Blue Ridge Ruby Hey friends. Wish I was there. Have fun!

Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame often with the same result. Blue Ridge Ruby

Shout out to Jay Sanders for supporting us!

Thanks Little Jumbo

Great view of downtown Asheville in the lobby of thecollider.org.

Maybe this is the power of AI???

That’s a rap folks! Thanks to everyone: volunteers, speakers and attendees for making the conference great this year. See you in 2025!

I wrote up some of my thoughts from Blue Ridge Ruby; the most important of which are: - It was an absolute blast! - Support your regional conferences! - We need to goof off more microblog.thomascannon.me/2024/06/02/blu…

Great article on BRR 2024 from @honeybadger.io honeybadger.io/blog/blue-ridg…

Hey folks! Let’s see your BRR conference T-shirt along with your location. I’ll start, I am with the family and Vancouver British Columbia. ⛰️

We have another programmer opening at 37signals. Fully remote, pay between $170,000 - $201,980, eligible for profit share after 2 years, and the chance to work with some amazing people on Basecamp, HEY, ONCE, Rails, Kamal. Oh, and Linux 😄 jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/773

Reminder: I'm presenting on Ruby+AI tonight at the virtual NYC.RB meetup. Open to anyone that wants to attend, just rsvp at this link: meetup.com/nyc-rb/events/…

Wondering what makes Madison+ Ruby unforgettable? Experience the magic through the eyes of past attendees and feel the warmth that defines our community ✨ Secure your spot and get ready to be part of the action Aug 1-2nd madisonruby.com Flagrant ® #KeepOnBugging

Hey Ruby on Rails developers, have you checked out our ViewComponent in the Wild series? We share tips and tricks based on our experience using GitHub’s ViewComponent library.

I got to visit Sweden and Denmark for Baltic Ruby a little more than a week ago. It was an amazing trip! I didn't travel much outside the US when I was younger, and I've been dying to explore more of the world for the past few years. I realized last year at Friendly.rb that

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 The videos from Blue Ridge Ruby 2024 are now LIVE! 📹✨ Dive into insightful talks and innovative ideas, from amazing speakers. Whether you missed the event or want to relive the experience, check out the full playlist now! 🔗 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

RailsConf 2024 Update 📽️ We're thrilled to share our amazing recap video 🙌Thanks to everyone, including Confreaks, LLC. youtu.be/f4SGZsrFLSI?si… Full videos coming next week 🎉 For more fun, don't miss RubyConf 2024 - join our list to get presale tix now: rubyconf.org

Final job hunt update: it was one of the longest three months of my life but I got a gig! All I can say for now is: Elixir & OSS! 😎 I really want to thank y'all for your support, reposts, likes, DMs, emails and so on. This was very helpful and I'm grateful ❤️

Hope everyone has a safe and productive 4th of July! Take a break from the laptop and enjoy time with your significant other, families and friends today!

With remote work here to stay, leading to greater need for orgs to have offsites for rare/needed facetime, I wonder if conference organizers have an opportunity to create structure–or even packages–to support org offsites, either before or after a conf.