Deanin

Today I was promoted to Director of Software at Detroit Defense! Looking forward to expanding beyond Ruby on Rails tutorials into leadership one day soon. Until then, we'll continue learning by doing. 😎 linkedin.com/posts/deanioco…

@BillyBlueBlaze1 "I'm not dead yet!"

@Deaniocom Is Ruby on Rails still a thing? I thought it died.

Today I uploaded a beginner Ruby on Rails 8 tutorial on how to deploy your app to production on Digital Ocean. Tools like Kamal are really going to change the game for people vibe coding Rails apps, or beginners looking to publish their first project! youtu.be/tGi3YGGhIGg

@ThePrimeagen I can't believe there are people even entertaining the idea of defending LoC as a productivity metric. I can't even imagine what my department would do to me if I told them to start measuring lines of code. 🤦

hey, asking for a friend can we stop using lines of code for a measurement in productivity? at one point we all agreed on this

@sbstnjmnzv @teej_dv @cmuratori Say it ain't so?! 😱

@teej_dv @cmuratori Wait so Rails does scale!? I’m confused haha

wait.... is my 2026 prediction of "github doing one thing @cmuratori likes" going to come true so soon?!

@lucianghinda Sleeves are rolled up, let's get to work! 😁

@Deaniocom Welcome back! Looking forward to your tutorials and vidoes

Today I uploaded my first Ruby on Rails 8 tutorial. I decided to return to my roots and get things started with an absolute beginners guide to the framework Looking forward to giving back to the community again and working on my backlog of suggestions! youtu.be/VRd8belO1zE?si…

@jesseagleboy Glad to be back! 🙂

@Deaniocom Love your videos and really excited to get back into Rails! Thank you for coming back.

@SmithWebDev Thank you! I've missed doing it. I'm trying to find a way to balance the new responsibilities while uploading. Hopefully I can do it a bit more regularly moving forward 🙂

@Deaniocom Welcome back, weve missed your content... thank you

@DThompsonDev From a health perspective, I'm a little upset at 2024 me From a career perspective, 2026 me owes 2024 me a great deal and I understand some of those health choices Considering my 3 year plan, I think future Dean will be grateful to me for decisions I'm making today as well! 🙂

Does the "2026 You" thank the "2024 You" or do you dislike some of those "Nah, I don't feel like it today" choices?

@CDawgVA "Okay but hear me out"

No, fuck off.

Good call. Glad I could contribute, Illy's mom seems like a good person so hopefully this can give her some comfort as she finds her way through this. I know it would be a lot of extra bandwidth, and you don't have to commit publicly, but this may be a good annual charity tradition to consider. Some split between the foundation and Illy's mom. I'd personally be happy to pitch in each year. Thanks either way for all you're doing. You're a good man, Mr. Drumsy.

Appreciating the outpouring of love for Illy ❤️ Have had some people ask if they can donate to Illy's mom directly other than buying the poster. I set up a gofundme in case anyone prefers that - gofund.me/a0fd4602c

@DrumsyOfficial I'm sorry to hear that. She seemed like a kind, warm person. I'm sure she left a mark on a lot of people through your collaborations. She'll continue to live on in our memories and your videos. All the best to you, as well as her family.

This is incredibly hard to write, but last week, Illy passed away. She brought so much warmth and kindness into my life, even when she was ill. Thank you for showing her love over the years, you gave her so much purpose and joy. Things won't feel the same without her.

I think what we're going to see is a short term contraction in educational content creation. But ultimately it'll be cyclical. We'll come back with higher quality tutorials and courses. I think LLMs have exposed the quality problem we've had for a while as opposed to purely reducing demand. The important thing for people like us to keep in mind is the best time to buy is when the market is down, not when it's at an all time high. It's a bit riskier, but I think now is the time to pivot towards higher quality content to prepare for when the market pivots back to courses and tutorials.

Do you think the age of programming courses are now dead?

Finished putting together my Christmas present!

I think every educational content creator I've spoken with has felt similarly in recent times. It's a bit scary because the LLMs are trained on our data. If we stop making them, and they stop learning from them, we'll hit a big "reset" point in the not-so-distant future. But you also can't fault the people trying to learn. They're doing what they think is best and will allow them to learn as quickly as possible. And to be frank, I get it. A lot of videos don't respect the viewers time, they have mistakes. The passion isn't there. I know my passion and quality faltered at times. I'm not quite sure what the answer is in the short term. But I think leaning even more towards the human experience may be the way to go. In the long term, though? The demand will be cyclical. It just may take a different shape.

@lucianghinda Thanks Lucian!

@Deaniocom Congratulations and looking forward to read more from you about leadership

Today I was promoted to Director of Software at Detroit Defense! Looking forward to expanding beyond Ruby on Rails tutorials into leadership one day soon. Until then, we'll continue learning by doing. 😎 linkedin.com/posts/deanioco…

@viktorianer4 Hahaha right back to business, I love it!

@Deaniocom Great news Deanin! Anyway, happy to see Rails videos from you, again 😝.

@leeen1024 Thank you!

@Deaniocom Congrats!

@samuelodan Thank you Sam!

@Deaniocom Congrats, Deanin ✨

@chuggingcoffee_ Thank you!

@Deaniocom Very cool. Congrats!