I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. I build @dayoftheshirt, @panlexicon, and @brompt too.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2007
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Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
I have some posts about using lateral joins in rails to fetch the “top N” of each record. Some time ago @bensheldon helped me see a problem on the queries I was using.
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
The video from our recent SF Bay area Ruby meetup is ready! What's inside:
– intro from me (Evil Martians) and Meredith from TEKsystems (they are hiring Rails devs for big tech, check it out)
– @bensheldon (GitHub) about autoloading in Rails (and GoodJob)
– me on @any_cable 1.5 "Standalone AnyCable" release
– Adarsh from RubyCentral inviting everyone to @railsconf
– @marcoroth_ announcing the missing community-driven documentation resource on using Hotwire with Rails: Hotwire.io
– @danfarina (Ubicloud) on building with Roda and Ruby
– @palkan_tula live coding to run Rails in a browser (using @stackblitz)
➡️ evilmartians.com/events/sf-b…
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
Hi fellow Rubyists,
The last episode of #GemRubyShow is live !
In this episode, we discuss GoodJob a Rails ActiveJob Backend with Ben Sheldon.
PS : I have listened to community feedback, and removed the bg music :D
Hope you will enjoy !
youtube.com/watch?v=DJ9HIjLl…
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
Code for San Francisco is proud to join the Alliance for Civic Technologists as a founding member! Learn more at civictechnologists.org/ #cfasummit
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
I’ve heard from a few people today about the layoffs at Mapbox. Sad, sad day.
If you are actively hiring software engineers, please respond to this tweet and give affected people a sense of why it might be a fit for their skills and interesests.
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
What if the point of political journalism is not to predict outcomes but to clearly lay out what’s at stake in our political choices?
Seems necessary to signal boost this sort of thing to influence the innumerable executives and board members RIGHT NOW thinking "hmm, maybe we should be laying off half *our* staff too".
nitter.gq/craigcalef/status/1588…
Right now a disk is filling up on a server somewhere in some data center that a person who has just been laid off has been manually clearing every few days and when that disk fills up Twitter will go down.
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Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
I'm very happy to announce that Programming Ruby 3.2, the fifth edition of the Pickaxe Book, is now available in beta at pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/pr….
It covers Ruby up to and including the not-yet-released Ruby 3.2.
A thread of information about the book:
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Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
You NEVER stop learning about bollards.
#WorldBollardAssociation
🎥@livinglondonhis
The October issue of @deprogipsum on Object Oriented Programming is 🔥 Also it reminded me I needed to contribute $ because it's my favorite programming journal, even if it's offered free. deprogrammaticaipsum.com/iss…
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
Eventually every team is going to be run by ex-Astros exec. 🤣
Congratulations to assistant general manager Pete Putila on being named the newest @SFGiants GM!
Thank you for your hard work during the past 12 seasons.
Ben Sheldon (he/him) retweeted
So the big NYT article about California high speed rail is not actually saying anything new. It's the latest from a former LA Times reporter who spent the last 12 years writing based hit pieces about the project. I shut my blog down years ago. But it's time to debunk him again.
