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  Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq

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  Some quick reflections on #RailsWorld from the Rails Foundation. In short. I had a nice time. And I made some nineties-era web buttons on the way home. https://andycroll.com/ruby/rails-world-2025/

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  Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.

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  And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books

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  I made some lovely Ruby loving foxes on a t-shirt in tribute to the long lost _why. https://rubytshirts.com/products/_why-the-foxes

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  Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/marco-roth-2025-rails-luminary

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  Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0 https://andycroll.com/ruby/find-the-last-matching-element-with-rfind/

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  My blog. I’ll extract it. Needs tailwind cli though.

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  Just to say we're up to a very healthly 2,400+ organisations on https://usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth for a bunch of those :-)

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  Shared the tailwind and jekyll no build setup I use on my site. https://andycroll.com/ruby/simple-tailwind-css-4-setup-for-jekyll/

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  @emma we need an answer for this I think https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:22hy5gbfkvemyfgcuobnogjb/post/3mdrlhgyf5k24

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  If you're within my age demographic and you lived in Europe... then I don't need to explain this. https://rubytshirts.com/products/workbench

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  Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism https://andycroll.com/ruby/prefer-in-over-include-for-readable-conditions/

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  Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern. https://andycroll.com/ruby/use-stringinquirer-for-readable-predicate-methods/

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  to_param lets you customize your URLs https://andycroll.com/ruby/to-param-seo-friendly-urls/

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  Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right? https://rubytshirts.com/products/servers-dont-bite

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  In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in. https://rubytshirts.com/products/thumbs-up

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  The dive into inflections continues. https://andycroll.com/ruby/handle-uncountable-words-in-rails-inflections/

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  The inflection trilogy ends. (Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful) https://andycroll.com/ruby/teach-rails-irregular-plurals-with-inflections/