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!

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#python #django #nobot

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

Dungeon Webmaster, Open Sourcerer, and breakfast THAC0 enthusiast. Are you a friend of DeSoto? All paladins are bastards.

#IndieAppDev building #Village to help you maintain connections to your friends, family, and coworkers.

#ruby #rails #swift #rust #StaffEngineer #Mothership #Lego #politics #ethics

Hi! Michael here, and nice to meet ya 🏳️‍🌈. I'm your friendly theATL.social admin...and enthusiast of #urbanism, #biketrails, #tech, #gatech, and #Atlanta , Georgia 🇺🇸

Trying my hand at creating a lil' Mastodon site with a regional focus on my hometown.

More about me: https://mikeh.dev

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.

Product-focused Rails dev • Studio: https://hybrd.co • Co-host: https://www.indierails.com • Organizer: https://blueridgeruby.com

CTO at Samwise. Contributor and maintainer of various Free and #OpenSource #Software projects. 

#foss #devops #tech #webdev #programming #rubyonrails #privacy #fedi22

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

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

Ruby, Rails, Kafka, Javaプログラマー

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.

🥾 Spring Boot 🚂 Rails 🤖 AI 🐧 Linux

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

Dev team lead and developer at AppSignal.
Organizer @amsrb, Rails Girls NL. Made lintje.dev
#Ruby #RustLang #Git

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

Software Engineer, Author of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

Product-minded engineer.
Building dev tools like Avo admin for Ruby on Rails

Staff Engineer at Chime, and the co-author of Programming Ruby and the author of Modern Front End Development for Rails.

Also on Bluesky as @noelrappin.com and Threads as noelrap

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.

Physicist, analyst, epistemologist at Wikipedia

Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan.

📍 Massachusetts, USA

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