Our recordings are now live! You can see them both aggregated by Ruby Events and directly on ConFreaks' channel: www.rubyevents.org/events/rocky... www.youtube.com/@Confreaks/v... (no playlist yet for the latter, but they are the most recent right now!)

💮 New stamp alert! @rmrubyconf.bsky.social had a nice event earlier this month and what a nice stamp they made for it 🦕

🥹 it's true... They're all amazing! The squad gets bigger every year. Thank you Anton!

I had a blast at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social and @xoruby.com last week. It was great to see old Ruby friends and make some new ones. Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)

And remember, for those of you still around tomorrow, you have more options to continue the party! Come by Rayback Collective anytime for Code && Coffee. Then join Boulder Ruby at 6 pm at Viget for another great presentation by Scott Werner! luma.com/ue3fso8b?tk=...

@rmrubyconf.bsky.social was awesome! Met so many great people and left inspired. Already looking forward to next year!

Good evening, Rocky Mountain Ruby! We'll will be sharing media, updates, and videos in the next few weeks, but for now, thank you for all the camaraderie and making Bekki cry!

One more thank you for all our sponsors -for funding, in-kind donations and services, and podcasts for spreading the word! ♥️💎

Aww yeah we're kicking off another round of Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer?!

Thank you for sharing your time in preparing and presenting! Great crop of lightning talks this year!

More lightning talks! Importantly, many of our sponsors send devs, who are represented here talking about their own passion projects (Caribou, Checkr, Meraki)

Some highlights of all our lightning talks! (part 1)

Join XO Ruby's "The Artist's Way" book club! 12-week creativity program starting Sept 11. Weekly Zoom calls, Slack chat, async discussion. Design-focused but all welcome. Rediscover your creative spark! www.xoruby.com/blog/the-art... #BookClub #Creativity #Ruby

We're so very excited to have André Arko (@indirect.io) with us today presenting what makes and keeps an app production-ready. ... and I hear he'll be back on the stage for lightning talks too!

Max VelDink of @shopify giving us the process and cultural tools to manage the big changes of a Rails upgrade - welcome to the Rocky Mountain Ruby stage!

Co-organizer Bekki flipped the camera around on our mid-morning stretch, showing all our Ruby friends including our volunteers and @meraki folks anchoring the front row!

Recapping our AI conversations so far this week, Christine Seeman blends Rush 🎸 in asking how we blend a thoughtful Rubyist mentality 👥 with a future of GenAI usage 🤖

Erin Pintozzi, to an audience of 80% technologists who got here through unconventional means, giving us tools for ensuring the future still includes junior devs

It's difficult with Twitter fracturing to make sure we capture speaker handles properly, especially in the flurry of posting the day of. If you have content regarding your talk you want shared, or want us to update a post w/ a handle, just tag us on your fave post, photo, reply!

With a callback to Rocky Mountain Ruby of yesteryear, Sean Collins is leading us through simplifying the complexity of an app with Hanami slicing and layers

Make sure you stop by the table and get extra stickers to share the @beflagrant love with coworkers and fam! www.beflagrant.com

Jeff Cohen and the persistent question of a developer's existence - if the key to success is always learning new things, what does that mean? And how can you improve how you learn? theahamap.com

A reminder that you can watch all these talks later (and even lightning talks) thanks to the great work from @confreaks and Cindy!

Another great reason to attend community conferences like @rmrubyconf.bsky.social or @sw2con.bsky.social . Job opportunities and chances for conversations with hiring managers where you are not flotsam in the LinkedIn sea.

Day two, ten degrees warmer, let's gooo!

Scott Werner (@scottwernerd) is sketching the legacy of early Ruby history: creative expression, testing, design driven, and whimsy, and where we can go from here

Rashnadeep (@rtdp) will jump in with us about reading Rails source code, but first! Some pretty Colorado views 🫶🏞️

🍧 Rocky Mountain ice cream break! 🍦

Tyler Lemburg (and Benedict Cumberbatch?) explaining the fundamentals of mutation testing in Ruby

Jonathan Woodard getting ready to 🕹️ 1. Convince us that Rails can be a game engine 🤯 2. Teach something about Rails we didn't know!

Phillip Campbell on what happens when he explains to other developers what it's like to work on the massive job queue infrastructure - dedicated on call team, the volume of jobs, and more

T-shirts from Flagrant always look stunning. Love that 👏

With 7 years at GitHub - Joel Hawksley reflects on the evolution of UI and Rails architecture and the trends he's seen and expects

i didn’t have learning pokemon bugs on my bingo card, but i’m not complaining. suddenly i wanna catch them all.

Tess Griffin (in a pokeball shirt!) breaks down the classic Pokemon missingno item duplication bug. IT'S ALL ZUBAT

First keynote with @baweaver - We Who Remember Magic! Chat more about this talk and every talk in Slack

Aww yeah swag check in, on a rainy Monday morning! Look at that sweet design from @beflagrant

Getting kicked off at RMR! Make sure you get set up on Wi-Fi. Set up on Slack Start making lunch plans!

In Boulder for my first-ever @rmrubyconf.bsky.social. Looking forward to talks from @baweaver.bsky.social, @tessgriffin.bsky.social, @woodardj.bsky.social, @scottwernervt.bsky.social, @jefflcohen.bsky.social, @drbragg.dev, and others. Sponsors/Supporters: @cisco.com, @beflagrant.com, etc.

We're a day away! Look for your latest email for tips and pointers for having a successful con, as communication will now be primarily in Slack (invite in email, or DM here for it)

A reminder that we do have a block of lightning talks for whoever wants to present! Last year they were aMAHzing, and that could be you too. 🎤 Don't be scared off though - plenty of people presented who didn't have as much speaking experience & we are a supportive excited audience for everyone 🙌 👏

🎉 And the amazing contributions from our Community Sponsors! 💎 @beflagrant for their stylish designs for the designs for our tshirts, stickers, website, and badges! www.beflagrant.com 💎 And @avo_hq! avohq.io

📣 Emerald sponsors! 💎 💚 Typesense (@typesense) is a lightning fast, open source search platform and our WiFi sponsor at eTown 💚 Checkr (@checkr) for fast and accurate background checks

Thank you to our 💎 Sapphire Sponsors! 💙 Payroll and HR provider @gustohq, another long-time supporter and friend of Ruby/RMR 💙 Caribou (@gocaribou), also with a large presence in Colorado, and our sponsor for happy hour at Avanti!

🎉Sponsor shoutouts...all together now! 🎉 💎❤️ Our Ruby sponsor, Cisco Meraki (@meraki) - the biggest Ruby app you've never heard of and a great supporter of our community! meraki.cisco.com

This RMR... in order to stay connected with the people we meet...we're trying out Ruby Friends! rubyfriends.app

❣️Wowie zowie - we have officially sold out every ticket! Thank you folks, for your interest and engagement. We will see you, all of you, a big crowd of you! on Oct 6 💃🏽

The Ruby Passport. Coming to an event near you soon 🙌

Have you joined the Rocky Mountain Ruby Slack yet...? Invite link is in your email, along with other helpful tips!

Here's a sneak peek of what's coming via our fun community sponsor Avo HQ! Check them out for internal tooling and customizable admin solutions in your Rails app! avohq.io