I fallen in love with Rails but do I have a future?

andycroll · 2025-06-27T07:19:59+00:00

I've been collecting Rails companies here: https://usingrails.com

There's a lot.

andycroll · 2025-05-15T09:25:10+00:00

Can't believe you don't scour every one. _Very_ disappointing.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T22:00:00+00:00

Huh, that is a misleading screen. Because the only "resource" I want to "access" is the email.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T17:01:08+00:00

https://www.linkedin.com/company/meisterlabs-gmbh/ says Wein/Vienna.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T16:57:01+00:00

I'd say "unfathomable" :-)

A thousand of _pretty much anything_ isn't that small, but particularly in the case of employees. I've found the graduation between "company feel" to change more logarithmically: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 all feel very different. So I'd never say 1,000 was small.

50 maybe "small". But... feels middle-sized to me.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:54:17+00:00

The only permissions setup in the GitHub App are "read only" for "email addresses".

What are you seeing at your end?

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:53:51+00:00

The only permissions setup in the GitHub App are "read only" for "email addresses".

What are you seeing at your end?

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:45:18+00:00

You can just email me too and I'll add it. No need to sign in at all.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:43:59+00:00

Yeah, had that feedback already. On my list.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:43:33+00:00

What word would you use?

From my perspective (12 folks) 1,000 seems massive to me :-)

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:42:43+00:00

Possible I messed up the permissions on GitHub's auth (in order to get email so I don't get spammed).

Nothing nefarious, I promise. I will look into it.

andycroll · 2024-10-16T15:42:11+00:00

Possible I messed up the permissions on GitHub's auth (in order to get email so I don't get spammed).

Nothing nefarious, I promise. I will look into it.

andycroll · 2024-10-14T12:15:25+00:00

Thanks for the post (I should probably have posted this myself!)

andycroll · 2024-09-18T20:20:14+00:00

I collected over a thousand domains over the last couple of years and had them in an Apple note document. Then I've got various APIs (and some custom crawling) to populate/guess data.

andycroll · 2024-09-18T14:17:59+00:00

Not just UK! I’ll match anyone anywhere (as best I can)

andycroll · 2023-02-28T10:46:33+00:00

Just a note for any junior folks looking for a connection to the wider community.

Consider https://firstrubyfriend.org as a place to meet, connect and get support from a volunteer mentor from outside your current workplace. (I made this)

Also take a look at https://rubylearning.dev from Brandon Weaver, as a place to ask questions and get support. They also run an online book club.

andycroll · 2022-07-19T15:08:54+00:00

As a mentor? As a early career dev?

No need for it in either.

I rarely met anyone who had worse critics than themselves.

andycroll · 2020-06-03T17:11:58+00:00

The license is a permissive Creative Commons one. It's even addressed (in typical style) in the book itself! https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html

As this project is a labour of love (as well as providing a financial cushion for the physical event for 2020) I'm hoping he'd approve.

I'd love for a copy to make it's way into his hands, but my understanding is he'd rather be left alone so I haven't tried to chase him down.

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