Berlin.rb: A New Monthly Ruby Meetup in Berlin
Berlin.rb is a new monthly meetup for Berlin's Ruby community. Free, second Tuesday of every month. The first one is September 8, with talks by Paweł Strzałkowski and I.
RubyLLM 2.0: The Agentic Loop, Exposed
RubyLLM 2.0 breaks ask into verbs you can drive yourself: stage a message, call the model once, run tools, step, resume mid-round, and cancel from anywhere.
RubyLLM 2.0: Providers, Protocols, and Provider Gems
OpenAI moves to the Responses API by default, while a new provider architecture and gem generator make external providers first-class.
kamal-backup 1.0: A Backup Is Only Real After You Restore It
kamal-backup 1.0 brings exact Rails restores, restore drills, and PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SFTP, and rclone support to Kamal.
ArchSpec 1.0: Executable Architecture Specification for Ruby's Agentic Coding Era
ArchSpec turns your architecture into an executable spec: declare components and boundaries in one Ruby file, and every change gets checked, whether a person or an agent wrote it.
RubyLLM::Schema Is Now Schematist: A JSON Schema DSL for Ruby with Full Draft 2020-12 Coverage
Schematist is a Ruby JSON Schema DSL with full Draft 2020-12 coverage, render-time values, standards-compliant output, and no runtime dependencies.
Founding a Company in Germany: €9,600, 152 Days, and I Still Can't Send an Invoice
A 152-day timeline of founding a company in Germany: €9,600 spent, two companies registered, and still no way to issue an invoice.
RubyLLM 1.16: Concurrent Tool Execution, Rails-Style Instrumentation, and api_base for Every Provider
RubyLLM 1.16 adds concurrent tools with threads or fibers, Rails-style instrumentation, and proxy support through api_base for every native provider.
Engineering Is Not Dead, Because Accountability Isn't
Models can generate the code. They cannot be accountable for it. The real distinction is whether the result is owned.
