Andy Croll

Look at these lovely folks, wouldn't it be great to shake their hands in a week's time? thoughtbot.com/blog/meet-thou…

@DRBragg And it seems that so _many_ people are wrong, with only one person who is correct. Funny how that goes.

@andycroll But then how will everyone else know you're wrong?!

Pitching a fit on your blog or socials and berating the organizers every time your talk isn't accepted for a conference is a great way to ensure that your talk is never accepted at those conferences.

Today is Raffa’s final day after nearly sixteen years. He’s been in heart failure for a few weeks, now at the point where we’d be keeping him around for us and not for him. Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply profound. Lots of tears at my place today.

Is anyone going to @brightonruby and would be willing to buddy up with this junior looking to network? Or at the very minimum, drop them some advice on Reddit? reddit.com/r/rails/commen… cc: @andycroll

@AmandaBPerino Number go up. Life evaporate.

I wish I never met you.

Designed a Brighton Ruby t-shirt for 2026! rubytshirts.com/collections/br…

@AmandaBPerino @afomera @blastoffrails I'm a lover not a fighter.

@afomera @andycroll @blastoffrails Same, I couldn't get past you for quite awhile, you kept wanting to fight. Very on brand.

I met myself in the @blastoffrails promo game 😆 So fun!

@jchibbard @antko__ Ah. I’m running rails main and must’ve dreamed it into 8.1

@antko__ Oh crap, you’re right. I just picked that up from the article and didn’t double-check the version. cc @andycroll

🔐 Rails 8.1 introduces a single API for secrets. It replaces the usual ENV vs credentials juggling with Rails creds and an ENV-first fallback. #Rails andycroll.com/ruby/use-rails…

Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby this June! Looks like quite a lineup for Ruby/Rails builders. I'll also be hosting a workshop the day before on AI adoption with your team. Ruby friends — who's going?

The inflection trilogy ends. (Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful) andycroll.com/ruby/teach-rai…

The dive into inflections continues. andycroll.com/ruby/handle-un…

In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in. rubytshirts.com/products/thumb…

Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right? rubytshirts.com/products/serve…

to_param lets you customize your URLs andycroll.com/ruby/to-param-…

@PurpleRiver_Dev @hatchboxio I'm extremely narrow in my marketing efforts on the way to the world's dominant provider of nerd t-shirts. One customer at a time.

@andycroll @hatchboxio Amazing!

Running your own servers doesn't have to be scary. Spinning up a new service for every side project is draining. Instead, deploy everything to one server with us — it just works. Auto deploys, multiple apps on a single box, and way less money out the door each month.

@PurpleRiver_Dev @hatchboxio rubytshirts.com/products/serve…

@hatchboxio I have a fair few t-shirts which say "No Servers Allowed" from when I was working for a company that was pushing serverless hard. Can we get a "Servers Aren't Scary" tshirt? Maybe BigScary himself @andycroll could help? (with rubytshirts.com)

@PurpleRiver_Dev @hatchboxio WIP

@PurpleRiver_Dev @hatchboxio On holiday. But when I’m back…