Andy Croll

This week's guest needed to reschedule. I have a buffer, so I don't NEED to record this week, but I'd love to keep a consistent recording schedule so I don't accidentally burn through it. Anyone out there in the Ruby/Rails space up for talking about what they're working on?

My first thought when I saw this in the Rails community survey. "Holy crap." railsdeveloper.com/survey/2026...

Welp... Got laid off from Podia today. Kinda a lot to process for a Thursday. I'll have something more coherent to say eventually. For now, send Ruby/Rails leads. Or dog pictures.... Both are good.

I wrote about this "build it for yourself" mentality here: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/08/15/y...

Am thinking of shutting down the Ruby (and other) T-shirts store I’ve been running. Is a fun experiment but can’t justify the running costs! Unless I can work out a way to at least make it revenue neutral. madethescene.com/collections...

Wrote a thing about last week's Rails World. andycroll.com/ruby/look-a...

I'm honored and humbled to join the Rails core team. I'll be focusing on security and improvements to Active Storage and Action Text. Please reach out if you have thoughts on what would make your work easier.

Teaser for my Rails World talk tomorrow. A brief history of time.

Holy shit. Robot taxis in Austin. Completely mind blowing.

The journey begins to Austin. Not saying that coffee options are limited at 6:45AM on a Sunday in Brighton but, I’ve had better.

New Raffish mix. A frankly preposterous journey from Prince to King Bee via DnB, hard house and a funky tribute to the late Dolly Parton www.mixcloud.com/raffishdj/ra...

Do you know who's smart? Vaidehi is.

"Hi there, just giving you a call about your AWS usage at your business" "That's weird, we don't use it" "Azure?" "Nope" <stunned silence>

Andy Kroll joins me this week to talk AI-assisted development, why coding tests may no longer make sense, hiring for judgement instead, Brighton Ruby, and Rails World. Today is the last day to enter the giveaway for a Rails World ticket: forms.gle/LoLvTfJ2BFav...

The talks for Brighton Ruby are now up and free to watch www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... If you'd like to learn more about how GitHub does performance work, have a look!

Quick this year right? Brighton Ruby 2026's talks all on YouTube (for the first time). www.youtube.com/playlist?li...

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

Today is Raffa's final day after nearly sixteen years. He's been in heart failure for a few weeks, and reached 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.

It's only five weeks away! Are you going to be there? I'm talking, of course, about Brighton Ruby. I'm really excited to hang out with Rubyists near the ocean. Also, pubs. brightonruby.com

Made a new blurg post about AI + OSS security. I was going to just complain on here, but I figured a short blog post would be better for my complaining 😂 tenderlovemaking.com/2026/05/06/r...

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

Can you drop a link to this survey in your Discord/Slack? railsdeveloper.com/survey/

We made a game for Rails devs based on the conference! You can play your way through real places in Albuquerque, interacting with real people from the community. Choose your gem and face your destiny! game.blastoffrails.com

I wrote some more as a way to fight jet lag, hopefully it's still readable 😅: byroot.github.io/ruby/bundler...

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I'm excited for this year's Brighton Ruby lineup! It'll be my first trip to Brighton. RUBYISTS ASSEMMMMBLE brightonruby.com

Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby.com 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-...

The dive into inflections continues. andycroll.com/ruby/handle...

Booked to speak at 2 conferences this year. Both in Europe! Topic: AI (obviously). Wish me luck writing talks that aren't out-dated by the time I'm on stage 3 and 6 months from now 😬

200 Passports leaving for Brighton Ruby

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

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

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

Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern. andycroll.com/ruby/use-st...

Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism andycroll.com/ruby/prefer...

Discovering Hong Kong or taking photos of my new fit from rubytshirts.com? Gimme both! #_why

If you're within my age demographic and you lived in Europe... then I don't need to explain this. rubytshirts.com/products/wo...

Shared the @tailwindcss.com and jekyll no build setup I use on my site. andycroll.com/ruby/simple...

Just to say we're up to a very healthy 2,400+ organisations on usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth.dev for a bunch of those :-)

My blog. I’ll extract it. Needs tailwind cli though.

Agent OS v3 is out. Legacy codebases are a challenge in AI development. Your agents can scan your files, but not the knowledge and decisions baked in between the lines. Agent OS enhances (doesn't reinvent) what Claude Code does well. New video & docs here: buildermethods.com/agent-os