why's foxes — conf guestbook @whysfoxes.bsky.social The official unofficial #RubyLang #conference #guestbook for why’s Poignant Guide to #Ruby — now with more foxes and 🥓 chunky bacon.
Where #Rubyists scribble, foxes frolic, and code is never quite what you expect.
Sync from https://ruby.social/@whysfoxes
José Albornoz @eljojo.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy sane, reasonable posts written by a decent human.
I graduated from one of Canada's top ruby schools with really good grades.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://ruby.social/@eljojo, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Petr Hlavicka @petr.codes Lead Software Engineer at Stora.co | Co-Founder of eval.cz | ❤️ Ruby on Rails & Hotwire (Turbo & Stimulus) | 🧙♂️ D&D player
Owen Ashworth @advancebase.bsky.social Formerly the dude from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, currently the dude from Advance Base
Chicago, Illinois
https://linktr.ee/advancebase
Greg Molnar @greg.molnar.io I post on Twitter mostly. Find me at https://x.com/gregmolnar
Dennis E. Taylor @dennisetaylor.bsky.social Author of the Bobiverse series.
I am a retired computer programmer, mountain biker, snowboarder, occasional napper, and lover of pizza and coffee (mostly coffee).
Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social Associat Professor at Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN), at Hokkaido University, working on Artificial Life//Embodied Self/Sense of Presence/Altered States/Computational Phenomenology|
https://keisukesuzuki.org/
Brian Scanlan @bscanlan.bsky.social Unix helpdesk at Intercom
@ioquatix.bsky.social @ioquatix.bsky.social 
Christopher B @cbennell.com He/Him. I build web stuff. cbennell.com
James Bell @sarcainian.eurosky.social (he/him) @sarcain@ruby.social (Mastodon)
Web head, reader, cook, rubyist and all that.
chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social he him / musician / record producer / death cab for cutie, '97 - '14 / http://chriswalla.com
Piotr Szotkowski 🛡️ @chastell.net 👴 speedrunning retirement
🧑💻 (prev.) cheap science officer at Rebased
🤹♂️ (prev.) assistant professor at WUT’s cybersecurity division
💎 (bad co-)maintainer of Bogus & Reek
📷 (very amateur) street photographer
🫂 he/him, vim/nvim
🕸️ https://chastell.net
Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! Co-founder of tryhardstudios.com
- https://MasteringPostgres.com
- https://HighPerformanceSQLite.com
- https://screencasting.com
- https://mostlytechnical.com
- https://aaronfrancis.com
Tim Riley @timriley.info Rubyist. Leading Hanami, Dry, Rom.
Canberra, Australia. he/him.
https://timriley.info/
@eightbitraptor.bsky.social @eightbitraptor.bsky.social Ruby core committer. Builds Keyboards. MiniDisc, Fountain Pen and Void Linux enthusiast. Drinks too much coffee.
日本語を勉強しています。でもまだ上手じゃないです。助けてください！😅
Christine Seeman @christine-seeman.com Ruby/Rails full stack engineer in the middle of the US 🥁 Rush fan 🎵 Viola player 🐱🐱🐱🧒 Geeky mom 📚 Reading all the books, especially scifi/fantasy 🐘 ruby.social/@christine she/her
WNB.rb (Women and Non-Binary Rubyists) @wnb-rb.dev Monthly Ruby meetup and virtual community dedicated to supporting and uplifting women and non-binary people. We host meetups, interview prep, bookclubs and CFP working groups and so much more! https://www.wnb-rb.dev/ Discord: https://discord.gg/fFT3wmvJFt
Andrew Novo @simplythat.bsky.social Developer @shopify
Vinicius Stock @vinistock.bsky.social Staff engineer at Shopify working on the Ruby developer experience team | Ruby LSP creator | Speaker
Developer tooling, static analysis and type checking
dirceu @dirceu.bsky.social Brazilian who became Canadian. Building AI agents at @Shopify. I like systems thinking, simplifying things, and JRPGs that don't require reflexes.
Andy Waite @andyw8.bsky.social 🏴🇨🇦 Ruby Product Engineer, Toronto. Currently at Rootly, previously at Shopify.- B Étienne Barrié @bihi.bsky.social
Paul Campbell @paulca.com Co-founder and CEO of Team Tito.
Tito is an Irish company that makes:
- Tito (https://ti.to) for event registration
- Vito (https://vi.to) for online communities
- Tito Pro (https://pro.tito.io) for branded experiences
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊 @rhiannon.io Author of The Remote Work Era book 📖 | Founder of Seafoam.media 🌊 | Marketing for clients including @activeagents.ai & prev @rubycentral.org 💎 | SF-based & semi-nomadic 🌁✈️
@jasonswett.bsky.social @jasonswett.bsky.social 
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Andreas Finger 🇪🇺 @mediafinger.com Living the #VanLife 🚐 all over Europe 🇪🇺
formerly strongly involved in the #Ruby and #Rails communities of #Barcelona 🇪🇸 and #Hamburg 🇩🇪
you might know me as 'Señor Developer' from conferences - #Freelancer at day - side-project #Developer at night
Ruby Central @rubycentral.org Ruby Central is the organizing force behind RubyConf, RailsConf & the proud maintainers of RubyGems, Bundler. We've been advancing the Ruby ecosystem & community since 2001.
Get involved: https://rubycentral.org
RailsConf 2025: https://railsconf.org
Stanislav (Stas) Katkov @skatkov.com Linux on desktop is happening. I'm permanently building something.
http://devtui.com and http://poshtui.com
Rob Zolkos @robzolkos.com Ruby on Rails developer here to help solo devs and small teams amplify their impact. I upgrade Rails apps and keep old ones running. email: robzolkos@hey.com
zolkos.com
Dave Kimura @davekimura.bsky.social Christian, Husband, Father and Rubyist, Screencaster of https://www.driftingruby.com, Creator of ActionAuth https://github.com/kobaltz/action_auth, Makes and loves 🍣
Short Ruby Newsletter @shortruby.com It is a Monday morning summary of the articles, discussions, and news from the Ruby community.
Subscribe at newsletter.shortruby.com- N @nikita-vasilevsky.bsky.social @nikita-vasilevsky.bsky.social
Crunchy Data @crunchydata.com Just Postgres www.crunchydata.com
Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano https://peterc.org/
Jean Boussier @byroot.bsky.social Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
Kevin Menard @nirvdrum.bsky.social Optimizing Ruby via ZJIT and TruffleRuby.
Alexander Adam @alexanderadam.bsky.social 🤓 Software dev working in ♦️ #RubyLang and 💎 #CrystalLang as a #freelancer & at◽vade.io
Skeets may be English & German.
Mostly active on 🐘 #Mastodon/#Fediverse though 😉
https://ruby.social/@alexanderadam
#ruby #CrystalLanguage #crystal #rails
Mark Allen @markhallen.dev Building with Ruby on Rails. Learning SEO, marketing and Tailwind. Developer @ GitHub, former Shopify and United Nations. Opinions are my own.
Gabi Stefanini @lastgabs.bsky.social Leading Ruby & Rails Infrastructure at @Shopify 💎& building the future of Ruby & Rails at scale with awesome humans ✨. Night owl 🦉 who codes, games, draws, travels.
Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
AT-proto based encrypted group chat protocol: @freeq.at
Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
https://chadfowler.com/
Evil Martians @evilmartians.com Design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Lago, Tines, Teleport, Wallarm, and Whop grow with Evil Martians.
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at https://bio.link/julianrubisch
Ryan Caldwell @ryanjamescaldwell.bsky.social 📍 North Carolina, US
💻 Senior Software Engineer, GitHub Copilot
👨💻 ryanjamescaldwell.dev
Olivier Lacan @olivierlacan.bsky.social Mostly a redirect to olivierlacan@ruby.social 
k0kubun @k0kubun.com Optimizing Ruby JIT. ZJIT team at Shopify.
John Hawthorn @jhawthorn.com Writing code for @Shopify, Rails, and Ruby. Previously @GitHub.
he/him | Victoria, BC | jhawthorn.com
Eric Halverson @elhalvers.bsky.social Software Engineer- Ruby / Rails mostly
I enjoy hiking, biking, birding, paddling,
reading, writing, coding, chessing, fooding! : )
CJ Avilla @cjavilla.bsky.social 
Nate Hopkins @hopsoft.bsky.social Software writer, maker. Creator of several Ruby and JavaScript libraries.
Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co Product-focused Rails dev • Studio: http://hybrd.co • Co-host: @indierails.com • Organizer: @blueridgeruby.com
Andrew Hodson @mybuddyandrew.bsky.social Auto Technician 👨🏻🔧 to Ruby on Rails developer 👨🏻💻 at Go Rails ❤️ | Helping my son become an Astronaut 🚀 | Hauling Buddies, AskRailsAI, SpamZappr
Harry Llewelyn @harry.dev Trying to have fun writing software.
https://harry.dev
Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social Founder & (sometimes) CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. Email me at jason@hey.com.
José Valim @josevalim.bsky.social Creator of Elixir. Working at Dashbit and Livebook.
Kelly Sutton @kellysutton.bsky.social 
Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev Engineering Manager at Shopify. Mom, Rubyist, CEO of @wnb-rb.dev. she/her 🏳️🌈
Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes Head gardener, @graceful.dev. Code cleric, software coach and consultant, author, Ruby Hero, recovering podcaster, and very tired dad of many kids. He/him.
Home: http://avdi.codes
Justin Searls @searls.bsky.social I make things that nobody's asking for.
I used to post things that nobody was asking for, but then I stopped. Learn about me at https://justin.searls.co or reach out to justin@searls.co
Kent Beck @kentbeck.com Independent I guess these days you'd say content producer, artist, programmer, musician, pokerist. More about me at https://KentBeck.com.
Brooke Oliver @bnmxc9.bsky.social Are any of our thoughts really our own? 
Ufuk Kayserilioglu @ufuk.dev Physicist turned software developer turned engineering manager. Current: Leading Ruby Infrastructure team at Shopify & Board Member at @rubycentral.org
🌐 https://ufuk.dev
👨💻 https://github.com/paracycle
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
Evan Phoenix @evanphx.dev Startup CEO at @miren.dev
Organic bio-electric pattern matching grid.
Nickolas Means @nmeans.dev Storyteller, student of disasters, coffee obsessive.
📝: https://nmeans.dev
🎙️: https://managingup.show
👨💻: https://medscout.io
🌮: Austin, TX
🏳️🌈 Y'all Means All! 💚 Verde Hasta la Muerte!
Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby.
OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem.
Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.
Ernesto Tagwerker @etagwerker.com Proud Father. Loving Husband. #OpenSource Maintainer. Pronouns: He/Him. Also: Founder & CTO at @ombulabs.ai & @FastRuby.io.
Jared Norman @jardo.dev serving at the altar of digital commerce https://jardo.dev
Chris Salzberg @shioyama.bsky.social Canadian programmer in Japan. Member of Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infra team. https://chrissalzberg.com
Stan Lo @st0012.dev Taiwanese 🇹🇼 / Ruby committer / Shopify Ruby DX / Building developer tooling infrastructure / Exploring how AI changes open source
st0012.dev
Adrian Marin @adrianthedev.com Building the best dev-tools for Rails developers 🙌
Father, developer, aspiring entrepreneur
#conferencehost 👉 @friendlyrb.com
#indiedev 👉 @avohq.io
#podcast 👉 http://friendly.show
Jesper Christiansen @jesper.dev Full-stack web developer. Independent Contractor - Loves Ruby/Rails. JS/React/Vue. Works on side projects formbackend.com, many.link
Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com Husband, 6x Dad, Latter-day Saint, Dev, Educator
🏹 http://EpicProduct.engineer
⚡️ http://EpicAI.pro
🌌 http://EpicWeb.dev
🚀 http://EpicReact.dev
🏆 http://TestingJavaScript.com
David Stosik @davidstosik.bsky.social Ruby on Rails developer at Shopify.
Dad living in the Nagano countryside.
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
⎯
software • information • systems • dystopia • hope
signal: joshuawood.17
Yukihiro Matz @matz.bsky.social Ruby's Father 
Chris Oliver @excid3.com Rails Luminary building GoRails.com, JumpstartRails.com, Hatchbox.io, RailsBytes.com, Remote Ruby Podcast and lots of open source projects.
Do things that scare you.
https://excid3.com
Noel Rappin @noelrappin.com Staff Engineer at Chime. Co-author of Programming Ruby. Author of Modern Front End Development for Rails. Also, http://noelrappin.com/about to find me. (He/Him)
Benjamin Wood @benjaminwood.bsky.social Extinguished Engineer🧯| CTO at ClickFunnels 🧙♂️ | Building selective.ci ✨
Andrew Mason @andrewm.codes Rails @ Podia 🦄 | Remote Ruby 🎧 | #AZ 🌵
Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails and other backend shenanigans.
Eating croissants in the SF Bay Area. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Andrew Atkinson @andyatkinson.com Author of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Staff Engineer, Consultant, Speaker
andyatkinson.com/pgrailsbook
Andy Croll @andycroll.bsky.social 
Amanda Perino @amandabrooke.bsky.social 
Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social Everlasting student · Rails Core · Zeitwerk · Freelance · Life lover
Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com dude on the internet
Rose W @rosew.bsky.social Principal Software Engineer. 25+ Years Coding, Mother of Teens, Ruby, Book Lover, ADHD, Cats, Nature, Crochet, Boise, She/her.
hsbt @hsbt.org A member of Ruby core team and Rubygems team. Administrator of ruby-lang.org. mastodon account is @hsbt@ruby.social
Andrea Fomera @afomera.dev Senior Software Engineer • 🏳️🌈 she/her
Abby Hudson @abbyhudson.bsky.social Ruby & Typescript developer
Guillermo Iguaran @guilleiguaran.bsky.social Rails Core Team member
Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev Full-Stack Web Developer • OSS Contributor • Electronic Music Addict • Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Stimulus, Crystal • Hotwire Contributors Team • StimulusReflex Core.
Website: marcoroth.dev
Building: rubyevents.org | rubyconferences.org | gem.sh | hotwire.io
Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com Rails core alumni, principle consultant at https://spinel.coop where we do https://rv.dev and help teams level up.
Creator & maintainer of Oaken, and other next-gen Rails extensions.
tapster @mileswoodroffe.com CTO | Software Engineer | Rails Foundation Director | Rubyist | Ex-Sound Engineer | Runner | https://1500cals.com
https://mileswoodroffe.com
Rosa @rosa.codes 🇪🇺 European ❤️ cities, maths, theoretical computer science, learning languages, puzzles & bicycles 🐶 Human to Mochi 👩🏻💻 Principal programmer @ 37signals - she/her - Antwerp 🇧🇪 / Madrid 🇪🇸
Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social CEO @evilmartians.com
Co-founder of @anycable.io
Organizing @sfruby.com
Cody Norman @codynorman.com Ruby on Rails consultant, mentor and weird dude
Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, creator of the faker gem, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
Justin Bowen @tonsoffun.bsky.social Rubyist with a decade of AI and computer vision experience. Building @activeagents.ai