Friendly Show

Steven is on a mission to make SQLite good enough for production.

We talked about

• SQLite and Litestack
• contributing to open source
• being "the guy" in a niche, creating your own luck

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Join the dialogue with Amanda Perino, CEO of the Rails Foundation, as we unpack the intricacies and excitement of Rails World 2024. 

Amanda brings her unique perspective to the table, revealing the behind-the-scenes of organizing a top-tier conference in Toronto and how they're shaping it to be an even more engaging and community-driven event. 

We reminisce about past encounters that birthed our podcast and hear updates on both the Rails community's beloved doggo - Milo, and the technical leaps expected with Rails 8.

What's more, we take your feedback to heart, promising more networking woven into the fabric of this year's slightly streamlined talk schedule.

Our conversation with Amanda Perino doesn't stop there—venture with us as she sheds light on the electrifying atmosphere of RailsVeld at the Evergreen Brickworks and teases at the global roadmap for future Rails events. 

Imagine the potential of Rails conferences in places as diverse as Colombia and Slovakia! 

Plus, we get a sneak peek into the Rails Foundation's 2024 agenda, focusing on enhancing documentation, education, and marketing for the community. 

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Join the conversation with the serial conference organizer Andy Croll, where we talk about how he started Brighton Ruby, why he's still doing it, how he's helping organize RailsConf this year, and about First Ruby Friend and why you should hire junior developers.

https://brightonruby.com/
https://firstrubyfriend.org/
https://railsconf.org/

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Season 1 finale!

Today we talk about:

• our reflections about 2023 and plans for 2024
• Rails 8 features

Highlights:
👶Being a young father
⛵️Sailing
✈️visited 5 Ruby events together
🍻met new Ruby friends
🎙️10x FriendlyShow podcast episodes
🎬68 videos & ✍55 blogposts
🥑All-in on AVO

Will there be a Season 2? Let us know if you want one!

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Mariusz is an old friend of ours. Over the last few years, we've chilled 🍻 at many events around 🇪🇺

He works at an iconic ruby consulting shop in Warsaw, Poland (Visuality), where he was recently promoted from CTO to CEO.

Mariusz gives back to the 💎 community by organizing local meetups (Warsaw, Lodz) and organizing conferences.

In July 2023, he organized the first "Warsaw Community Conference".

Just 6 months later, he is organizing the second edition of Warsaw Community Conference on 02 Feb 2024.

It can be a great opportunity to visit Warsaw and meet old friends!

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Surprise surprise: we invited our friend Andrea to the FRIENDLY show!

We talked about:
💰 How Andrea switched to programming and became CTO
🙆‍♂️ Everybody needs a Paul in their life!
👨🏻‍🍳 who stole the Hotwire Cookbook?
💅 Rails UI libraries
🦘 Ruby Australia

Andrea on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ilrock__
Andrea on GitHub: https://github.com/ilrock
Howire cookbook: https://hotwirecookbook.com
🦊 Flying foxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus

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I think it was one of our most chill, relaxed episodes.
Take a break and join us as we discuss:

• Building a new Rails starter kit?
• Rails UI frameworks?
• GoodJob vs Sidekiq/Redis?
• Best way to do Multitenancy?
• Devise vs other authentication approaches?
• Avo 3 release date, Avo-2025 UI features 
• Providing feedback to software
• How to make superails.com better?

Show notes:

Get Helvetic.rb tickets: https://helvetic-ruby.ch/
Helvetic.rb fondue evening RSVP: https://ruby.social/@marioschuettel/111296355470789293
Notion sharding article: https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion
Phlex UI: https://www.phlexui.com/

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Adrian and Yaroslav completed a Triathlon by visiting 3 Ruby conferences in the span of 3 weeks!

Today we meet to share our fresh emotions after visiting these amazing events.

- EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference) took place in Vilnus, Lithuania (550 attendees)
- FriendlyRB that was organized by Adrian in Bucharest, Romania (130 attendees)
- The first ever RailsWorld conference was in Amsterdam, Netherlands (700 attendees)
- Adrian gave an unconference talk about "Build Rails apps 10x faster" at EuRuKo
- Yaroslav gave a talk "Hotwire Cookbook" at RailsWorld about common usecases and patterns for Hotwire

Adrian wrote a few words on that on his blog.

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André is a long-term maintainer for RubyGems and Bundler - fundamental tools of the Ruby community that we usually take for granted.

🎙️ He joins us to tell the exciting history of how RubyGems and Bundler were created and matured over the years, the challenges of working  how the longevity of these tool

💰💰💰 Maintaining a LARGE open source project can become very expensive ($500,000/month) and about where this money comes from.

André also talks about RubyCentral (organization that organizes RubyConf, oversees RubyGems and Bundler) and RubyTogether (the financing arm of RubyCentral)

We also get to hear about future development plans for RubyGems 🚀🙏

Finally, we talk about RubyConf 2023 and what to expect from the grand event 🏆

✈️ Visit RubyConf on 13-15 November in San Diego, USA 🇺🇸
💸 Sponsor RubyGems & Bundler
💸 Sponsor André

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Jonathan Markwell talks to us about the early days of SaaS, Remote work, and Brighton Ruby. He told us how Brighton Ruby came to be, how he met Andy Croll, and how they hosted two conferences in the same week 🤯

Jon shared the SaaS tool he’s been working on for a while now, and we brainstormed the cool and useful things a SaaS founder might use it on.

The Skiff co-working space in Brighton.

Cogrid - Monitor the Companies You Work With
PlainScaling - Make your first million in calm revenue.

Brighton Ruby Conference hosted by Andy Croll

RailsSaaS Conference

LTVConf
Launch FTW - JUMPSTART your PRODUCT EMPIRE in 12 weeks
Brighton Ruby live-tweeting

Favorite gems

urlbox - urlbox.io

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Production sponsors

SupeRails.com

Avo CMS for Ruby on Rails

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