He's CTO at @coveragebook, Rubyist @onerubything, runs @brightonruby, Author, Speaker, Bootstrapper & Twin Dad. š https://xitter.cf/t.co/9i0n4O6zQU
Brighton, UK
Joined January 2007
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My first thought when I saw this in the Rails community survey.
"Holy crap."
railsdeveloper.com/survey/20ā¦
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Am thinking of shutting down the Ruby (and other) T-shirts store Iāve been running.
Is a fun experiment but canāt justify the running costs! Unless I can work out a way to at least make it revenue neutral.
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Wrote a thing about last week's Rails World.
andycroll.com/ruby/look-at-aā¦
The journey begins to Austin.
Not saying that coffee options are limited at 6:45AM on a Sunday in Brighton but, Iāve had better.
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Weāre just a few days away from Rails World in Austin.
Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting some new ones, and revisiting Austin. Itās been a few years.
Iāll be giving my keynote, āThe Most Valuable Engineer Isnāt Shipping Features,ā on Tuesday afternoon. Iāve been tinkering with this one for a whileā¦ looking forward to finally sharing it.
Keep an eye out for a number of my fellow @planetargon teammates, too. Weāll be wandering around and would love to talk shopā¦ @rails, legacy apps, modernization, AI, or whatever youāre curious about these days.
Come find us. Letās unpack a few things together. š¤
š¤ Made with AI
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"Hi there, just giving you a call about your AWS usage at your business"
"That's weird, we don't use it"
"Azure?"
"Nope"
<stunned silence>
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Quick this year right?
Brighton Ruby 2026's talks all on YouTube (for the first time).
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Look at these lovely folks, wouldn't it be great to shake their hands in a week's time?
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Today is Raffaās final day after nearly sixteen years. Heās been in heart failure for a few weeks, now at the point where weād be keeping him around for us and not for him.
Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply profound. Lots of tears at my place today.
ALT Raffa: king of dogs
Andy Croll retweeted
Is anyone going to @brightonruby and would be willing to buddy up with this junior looking to network? Or at the very minimum, drop them some advice on Reddit? reddit.com/r/rails/comments/ā¦ cc: @andycroll
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Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby this June! Looks like quite a lineup for Ruby/Rails builders.
I'll also be hosting a workshop the day before on AI adoption with your team.
Ruby friends ā who's going?
The inflection trilogy ends.
(Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful)
andycroll.com/ruby/teach-raiā¦
In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in.
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Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right?
rubytshirts.com/products/serā¦
