Finally collected my thoughts after my first Prairie Postgres meetup! Great talks on declarative schema management with pgschema and getting started with PostGIS. Huge thanks to Henrietta Dombrovskaya for organizing. Full recap on my LinkedIn 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

ChicagoRuby @ Workforce.com — August 12 🎤 Kevin Murphy — InstiLLMent of Successful Practices in an Agentic World 🎤 Zeljko Dakic — Life Beyond Claude Code 🗓 Wednesday, August 12 | 6:00 PM CDT 📍 222 W Hubbard St Unit 310, Chicago, IL 60654 In-person registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...

Ruby Community, NinjaHoldings is hiring! Our July ChicagoRuby host, NinjaHoldings, is expanding their engineering team and is hiring for two roles: 💻 Software Engineer ninjaholdings.breezy.hr/p/9bbb93068d9b 📊 Data Engineer ninjaholdings.breezy.hr/p/7b4e5477d374

After 20+ sessions at #TechChicagoWeek, one idea kept coming back: the companies that win won't be those with the best AI, they'll be the ones that define problems better and collaborate better. 🔥 Full recap on LinkedIn -> www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

Back for my 3rd #TechChicagoWeek2026 🔥 If you're around this week, let's meet! Always happy to catch up with old friends and finally meet my online connections in person 👋

ChicagoRuby received Meetup's Super Organizer badge! 🎉 I've been co-organizing ChicagoRuby for the past 1.5 years, and it's been an incredibly rewarding journey. Huge thanks to my fellow organizers MichelleYuen, JoshAustin, Dan H., and Jonathan Farias, plus every host, speaker, and attendee!

🎥 July ChicagoRuby @ NinjaHoldings is now on YouTube Watch the full recording👇 youtu.be/X01yYeoSzGA?... alan.codegardener.com (@ Cisco) — Indispensable: What Human Programmers Can Learn from Human Computers Tony Yunker (@ Hashrocket) — Testing Read-Only Models in Rails

Join us at ChicagoRuby @ NinjaHoldings on July 1 🔥 🎤 Tony Yunker — Testing ReadOnly Models 🎤 @alan.codegardener.com — upcoming RubyConf 2026 talk July 1 | 6:00 PM CDT 222 S Riverside Plaza, Conference Room South 1, Chicago Register now: forms.gle/oKbX26tQXDNB...

ChicagoRuby @ Chime is now on YouTube 🎥 youtu.be/NyKS_Epa7zk?... 🎤 Ifat Ribon — preview of upcoming #BlastoffRails talk 🎤 @fito.codegardener.com — practice run for #RailsConf talk 🎤 @noelrappin.com — experiments with AI-powered code review agents Join us: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/

I’m excited to share that I’ve officially become a resident at TeamWorking by TechNexus this month 🔥 ☕️ Let’s catch up for a coffee somewhere around the cozy corners of TeamWorking. Ping me if you’re planning to visit for events or you’re already a resident and up for a chat!

ChicagoRuby @ NinjaHoldings — July 1 🔥 🎤 Tony Yunker — Testing ReadOnly Models 🎤 @alan.codegardener.com — Indispensable: What Human Programmers Can Learn from Human Computers 🗓 July 1, 6:00 PM CDT RSVP: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...

@pg-data.bsky.social Day 2 🔥 Full talks recap on my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

@pg-data.bsky.social Day 1 🔥 Full talks recap on my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

Checking in on @pg-data.bsky.social to look behind the curtains on how AI affects lower-level engineering in the database space 🔥 Looking forward to refreshing and improving my engineering skills since AI brought me back to the game right at the frontier of software creation. #PGDATA #PGDATA2026

ChicagoRuby @ Chime is tonight! Featuring #BlastoffRails and #RailsConf talks 🗓 June 3, 6:00 PM CDT Register: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/... Remote via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...

ChicagoRuby @ Chime — June 3 ❗️ Be among the first to listen to talks of the top-tier Ruby conferences 🎤 Ifat Ribon @ LaunchPad Lab — will present her #BlastoffRails talk 🎤 Fito von Zastrow @ Cisco — will practice his #RailsConf talk 🎤 Noel Rappin @ Chime — surprise talk Register: lnkd.in/gfJ_n9AA

❗️ Rails/Ruby-powered. Chicago-based. 2026. Co-organizing ChicagoRuby required me to track local companies using Rails/Ruby that could host meetups; it turned into a proper database. Useful for: • jobs • networking • meetups • ecosystem mapping Full list: www.reddit.com/r/rails/comm...

ChicagoRuby @ Chime — June 3 Register: lnkd.in/gfJ_n9AA 🎤 Ifat Ribon — AI-generated tests & confidence 🎤 @fito.codegardener.com — Defying Gravity: Teaching AI to Write Better Ruby 🎤 @noelrappin.com — joined us as our third speaker Big thanks to Chime for hosting us again 👏 See you!

1,100 hours vs 250 hours. This is probably the clearest example I’ve seen of how big the gap is becoming between average engineering teams and truly strong AI-enabled teams. Full story on my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

May #ChicagoRuby @ AlphaSense is now on YouTube! ChicagoRuby is supported by Gotoinc — a UI/UX and Engineering Talent-as-a-Service partner for Ruby-powered organizations. If you’re scaling a Ruby or design team, feel free to reach out to me. 🎥 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjl_...

ChicagoRuby starts the remote broadcast from AlphaSense in XX minutes. Speakers: 🎤 Hilary Stohs-Krause (@ @zscalerinc.bsky.social ) — What rock climbing taught me about programming 🎤 Ifat Ribon (@ LaunchPad Lab) — Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577...

ChicagoRuby @ AlphaSense — May 7, 6:00-8:30 PM CDT 🎤 Hilary Stohs-Krause — What rock climbing taught me about programming 🎤 Ifat Ribon — Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation 👉 In-person registration: forms.gle/oKbX26tQXDNB... Would be happy to see you there, I’ll be around 👋

Running into "on-call duty" term got me thinking: how do Ruby teams handle long shifts, active vs passive work, and extra days off? Experienced or curious like me? Share your thoughts — I’d love to hear from the community 🤝

What makes a CFP stand out? 🔥 Notes from “Speak at RubyConf Summit”: Strong proposals don’t try to impress — they’re specific, relevant, real. Full Do/Don’t breakdown on my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/anton-...

ChicagoRuby @ AlphaSense — May 7, 6:00-8:30 PM CDT ❗️ Thursday this time (not our usual Wednesday) 🎤 Hilary Stohs-Krause — What rock climbing taught me about programming 🎤 Ifat Ribon — Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation Register: forms.gle/oKbX26tQXDNB...

ChicagoRuby @ PayPal — April Recording 🎥 Big thanks to PayPal for hosting If you missed it: youtu.be/Y4cTn5DTUFc?... 🎤 “Beyond Senior: Consider the Staff Path” — Joel Hawksley, GitHub 🎤 “Your Business Workflows Are Invisible, But They Shouldn't Be” — Tyler Ewing, Pen and Paper Solutions LLC

Quickly level up your engineering skills via teaching. The Tech Talent Accelerator (DPI) is looking for people to help Rails devs land their first job. Just 3-4 coffee chats. Sign up 👉 uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ChicagoRuby is today — if you missed in-person registration or you're not around Chicago, we’re waiting for you on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8579272577.... Today (Wednesday, Apr 1) | 6:00-8:30 PM CDT | PayPal 🎤 Joel Hawksley — Staff path after senior. 🎤 Tyler Ewing — Making Rails workflows visible.

When Gotoinc started supporting ChicagoRuby, our Head of Design said: “Why does this logo look frozen in the 2000s?” A few late nights later — we have a BEFORE / AFTER 🎉 Did we get it right? Would love your honest take 👇

From organizing ChicagoRuby to supporting it with Gotoinc 🤝 Starting this March, Gotoinc is an official supporter of ChicagoRuby. Gotoinc is a UX/UI and Engineering Talent-as-a-Service provider for Ruby-powered organizations. Looking for the next chapters of this journey!