsConf2025 special. Whether you were there or not. <3 kevinjmurphy.com/posts/railsc...

#RubyFriends @fito.codegardener.com and I with @nodunayo.bsky.social (AKA The Talent) just after RailsConf 2025.

"Smaller things are less complex and easier to test." @alan.codegardener.com at #RailsConf2025

Now @fito.codegardener.com‬ and @alan.codegardener.com‬ are going off the Rails, decoupling Cisco Meraki's code to scale their team and application. #RailsConf2025

Cisco Meraki is such an organization. We're old (2006). We're a large team (1000+ engineers). And, our codebase is huge (4.25+ million lined of Ruby). You may not be that big yet. But, you may be one day! Come listen to @fito.codegardener.com and I as we discuss how we manage all of that.

This is going to be an amazing event! @inazarova.bsky.social has done amazing things with the SF Ruby Meetup. I cannot wait to see what she does with more time, more speakers, and more attendees! Not to mention that Fort Mason is a great space! I cannot wait!

The weather this time of year in Philly generally changes a lot day to day so take the forecast for #RailsConf with a grain of salt. Here's my suggestions for anyone traveling from outside the east coast:

There's a new episode of the Ode to RailsConf podcast up this morning, with Alan Ridlehoover ( @alan.codegardener.com ) as my latest guest. It's probably one of my most personal episodes given the impact that Alan had on me at RubyConf back in November. www.odetorailsconf.com/2363110/epis...

My next guest on the podcast is Alan Ridlehoover ( @alan.codegardener.com ). I met Alan at RubyConf this past November, and it was because of him that I had a truly amazing final night at that Conference. I hope you'll listen and hear all about it, Monday morning!

San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20: sfruby.com! And you got to stay for Friday, 21, for unofficial events 😎

Teachers must be solar powered. They seem to draw energy from the lightbulbs radiating brightly over their pupil's heads.

@alan.codegardener.com and @fito.codegardener.com talk about the tragedy of the successful software — Meraki with over 4M LOC #Rails monolith, looking for new architecture to support maintainability at this scale: modularity and boundaries.

There are few people as wise about software and teams as Sarah. So this is definitely worth keeping an eye on. sarahmei.substack.com/p/hello-again

Automated tests make the best comments. Not only do well written tests show you how to use the software, they can also explain why. Plus, because they are executable, I know the moment they start lying to me.

You don't want to miss it!

Did you know Sin City Ruby is happening April 10-11? Featuring: Dave Thomas (@pragdave.bsky.social), Irinia Nazarova (@inazarova.bsky.social), Chris Oliver (@excid3.com), Prarthana Shiva, Alan Ridlehoover @alan.codegardener.com, Drew Bragg (@drbragg.dev), Jason Charnes & more! www.sincityruby.com

Hey #ruby community! What are you waiting for? This year is the last Sin City Ruby! The presentations will NOT be recorded. So, ante up and join us live! You're sure to leave Vegas with something valuable: both lessons learned and meaningful connections made! www.sincityruby.com

Have you ever been asked to cut down a tree but built a general solution that can cut down all the trees at once? Stop that! Just cut down the damn tree! Even Einstein came up with specialized relativity before general relativity. #softwareengineering

Here are my thoughts on Generative AI as it pertains to the software development industry. (Sorry for the exclusivity of the text embedded in an image. I'll add the text in a 🧵.)

@fito.codegardener.com and I will be talking about how to identify and remove complexity in your software at Sin City Ruby on April 10-11 in, where else but, sunny Las Vegas. Want to hang out before then? Join us and all the Sin City speakers for Sinful Sunday! www.sincityruby.com/sinful-sunda...

We had a great time at #SFRuby meetup yesterday! Thank you to our speakers @jasonswett.bsky.social Bart Agapinan @camertron.bsky.social and Alex Rodionov, Productboard for hosting and to everyone for joining! I’ll upload the recording soon.

What a great conference! Can’t wait for Rails Conf!

An early holiday gift from Ruby Central. 🎁 We can't wait to see you at RailsConf 2025. ✨

It was my honor and pleasure to welcome everyone to Chicago for the conference. May the fail whale forever flail.