The next episode of the Ruby Gems podcast is out. Evan Phoenix joins us to talk Rubinius, Puma, Ruby Central, and much more.

San Francisco Ruby Conference is calling 🌁☎️ sfruby.substack.com/p/san-franci...

Just got back home from #RailsConf - what a great conference. It was great to see familiar faces and meet up with old as well as new Ruby friends. I miss you all! Can't wait till we all get the chance to hang out again

@tenderlove.dev before the final RailsConf keynote.

A fun announcement, @davidhill.dev and I are hosting a new podcast from @rubycentral.org. We dropped the first episode at #railsconf. @chadfowler.com joined us for the first episode on how this all got started.

#railsconf is on and on 🔥🔥🔥

Philly Cheesesteak at Shay’s. #railsconf

Story time at #brightonruby. @nodunayo.bsky.social giving the final talk on the peculiar pattern.

Fun start to Harriet Oughton’s Rails concurrency talk. #brightonruby

@amyhupe.bsky.social giving a thought provoking talk on the potential for harm from design systems. #brightonruby

Rails Foundation fireside chat with @amandabrooke.bsky.social @rosa.codes #brightonruby

Three great lightning talks at #brightonruby

@valeriecodes.bsky.social giving a nice talk on AI in Ruby. It’s fun to have your own levitating emoji! #brightonruby

@julialopez.dev giving practical advice on Ruby application security. #brightonruby

Ruby friends @valeriecodes.bsky.social @nodunayo.bsky.social at #brightruby

@emilysamp.dev giving us a nice overview of the benefits and challenges of type checking in Ruby. #brightonruby

Fascinating talk by @rosa.codes on mathematics and logic puzzles. #brightonruby

Brighton Ruby is starting!! #brightonruby

A bit of honey cake before leaving Riga. It’s delicious!

@timriley.info telling us about his story and Hanami with the support of the band. @balticruby.bsky.social

What a way to start a talk! Fireworks and rock walk on music for Steven Baker.

My JRuby talk at #BalticRuby went great! Lots of discussions afterwards, including one shop desperate to solve some Ruby scaling issues. I'm so glad I was able to be here and looking forward to a bunch of new JRuby users! Thanks to JRuby supporter eazyBI for sponsoring me!

The Hanami hack table at #BalticRuby was greeted by a familiar face! (And potential new user?)

Thank you to everyone who attended my keynote and the OSS expo afterward. For those interested in improving the security of your gems, check out our guide for trusted publishing. guides.rubygems.org/trusted-publ... @balticruby.bsky.social

Mochi taking a break from fetch. @balticruby.bsky.social

💯 Not pictured, Mochi and I played fetch with a cute little ball!

Marty Haught, our Director of Open Source (leading Ruby Gems and Bundler) gave a keynote at #BalticRuby in Latvia today! 💎 But before we share details from that, we have an arguably more important photo to share... @mghaught.bsky.social‬ got to meet @rosa.codes‬ and her Ruby-famous dog, Mochi! 😍

@marcoroth.dev talking about RubyEvents at @balticruby.bsky.social.

@mghaught.bsky.social talking about Sustained Open Source, running RubyGems and @rubycentral.org at @balticruby.bsky.social! #balticruby #balticruby2025

Fun! Baltic Ruby is giving away a conference long board.

Baltic Ruby about to start with a three piece band jamming. They’re good!

Heading to Baltic Ruby in Riga 🇱🇻 this week? Be sure to say hello to @mghaught.bsky.social‬, Ruby Central's Director of Open Source! He'll be giving a keynote on RubyGems & OSS sustainability. AND handing out stickers! 😍 Thanks to artist bbghost.bsky.social!

I'm excited that @rubycentral.org will support Hanami this way. This opens a new chapter in helping to sustain open source projects.

Thank you, David. We covered a lot in a short amount of time! It was fun talking about hack spaces and thoughts on giving more organic space to hacking at conferences.

What a great lineup! I'm looking forward to being in Latvia next month. Bonus: I'll swing by Brighton Ruby the following week before returning to the US.

I'm excited to come to Riga to help support open source at #BalticRuby. I look forward to chatting with other maintainers about the Ruby ecosystem and our communities. I hope to see you there!

Today’s adventure!

Orange juice tasting! I chose 5 juices out of the 20+ they have on tap!! I even recorded tasting notes in my travel journal. One curious onlooker asked me if I was writing about the flavor of the juices. Indeed!!

Made the trip to Dogo Onsen this morning. The water was lovely!

@segiddins.me starting his Sigstore-Ruby talk.

@ufuk.dev introducing Ruby Committers on stage at RubyKaigi day 3.

Yes, we’re hanging out on fake grass on little camp chairs! If you’re at #RubyKaigi, seek us out.

Excited for day 2 of RubyKaigi! Keynote by Ivo Anjo.

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

I'd encourage Rubyists to read over the news on the new policies for RubyGems.org. We have a 60 day comment-and-review period. The blog post goes into more detail. ❤️

It's been 1 hour since the early bird tickets went on sale and they're going fast. Only half of them remain. If you were interested in getting a ticket, I wouldn't delay!

Early bird tickets are now for sale for the final RailsConf. It'll be interesting to see how long the 100 tickets last.

RailsConf CFP closes tonight. If you were thinking of speaking, now's your chance! As the final one, it's going to be special. Fun fact: we usually get 25% of submissions in the final 24 hours. sessionize.com/railsconf-20...

It was a pleasure chatting with Robby about many topics including what I'm up to at Ruby Central and the sustainability of open source.

I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...