Andy Waite

Poetry by Matt Solt is an ambitious but impressive-looking frontend component library for Rails, based on View Component. poetryui.com

Three cities, three Saturdays, and a bunch of folks making it happen! Toronto - Oct 3: Clio.com, @fullscriptdev.bsky.social, Phoenix.ca, Toronto Ruby NYC - Oct 10: Chime.com, WyeWorks.com, Montréal - Oct 17: Fullscript.com Leg Sponsors: @dnsimple.com, Typesense.com, @confreaks.bsky.social

jwz: Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain (2023) www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12...

New post: Using puma-dev with Conductor andywaite.com/2026/08/25/u...

New blog post about using `hk` with Ruby/Rails: andywaite.com/2026/08/14/h...

XO Ruby is coming to Toronto in October. Who else is going to be there?

I wonder if Gherkin could be useful for specs in 'no code' libraries like github.com/dbreunig/whe... @mattwynne.net @nateberkopec.bsky.social

I created a small tool to allow agents to run Rails commands without the boot-time overhead of rails runner github.com/andyw8/rails...

I'd heard of Strung Out but never properly checked them out until recently. So many great songs, can't wait to see them live in Toronto in May.

For a long time, I've found the concepts of mutation testing interesting but too tedious to be practical. With agentic AI, that is probably no longer true, so I'm hoping to take fresh look at github.com/mbj/mutant.

Retirement is now defined as having the option to ignore AI

I built a Claude Code plugin that teaches it how to work with Ruby - picks the right version manager, reads the right docs, connects to Ruby LSP. I think we will eventually have community maintained bridges between AI agents and the language ecosystem.

Nice video about the Don Valley MTB trails in Toronto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnA...

When using Claude Code to write Ruby, I often see it adding `puts` calls to investigate failures. I wonder if it could be taught to use ruby/debug to set breakpoints and explore interactively. 🤔

New post: Using Claude Code custom slash commands with Ruby andywaite.com/2025/07/07/u...

@stoppodcasting.bsky.social it would be amazing if you could have fellow Vancouverite @helenzaltzman.bsky.social as a guest sometime

The built-in agent prompts for @zed.dev are an interesting read: zed.dev/leaked-prompts

Joe Leo and I have officially launched a very special first episode of The Ruby AI Podcast: "Beyond Chat: Phoenix Tests, Ruby Agents & the AI Tipping Point" In the pilot episode, we chat about shipping real AI products in Ruby and how Phoenix got started. www.therubyaipodcast.com

The Pinkpop music festival is sharing some great performances from their archive:

I'm giving a talk at Toronto Ruby next week on Exploring the Ruby AI ecosystem lu.ma/i00pdbmp

It's great to see the official launch of Agentic Editing in Zed. I've been using the beta for the past few weeks, and it's been very impressive.

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

Just released the Ruby extension v0.5.6 for @zed.dev, packed with goodies and fixes contributed by the community. This is so awesome! Thank you all! github.com/zed-extensio...

I've been really enjoying Meteor recently as background music while reading or coding. Synthwave/darksynth with no vocals: open.spotify.com/artist/3A4fN...

Looking forward to these gigs in Toronto over the next few months!

Look at this fantastic speaker lineup for @brightonruby.com in June. I am such a fan of @andycroll.bsky.social! brightonruby.com

New post: Setting up @zed.dev with Ruby LSP www.andywaite.com/2025/03/31/s...

I don't play many video games but I bought RoboCop: Rogue City and loved it. Such a great tribute to the first two movies. I'm looking forward to the Unfinished Business expansion coming out later this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjUA...

It's been like 2 years since I last wrote anything about debugging in Ruby, so here's a list of suggestions I'd give in 2025. st0012.dev/my-ruby-debu...

I did a thing. If you know a Rubyist or Ruby-friendly person near Belfast, let them know. Our goal is to reach the heights @inazarova.bsky.social has achieved with SFRuby 😅 www.meetup.com/belfastruby/...

There’s a petition to the Canadian Parliament to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... I think every Canadian who’s on Fedi or Bluesky should sign this now, no exceptions. If you have Canadian followers, please repost this or just post it yourself. This matters.

Ontario votes this Thursday, February 27th. Wasting taxpayer money to tear out safe bike lanes is reckless and dangerous. On election day, send a strong message: no city has ever solved congestion by prioritizing cars—bike lanes should remain a municipal decision.

Had some time to wrap up some features on ruby-lsp.nvim. New features include auto-detection of standard/rubocop (opt-in), and a command to update the Ruby LSP. github.com/adam12/ruby-...

A short blog post: Extracting transcripts from Just Press Record www.andywaite.com/2024/12/08/e...

I donated to help the fight to save bike lanes and resist Bill 212 #toronto www.cycleto.ca/donate @cycletoronto.bsky.social