Twitter/X just keeps getting worse. I can’t write anything in their web UI because it regularly eats the draft and I have to start over.
(If you’re wondering why I bother, I have a business audience that I just can’t reach elsewhere.)
This week on FounderQuest, the indie SaaS podcast for software developers:
Ben and Josh catch up after a few weeks of heads-down product work, and they have lots to talk about—including a new Discord server for FounderQuest listeners! Plus, hear Josh’s thesis on why it’s a huge problem if you’re not using your product to the max.
I picked up this 2.1 megapixel Digital Camera for Dummies from eBay to use in next month’s Shitty Camera Challenge over on Bluesky (will also cross-post to Mastodon).
Is this shitty enough?
Getting a lot of Wise.com (TransferWise) phishing emails breaking through the spam filter lately. Stay safe out there.
Sending my 8yo screenshots of Know Your Meme to explain the origins of Grumpy Cat. This whole parenthood thing is starting to get good.
Not sure who needs to hear this
Ube Mochi Pancake & Waffle Mix
A chewy mochi pancake mix with purple yam
Here’s what we worked on during our last product cycle at Honeybadger: a curated Rails performance dashboard with automatic Ruby instrumentation! ✨
“Shoutout to Brad, who’s still using Perl” #Monitorama
It was great catching up with Adam from Judoscale on FounderQuest this week.
Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!
Love this place
I’m dreaming, but it would be a shame if some kind billionaire bought Free Speech Systems at auction and shut it down. (In reality it will probably be X’s first post-Musk acquisition.)
“Reck is lightweight compared to other Ruby web frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra. We handle only the routing and middleware layers using Ruby’s built-in exception system to raise requests to the client. Flow control in Ruby has never been easier.”
Who wants to join my secret Honeybadger Discord?
Things we could chat about there:
- DevOps, monitoring, observability
- Indie SaaS and marketing
- Junior devs/early career
- General goofing off
Send me an email if you’d like to join (josh at honeybadger.io).
To be honest, “DHH switches to Linux and discovers ricing” was not on my 2024 bingo card.
I just landed in PDX and found three new #RubyFriends
Don’t let it fall! 🍕
I really enjoyed all of the talks at Blue Ridge Ruby. It’s so much work to create a good presentation—thanks to all of the speakers! Here are some moments from day two (Friday).
Second half of Blue Ridge Ruby day 1. Loved all the talks today. Cool afterparty at Little Jumbo, which I heard was part-owned by a local Rubyist?
Today was a great day in more ways than one.
Great first morning of talks at Blue Ridge Ruby! Local single-track Ruby conferences are magical, let’s do more of them. ✨
I’m headed to Asheville, NC for Blue Ridge Ruby. Can’t wait to see you all and make some new Ruby Friends!
Have we considered that Mulder and Scully are actually not good special agents and that’s why they’re in a made-up department that the brass created to fuck with them?
It’s not perfect, but Bluesky is my favorite social network by far. What is it about Bluesky?
Remember when Twitter and Reddit had entire developer ecosystems built around their open APIs? Those were the days.
Remember when every Ruby programmer had their own style guide?
I tried something new with my last short blog post about writing. I recorded a narrated version of it. In addition to writing more, I’d like to be more practiced and comfortable speaking into a microphone.
Today on FounderQuest, John Nunemaker joined Ben Curtis and myself to discuss our recent trip to Detroit for RailsConf!
There’s momentum in the Rails community and I loved the call from Irina Nazarova to be loud about what we’re building with Rails (16:21):
Just bought The Rails 7 Way and Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez 🎉
I’m particularly excited to read the AI one, I want to up my game.
Rocky Mountains 📷
Thank you for RailsConf
This year, Ruby Central announced that 2025 will be the last RailsConf. While I’m sad to lose a favorite Ruby conference, it’s for the best. The Ruby Central team will be able to focus on their core mission: supporting the Ruby language.
There is so much work to do and so much opportunity to improve Ruby’s community and ecosystem. I’m excited to see what Ruby Central will do with their renewed focus, but they must be well-funded to succeed. If you love Ruby, consider becoming a monthly sustaining member—and ask your employer to do the same:
https://rubycentral.org/support/
One last thing—It’s too easy to create caricatures of each other, to assume the worst, to forget about the people behind the avatars. Let’s come together to build the best language, frameworks, and community that we can.
Thank you, Ruby Central, for so many wonderful years of RailsConf!
Matz is nice and so we are nice (MINASWAN)
As a former freelancer, I wonder what non-developer founders think about AI coding agents. Twelve years ago, many of the Rails rescue projects I worked on resulted from poorly maintained codebases that the client had hacked on themselves in some cases.
Will the new “rescue project” be code that has had Copilot Workspace PRs uncritically merged by various actors over the years?
hell yeah, Jekyll micro blog!
hello world