RubyConf Austria

Dear #RubyFriends , save the date! The first edition of #RubyConfAT is taking place on 29-31th of May in 2026 in Das MuTh theatre in Vienna, Austria. 🙌 Check out our website and subscribe to the newsletter for news about tickets and speakers to come. #Ruby #Rails #Vienna

Clean Code is Good For AIs, Too I wanted to work out how to help AIs understand my code, so I ran an experiment with some surprising results. (link in follow-on post)

@RailsEventStore I wrote short blog post about storing data as sequence of facts summarizing my @RubyConfAT lightning talk + some additional thoughts. If you never heard about event sourcing it might be a good first-short read to start exploring the subject blog.arkency.com/storing-data-a…

AI made Architecture important again. That was my main take away from the @RubyConfAT in Vienna. With all the agents doing coding for us, this is now the biggest responsibility for humans. Keep your Rails app well modularized, use packwerk to enforce boundaries.

Still thinking about RubyConf Austria in Vienna I got to talk with José Valim, Obie Fernandez, Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. If you know the profound love I have for Ruby history and lore…. I can’t imagine anything better (Not even counting how it was THE PERFECT conf FULL of amazing people)

Remember when being a 40 year old coder was a meme? Now I feel like a 30-60 year old veteran Rubyist is like gold dust for what they can do with a modern coding tool @chadfowler really nailed this at his talk last week. Rubyists led the conversation on so many important movements and shine in change Extreme programming; tdd; bdd; convention over configuration Maximizing joy and letting one human hold a whole app in their head WE WERE BUILT FOR THIS ERA

Last weekend we had an amazing time at @RubyConfAT - inspiring Ruby talks, the spirit of classical Vienna, and wonderful people all around. Thank you to everyone who made it so memorable. We came home with great memories and inspiration for wroclove.rb 2027! Stay tuned ⭐

Woot! The Tidewave gem for Rails has crossed 1M downloads: rubygems.org/gems/tidewave/ tidewave.ai is the best way to use coding agents for building web applications and we will have some more exciting updates soon! Give it a try!

I'm having more fun than I've had in a long time. (link in 1st comment)

Most software architecture assumes the implementation is the system. That’s why rewrites fail. The implementation contains years of accumulated memory: edge cases, operational lessons, regulatory constraints, production discoveries, failed experiments, and hard-won invariants. The code runs the system. The memory is the system

Here's the slide deck from my "Future of RuboCop" talk at @RubyConfAT speakerdeck.com/bbatsov/ruboco…

I'm rich! muhamed.at/im-rich/

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"I didn't do this thing because it was easy... I did it because I thought it would be easy." - Radan Skorić at RubyConf Austria 😂

do you agree with this new dynamics in dev companies?

The dream event: Ruby and music - at @RubyConfAT It has me inspired and wanting more ❤️

Bwaahaha

In about an hour I'll do my first solo JRuby workshop at RubyConf Austria! I've used this opportunity to start assembling a complete JRuby tutorial, and I'd love to include your ideas. Check it out: github.com/headius/tutori…

The skills you worked hard to develop as a programmer are just as valid today in the world of AI agents. Link below.

Nostalgia is not a strategy. Chad Fowler's amazing perspective on the future of systems at RubyConf Austria