New developments in recent years have made it super-easy to interview Ruby Software Engineers and tell the good ones from the bad ones in 2025: andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/12/inte... #ruby #rails #hiring #interviewing #software #dev #job #programming #softwareengineering #rubyonrails

In the attached image, I answered a question on Reddit regarding what Ruby on Rails feature flags library my employer is using. github.com/AndyObtiva/a... #ruby #rails #featureflags #featuretoggles #gem #softwareengineering #programming #dev

My Curling team won the quarter final game of the Royal Victoria competitive league. We scored 10-2, a blow out, and the other team forfeited before the game ended. #GoodCurling

My Curling team is participating in the Royal Victoria league playoffs given we finished 2nd in the standings. We’re playing the quarter final game against this team tonight. #GoodCurling

Your regular reminder that popularity doesn't equal quality. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #best #technology #quality #programming #softwareengineering #dev

Blog post announcement of DB GUI 0.3.0 & Glimmer DSL for LibUI 0.13.1 andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/11/db-g... #ruby #desktop #gui #glimmer #dsl #libui #development #desktopdevelopment #programming #dev #software #softwareengineering

I’m attending the /dev/mtl 2025 software conference today! Great learning! www.dev-mtl.ca/schedule #devmtl #dev #mtl #montreal #softwareengineering #software #conference

How did the Ruby community go from Great to Garbage? andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-... #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #community #programming #dev #softwareengineering #intelligence #ethics

Join us this Friday (Nov 28, 2025) at this highly diverse yearly Software Conference in Montreal, /dev/mtl 2025, which unites all the local Montreal tech meetups. I helped out with talk selection. www.dev-mtl.ca/schedule #dev #mtl #devmtl #montreal #softwareengineering #ruby

My Royal Victoria Curling team on the other hand finished 2nd in the Fall regular season standings (after being tied at 1st and playing the other 1st team) and made it into the Fall playoffs. #GoodCurling

I participated in a Curling Bonspiel the other day. A one day competition of Curling. Both my team and the other team had very experienced Curlers. My team won 13-10. #GoodCurling

Today, I gave a new Senior Software Engineer who joined my team an overview of a big part of our system. And, that reminded me of how sophisticated our Ruby on Rails FinTech platform is, albeit existing Software Engineers have gotten used to maintaining it and take it for granted now. #ruby #rails

Welcome to another edition of the Embarrassing Ruby/Rails Subreddit Chronicles (2025-11-24): andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #ruby #community #ethics

I am so happy a relatively new #SoftwareEngineer on my team at work used #Glimmer #DSL for #Web for the first time to build a Frontend feature in our #Ruby on #Rails #web #app and finished his work so quickly with so little code for someone new to Glimmer. #dev #programming #softwareengineering

#softwareengineering #software #dev #uxdesign #ux #usability #programming #code #ai #artificial_intelligence #artificialintelligence

The db-gui #Ruby #gem 0.3.0 now supports storing multiple database configurations and remembering which one was last selected on launch. The glimmer-dsl-libui Ruby gem 0.13.1 now supports combobox items unidirectional data-binding in #GUI #apps github.com/AndyObtiva/d... github.com/AndyObtiva/g...

The produced repo has been published to GitHub: github.com/AndyObtiva/m... We will have a Part 2 of this Montreal.rb Hacknight (Build a Social network with Rails Hotwire/Turbo) on December 17, 2025. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #hotwire #turbo

That’s literally me and other Opal Rubyists trying to figure out how to improve the Frontend Development story in Rails while half the Ruby community is suffering from ultra slow Frontend productivity with React.js, and don’t care their customers get a fraction of the value they are paying for.

I've run into some silly #Tech #Businesses that have declared they are #AI-First now. They're silly because all Businesses must be #Customers-First not Anything-Else-First as Customers pay to sustain them in the end. You can't provide the best #Product possible if you aren't putting Customers first.

This is such a terrible UX for training my Facebook feed’s AI (see the attached screenshots). Why ask me if I’m “interested” when in fact, I already like and follow the Facebook Page? #softwareengineering #software #dev #uxdesign #ux #usability #programming #code #ai #artificialintelligence

The requirement of anonymized submissions to Ruby conferences makes no sense as they prevent well accomplished speakers, the kind that everyone wants to listen to, from revealing all their open-source projects, conference presentations, and Software Engineering awards.

The November 2025 #Montreal.rb #Ruby #Meetup topic will be "Hacknight: Build a Social Network with #Rails #Hotwire / #Turbo". It will take place this Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 6:30pm at Anticafe Place Des Arts, Montreal, Quebec. RSVP: www.meetup.com/montrealrb/e... #software #code #dev

The #Ruby / #Rails #subreddits in a nutshell!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Watching the 2025 Grey Cup. Montreal is in it! Let’s go!!! #GoAlsGo

The other day, I helped a new dev on my team build a Frontend feature, and I was OK with him using pure JS instead of Glimmer because the small UI element he needed was so basic that pure JS was good enough.

🤣🤣🤣 #ai #artificial_intelligence #artificialintelligence #vibecoding #softwareengineering #software #dev #programming #code

The awful mods of the Ruby/Rails subreddits have effectively normalized stupidity, meanness, and hate of Ruby in the Ruby community. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #programming #softwareengineering #webdevelopment #frontenddevelopment #frontend

My employer was bought by a mid-size American company at the beginning of 2025 because they were very intrigued by the FinTech Ruby on Rails platform that my team has worked on for 3 years before the acquisition. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails

#softwareengineering #software #dev #maintainability #programming #code #ai #artificial_intelligence

React devs and vibe coders in a nutshell.

I’m attending the Indiana Pacers vs Golden State Warriors NBA Basketball game at Chase Center, San Francisco (while on a business trip). Go Dubs!!! #nba #warriors #dubs

I’m checking into Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California to attend the Los Angeles Rams vs San Francisco 49ers NFL Football game. I got a good seat on the 100 level.

Me attending the Florida Panthers vs San Jose Sharks NHL Hockey game at SAP Center, San Jose, California. I had an amazing seat right behind the goalie. The Sharks won 3-1. Fun times!!! (I’m in Santa Clara for the week to visit the American headquarters of my Canadian employer)

I’m in the USA on my way to visit the American headquarters of my Canadian company. They are in Santa Clara, California. I’ll be there for about a week and a few extra days. I just stopped in Minneapolis, Minnesota for a layover. I like the cold breeze. It’s got similar weather to Canada’s.

That’s why I stopped arguing with React devs long time ago! 🤣 Especially in the Ruby on Rails community! 🤣🤣 #react #sucks #deletereact #dev #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #programming #code

My Royal Victoria league Curling team won again this week. We beat the other team 13-6. We started with an 8 point lead in the first 4 ends before the other team scored and then we finished strong in the last (8th) end. #GoodCurling

I’m Curling against this team.

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Game 1 of the World Series goes to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Read the meme first. If only Ruby on Rails devs who used React and other JavaScript libraries were intelligent enough to consider Frontend Ruby. I considered React 7 years ago and then was humble enough to admit it sucked compared to Frontend Ruby.

Martin Giannakopoulos is banned from the Montreal.rb Ruby meetup because he said "shut up" multiple times during Montreal.rb bar outings, and wouldn't apologize for it when asked to do so. #montreal #ruby #rails #montrealrb #dev

The Ruby core team with the leadership of Matz, the creator of Ruby, has taken over the ownership of RubyGems and Bundler as per the announcement shared below. That's great news! www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025... #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #programming #dev #softwareengineering

My Curling team had a blow out game and the other team conceded the win to us in the 7th end before the game has completed. The final score is 11-2 for us as the blue team today. #GoodCurling

A group of party people are having a special Halloween Curling event before my Curling team’s game.

#softwareengineering #software #dev #maintainability #programming #code #ai #artificial_intelligence

Last Thursday, my Curling team won the game 6-3.

Rehearsing with my band, MusiArt, and additional musicians that will join us at a Christmas show later this year. Last week, we recorded a new song titled Beauty Never Sleeps.

Good news! I reported a few weeks ago some discrimination that my girlfriend has experienced at a tech team, which is similar to discrimination I have experienced in the #Ruby community. Last week, my girlfriend finally had a happy ending to this issue: andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/10/happ... #dev

At the last Montreal.rb meetup from 2 days ago, some people were laughing at the article "Shopify is not your enemy" after mentioning how Shopify did a hostile takeover of RubyGems and Bundler. #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #software #dev #programming

It's time to address a big elephant in the room! There is a big correlation between Ruby devs being discriminatory idiots and not having any university degrees. It's because such devs entered the field of Software Development for the lure of money. #discrimination #dev #ethics #programming #ruby