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RubyConf 2026 is coming up soon! The deadline to buy a ticket and enter the VIP raffle by buying a RubyConf ticket is July 1st. That’s only 2 days from this post’s publication. This personal essay explores why a language-specific conference in the age of AI is still important and why events are still important for bringing developers together.
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This is a copy of the canonical report I published on RubyCentral’s site. I recommend reading there for the most updated copy. This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September 10-18, 2025, which I’ve named “RubyGems Fracture.”
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This is a personal essay (I speak for me and my views, not for my employer) about what exactly a “Sustaining Engineering Model” is, in the context of the recent Heroku announcement, and the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” as seen by someone who has worked at the company for the past 14 years.
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Now that programmers are at war with the robots (Gen AI) for our jobs, we need to lean into the things that they cannot do. Today, I’m going to be talking about how to be a human and communicate with other humans in the most hostile of scenarios, “in conflict (drama).”
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I recently discovered that adding a clippy.toml file to the root of a Rust project gives the ability to disallow a method or a type when running cargo clippy. This has been really useful. I want to share two quick ways that I’ve used it: Enhancing std::fs calls via fs_err and protecting CWD threadsafety in tests.
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