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Robby Russell
@robbyrussell
ceo @PlanetArgon, ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป created @OhMyZsh, ๐ŸŽ™ host @_Maintainable and 'On @Rails' podcasts, ๐ŸŽธ guitarist @MightyMissoula.
Portland, OR USA
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Dec 5, 2023
    Shoutout to the software engineers who built an API that returns an HTTP status code of 200...with the following JSON body. ๐Ÿฅธ
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 13, 2025
    This isn't a Ruby vs. Go problem. It's an "we hired 50 engineers so let's split everything apart" problem. Here's what happens: Company grows fast. Leadership comes from Big Tech. They bring their playbook. Split the app into pieces. One piece per team. Everybody owns
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    Yatish Mehta
    @yatish_me
    Oct 12, 2025
    At a past company, the head of engineering and the principal engineers decided to break our Ruby on Rails application into a Go microservices mesh. They created very detailed design documents and architecture diagrams. They went all out and used Kubernetes, gRPC, service
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Jul 24, 2025
    Prediction: we're less than three months away from @dhh launching a new IRC server.
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Mar 12, 2023
    Unlike other "popular" frameworks, Ruby on Rails doesn't require parentheses.
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 11, 2023
    "What is even better than esbuild? What is even better than bun?" -- @dhh #RailsWorld
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Sep 28, 2024
    Iโ€™m curious if anyone knows this person. I believe heโ€™s interning at Shopify. He asked to get a selfie with me and @dhh. If you happen to know him, please let him know he can find the photo here. Thanks a bunch! #RailsWorld
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 4, 2023
    Know of an org hiring Ruby on @rails devs right nowโ“ If so, please help spread the word by leaving a link in the thread below. ๐Ÿ“ท #RailsWorld
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 31, 2025
    I predict weโ€™ll all be singing a different tune a year from now. Right now, the pendulum has swung hard toward speed. AI promises endless code at record pace, and some are ready to declare the craftsman obsolete. Iโ€™ve lived through a version of this before. When developers were
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    Jaana Dogan ใƒคใƒŠ ใƒ‰ใ‚ฌใƒณ
    @rakyll
    Oct 31, 2025
    Lately Iโ€™ve been feeling depressed because decades of our hard work is completely gone like it never existed. I heard from others that they also find it very hard to dial into the new norm of low quality software engineering.
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Nov 6, 2023
    Heroku alternatives for small #Rails apps that don't require a Ph.D. in AWS. Go!
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Feb 24, 2023
    As the creator of @ohmyzsh, I often get asked how I pronounce it. Here is the OFFICIAL pronunciation. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ฏ
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Apr 13, 2016
    Today is the 10th anniversary of @dhh saying, "Fuck You" to early critics of #rubyonrails. ow.ly/10AnGM
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Jan 13, 2022
    Creeping up on six years since I shared the story of how I unexpectedly built a monster of an #opensource project. d'@OhMyZsh
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 17, 2025
    Good news for the Ruby ecosystem. RubyGems now has the same governance as Ruby itself. Matz and Ruby Core as stewards. Three decades of results speak for themselves. If Ruby core has authority over where gems (by default) install from, this alignment makes sense. Viva la Ruby!
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    The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership | Ruby
    Dear Ruby community,
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    Robby Russell
    @robbyrussell
    Oct 11, 2021
    Ruby Debugging Protip: Trying to figure out where a method is defined across your dependencies.
    How to figure out where a method is defined?
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