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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 03/06/2026

Bundler supports cooldowns now! Really great work from the RubyGems and RubyGems.org teams!!

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com · 29/09/2025

Had a great time presenting Multitenancy Patterns at PGConf NYC 2025 @pgconfnyc.bsky.social Slides: speakerdeck.com/andyatkinson... SQL demos/GitHub Repo: github.com/andyatkinson...

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Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com · 30/09/2025

Andres Freund sharing some very exciting performance gains being worked on with Async IO infrastructure now in place in 18. Future Postgres versions will benefit from this for index scans, backwards scans, bgwriter, checkpointer, copy, vacuum and much more. @pgconfnyc.bsky.social

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Manu @manu-j.com · 21/09/2025

Best of luck! Your talk on Ruby GC is one of the best conference talks I have watched.

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Manu @manu-j.com · 09/08/2025

Sounds good to me. The left and right sides being very different is distracting.

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Beyond performance work, I deprecated a bunch of APis in the JSON gem, and added others, so I figured it would be a good occasion to talk about API design: byroot.github.io/ruby/json/20...

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What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?

As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer.

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Manu @manu-j.com · 01/08/2025

Looks great. Can you provide some details on how you built this?

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Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com · 26/07/2025

Honored to be presenting at PGConf NYC in a couple of months! Hope to see you there. #postgresql bsky.app/profile/pgco...

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Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com · 25/07/2025

RailsConf talks are live. Would love your feedback! Presentation page with more info and all the links: andyatkinson.com/10-mistakes RailsConf 2025 10 Costly Database Performance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them) by Andrew Atkinson www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ8R...

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RailsConf 2025 10 Costly Database Performance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them) by Andrew Atkinson

YouTube video by Ruby Central

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Manu @manu-j.com · 25/07/2025

It was great chatting with you JP!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 25/05/2025

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others) These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on. They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

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Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com · 23/04/2025

If your team needs expert help improving performance, scalability, and reliability for your Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL application, Refined Pages, LLC can help. We'll systematically refactor Active Record ORM queries to optimize PostgreSQL performance. Let’s chat: refinedpages.com

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Vitaly Slobodin @vitallium.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Improving the initial UX of the Ruby extension for @zed.dev by using the newly introduced `Process` API. Isolated and automatic installation of LSP gems but we check the project gemset first. 🎉 github.com/zed-extensio...

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Manu @manu-j.com · 06/04/2025

The AWS option is using local storage for only temporary data but planetscale is using it for storage of all data. That's not really comparable.

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 03/04/2025

As revealed at @tropicalonrails.bsky.social today, we are introducing an iOS app for @rubyevents.org to push and support the recent uptick in Ruby Events around the world. #tropicalonrails #tropicalonrails2025

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Chris Oliver @excid3.com · 31/03/2025

If you've ever wondered how @rubycentral.org conference talks are decided, Noel wrote up a great thread about the process.

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Manu @manu-j.com · 25/03/2025

if you're on Mac try orbstack instead of Doctor desktop. It can be significantly faster

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Manu @manu-j.com · 18/03/2025

"start for free" or equivalent CTA

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Manu @manu-j.com · 09/03/2025

> It's a thing you mostly get though practice I'd say. I agree. I tell that to people about ops. A lot of it is based on intuition/pattern matching which comes from practice. I wasn't looking for a guide but about sharing more like the memory leak post.

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Manu @manu-j.com · 09/03/2025

CI topic is great. What I would also like to see 1. Investigating performance/memory issues using modern tools like Vernier 2. Not sure if this is up your alley but telemetry in production.

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 07/03/2025

I’m still unemployed and looking for a new full time position doing Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, CSS. If you know people who are hiring, I’d really appreciate an introduction. 🙏

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Manu @manu-j.com · 07/03/2025

Done with veto? Do you have a source?

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Manu @manu-j.com · 06/03/2025

OMG. This is too cute 😊

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Manu @manu-j.com · 06/03/2025

Cardboard? I thought 3D printers used plastic resin?

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Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Here we go. That one I really needed to get of my chest for the better part of a year, so I feel relieved now. It's really long but hopefully not too hard to follow. byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

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The Pitchfork Story

A bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/02/2025

Is there any company that publishes more self-critical and as-transparent-as-can-be postmortems than Cloudflare... within 24 hours of major incidents, should I say? They've been doing it forever. I personally trust them more for it. Eg from a few weeks ago:

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Janko Marohnić @janko.io · 18/02/2025

I really value that Tailwind CSS documentation uses real-world examples to introduce features 🫶 Those are much harder to produce than contrived examples, and the benefit is that they not only teach me library API, but also various strategies I can apply to my project 💯

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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 12/02/2025

I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...

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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · 26/01/2025

When I scheduled the Rails guided tour I had no idea how popular it'd be, so thank you everybody for helping it sell out! I'm adding another on February 6th that's more friendly to EU time zones + group registration too so bring your squad! lu.ma/8a8clh9b

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Guiding You through the Rails Source · Zoom · Luma

Rails is your app's biggest dependency and you probably don't know what's going on in there. tl;dr: I'm a former Rails core member guiding you through complex…

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 22/01/2025

I'm incredibly excited to announce that we've partnered with @fractaledmind.bsky.social to produce our first course on Ruby on Rails. Sponsored by @hatchbox.io and @honeybadger.io, High Leverage Rails is an in-depth video course on Rails + SQLite for beginners. Coming in February!

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 21/01/2025

You should be using JavaScript sets more often Now in all browsers and Node - these 7 new set methods are key for when trying to compare two arrays or sets of data.

New JavaScript Set Methods
const set1 = new Set(['wes', 'kait']);
const set2 = new Set(['wes', 'scott']);
Difference
Elements in set2 but not in set1
set2.difference(set1)
> ['scott']
Intersection
Elements that exist in both sets
set1.intersection(set2)
> ['wes']
Symmetric Difference
Elements in either set, but not both
set1.symmetricDifference(set2)
> ['kait', 'scott']
Union
All elements from both sets
set1.union(set2)
> ['wes', 'kait', 'scott']
Is Disjoint From
True if sets share no elements
set1.isDisjointFrom(set2)
> false
Is Subset Of
True if all elements are in other set
set1.isSubsetOf(set2)
> false
Is Superset Of
True if it contains all other's elements
set1.isSupersetOf(set2)
> false

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Stephen Margheim @fractaledmind.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Awesome new Ruby gem(s) alert! 🚨🚨 This week @joel.drapper.me and I wrapped up the awesome Difftastic tool into a gem with precompiled binaries. Difftastic gives you AST-driven diffs instead of simple text-driven diffs by leveraging the power of Tree Sitter.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 17/01/2025

I forget the original source but this is so good. I need a little pocket version that goes in my wallet like a credit card.

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Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io · 15/01/2025

This is an awesome event from @kaspth.bsky.social. Reading the Rails source is how I leveled up (and made my first PR to Rails!) too. It's a rare opportunity to get a guided tour from a former Rails core team member.

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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 11/01/2025

It's here, it's here! New Joy & Curiosity! Starts with a hot take and, if I might say so, in the parlance of our times, doesn't really cool down, you know. If your email pipe's clogged and it's not in your inbox, read it here: registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-cu...

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 11/01/2025

It feels like I’m in the future right now at this exact moment. - 3d printing a white picket fence for my wife’s bird feeder - one handed typing into my IDE’s chat and it’s going and doing things for me - baby is asleep on my shoulder

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 11/01/2025

As usual, Danny hits the nail on the head. 🔨 I’ve had to fight this temptation myself. Cursor changes 50 lines and the lazy part of my brain says "I’m sure it’s fine, just accept the changes". Seems like a great way to plateau in your growth as a developer. 😬

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 04/01/2025

This is so spot on. Two things: 1. Being focused on producing output the fastest way possible means that you will never prioritize "going deep" 2. Going deep (and down the rabbit hole) is how you learn more: but you need to balance it. Figure out how to do both: it's tricky!

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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · 28/12/2024

This week I also spent a few hours reworking IRB's documentation, which was previously scattered across its GitHub Pages and README. Now, everything is merged into one place: ruby.github.io/irb

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IRB Documentation

IRB Documentation: Overview \IRB stands for "Interactive Ruby" and is a tool to interactively execute Ruby expressions read from the standard input. The `irb` command f

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