F'uncle of six. ceo @PlanetArgon, đ¨đźâđť created @OhMyZsh, đ host @_Maintainable and 'On @Rails' podcasts, đ¸ guitarist @MightyMissoula.
Portland, OR USA
Joined December 2006
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Robby Russell retweeted
We want YOU to join the PlanetScale Marketing team.
- Designers
- Video editors
- Field marketers
- AIX engineers
- Devrels
- anyone cracked that lives in SF and wants to pitch themselves
Get in here!!
Robby Russell retweeted
some of PlanetScaleâs fastest growing customers are rails and laravel apps btw
ProTip: If youâre going to automate your response to a job posting⌠put yourself in the shoes of the person who just spent time writing it and is hoping for thoughtful responses.
You were the first applicant. You apparently read the project scope, reviewed the requirements docs, answered all the questions, estimated the project, broke it into phases, even upsold me on some of the nice-to-haves⌠and somehow found me on LinkedIn and sent a DM, too.
All in under four minutes.
RiiiiightâŚ
At minimum⌠put a sleep(975) in your robot. đď¸
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We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026.
That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community.
Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet todayâs security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward.
We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how:
¡ Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly.
¡ Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact.
¡ Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security.
¡ The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional.
Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
The best employees make you feel confident that someone competent could step in tomorrow if they suddenly disappeared.
They share knowledge, document what matters, and actively reduce how much the organization depends on them.
And ironically⌠thatâs what makes them indispensable.
Be wary of anyone who needs to be irreplaceable.
Got to chat with Hussain and AC from @Donorbox about how Rails is part of their secret sauce.
How does @Donorbox handle serious traffic without overcomplicating its stack?
On the next episode of On Rails, Hussain Akram & @acdesouza (AC) talk to @robbyrussell about the power of deliberately boring infrastructure, why the team moved CI back onto developers' machines, and how they're pulling older parts of the app back toward Rails defaults. They also talk about how they use agent docs to steer AI tools toward the patterns they want the codebase to follow.
Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: podcast.rubyonrails.org/2462âŚ
Or watch it on Youtube: youtu.be/3Y42uiA4tdE
ALT Donorbox's Hussain Akram & Antonio Carlos De Souza. On Rails with host Robby Russell.
One of my favorite parts of agency life is waking up to a GitHub notification that youâve been removed from a potential clientâs reposâŚ
âŚthen sipping your coffee and wondering whether itâll be a few hours, a few days, or⌠if ever⌠before they tell you they didnât accept your proposal.
Sometimes thatâs the whole rejection letter. đ¤Ł
Quick reminder⌠mocking another tech stack while they navigate a security incident probably isnât going to age well for you.
Observe. Learn. Amplify the fix.
Todayâs PHP situation is a good reminder for anyone responsible for someone elseâs softwareâŚ
Reach out to your clients before they have to ask if theyâre impacted. Even if the answer is âyouâre fine.â
They shouldnât need to see something on the news, wonder about their application, and then figure out who to ask.
And if you havenât reached out yet⌠itâs not too late to send them a quick note.
Robby Russell retweeted
At Railway we take security very seriously.
Please read this urgent advisory.
An urgent notice from the Railway team
blog.railway.com/p/security-âŚ
A podcast guest had to cancel at the last minute today.
I was already sitting here with a microphone plugged in⌠and perhaps a little too deep into the Halloween candy. đđŹ
So, fueled by a minor sugar rush, I recorded ~10 minutes about something thatâs been rattling around in my head:
đď¸ Who actually has permission to fix things?
The flaky test. The outdated README. The weird workaround everyone has learned to live with.
A little solo @_maintainable experiment.
Imagine explaining to someone in 1826 that 200 years from now, youâll own a container full of cables for devices you havenât touched in years⌠which youâll keep just in case you need one again.
Youâll keep this container until you die, at which point someone else will finally throw them away.
One of our devs reflects on attending his first Rails World.
blog.planetargon.com/blog/enâŚ
Robby Russell retweeted
Oh boy, it's about to get serious tomorrow đŹ
cert.europa.eu/publications/âŚ
I much prefer Nathan Fielder's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey to the other one that came out this year.
anarcho punk robby era...
From punk to open source - my interview with Robby Russell.
Full interview: youtu.be/bIzQ4EiIZHs
Thanks for having me on the show to talk shop @eSquareDesign!
In another clip from the recent Tech for Humans podcast with Robby Russell, we talk about the concept of Makers or Menders and its influence on Robby, why he prefers working on maintaining projects as opposed to starting new ones, and the hit and miss of a new application.
Full conversation on YouTube: youtu.be/bIzQ4EiIZHs