If you're a early career developer and you read tweets like this and think "Okay. I want to learn the fundamentals and how things really work. How do I go about doing that?" I think I can help. I'm announcing something in this week's newsletter (Inspired by a current student).

Awesome talks at Balkan Ruby this morning by Irina Nazarova Adrian Marin 🥑 avohq.io Bozhidar (Bug) Batsov resonated with all of them in different ways #ruby

🚀Applications are still open for the Black Tech Pipeline🚀 x Rails Camp USA scholarship program! We're excited to see so many enthusiastic applicants, but once again, there are more than we can support. If interested in sponsoring an applicant or two to experience their first Rails Camp,

Great insights of current market from Gergely Orosz what's happening and why? has it happened before? Interesting how he cross references finance and tech (we've seen this with DHH) youtube.com/watch?v=VpPPHD…

He also highlights Shopify's organizational performance, the monolith comeback, fullstack devs are becoming more popular and the trend for boring tech is growing

'In almost all cases, any unexpected or uncommon error should be raised as an exception, and not handled via a return value. Otherwise, you end up with a case where the error is silently ignored.' .Jeremy Evans, 'Polished Ruby Programming'

The Ruby community is volunteering Alex Rudall (Alex Rudall) to represent us at the OpenAI Dev Day in London this year. Deserving of a scholarship as well!

Had a blast at yesterdays Ruby meetup in SFO! Great talks, convos with attendees and speakers, the venue, such a cool community 🚀 Thanks Irina Nazarova for putting all this together

If stars align there will be a live stream of tomorrow's SF Bay are #Ruby meetup at GitHub HQ here: youtube.com/watch?v=aqvGdP… at 5.30 pm PST on September 3. I hope it works out (thanks to GitHub's AV team).

Sin City Ruby starts in just two days, but people are still buying tickets, and you can too!

Over half the workshop is booked. Time to finalize details, review exercises, and trim content to allow more discussion. #GoodEnoughTesting

If you want to learn how to guide your LLM to write better testing, this video may help you. (it was supposed to be my lighting talk for Railsconf 😅) youtu.be/WjpeslJPT-Y

AI is here to stay 🙌 Between "vibe code everything from one prompt" to "I ain't using AI" there's a whole spectrum. One of the points on the spectrum is to get some help with our own code and having a framework to get it to write the tests for you.

Very clear and grounded example of how MCP + Rails can work together 👏 avohq.io/blog/mcp-serve…

Ruby on Trails is back for the second year in a row! 🎒🥾 We'll be doing a 19-mile section of the Appalachian Trail, September 24-28. And we've got room for 2-4 more participants. If you're interested, check out the details and contact me! jeremysmithco.notion.site/Ruby-on-Trails…