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robbyrussell

288 karma · joined February 1, 2010

CEO/Founder of Planet Argon, created Oh My Zsh, host of both the On Rails and Maintainable.fm podcasts.
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The Most Valuable Engineer Isn't Shipping Features – Rails World 2026 Keynote [video]

youtube.com·2 pts·robbyrussell·
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Oh My Zsh now supports a configurable update cooldown

github.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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Rails App Just Got Acquired. Now What?

blog.planetargon.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails

podcast.rubyonrails.org·6 pts·robbyrussell·
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Rails: 13 Years of Rails at the Auto Shop

podcast.rubyonrails.org·4 pts·robbyrussell·
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Building AI-First at Intercom (With Claude Code and Rails) [video]

youtube.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Your codebase doesn't care how it got written

robbyonrails.com·29 pts·robbyrussell·
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Rails at the Center of DNSimple

podcast.rubyonrails.org·4 pts·robbyrussell·
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8,400 GitHub repos share a naming convention that traces back to South Park joke

github.com·4 pts·robbyrussell·
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Claude Code for the Semi-Reluctant, Somewhat Curious Rails Developer

robbyonrails.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Building a RAG Tool in Ruby 4

robbyonrails.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Most Developers Don't Build New Things

robbyonrails.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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I Didn't Want AI to Be Good at This

robbyonrails.com·11 pts·robbyrussell·
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The Cost of Leaving a Software Rewrite "On the Table"

blog.planetargon.com·2 pts·robbyrussell·
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On Rails Podcast: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself [video]

youtube.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"

robbyonrails.com·153 pts·robbyrussell·
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Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect

maintainable.fm·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Architecture for Contraction

robbyonrails.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale – On Rails

onrails.buzzsprout.com·2 pts·robbyrussell·
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Talking Shop with Ruby and Rails Maintainers at Rails World 2025

robbyonrails.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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Seven stages teams go through with their software tech stack

robbyonrails.com·2 pts·robbyrussell·
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When Your Cache Has a Bigger Carbon Footprint Than Your Users

robbyonrails.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

maintainable.fm·108 pts·robbyrussell·
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The Internal Tooling Maturity Ladder

robbyonrails.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Doximity's 15-Year Rails Monolith

onrails.buzzsprout.com·2 pts·robbyrussell·
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Scaling Rails for Users as a Solo Dev

onrails.buzzsprout.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Stop Pretending You're the Last Developer

robbyonrails.com·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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On Rails: A New Podcast from the Rails Foundation

rubyonrails.org·3 pts·robbyrussell·
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Prepare to tack: Steering Rails apps out of technical debt [video]

youtube.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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Stimulus has dethroned React (in the Rails community)

twitter.com·1 pts·robbyrussell·
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