The Ruby community shines because of leaders who build, care for, and sustain it. The Community Leadership Gem Award honors those who create safe, inclusive spaces through meetups, conferences, and local communities worldwide. Nominate a community gem: airtable.com/appBBx7FkmSp...

RubyConf 2026 is being reimagined as our flagship, community-curated event. A dedicated program committee is shaping a stellar program with new focus and themes, all with the future of Ruby in mind. CFP submissions are now open. sessionize.com/rubyconf-202...

Use AI-powered techniques to create recommendation systems, personalized search, and content discovery tools. Implement vector search from the ground up with step-by-step guidance, real-world examples, and hands-on coding pragprog.com/titles/... 40% off with code Pragpicks @hummusonrails.com

Developers: “I wish I could run AI locally without all the setup.” Docker: “Say less.” @hummusonrails.com dropped a 🔥 blog on the new Docker Model Runner: 🔗 http://spklr.io/63328AJqs #Docker #AI #Git #DevTools

Never travel without one in my backpack.

I can't believe I hit over 10k #YouTube channel views (actually 11,321 but who's counting? 😅)! I intend to make a lot more content over this year. All #developer focused short form (5 minutes or less). Give me a follow if you want to join the journey! 👇 www.youtube.com/@HummusOnRails

It's new episode Monday! Ben Greenberg ( @hummusonrails.com ) joins me in the newest episode of the Ode to RailsConf podcast to share his experiences with RailsConf. Give it a listen! www.odetorailsconf.com/2363110/epis...

New project dropping soon! Tired of guessing which dev events to sponsor? I'm building to help solve it! 📍Use natural language to find events 📍Filter by region, dev community, etc. 📍Check sentiment 📍Save or export Beta testers get free Enterprise plan. Interested? LMK and I'll add you!

Can you tell the theme for my upcoming talk at the GitHub user group meetup tonight in Tel Aviv? Does the font give it away? 🛸👽 #starwars

Some things I wish would stay in the States. We really don’t need another American fast food chain like Cinnabon in Tel Aviv. #fastfood #telaviv #thanksnothanks

That was quick! Thank you friends. Maybe next time I should be more ambitious and a bit less modest in goal setting? 😅

Friends, it's a modest goal, but I'd love to get to 100 subscribers on my #YouTube channel before the new year. I am just *4* subscribers away from that goal. Can you help me get there? www.youtube.com/@HummusOnRails

🎄 On the 1st day of #12DaysOfCouchmas, we're recapping one of the biggest and most exciting moments of the year: Capella AI Services! Get a quick overview of the new services in 2 minutes or less from #Couchbase developer evangelist @hummusonrails.com. More to come tomorrow! bit.ly/3ZGu5bC

When HBO Max sends me an email that says "for fans of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 🪲" (tbh not such a fan, but I did wach it) and then recommends... Batman Returns 🦇 What does that tell you about their content similarity search algorithm?

When you are solo building a SaaS on the weekends and evenings you become the: ✨developer ✨designer ✨BD ✨marketer ✨content writer ✨partnerships mgr ✨SDR Busy with everything and hoping you get at least some of it right…

Sent in completed draft of my new book on learning vector search for devs with Node.js to @pragprog.com last week. 🎉 A lot more steps to do until it's published, but really excited about completing this milestone step! #Books #Publishing #TechBooks #Milestone

Your AI tool is not a person. It’s best to market it is as it is: a tool.

Israeli fortune cookies read like a verse from Tanakh: ‘The end of an act begins with thought, and much thought follows…’ Fortune cookie or the Bible? You decide. 🤣 #food #fortunecookie #israel

You know you watch too many developer videos on YouTube when the ads shown to you include @sentry.io content from @whitep4nth3r.com 😂

Building RAG apps is too much fun! Do you agree with the response on which planet in the #StarWars universe would be most familiar to someone from Earth? The AI context is being enhanced with a vector search of Star Wars data on @couchbase.bsky.social. Are you buying a place on Alderaan today?

Benefit #1 of remote working: Being able to step out for a quick lunch with your spouse during the workday. (Also, not fighting traffic; not being interrupted constantly; using the office chair that’s right for you, etc., etc. 😅)

Now on stage of CityJS Athens @hummusonrails.com talking about vector searches and embedded models. I love that man's energy 😄

Anuradha is delivering a fantastic hands-on talk on web accessibility at @cityjsconf.bsky.social. Learning quite a lot from her dynamic presentation. 👏 #a11y #accessibility #cityjs #javascript

The next time you’re in Greece and you think hey that language sounds really unique, guess what? You’re right! It’s the *only* member of the Hellenic branch of Indo-European languages. That’s it, just Greek. Nothing else like it. 🇬🇷 #linguistics #nerdyfacts #greece

Past two days I've received a couple unsolicited SDR outbound emails offering me free AirPods for booking a 20-min consultation with them. How many people follow up on that? Is that worth the ROI? 🤔

If you're a web dev interested to going to head-to-head with other web devs — game show style — get ready to be happy. @jason.energy has an open casting call you'll want to answer siliconflorist.com/2024/11/26/w...

#CloudDayTelAviv is in the books! 🇮🇱 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn about our partnership with Google Cloud, join our giveaways, and enjoy some tasty popcorn 🍿. Excited for a great partnership and more to come! @hummusonrails.com

I’m here with the @couchbase.bsky.social team at @GoogleCloud_IL Cloud Day TLV! Come say hi at our booth and grab some popcorn! 🍿

After a 14 hour flight I land home and right away in a cooking competition for a bar mitzvah celebration. Don’t even know if it’s day or night but cooking here we come!

This airport sign is so LA

Hey friends! I'm looking for a dev advocacy contractor for minimum of three-to-six months to focus on creating 100 and 200 level content related to our AI platform features. You'll work closely with me, and other dope folks. HMU for the deets!

Reason #2901583 I like listening to NPR podcasts: “please be warned this episode contains some swearing in the German dialect of Franconian.” 😅

Some light reading for the flight 😅

They say it takes hearing something a few times before signing up. After being in the audience again for @nodunayo.bsky.social brilliant (and last??) Ruby mystery series, I finally joined The StoryGraph. Why did I wait so long?! It’s an absolutely fantastic app for readers! thestorygraph.com

Another recent #RubyFriend, Ben Greenberg came on my podcast to talk about RailsConf, so of course we talked about a variety of other topics as well. But #RubyConf is the first time we got to meet in person

And the last of the @couchbase.bsky.social swag is going fast on the final day of #rubyconf! Stay warm, #rubyfriends, and get yours before it’s gone!

#rubyfriends, we got you covered for the Chicago winter! ❄️ Come to Hack Day and get geared up and figure out how to build GenAI apps and more with the new @couchbase.bsky.social Ruby ORM! Curt and I are here to get you started going and hacking on all your projects!

Sitting in an American coffee shop this time of year means hearing "Jewish" music. Or, wait, Christmas music? No, Christmas *themed* music… written by American Jews in the '50s. 😅

Look at this packed room!! Already bumped into some old friends and new ones :-) #rubyfriends #rubyconf

Kicking off @rubycentral.org RubyConf with @couchbase.bsky.social Ambassador, Curt Gratz!

When you come to Chicago for a conference, and you’re a kosher meat eater, there is one mandatory stop in the north side that’s a requirement. #kosher #romanian #chicago

If you record lots of videos, properly investing in a teleprompter can save you so much time. The Elgato prompter is one I use at home, and it's cut down my recording time by hours. No more countless redos. www.elgato.com/ww/en

Off to #RubyConf! ✈️ I'll be there as a @rubycentral.org board member & @couchbase.bsky.social dev advocate with winter swag ⛄️. Come chat, grab stickers, and hear about our new Ruby ORM for JSON document DBs on #HackDay! #RubyFriends

Introduce yourself with some love you have done apart from what you do now: - RadioShack associate - community organizer - rabbi - labor union intern - Hebrew school teacher - college chaplain

Back in the city just for the weekend. You may see me today working from random coffee spots all over from lower manhattan to the upper west 🗽

🎥 Check out @hummusonrails.com’s new video on how to use #Terraform to provision, configure, and manage #Couchbase Capella—making it seamless for teams to scale and adapt their database needs on-demand ⏩ bit.ly/4feRxU9

It's #ElectionDay in the US 🇺🇸 and as an American who has lived abroad for years, it's clear a lot of folks globally (and Americans themselves) don't actually know how Presidents get elected. Given the global impact of the US, it's good to know! Let's do a quick thread.. 🧵

I'll be at CityJS in Athens 🇬🇷 in just a few weeks demystifying vector search for all of us who don't have a math PhD! We'll learn how to create embeddings, what they are, and how to use them to create an intuitive search for our users of our apps. See you there! youtube.com/shorts/SDerk...

Last night, I helped my 13 year old son set up VSCode, configure his terminal, create a GitHub account and get a Python environment with Pybricks set up on his computer. His robotics class is using the web UI, but he wanted to code like his dad. A proud coding dad moment. 😁