Jeremy Smith

PSA: @heroku has decided to roll out their new router without telling anyone. Very cool! If you run Ruby on Rails, with Puma, and you notice increased latency/issues in the next week you can either: heroku labs:enable http-disable-keepalive-to-dyno -a my-app or // Upgrade…

I wrote some reflections on the flight home from the last RailsConf almost two weeks ago. I've just been sitting on them, feeling some reluctance to share. Maybe because I don't want to be misunderstood? Not sure. But I decided I'd share anyway, and hopefully it's meaningful.

I have this weird thing where my brain will get fixated on a word for a day or two. This doesn't happen all the time, but regularly. It's not on an endless loop, but if I have a break in attention or train of thought, I'm saying that word to myself again. I'm not thinking about…

⚡️ We launched General ticket sale for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025 The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥. Friends, help us share the message!

The team at quiltt.io is hiring for a full-time remote product engineer (Rails) with strong Sidekiq and React experience. Lmk if you’re interested and I can pass along your info to the CTO.

Question for my Ruby friends 🧼 Is there a repository of Rails, Ruby best practices or RuboCop style guides broken down by various organizations? I’m researching how best practices vary across different companies or teams.

My twin, @wmdmark, and I think the Internet is entering a new — yet strangely  familiar — 3rd era. If you'd like a clearer big-picture map of how we see design, learning, & teaching evolving, we'd love for you to join the conversation this Thursday at 12 pm EDT.

We are looking for a developer marketing manager — someone who truly gets developer communities to join our team @evilmartians help devtools startups become unicorns and we need help telling these stories $52k-82k (depending on seniority), remote, option to relocate to Portugal…

If that’s something you’ve been thinking about, we’re hosting a small workshop where we’ll go through all of this hands-on, no fluff. Just real people trying to show up better. Join us if you’re curious. lu.ma/hvli157s

>This table is pretty predictable, except perhaps for how much love there is for Ruby on Rails. The language is the 5th most popular in usage, and the 3rd most loved one. Whoa!

Do you have a project that was inspired by or came out of your time at #RailsConf? 👀 Share with me for a possible feature!

It'll be good to have a little breather and also avoid the summer podcast slump…which appears to be a real thing, looking at stats? 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, we've got a long list of folks we still want to chat with soon!

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Today is the last day to submit your SF Ruby Conf CFP. I’ve already been messaged by a few people. Time is running out before submissions are closed, but you can still make it happen before midnight pacific! ⏳

SF Ruby Conference CFP submissions will close this Sunday (midnight Pacific), if you want any help on your ideas or submission that’s also a valued usage of my time! I have no say in who gets accepted, but I’m always happy to collaborate!

My team is looking for a full-time Rails developer in Orangeburg, New York or Jerusalem, Israel! We build internal apps for a family of medical logistics companies. 😎 Latest Rails + Hotwire + Kamal + SQL Server. 👉 Full job post here: lnkd.in/dyGsa2cq