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Full-Stack Web Developer • OSS Contributor • Electronic Music Addict • Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Stimulus, Crystal • Hotwire Contributors Team • StimulusReflex Core.

Currently maintaining: Herb, ReActionView, Stimulus, Stimulus-Use, Stimulus LSP, Turbo LSP, Turbo Power, StimulusReflex and CableReady

Building: gem.sh | hotwire.io | rubyconferences.org | rubyvideo.dev | rubyevents.org

Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values.

Gameography:
Dog's Life (2003)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (2004)
RCT3: Soaked!/Wild (2005)
Thrillville (2006)
Thrillville: Off the Rails (2007)
LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias (2009)
Kinectimals (2010)
Kinect Disneyland Adventures (2011)
Elite Dangerous (2014)
Partition Sector (2021)
Reality Drift (coming 2025)

Books:
Code the Classics Vol 1/2 (Raspberry Pi Press, 2019/2024)

Banner art by Zyalin

Sr. Software Engineer at GitHub | Licensing Team

Dad of two | Disability advocate | Open source contributor

Music: Punk Rock | Screamo
Pronouns: He/Him
#ruby #rails #javascript #node #reactjs #sass

Lead Privacy Expertise Centrum @ SURF | infosec | typoqueen | Grunn | Veluwe | wine | food | Venezia | Ducati | cats 😊 | ♡ CC0, art, books, movies, literature | motorbike trails & camping | Woman of WICCA | own views and silliness
~ the Netherlands ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

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Own photographs (unless credits)
Unfriendly people = block
Toots vaporise after a month

CEO @PlanetArgon. Host @_maintainable and On Rails podcasts. Creator of @ohmyzsh.

Full-stack #Ruby / #Rails / #TypeScript / #CSS engineer, CEO of #HTMX, formerly at Clearscope and Shopify — author and maintainer of the gems #Phlex, Morphlex, Literal, Quickdraw — cohost the @rooftop podcast.

#Rails developer by day ☀️, #film 🎞️ developer by night 🌃.

Husband, Father, & purveyor of fine Ruby on Rails apps. Available for hire. Always building something. See kickofflabs, thocstock, howivscode, PhrontPage, and more.

Building:
📖 https://readwith.club - A novel way to lead reading groups

Weekly article:
✍🏼 https://everyonewantsprogress.com (soft skills for software creatives)

On a mission to rescue products:
✍🏼 https://sharpen.page/ten (Buyer Psychology)

Dev:
💎Rails + ⚡️Hotwire

OSS Contributor:
🚅 Bullet Train

You may know me from making intros for LoadingReadyRun's streaming and YouTube content, or from being on the Desert Bus tech team, or for being a designer for Retro Games' line of mini retro computers, or for making random nerdy nonsense, or you may not know me at all – in which case, hi!

Avatar alt text: A drawing of a Klingon woman wearing glasses, looking slightly bored.

Header alt text: A starship in space going into warp drive, streaking off into the distance leaving trails of blue light.

Software engineer, vegan, enjoy Ruby on Rails, D&D, and relational databases. Formerly at Vox Media, Slashdot, ThinkGeek.

Ruby/Rails full stack engineer in the middle of the US (she/her)
🥁 Rush fan
🎵 Viola player
🐱🐱🐱🧒 Geeky mom
📚 Reading all the books, especially scifi/fantasy

Amateur naturalist interested in paleontology, natural history, biology, biogeography, taxonomy, et al. especially dinos/birds and bugs. Regular #iNaturalist contributor. Posts bird and bug pics, these days it's often pollinator garden pics. and pics from local trails in Austin. Lepidoptera and Odonata enthusiast.
Retrocomputing fan, esp. old Macs. Posts nerd pics. 
Occasional artist, but mostly it’s bird and bug pics.
 Author of Hedgehog Art Through the Ages.
Contains multitudes.

CEO of https://consonance.app, MD of https://snowbooks.com and https://makeourbook.com. Ruby, and Rails. React when I absolutely have to. Also https://justsimply.dev, https://dayofcode.co.uk, nope.business etc. Did the _why book.

Cure fan. Home educator. 4 day wk. Atheist she/her b.330ppm Ecoregion: Caledon Conifer Forests. @has_many_books from the olden days. Viciously anti-AI. OU student (BSc Natural Sciences - Earth science). Maker of things out of fabric / Roland Fantom-8. Veg gardener.

Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby.

OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem.

Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.

Helping run FlipperCloud.io and Fireside.fm.

#Ruby, #Rails, #HTML, #CSS, and considered JavaScript on occasion. Basketball, mountains, outdoors, sit skiing, and paddle boarding.

Also a left below-knee amputee with no choice but to get out of bed on the right foot every day.

(semi) Retired environmental scientist/geologist. Amateur naturalist. Cycle, hike, ski. Dad/hub 35 years. Left of center. I'm the original inventor of avocado toast. I take pictures and share them (all are mine, all rights reserved).
Snohomish County, WA

Ruby/Rails developer experience engineer. Open source maintainer. Event organizer. 🏳️‍🌈

Freelance Web developer. Bridgetown core team member. Frequently shouts expletives at a computer screen.

Pink Floyd and Steven Wilson addict 🎶.
England cricket fan 🏏.