Aurelie Verrot
@aurelie.bsky.social
Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails and other backend shenanigans. Eating croissants in the SF Bay Area. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Welcome Carmine Paolino (@paolino.me) as one of our speakers. He's an AI engineer, founder, and open source contributor. He created RubyLLM, bringing modern AI tooling to Ruby, and co-founded Freshflow and Chat with Work. Catch him on stage: https://luma.com/sfrubyconf2026
SF Ruby Startup Conference is back Nov 10-12 in San Francisco. Secure your early bird tickets now: luma.com/sfrubyconf2026
San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference · Luma
This is a 3-day pass. Access all talks and networking sessions from Nov 10-12. Ruby is where startups grow. The companies that scaled on Ruby and Rails are the…
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CFP for SF Ruby Startup Conference 2026 is open: cfp.sfruby.com
CFP for the San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026
Share your Ruby knowledge and experience at the San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference on November 10-12, 2026. We're looking for talks to support and inspire the new generation of successful startups ...
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If I hear this commentator say “it never been easy for this Argentina team” one more time I think I’ll scream.
I am so tired to see of all these AI generated flyers popping up everywhere. No matter if you sell sport lessons, food, haircut or just a community event, they’re all look the same. Before we had all levels of creativity, now it’s either you are creative or you’re not, and it’s a bit sad.
CFP for SF Ruby Startup Conference 2026 is open:
CFP for the San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026
Share your Ruby knowledge and experience at the San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference on November 10-12, 2026. We're looking for talks to support and inspire the new generation of successful startups built on Ruby and Rails.
cfp.sfruby.com
The 2026 SF Ruby Startup Conference is now a reality. We have confirmed: - 40+ attendees, coming from our community-only early bird sale - 10 speakers, including Garry Tan, CEO and president at Y Combinator - 2 sponsors You can get early bird tickets on July 15th for only $350.
The sabbatical is over. Let’s return to prompting my brain assistant.
That’s it. Cabo Verde already won the World Cup. What’s happening is just amazing.
“Adult summer camps” is the new way of going through mid-life crisis without any irreversible damage. You are just one camper in the middle of many others, all wearing the same shirt. The coaches make you run for two hours a day. You end up improving whatever thing you were here for. You get a
I have not written code or opened my laptop in 3 weeks and I am okay. One more week left.
We are doing this!!!
Evil Martians@evilmartians.com · 2mo agoSave the date, mark your calendars, and decline the invite to the All Hands meeting! The second edition of SF Ruby Conference is happening Nov 10-12. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is @realgarrytan.bsky.social, president and CEO of Y Combinator and longtime Rails builder.
The best part of my sabbatical is really the ankle sprain on day 4. What am I gonna do now? Coding??? 😭
It’s only 2pm and I have done a total of 5 resets on 2 branches. I also looked for the big roll of disinfectant wipes at the other side of the open space when I had one on my desk. Lost many grains of couscous on the main kitchen floor. Did the ticket of someone else “by mistake”…
I wish there was a way to tell people on Marketplace that I prefer not selling something than responding to someone who does not know the basics of politeness. If their only message is « $100 » then they can f$ck off. The thing has been in my garage for ages, I don’t care if it takes a year to sell.
Hundreds of millions of people write right-to-left. Still, most developer tools treat it as an afterthought. But this isn't an edge case. If a user types in Arabic or Hebrew, many English apps will break. In most cases, the fix is just two HTML attributes, explained in this article:
600+ million people write right-to-left: 2 fixes your app needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Arabic, Hebrew, and other right-to-left script users often can't type properly in apps that never considered them. The fix is usually two HTML attributes. Here's exactly what to add, and when.
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True story: I gave the Apple AI thingy a pic of my son Warren holding a World Cup trophy replica and asked it to “blur the picture except for Warren [it usually knows who he is] and the cup”. And I kid you not, it sent me back a picture of Elizabeth Warren holding a coffee cup.
We are super invested in a pair of doves nesting under our roof. They already had two babies. One of them got out of the nest while my husband was going outside which scared the sh$t out of it and it ended up in our pool 😭 Hubby went full on Baywatch, saved it, put it in a towel and left him there
First day of RTO was yesterday. Honestly the level of excitement by the welcoming crew did not match mine at all. I was there at 7:20, there were balloons and Taylor Swift. I am not sure what I did to deserve such agression first thing in the morning. If it was not enough it seems we have very
Officially a tennis player. Lost my first match like a champ 6-2, 6-2. I am tired af, probably met a tennis friend with whom I can laugh about our terrible shots, and I didn’t break any bone. It’s a good day!
Thinking I was finally out of the Clair Obscur ending depression, I spent the afternoon listening to the soundtrack while working. Huge mistake.
Parents: hey remember that bully that made your life hell, look what she looks like now, I am friend with her on Facebook. Sweet.
The last Unicode newsletter talks about the SNL sketch about emojis, and it seems like all the « RBF emojis » are up for adoption. I am very tempted to adopt aerial tramway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Cp...
Weekend Update: Red Heart and Aerial Tramway Emojis on Apple's New Emojis Release - SNL
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Yet another Pokemon game. What would I play without them? Resident Evil?? 🤭
Who has 2 thumbs, no teammates less than 380 miles away and is hit by a RTO that only her will have to comply with?
Nothing beats your last day of PTO in bed with a freaking migraine, counting the time left until the next painkiller intake.
Working on internal tools can be so rewarding. Nobody makes big announcements for the projects because they don’t sell. Even when building something specific for a user facing feature, mentions in announcements are rare. Everybody just expects that it works and they all freak out when it does not.
