Who out there is really passionate and opinionated about devops / backend infra? 👀 Doing some market research and looking to chat with a few engineers in this space!
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊
@rhiannon.io
Author of The Remote Work Era book 📖 | Founder of Seafoam.media 🌊 | Marketing for clients including @activeagents.ai & prev @rubycentral.org 💎 | SF-based & semi-nomadic 🌁✈️
Have space for 1-2 new marketing clients starting in March. 💗 Retainer (preferred) or project based. Let’s chat!
Made some really cool changes and updates to my app last night 👀 And tonight I’ll do my first user feedback session live on stream! 💗 ~8pm UTC
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊@rhiannon.io · 7mo agoFinally streaming again! Vibe coding my Rails travel map app, but with more intentionality and with a greater focus on data modeling to create a more accurate picture of how a person experiences places they've traveled to. 🌍 Join! youtube.com/live/ftPuag4...
Finally streaming again! Vibe coding my Rails travel map app, but with more intentionality and with a greater focus on data modeling to create a more accurate picture of how a person experiences places they've traveled to. 🌍 Join! youtube.com/live/ftPuag4...
Vibe coding a Rails travel app: Modeling travel preferences & frequency
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtube.com
Okay I think I am kind of bored of vibe coding… Just prompting really isn’t that interesting. Need to think of ways to mix it up and maybe do more of it manually? Idk. I also don’t feel like I’m learning anything. 🤷♀️
Going live to keep vibe coding my Rails travel map app! Going to attempt to undo all of the changes I made Saturday and focus on new features like travel notes and preferences (that can later be used for AI recommendations?) Hang out! 👇 youtube.com/live/l-Pc84p...
Vibe coding my Rails travel app - new features! Maybe?
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtube.com
Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️
Going live again for a bit, working on some UX stuff and a new feature that I was too tired for last night. Hang out while I vibe code my Rails travel map app! youtube.com/live/niLrt8z...
Vibe coding my Rails travel app -- UX improvements & adding country notes
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtube.com
Little demo of my Rails travel map app so far… 👀 Vibe coded in ~8 hours while streaming. All built in my browser with @github.com Codespaces, Copilot, using various models (mostly Claude Sonnet 4.5). It’s my first app! Lots more to do. But what do you think?
Going live now vibe coding my Rails travel app! Will focus on UX improvements maybe, or new features? You tell me! Join and hang out. ☺️ youtube.com/live/G-TY69D...
Vibe coding my Rails app (UX improvements? new features?)
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtube.com
Gonna stream again in a little under an hour! Come join and help me decide what I should do next. UX or new features??
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊@rhiannon.io · 7mo agoDeployed -- omg my little Rails app actually works!! 😭 travel-heatmap.onrender.com Vibe coded entirely in my browser in ~6 hours. Sign up, create your own travel heat map, and share it with your friends!! 🗺️
If I do another vibe coding my Rails app stream tomorrow, should I focus on: - UX improvements / design / making it more responsive on mobile - New features
Deployed -- omg my little Rails app actually works!! 😭 travel-heatmap.onrender.com Vibe coded entirely in my browser in ~6 hours. Sign up, create your own travel heat map, and share it with your friends!! 🗺️
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊@rhiannon.io · 7mo agoOkay friends, I'm going ~live~ on youtube to vibe code my first Rails app! 😅 No idea how this is going to go, but please join and hang out! youtube.com/live/WQkuP3A...
3 hours in — still here, still vibing. Just upgraded to GitHub copilot pro to get more tokens and trying to make a cool little Rails app with a world map and heat map overlay to visualize countries visited and frequency of visits. Come join!!
Rhiannon Payne 🌙💎🌊@rhiannon.io · 7mo agoOkay friends, I'm going ~live~ on youtube to vibe code my first Rails app! 😅 No idea how this is going to go, but please join and hang out! youtube.com/live/WQkuP3A...
Okay friends, I'm going ~live~ on youtube to vibe code my first Rails app! 😅 No idea how this is going to go, but please join and hang out! youtube.com/live/WQkuP3A...
Vibe coding my first Rails app!
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtube.com
Making dinner then I think I’m gonna ~go live~ on YouTube and vibe code my first Rails app! 😆 Plz join (eta 30 mins ish) but I don’t want a ton of advice because I want to try to figure this out myself. 🙃 But we’ll see how it goes.
I’m very honored and grateful. Rails has given me a lot, and giving back through open source has always felt like the natural response. Looking forward to continuing the work. ❤️ I wrote a short note on my blog: marcoroth.dev/posts/rails-...
Rails Luminary 2025 - Giving Back to the Rails Community
I'm deeply grateful and truly honored to be named a Rails Luminary this year. Recognition like this only exists because of a community that cares about long-term contribution, and I don't take that li...
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Xavier Noria@fxn.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe were very proud to present @marcoroth.dev with the Rails Luminary Award 2025. And yes, I was on a secret mission to Zurich 😀. rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/m...
Finally — ep 2 of Ruby Around the World! 🌍 I spoke to Bernard Banta, keynote speaker at Ruby World 2025 in Japan. He’s working on Ruby open source for offline mobile banking(!!) and is the Chairman of the African Ruby Community (5K+ members). youtu.be/OIGc5Yup3cM
Ruby Open Source For Offline Banking | Bernard Banta, Chairman of African Ruby Community
YouTube video by Ruby Around The World [Ruby on Rails Interviews]
youtu.be
One of the challenges of having ADHD is if you don't let me do side quests once in a while, I'll crash. Hard. The side quests are where the dopamine is.
If you’re a startup selling developer tools or services and want to elevate your ✨marketing✨ in 2026 or monetize your OSS hmu. ☺️ I have 2 spots for fractional clients starting in Q1 and also open to project-based contracts. Preference to clients in the Ruby ecosystem ofc. 💎
Really grateful to everyone who has subscribed to Ruby Around the World on YouTube, watched the first interview, shared it, or featured the project in their newsletters. 🥲 Hard to believe 131 people are following along now!
Going to be opening up spots for new fractional marketing clients in the New Year. 👀 If you’ve ever wondered about working together, let’s chat! ✨ Will be updating this soon but you can see my general services here: www.seafoam.media/services
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Editing my second episode of Ruby Around the World 🌍 with Bernard Banta! Banta was the keynote speaker at #RubyWorld this month and is the chairman and organizer of the African Ruby Community (5K+ members). I am also INCREDIBLY excited about his Ruby open source work...
The San Francisco Ruby Conference (@sfruby.com) just concluded and I'm incredibly honored and grateful to have been part of it. The conversations, ideas, and encouragement over the past few days were a reminder of how special the energy of the Ruby community really is! ♥️ #sfruby #sfruby2025
