iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 11/02/2026

The Ruby community shines because of leaders who build, care for, and sustain it. The Community Leadership Gem Award honors those who create safe, inclusive spaces through meetups, conferences, and local communities worldwide. Nominate a community gem: airtable.com/appBBx7FkmSp...

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 10/02/2026

RubyConf 2026 is being reimagined as our flagship, community-curated event. A dedicated program committee is shaping a stellar program with new focus and themes, all with the future of Ruby in mind. CFP submissions are now open. sessionize.com/rubyconf-202...

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 09/10/2025

Use AI-powered techniques to create recommendation systems, personalized search, and content discovery tools. Implement vector search from the ground up with step-by-step guidance, real-world examples, and hands-on coding pragprog.com/titles/... 40% off with code Pragpicks @hummusonrails.com

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Docker @docker.com · 12/04/2025

Developers: “I wish I could run AI locally without all the setup.” Docker: “Say less.” @hummusonrails.com dropped a 🔥 blog on the new Docker Model Runner: 🔗 spklr.io/63328AJqs #Docker #AI #Git #DevTools

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Docker Does What?!? Run AI Models Locally with Docker

Docker has always been about simplifying developers' lives, making it effortless to build, ship, and...

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 10/02/2025

Never travel without one in my backpack.

Travel router configured to my home router and other VPNs ready to go.

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/01/2025

I can't believe I hit over 10k #YouTube channel views (actually 11,321 but who's counting? 😅)! I intend to make a lot more content over this year. All #developer focused short form (5 minutes or less). Give me a follow if you want to join the journey! 👇 www.youtube.com/@HummusOnRails

YouTube message that I achieved 10,000 views on my channel. I'm really grateful!

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David Hill @davidhill.dev · 13/01/2025

It's new episode Monday! Ben Greenberg ( @hummusonrails.com ) joins me in the newest episode of the Ode to RailsConf podcast to share his experiences with RailsConf. Give it a listen! www.odetorailsconf.com/2363110/epis...

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Ben Greenberg - Ode to RailsConf

Ever taken a detour to Costco during a tech conference? In our latest episode, join me and special guest Ben Greenberg as we recount such quirky adventures and the profound impacts of RailsConf on our...

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 03/01/2025

New project dropping soon! Tired of guessing which dev events to sponsor? I'm building to help solve it! 📍Use natural language to find events 📍Filter by region, dev community, etc. 📍Check sentiment 📍Save or export Beta testers get free Enterprise plan. Interested? LMK and I'll add you!

Screenshot showing feature of the site, using natural language and a combination of search parameters to narrow down from hundreds and hundreds of developer events

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 23/12/2024

Can you tell the theme for my upcoming talk at the GitHub user group meetup tonight in Tel Aviv? Does the font give it away? 🛸👽 #starwars

Picture of laptop screen with PowerPoint slide with a specific space themed font for the word “testing”.

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 23/12/2024

Some things I wish would stay in the States. We really don’t need another American fast food chain like Cinnabon in Tel Aviv. #fastfood #telaviv #thanksnothanks

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 22/12/2024

That was quick! Thank you friends. Maybe next time I should be more ambitious and a bit less modest in goal setting? 😅

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 22/12/2024

Friends, it's a modest goal, but I'd love to get to 100 subscribers on my #YouTube channel before the new year. I am just *4* subscribers away from that goal. Can you help me get there? www.youtube.com/@HummusOnRails

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Learn with Ben

Welcome! I'm Ben, a Developer Advocate with a passion for development and community. With a background that spans from being a non-profit executive to an informal educator and now a developer, I bring...

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Couchbase @couchbase.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

🎄 On the 1st day of #12DaysOfCouchmas, we're recapping one of the biggest and most exciting moments of the year: Capella AI Services! Get a quick overview of the new services in 2 minutes or less from #Couchbase developer evangelist @hummusonrails.com. More to come tomorrow! bit.ly/3ZGu5bC

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 19/12/2024

When HBO Max sends me an email that says "for fans of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 🪲" (tbh not such a fan, but I did wach it) and then recommends... Batman Returns 🦇 What does that tell you about their content similarity search algorithm?

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/12/2024

When you are solo building a SaaS on the weekends and evenings you become the: ✨developer ✨designer ✨BD ✨marketer ✨content writer ✨partnerships mgr ✨SDR Busy with everything and hoping you get at least some of it right…

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 16/12/2024

Sent in completed draft of my new book on learning vector search for devs with Node.js to @pragprog.com last week. 🎉 A lot more steps to do until it's published, but really excited about completing this milestone step! #Books #Publishing #TechBooks #Milestone

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Rizel Scarlett 🇦🇬🇬🇾 @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Your AI tool is not a person. It’s best to market it is as it is: a tool.

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 11/12/2024

Israeli fortune cookies read like a verse from Tanakh: ‘The end of an act begins with thought, and much thought follows…’ Fortune cookie or the Bible? You decide. 🤣 #food #fortunecookie #israel

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 10/12/2024

You know you watch too many developer videos on YouTube when the ads shown to you include @sentry.io content from @whitep4nth3r.com 😂

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 09/12/2024

Building RAG apps is too much fun! Do you agree with the response on which planet in the #StarWars universe would be most familiar to someone from Earth? The AI context is being enhanced with a vector search of Star Wars data on @couchbase.bsky.social. Are you buying a place on Alderaan today?

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 05/12/2024

Benefit #1 of remote working: Being able to step out for a quick lunch with your spouse during the workday. (Also, not fighting traffic; not being interrupted constantly; using the office chair that’s right for you, etc., etc. 😅)

Two people outside posing for a picture after a nice lunch

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Kay Vee @handle.invalid · 29/11/2024

Now on stage of CityJS Athens @hummusonrails.com talking about vector searches and embedded models. I love that man's energy 😄

Ben on the left is talking about vector searches on to an auditorium stage with his presentation slides on the back

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 29/11/2024

Anuradha is delivering a fantastic hands-on talk on web accessibility at @cityjsconf.bsky.social. Learning quite a lot from her dynamic presentation. 👏 #a11y #accessibility #cityjs #javascript

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 29/11/2024

The next time you’re in Greece and you think hey that language sounds really unique, guess what? You’re right! It’s the *only* member of the Hellenic branch of Indo-European languages. That’s it, just Greek. Nothing else like it. 🇬🇷 #linguistics #nerdyfacts #greece

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 28/11/2024

Past two days I've received a couple unsolicited SDR outbound emails offering me free AirPods for booking a 20-min consultation with them. How many people follow up on that? Is that worth the ROI? 🤔

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Silicon Florist @siliconflorist.com · 26/11/2024

If you're a web dev interested to going to head-to-head with other web devs — game show style — get ready to be happy. @jason.energy has an open casting call you'll want to answer siliconflorist.com/2024/11/26/w...

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Web devs… come on down! A game show casting call

I’m a huge fan of local developer Jason Lengstorf and his work on Learn With Jason. It’s like Developer TV. And now, they’re looking to get even more devs involved. With Leet Heat…

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Couchbase @couchbase.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#CloudDayTelAviv is in the books! 🇮🇱 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn about our partnership with Google Cloud, join our giveaways, and enjoy some tasty popcorn 🍿. Excited for a great partnership and more to come! @hummusonrails.com

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 25/11/2024

I’m here with the @couchbase.bsky.social team at @GoogleCloud_IL Cloud Day TLV! Come say hi at our booth and grab some popcorn! 🍿

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 21/11/2024

After a 14 hour flight I land home and right away in a cooking competition for a bar mitzvah celebration. Don’t even know if it’s day or night but cooking here we come!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 18/11/2024

Reason #2901583 I like listening to NPR podcasts: “please be warned this episode contains some swearing in the German dialect of Franconian.” 😅

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/11/2024

Some light reading for the flight 😅

Book cover for nuclear war by Annie Jacobsen

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 17/11/2024

They say it takes hearing something a few times before signing up. After being in the audience again for @nodunayo.bsky.social brilliant (and last??) Ruby mystery series, I finally joined The StoryGraph. Why did I wait so long?! It’s an absolutely fantastic app for readers! thestorygraph.com

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The StoryGraph

We'll help you track your reading and choose your next book.

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David Hill @davidhill.dev · 13/11/2024

Another recent #RubyFriend, Ben Greenberg came on my podcast to talk about RailsConf, so of course we talked about a variety of other topics as well. But #RubyConf is the first time we got to meet in person

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 15/11/2024

And the last of the @couchbase.bsky.social swag is going fast on the final day of #rubyconf! Stay warm, #rubyfriends, and get yours before it’s gone!

Two lovely people grabbing some winter gear

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 14/11/2024

#rubyfriends, we got you covered for the Chicago winter! ❄️ Come to Hack Day and get geared up and figure out how to build GenAI apps and more with the new @couchbase.bsky.social Ruby ORM! Curt and I are here to get you started going and hacking on all your projects!

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 14/11/2024

Sitting in an American coffee shop this time of year means hearing "Jewish" music. Or, wait, Christmas music? No, Christmas *themed* music… written by American Jews in the '50s. 😅

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Allie_p @alliep.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Look at this packed room!! Already bumped into some old friends and new ones :-) #rubyfriends #rubyconf

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 13/11/2024

When you come to Chicago for a conference, and you’re a kosher meat eater, there is one mandatory stop in the north side that’s a requirement. #kosher #romanian #chicago

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 11/11/2024

If you record lots of videos, properly investing in a teleprompter can save you so much time. The Elgato prompter is one I use at home, and it's cut down my recording time by hours. No more countless redos. www.elgato.com/ww/en

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Elgato

A leader in audiovisual technology for creators and WFH pros, Elgato builds premium webcams, microphones, Stream Deck controllers, capture cards, and more.

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 10/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some love you have done apart from what you do now: - RadioShack associate - community organizer - rabbi - labor union intern - Hebrew school teacher - college chaplain

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 08/11/2024

Back in the city just for the weekend. You may see me today working from random coffee spots all over from lower manhattan to the upper west 🗽

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 05/11/2024

It's #ElectionDay in the US 🇺🇸 and as an American who has lived abroad for years, it's clear a lot of folks globally (and Americans themselves) don't actually know how Presidents get elected. Given the global impact of the US, it's good to know! Let's do a quick thread.. 🧵

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 04/11/2024

I'll be at CityJS in Athens 🇬🇷 in just a few weeks demystifying vector search for all of us who don't have a math PhD! We'll learn how to create embeddings, what they are, and how to use them to create an intuitive search for our users of our apps. See you there! youtube.com/shorts/SDerk...

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Vector search at CityJS Athens! #ai #developer

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Ben Greenberg @hummusonrails.com · 04/11/2024

Last night, I helped my 13 year old son set up VSCode, configure his terminal, create a GitHub account and get a Python environment with Pybricks set up on his computer. His robotics class is using the web UI, but he wanted to code like his dad. A proud coding dad moment. 😁

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