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SF Ruby 2025 and the Thousand People Framework

Nov 26, 2025 · 4 min read · I think it's important that the Ruby community knows what just happened in San Francisco last week. 400+ Rubyists got together and shared ideas and visions. They exchanged opinions and presented the past, present, and future of Ruby. I went to very ...

Friendly is taking a break

Sep 19, 2025 · 9 min read · Tl;DR; We're taking a break with Friendly.rb. We had three beautiful editions, incredible fun, and learned so much in the process. This happening changed us, the hosts in ways we could not imagine. We're taking a break because things have happened in...

Your company's digital brain

Jul 9, 2025 · 1 min read · What do you need in your digital brain? That's how I think about Avo now. It's not some closeted admin panel where only five people dare to go because touching the data wrong might crash the app. It's the place where you invite your whole team to run...

Developer marketing is important

Jul 2, 2025 · 2 min read · Here's something that's been on my mind lately about the Rails ecosystem. For the past 10 years, there's been massive investment in dev tooling, especially for JavaScript and TypeScript companies. They take some of that funding and deploy it to marke...

One of the first medium-sized Hotwire apps

Jun 24, 2025 · 1 min read · Remember the pandemic when we were all stuck at home? That's when I built the first version of Avo. It started as a challenge to see if I could do it. A Vue.js frontend with a Rails API backend. Nothing fancy, just me experimenting during lockdown. T...