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by nonconstant 5d ago
Kudos to RubyGems team for handling it, but open source fighting off the AI lab-powered robots is completely unfair. OpenAI should at the very least donate large sums of money to everyone they attacked.
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by nonconstant 6mo ago
Key growth stories and hacks, the agentic flywheel, and ratings of VCs and angels by investment thesis, partner names included.
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by nonconstant 6mo ago
Hey! I started using web presentations recently, so I went ahead and built something super fun - a plugin (for Slidev and Reveal.js) that adds interactive slides: ask a question and watch answers coming in, in real time. People scan a QR co
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by nonconstant 9mo ago
Ruby is #5 most used and #3 most loved programming language in the Pragmatic Engineer survey 2025: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng... It means that basically, Ruby is huge in the SF Bay tha
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by nonconstant 9mo ago
Also: lots of other big Ruby shops are on Sorbet, like Figma, One Medical, Gusto etc. We discussed this at the SF Ruby meetup after this talk https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/past-present-and-future-of-...
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by nonconstant 9mo ago
Stripe is using typed Ruby: they are authors of https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet
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The Ruby community needs to know what happened last week at SF Ruby Conf(blog.adrianthedev.com)
2 points by nonconstant 10mo ago|0 comments
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by nonconstant 10mo ago
We're gathering in San Francisco to learn from, build for, and celebrate companies choosing Ruby and Rails for new products today. Come and join the pragmatists and idealists who enjoy writing Ruby.
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Wes Anderson shot a movie in San Francisco [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nonconstant 11mo ago|1 comments
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by nonconstant 11mo ago
Or, his fans did!
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by nonconstant 11mo ago
yay!! amazing ♥
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by nonconstant 11mo ago
agree
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by nonconstant 11mo ago
thank you
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YC Founders and Ruby Friends at SF Ruby Conf(sfruby.substack.com)
28 points by nonconstant 11mo ago|10 comments
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by nonconstant 11mo ago
It's the first Ruby conference in the Bay since 2014, and it has a unique focus on startups. If you want to see companies choosing Ruby and Rails for new products today, join in! We're sponsored by Chime, Bolt.new, Cisco, Gusto, I
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by nonconstant 1y ago
If you are building a painkiller not a vitamin, then Ruby and Rails ecosystems are great to build for. Existing businesses earning billions and news startups that choose pragmatism. Join the community to learn what the pains are. I’ve been
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by nonconstant 1y ago
Have you used Stripe, Figma, Gusto, Chime, Shopify, Github, Intercom or bolt.new? They all are built with Ruby as a major part of the stack.
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by nonconstant 1y ago
Join the SF Ruby conference to meet dozens of new startups building with Ruby and Rails: https://sfruby.com/#startup-demos
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How to power-up Rails with Go, C or Rust, preserving the productivity of Rails(evilmartians.com)
2 points by nonconstant 1y ago|1 comments
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by nonconstant 1y ago
Rails excels at business logic, developer happiness, and rapid iteration. Still, there comes a moment when performance bottlenecks emerge, and the typical refrain is: “rewrite in Go,” “extract to microservices,” or “break up the monolith.”
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by nonconstant 1y ago
There's a new data point: Ruby is #5 most used and #3 most loved language as per the recent Pragmatic Engineer survey! https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...
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by nonconstant 1y ago
It’s the official new Getting Started but ported to a browser-based runtime powered by WebContainers, so you can complete the whole tutorial without having to install Ruby or Rails. It’s very cool!
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by nonconstant 1y ago
Ruby coming at #3 Most Loved and #5 Most Used is dope. I read it as: people you should care about are on Ruby + Rails, today. Bring on those missing Ruby SDKs and Active Record drivers! And join us at the San Francisco Ruby conference in No
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by nonconstant 1y ago
I'm excited about this!
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by nonconstant 1y ago
We're experiencing a global peak of Ruby meetups (globally). About 800-900 meetups in the last 12 months as per https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/ I'm hosting probably the largest Ruby meetup in San Francis
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CFP and Call for Startups, SF Ruby Conference 2025(cfp.sfruby.com)
2 points by nonconstant 1y ago|1 comments
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by nonconstant 1y ago
We opened CFP and Call for Ruby Startups for the new San Francisco Ruby Conference: sfruby.com dates: November 19-20, 2025 location: Fort Mason, San Francisco Join us!
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Simple Declarative Presence for Hotwire(evilmartians.com)
2 points by nonconstant 1y ago|1 comments
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by nonconstant 1y ago
Just shipped: add user presence tracking to your Hotwire apps with a few lines of code! No complex JS—just drop in <turbo-cable-presence-source> and let AnyCable do the heavy lifting. See who's online, count active users, and we&
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by nonconstant 2y ago
I think it's cool for a few reasons: – we can wrap Rails apps with Wasm for demo purposes, it can be a cool step to see what's inside before you're ready to install anything – we can run apps on Wasm for added security and is

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