nonconstant

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Building better devtools with Evil Martians and better WebSockets with AnyCable.

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Comment · 1 month ago

Kudos to RubyGems team for handling it, but open source fighting off the AI lab-powered robots is completely unfair.

OpenAI should at the very least donate large sums of money to everyone they attacked.

Comment · 7 months ago

Key growth stories and hacks, the agentic flywheel, and ratings of VCs and angels by investment thesis, partner names included.

Comment · 7 months ago

Hey! I started using web presentations recently, so I went ahead and built something super fun - a plugin (for Slidev and Reveal.js) that adds interactive slides: ask a question and watch answers coming in, in real time. People scan a QR code and respond from their mobile browsers. It's powered by the free version of our product (AnyCable, I'm a co-founder) - but AnyCable is also MIT licensed, so no vendor lock. It just guarantees that with under 2000 people in the audience, it's gonna work smoothly. I tested it on audiences over 1,000 and also on zoom meetings. It's pretty cool. Ask a question (multiple choice or free input), create a whole quiz. We don't have persistence yet but I'm super open to suggestions for sure!

Also my first npm package ever (thanks to CC, but jeez I'm not a TS dev for sure, but, you know, people and robots helped).

Here's a demo (with explanation and live questions): https://slide-quiz-demo.netlify.app/

Repo: https://github.com/anycable/slide-quiz

Comment · 10 months ago

Ruby is #5 most used and #3 most loved programming language in the Pragmatic Engineer survey 2025: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...

It means that basically, Ruby is huge in the SF Bay thanks to its adoption by startup founders, but it is a lot less popular outside of the Bay Area.

Comment · 10 months ago

Also: lots of other big Ruby shops are on Sorbet, like Figma, One Medical, Gusto etc. We discussed this at the SF Ruby meetup after this talk https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/past-present-and-future-of-...

Comment · 10 months ago

Stripe is using typed Ruby: they are authors of https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet

The Ruby community needs to know what happened last week at SF Ruby Conf blog.adrianthedev.com

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Comment · 11 months ago

We're gathering in San Francisco to learn from, build for, and celebrate companies choosing Ruby and Rails for new products today. Come and join the pragmatists and idealists who enjoy writing Ruby.