Andrew Mason
Rails engineer at Podia, co-host of Remote Ruby, located in Phoenix, AZ. 🌵
Jeff Dickey is back on Remote Ruby, and he's been busy! Andrew and Chris catch up with Jeff to discuss the latest improvements to mise, including precompiled Ruby builds, automa…
Many developers feel like observers of the Ruby community rather than participants in it. This talk reframes what community actually means, breaks down the invisible barriers that make people feel like they don't belong, and shows practical ways anyone can participate right away. The goal is to show that the Ruby community isn't something you join, it's something you help create.
Elsewhere
A few things I point people to most often.
Ruby on Rails engineer building the all-in-one platform creators use to sell courses, digital downloads, and community. The day job that keeps everything else grounded in real product work.
The weekly podcast I co-host on Rails, Ruby, and whatever the community is talking about that week. 350+ episodes and counting.
Shareable JavaScript and Node.js tooling configs (Prettier, commitlint), built as a pnpm + Changesets monorepo I lean on to keep tooling consistent across projects.
Schema-driven, object-based note-taking for Obsidian using native Markdown, Properties, and Bases, turning a vault into a structured knowledge base.