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"Honey, I shrunk the conference"
In 2025, XO Ruby hit the road—bringing local, one-day Ruby events to communities nationwide. With support from partners like Cisco and DNSimple, we proved smaller, people-first gatherings spark deeper connections. Now, we’re taking those lessons into 2026.
Join XO Ruby San Diego Remotely
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Jim Remsik
Tim Riley is joining XO Ruby San Diego later today from Australia with a talk titled What I Talk About When I Talk About Ruby. Seeing as how he is presenting remotely we're inviting folks to join us via Zoom's Webinar feature later today. Join from
The Unexpected Magic of In-Person Conferences
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Jim Remsik
In an era where virtual meetings have become the norm and remote work dominates the tech landscape, you might wonder: what's the big deal about attending conferences in person? Can't you just watch the recordings later? The Ruby community has some compelling answers that might surprise
The Artist's Way book club and readalong
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Jim Remsik
If you’ve been feeling creatively stuck or want to carve a new artistic path for yourself, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a 12 week program designed to help people rediscover and heal their relationships with creativity. While this will be a design-centered group, you don’t
The Update #001
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Jim Remsik
The 7500 mile road trip begins in 2 weeks. If you're in the path of travel let us know we'd love to visit your community. Quick highlights: • 7 new speakers confirmed • Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans venue details finalized • DNSimple has signed on as an event
Sidekiq
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Jim Remsik
Sidekiq is the leading background job processor for Ruby applications, trusted by developers to handle millions of tasks efficiently and reliably. Used by the Ruby community, Sidekiq integrates seamlessly with Rails, delivering fast, scalable performance for modern apps that require robust background job management and real-time processing.
Ruby: How a language reflects its people
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Jim Remsik
Language needs a community to flourish it is not an individual but a whole community of language users that guarantees the futureproof-ness, the usability, the pertinence, the practicality etc of a language. Ultimately, the survival of a language. 🔗Watch the full talk on RubyEvents – Ruby: How a language reflects its
Preparations are underway ...
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Jim Remsik
Early next month we'll head to Chicago for our first event. We've been gearing up with projectors, PA systems, and stage backdrops to provide a consistent level of quality for all of our events. We're packing a car full of equipment and traveling from
Lunch
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Jim Remsik
Why I'm Taking Events on the Road This Fall
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Jim Remsik
I last interviewed for a job in 2007. Since then, each new opportunity in my career has come through my network. People who knew when I was ready for something new, who could vouch for my work, who said "here's a specific person with these traits, would
Introducing Herb ...
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Jim Remsik
At RubyKaigi 2025 we were finally able to see what Marco Roth has been building toward although if you've been watching his work it was there all along. * Rails World 2024: The Future of Rails as a Full-Stack Framework powered by Hotwire * SF Bay Area Meetup: Announcing Hotwire.
The Design of Everyday Things book club and readalong
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Jim Remsik
Design isn’t just how something looks, but how it works, how it’s used, and how humans interact with it. Many things in our built environment—alarms, control panels, mobile apps, user interfaces—lead humans to make mistakes not because we aren’t paying attention, but because they’re