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Chris Oliver

@excid3.com
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Rails Luminary building GoRails.com, JumpstartRails.com, Hatchbox.io, RailsBytes.com, Remote Ruby Podcast and lots of open source projects. Do things that scare you. excid3.com

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Evil Martians @evilmartians.com · 24/07/2026
It's time to welcome Chris Oliver (@excid3.com) as one of our amazing speakers! Chris is a Rails Luminary, founder of GoRails, and host of  Remote Ruby podcast.  We're very happy to have him on stage this year. Catch his talk at the conference.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 17/07/2026
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 26/06/2026
$ git rich --quick
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 22/06/2026
Could have spent another few months in Greece.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 04/06/2026
Discovered that ActionMailer *_deliver callbacks don't respect only/except options in Rails. Turns out it's a really simple fix because Mailers are Controllers behind the scenes. github.com/rails/rails/...
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Support `only:` and `except:` on `_deliver` callbacks in ActionMailer by excid3 · Pull Request #57581 · rails/rails
Motivation / Background only: and except: options are ignored in ActionMailer callbacks when added in #47630. This feels inconsistent so this uses the same normalization wrapper from AbstractContro...
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 04/06/2026
Also Polar can do this directly if you use them: polar.sh/docs/feature...
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Automate Private GitHub Repo(s) Access - Polar
Sell premium GitHub repository access with ease
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 04/06/2026
I just open sourced SellRepo this week actually: github.com/sellrepo/
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SellRepo.com
SellRepo.com has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 30/05/2026
Went to the “nerdiest bar in Toronto” with @wesbos.com, Brooke, @excid3.com, my son, and @adamwathan.com!
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 15/05/2026
I was glad to see this finally getting merged today!
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Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io · 11/03/2026
This was a fun collaboration with @excid3.com and can't wait for the features it will unlock at @hatchbox.io 🤘
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/03/2026
Had the pleasure of talking to @jdx.dev on Remote Ruby about Mise, precompiled Ruby, and all his other projects. Give it a listen here: www.remoteruby.com/2260490/epis...
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Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more - Remote Ruby
Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues.&nbsp...
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
I can imagine. It's a big company and lots of people just analyzing numbers I bet.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
I'd have expected the enterprise contracts to be ideal for Heroku. 🤔
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
Love to hear that Neil! ❤️
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
Just your average social media degenerate
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
Big UUID
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 06/02/2026
Hey Michael, happy to help if you want to try Hatchbox! We can be more cost effective, but don't have the autoscaling capabilities others do, so depends on what you need.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 18/12/2025
That's a lot of minutes
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 17/12/2025
Yasss
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RBQ Conf @rbqconf.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
RBQ Conf is officially cookin’. Our CFP is open, and we’re looking for sponsors who want to support a warm, community-first Ruby gathering in Austin. If you’ve got a meaty idea to share—or want to help bring year one to life—we’d love to hear from you. rbqconf.com
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 25/11/2025
"He did not pick something easy to do." - @excid3.com on Episode 327 of Remote Ruby with Brendan Buckingham discussing @jremsikjr.bsky.social's choices in bringing XO Ruby to life
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 25/11/2025
We've got several deals for Rails developers. gorails.com/blog/black-f...
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Black Friday 2025 Sale | GoRails
Learn Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ubuntu, and more with GoRails tutorials.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 05/11/2025
Dang, my M1 MacBook probably needs an upgrade soon then...
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 05/11/2025
Especially since it all renders fine in the browser, never would have noticed these.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 05/11/2025
Yeah everything it found for me would have been real tough to catch manually
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 05/11/2025
Shoutout to @marcoroth.dev for Herb. Just fixed a bunch of small typos in our HTML that it found. Browsers are pretty good at fixing these issues automatically, but I'd sure rather be sending correct HTML instead.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 03/11/2025
New video series for GoRails coming
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 03/11/2025
Watched a bunch of YouTube to fix the wife's coffee machine and now YouTube thinks I'm _really_ into coffee machines.
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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Missouri loves company. Good to sit down for a good long chat with Chris Oliver (@excid3.com) in his home town.
A selfie with Jim and Chris
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Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When people complain Shopify is too prominent, only main company donor in RC, etc. WTF folks. As if that was their choice! Where are the other companies pushing Ruby and Rails with real money and resources to be on par? Talk is cheap.
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Andrew Mason @andrewm.codes · 08/10/2025
New Remote Ruby episode is out! With @excid3.com on paternity leave, I brought in @drbragg.dev and @chaelcodes.bsky.social to unpack the recent controversies surrounding Ruby Central and its control over RubyGems and Bundler. www.buzzsprout.com/2260490/epis...
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Who Owns RubyGems? Inside the Ruby Central Controversy - Remote Ruby
In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris is on paternity leave celebrating the birth of his son, so Andrew brings in Drew Bragg and Rachael Wright-Munn (aka ChaelCodes), to discuss recent controversies s...
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André Arko @indirect.io · 06/10/2025
announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!
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Rosa @rosa.codes · 03/10/2025
A few months ago, I recorded a podcast with Jack from @tuple.app 🥹 It's an episode in their Distributed podcast (tuple.app/distributed/). I talk about async work, long-form writing, Slack withdrawal symptoms, and my personal approach to work. If you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X9h...
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Distributed. A podcast about making remote work—work, with lessons from top engineering teams.
A podcast about making remote work—work, with lessons from top engineering teams.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 27/09/2025
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a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway .
ALT: a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway .
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André Arko @indirect.io · 25/09/2025
Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...
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Bundler belongs to the Ruby community
I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...
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XO Ruby @xoruby.com · 19/09/2025
XO Ruby New Orleans is TOMORROW 🥳🥳 It's not too late to grab your ticket! 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 15/09/2025
Watch it nowwww!
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 15/09/2025
My #RailsWorld talk is live if you'd like to watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lut2...
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Chris Oliver - Beyond the Basics: Advanced Rails Techniques
YouTube video by Ruby on Rails
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Dakota Chambers @chambers.io · 08/09/2025
Just listened to @jremsikjr.bsky.social on the Remote Ruby podcast with @excid3.com - XO Ruby sounds like it's going to be an incredible time. Small conferences are the best! I hope everyone that made it to Chicago loved it. Starting to recover from my Rails World FOMO and now I've got XO Ruby FOMO
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 08/09/2025
My office coworker, asleep on the job.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 08/09/2025
Updated JumpstartRails.com apps to Rails 8.1 beta and started running it in production. Everything is going smoothly so far!
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The Best Rails App Template | Jumpstart Pro
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 08/09/2025
Now that I'm home from #RailsWorld, just cut a new release of Noticed that adds support for Rails 8.1 github.com/excid3/noticed
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GitHub - excid3/noticed: Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications
Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications. Contribute to excid3/noticed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 28/08/2025
Our Black Friday sale will be here soon and we also do PPP discounts.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 28/08/2025
May have went a bit off the Rails™ in my Rails World talk this year...
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 22/08/2025
The more I work on my Rails World talk, the more ideas I get. Lots of good stuff I'm excited to share. Only 2 weeks away!
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 20/08/2025
And I wasn't even invited!
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 20/08/2025
Found an 8 year old db snapshot collecting $0.06 a month for years on AWS. It was hiding in a region that's not used for anything else on this account. Love AWS.
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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 19/08/2025
You nailed it. Fit perfectly with the vibes of the final RailsConf. 🥹
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Kevin Murphy @kevinjm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
@excid3.com thanks for being at my RailsConf talk and mentioning it on the Remote Ruby recap episode.
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