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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 24/04/2026

We're happy to announce our newest sponsor for 2026! Simpliphy makes it easy for healthcare organizations to manage physician compensation. Thank you so much for your support! 🤝 simpliphy.com

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 22/04/2026

¡Una semana más! 🤯 blueridgeruby.com

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 20/04/2026

We're pleased to announce our latest sponsor for 2026! HYBRD is a tiny Rails studio offering fractional, product-focused development services. hybrd.co

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 16/04/2026

Two weeks left until Blue Ridge, snag a ticket if you haven't yet! blueridgeruby.com

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 09/04/2026

We're please to announce our latest sponsor for 2026! Scout provides hassle-free app monitoring that just works. Thank you so much for partnering with us! 🙏 www.scoutapm.com

Introducing 2026 Sponsor
Scout Monitoring

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 01/04/2026

No joke, just one month left to go before BRR 2026!

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 23/03/2026

Our sponsor Typesense is giving away 4 free tickets to Blue Ridge, so we cooked up a little contest. ☺️ Write a haiku on the theme of “search” (interpret that however you’d like) and the 4 top-voted haikus will received a free ticket!

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 18/03/2026

Our 2026 schedule is live! There are a few locations TBD, but this should help with your planning. Be sure not to miss stuff happening on Wednesday night and Saturday! blueridgeruby.com/schedule/

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 17/03/2026

You might have seen this one coming… ☺️ Today we're pleased to announce our latest sponsor for 2026! Avo (@avohq.io) is *the* Rails Framework for internal tools. avohq.io Thank you for partnering with us! 🙏

Introducing 2026 Sponsor
Avo
Blue Ridge Ruby
April 30 & May 1 • Asheville, NC

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 10/03/2026

We have 3 remaining scholarship tickets to Blue Ridge Ruby that we'd love to get into the hands of students, folks in career transition, or those recently impacted by job loss. If you know someone who would benefit, please share this with them!

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 04/03/2026

We’re going to be hosting our first-ever Hack Day, on Saturday after the conference! It will be held at the conference venue. (This will be one of several optional Saturday activities for attendees sticking around.) blueridgeruby.com/activities/

Conference Announcement
Hack Day
Saturday, May 2, 9am-4pm

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 03/03/2026

We're happy to announce our newest sponsor for 2026! @fastruby.io (a service of @ombulabs.ai) offers Ruby/Rails upgrade services, performance and security audits, and fixed-cost monthly maintenance. Thank you so much for your support! ☺️

Introducing 2026 Sponsor
FastRuby.io
Ruby Maintenance, Done Right

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 20/02/2026

First episode of Ridge Notes just dropped! Jeremy chats Joël Quenneville about his upcoming Blue Ridge talk, "State is the First Decision You Never Made." Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Yp...

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 19/02/2026

Today we're pleased to announce we're opening up 10 scholarship tickets to Blue Ridge. We're especially interested in helping students, folks in career transition, and those recently impacted by job loss. Fill out our short application form and our team will be in touch with you!

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 17/02/2026

We’re pleased to announce our first Ruby-tier sponsor of 2026! Typesense is a lightning-fast open source search engine. typesense.org Thanks you for partnering with us! 🙏

Introducing 2026 Sponsor
Typesense
April 30 & May 1 • Asheville, NC

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 16/02/2026

This mid-February morning, you can almost tell that spring is coming. 🌱 Today we're pleased to announce 10 wonderful Rubyists who will be bringing their stories, insights, and wisdom to the Blue Ridge stage April 30 & May 1. Hope to see you there! blueridgeruby.com

Annie Kiley
How To Finish What You Start: Lessons From Actually Shipping a Big Refactor

Brooke Kuhlmann
Terminus: A Hanami + htmx web application for e-ink devices

Christine Seeman
Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking)

David Paluy
LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern

Ifat Ribon
Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation

Joël Quenneville
State is the First Decision You Never Made

John Athayde
Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development

Kevin Murphy
InstiLLMent of Successful Practices in an Agentic World

Rachael Wright-Munn
Your First Open-Source Contribution

Thomas Cannon
5 ways to invest in yourself for the long haul

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 27/01/2026

Hey, psst… 🤫 Don't tell anybody, but you've got less than a week left to submit your talk to Blue Ridge Ruby. 🤐 Seriously, mum's the word. And whatever you do, don't share this link… 😶‍🌫️ blueridgeruby.com/cfp/

Mustachioed man in a yellow beanie, pointing at a mysterious website. 😶‍🌫️

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 07/01/2026

We’re excited to announce our first Emerald sponsor of 2026! @judoscale.com is a dedicated autoscaler for Heroku, Render, and AWS. judoscale.com Thanks so much for your support! 🙏

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 15/12/2025

Alright friends, today’s the big day…we’re opening up tickets and CFP for Blue Ridge 2026! 🎉 We’re going to be at the YMI Cultural Center in downtown Asheville, NC on April 30 & May 1. We’d love to have you join us this spring in our favorite mountain town. ⛰️

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Blue Ridge Ruby @blueridgeruby.com · 12/12/2025

Hey, random question, but…what are you doing April 30 and May 1? 👀

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