Chris, Andrew, and David begin with summer heat, home cooling problems, and an IPv6 issue preventing Andrew from playing Battlefield 6. The conversation quickly heads down a Raspberry Pi rabbit hole, with projects ranging from smart-home automation and MagicMirror dashboards to local AI transcription. David then recaps RubyConf in Las Vegas before the group discusses design patterns, the changing conference landscape, and how AI is reshaping programming education, software development, and the economics of building products. Hit download now!

Links

• Chris Oliver X
• Andrew Mason Bluesky
• David Hill LinkedIn
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
• Raspberry Pi
• Rails World, Austin, TX, Sept 23-24, 2026
• SF Ruby, San Franciso, CA, Nov 10-12, 2026
• MagicMirror2

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

This week, Andrew and Chris swap stories from the front lines of Ruby development, from wrangling GitHub Actions and speeding up CI to keeping old Ruby versions alive on brand-new servers. They also unpack a tricky Sidekiq deployment issue, explore the promise of compiling Ruby apps into standalone executables, and reflect on how AI is making once-impossible infrastructure problems a little easier to solve. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Chris Oliver X
• Andrew Mason Bluesky
• David Hill LinkedIn
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Setting up code for your repository (GitHub Docs)
• Surviving rolling deploys when Sidekiq meets a class it doesn’t know yet (Dmitry Tsepelev blog post)
• Why a Sidekiq job class you just deployed can still be “missing” (reddit)
• Ignore programmatically (Honeybadger)
• Mastodon on Spinel (intertwingly blog)
• The Odyssey
• Alex Edelman X post

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Chris, Andrew, and David dig into the practical realities of modern development, from building faster server images with Packer and untangling database schema problems to deciding when refactoring, code coverage, and quality tools are actually useful. They also share where AI coding assistants are saving real time, where they still create confusion, and why good judgment remains just as important as the tools themselves. The episode wraps with the conversation going completely off the rails with a highly questionable plan to corner the personalized license plate market. Hit download now!

Links

• Chris Oliver X
• Andrew Mason Bluesky
• David Hill LinkedIn
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• HCL-GitHub
• Thoughtbot- AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits
• Madison Kanna X (chat with co-founder of OpenCode, Dax Raad)
• Josh Pigford X
• knockoff
• Taylor Otwell X post

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter