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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love how the conference is perfectly squeezed between the releases of Ocarina of Time and GTA6. Yes, we are really thoughtful. So… do you have your ticket ? ☺️

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Juliana Dias 👩🏻‍💻☕ @juuh42dias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey folks, do you know SF Ruby Conference (@SFRuby.com) now has a 1-day ticket? And yes, they have 1 day of intensive AI content and another day with light AI content. 😅 Don't forget to buy your ticket. Links below: sfruby.com luma.com/sfrubyconf2026

Pixel art artwork against a bright blue sky with white clouds at the bottom and two seagulls flying overhead. On the left, a friendly cloud character holding a large glowing red gem sits near the red towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. To the right, text reads "SAN FRANCISCO RUBY STARTUP CONFERENCE '26" in stylized block letters.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sometimes when my life is too nice I voluntarily go in the front end repo and update the JS packages. Then my life is miserable again. Follow me for more content about Continuous Misery.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Used a 2-parts overnight collagen mask last night. I woke up with only one part on my face and couldn’t find the other one. 2 possibilities: - my face was so dry the mask bonded to my skin - there is a slimy substance in my bed that’s playing hide and seek. I fear the 2nd is more plausible.

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San Francisco Ruby Conference, Nov 10-12, 2026 @sfruby.com · 12/08/2026

19 confirmed speakers, including talks from Intercom, Shopify, @anthropic.com, and Y Combinator. We can't wait for November to arrive and see you all at SFJAZZ. Full speaker list: sfruby.com

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 27/07/2026

Welcome Carmine Paolino (@paolino.me) as one of our speakers. He's an AI engineer, founder, and open source contributor. He created RubyLLM, bringing modern AI tooling to Ruby, and co-founded Freshflow and Chat with Work. Catch him on stage: luma.com/sfrubyconf2026

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If I hear this commentator say “it never been easy for this Argentina team” one more time I think I’ll scream.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am so tired to see of all these AI generated flyers popping up everywhere. No matter if you sell sport lessons, food, haircut or just a community event, they’re all look the same. Before we had all levels of creativity, now it’s either you are creative or you’re not, and it’s a bit sad.

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 08/07/2026

The 2026 SF Ruby Startup Conference is now a reality. We have confirmed: - 40+ attendees, coming from our community-only early bird sale - 10 speakers, including Garry Tan, CEO and president at Y Combinator - 2 sponsors You can get early bird tickets on July 15th for only $350.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The sabbatical is over. Let’s return to prompting my brain assistant.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That’s it. Cabo Verde already won the World Cup. What’s happening is just amazing.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Adult summer camps” is the new way of going through mid-life crisis without any irreversible damage. You are just one camper in the middle of many others, all wearing the same shirt. The coaches make you run for two hours a day. You end up improving whatever thing you were here for. You get a

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I have not written code or opened my laptop in 3 weeks and I am okay. One more week left.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are doing this!!!

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The best part of my sabbatical is really the ankle sprain on day 4. What am I gonna do now? Coding??? 😭

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s only 2pm and I have done a total of 5 resets on 2 branches. I also looked for the big roll of disinfectant wipes at the other side of the open space when I had one on my desk. Lost many grains of couscous on the main kitchen floor. Did the ticket of someone else “by mistake”…

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wish there was a way to tell people on Marketplace that I prefer not selling something than responding to someone who does not know the basics of politeness. If their only message is « $100 » then they can f$ck off. The thing has been in my garage for ages, I don’t care if it takes a year to sell.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

That’s a really nerdy license plate we have here

Californian license plate showing « BSD UNIX »

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 18/05/2026

Hundreds of millions of people write right-to-left. Still, most developer tools treat it as an afterthought. But this isn't an edge case. If a user types in Arabic or Hebrew, many English apps will break. In most cases, the fix is just two HTML attributes, explained in this article:

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600+ million people write right-to-left: 2 fixes your app needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Arabic, Hebrew, and other right-to-left script users often can't type properly in apps that never considered them. The fix is usually two HTML attributes. Here's exactly what to add, and when.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

True story: I gave the Apple AI thingy a pic of my son Warren holding a World Cup trophy replica and asked it to “blur the picture except for Warren [it usually knows who he is] and the cup”. And I kid you not, it sent me back a picture of Elizabeth Warren holding a coffee cup.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We are super invested in a pair of doves nesting under our roof. They already had two babies. One of them got out of the nest while my husband was going outside which scared the sh$t out of it and it ended up in our pool 😭 Hubby went full on Baywatch, saved it, put it in a towel and left him there

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

First day of RTO was yesterday. Honestly the level of excitement by the welcoming crew did not match mine at all. I was there at 7:20, there were balloons and Taylor Swift. I am not sure what I did to deserve such agression first thing in the morning. If it was not enough it seems we have very

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Officially a tennis player. Lost my first match like a champ 6-2, 6-2. I am tired af, probably met a tennis friend with whom I can laugh about our terrible shots, and I didn’t break any bone. It’s a good day!

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thinking I was finally out of the Clair Obscur ending depression, I spent the afternoon listening to the soundtrack while working. Huge mistake.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Parents: hey remember that bully that made your life hell, look what she looks like now, I am friend with her on Facebook. Sweet.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The last Unicode newsletter talks about the SNL sketch about emojis, and it seems like all the « RBF emojis » are up for adoption. I am very tempted to adopt aerial tramway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Cp...

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Weekend Update: Red Heart and Aerial Tramway Emojis on Apple's New Emojis Release - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Yet another Pokemon game. What would I play without them? Resident Evil?? 🤭

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Who has 2 thumbs, no teammates less than 380 miles away and is hit by a RTO that only her will have to comply with?

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Nothing beats your last day of PTO in bed with a freaking migraine, counting the time left until the next painkiller intake.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Working on internal tools can be so rewarding. Nobody makes big announcements for the projects because they don’t sell. Even when building something specific for a user facing feature, mentions in announcements are rare. Everybody just expects that it works and they all freak out when it does not.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

www.game-boy-database.com/vizu/78.jpg

https://www.game-boy-database.com/game-C3-78-NOE.html

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 10/12/2025

“The promise of Rails is being fulfilled. People just haven’t caught up with this reality yet,” says @inazarova.bsky.social. We wrote about SF Ruby and reveal the real reason we decided to host the conference. Find it here: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...

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Why Evil Martians hosted a Ruby conference in San Francisco—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Here's why we scaled up our San Francisco Ruby meetups to SF Ruby Conf with 400+ Ruby engineers for three days of technical talks and startup demos.

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Hey friends, our next #SFRuby meetup is on December 18, at Intercom! It is a Holiday Edition: bring vibes, home-cooked sweets, and your Xmas (and cold :🥶)-inspired talks! Sign up at luma.com/sfruby Submit a talk at forms.gle/C9HQzaT5jvwA...

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

15 years ago I used to listen to a French Alt radio station that was broadcasting a very specific acoustic version of a K’s Choice song they sang for a German radio station. I found the recording on YouTube at the time and it’s the only way I listen to that song. The video has 20k views and 80% of

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co · 08/12/2025

The new question Ruby conferences have to add to their registration forms now (in addition to t-shirt size) is "do you need a Ruby passport?"

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Is there out there any **reliable** app to manage Windows devices (parental control) that is not Norton? Something I can control from my phone even when I am on the other side of the globe.

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025