For Rails devs working with test fixtures, do you have any rules for yourself for when (if ever) you create one-off records within a test, instead of creating new fixtures?
Nate Vick
@natevick.bsky.social
Technologist | Lover of the outdoors | VP of Platform Engineering https://clickfunnels.com | Building https://selective.ci
New from me: I wrote about Application Performance Monitoring and why developers should embrace observability tools. www.honeybadger.io/blog/apm-par...
The APM paradox: Too much data, too few answers
Most dev teams don't need 47 dashboards or petabytes of logs—they need answers at 2 AM. Explore the evolution from APM to observability.
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“It was such a good day, seeing old friend and meeting new ones! Thank you for bringing XO Ruby to the PNW!” –Nate Vick on #XORubyPortland
Join XO Ruby's "The Artist's Way" book club! 12-week creativity program starting Sept 11. Weekly Zoom calls, Slack chat, async discussion. Design-focused but all welcome. Rediscover your creative spark! www.xoruby.com/blog/the-art... #BookClub #Creativity #Ruby
Today is the last day to grab a GA ticket for SF Ruby! Read our new blog post for a preview: evilmartians.com/chronicles/w...
Why we're excited about the SF Ruby conference—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
SF Ruby and Evil Martians are excited to invite you to our premier event: the San Francisco Ruby Conference.
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Don't miss Landon Gray's talk, "Intelligent Event Discovery with Ruby"! What started as a simple side project to find things to do in my city evolved into a full AI-powered event recommendation engine. 10/25/25 – Tickets @ $100: xoruby.com/event/austin/
🙋 We're looking for volunteers for our 10/25 Austin event. Exchange ~2hrs of your time to help us with set-up, registration, and packing up and get a free ticket. 🏙️ 10/25 in Austin, The Cut (401 Sabine St) ✍️ Fill out our form: xoruby.com/volunteer
This is me commenting on not commenting on today’s installment of Ruby drama. I wish more people would do the same.
If you haven't taken a look at the Dashboards tab in your Honeybadger project yet, now is a great time to do it. Our new project overview dashboard combined with Insights automatic instrumentation makes it super simple to see your app's health at a glance.
Honeybadger.io@honeybadger.io · 10mo agoTraditional APM tools bury you in dashboards you'll never use. Meanwhile, the things you actually care about require complex custom instrumentation. That's why we built smart dashboards that adapt to your stack. 🧵 👇 www.honeybadger.io/changelog/pr... #RubyOnRails #ElixirLang #Laravel #Django
🌇 Portland, thanks for the great memories! Another XO Ruby event for the books filled with incredible speakers, community support and full-hearted weird. We thank you for traveling to, showing up, attending & speaking at this memorable conference experience. #XORuby #RubyCommunity #ThankYou
Went to @xoruby.com in Portland, and it was a blast! If you get a chance to go when it's near you, I highly recommend it!
I had a blast at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social and @xoruby.com last week. It was great to see old Ruby friends and make some new ones. Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)
San Diego: you're up next! Copious amounts of natural light and artwork channeling the coastal energy of Bird Rock, Yes plz! 🏙️ Sat. 10/18, 9am-5pm – Found Studio 📍 5490 La Jolla Boulevard 🎟️ $100 tickets: https://www.xoruby.com/event/san-diego/
100% this! So good to see #RubyFriends that I haven’t bumped into in years! Thank you @jremsikjr.bsky.social for your love and labor bringing XORuby to Portland. San Diego, you’re up next! Don’t miss it.
Jim Remsik@jremsikjr.bsky.social · 10mo agoAt @xoruby.com Portland today with some old friends, new friends, and a whole lot more connection than is possible over Zoom. We’re establishing a Return to Conference Policy.
Hey Portland #RubyFriends! Hope to see you at #xoruby tomorrow! www.xoruby.com/event/portla...
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Green. Creative. Weird.
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XO Ruby Portland is tomorrow! 🥳🥳 Will we see you there? It's not too late to grab your ticket! 🏙️ Oct. 10/11, 9am - 5pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: www.xoruby.com/event/portland/
Insights keeps rolling! Even the Honeybadger loves snakes. ;)
Honeybadger.io@honeybadger.io · 11mo agoGreat news for Pythonistas! We just launched automatic dashboards for #Django, #Flask, and #Celery. Get instant visibility into your #Python apps. Try it for free with 50MB/day (1.5GB/month) plus error tracking and uptime monitoring. Click to learn more: www.honeybadger.io/blog/python-...
Here's a write-up of @xoruby Atlanta! This was such a fun and cool event! www.chael.codes/blog/2025/09...
XO Ruby Atlanta 2025
I had an incredible time at XO Ruby Atlanta - a single-day Ruby Conference focused on reigniting local communities!
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XO Ruby, a series of traveling events is heading to San Diego on October 18th!! There are only 80 tickets available and they are going FAST www.xoruby.com/event/san-di...
🚗 The first leg of XO Ruby is wrapped and Jim's on the road back to Wisconsin! If you're in or near any of the cities along the way, reach out to us to meet up. 📍 Jackson, MS (9/21) 📍 Memphis, TN (9/21) 📍 St. Louis, MO (9/21) 📍 Springfield, IL (9/22) 📍 Rockford, IL (9/22)
Hey Ruby friends at @xoruby.com New Orleans! Have an amazing day! There are three more after today! Go find the one nearest you! xoruby.com/events
XO Ruby New Orleans is TOMORROW 🥳🥳 It's not too late to grab your ticket! 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/
The countdown is on! 2 more days until XO Ruby New Orleans. Will we see you there? 🏙️ Sat. 9/20, 8:30am-4:30pm 🎟️ Grab your ticket for $100: xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/
I had such an incredible time at @xoruby.com today! I'm really grateful to @jremsikjr.bsky.social and the folks at @beflagrant.com for putting this together. Regional conferences and the energy from in-person events can't be beat!
Check out the upcoming @xoruby.com events near you. There are four more after today, make sure to grab a ticket. www.xoruby.com/events/
Events
A treasure map to all of our in-person events.
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Nate Vick@natevick.bsky.social · 11mo agoI hope everyone @xoruby.com Atlanta has an amazing day!