John Athayde
@johnathayde.com
Multidisciplinary Designer, Musician, Permaculturist | building @developerux.com | running @meticulous.com | chief stall mucker @sfumato.farm | MSTDN: @johnathayde@ruby.social https://www.johnathayde.com
Portuguese/Italian and my wife is 17thc English/dutch/cherokee. A few others (Scot, Irish, French,Croat) mixed in. pretty much American mutt.
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Portuguese/Italian and my wife is 17thc English/dutch/cherokee. A few others (Scot, Irish, French,Croat) mixed in. pretty much American mutt.
Well that’s the molds I have. I saw it on great British bake off years ago and that it was naturally gluten free an I’ve done it every year since.
December 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Well that’s the molds I have. I saw it on great British bake off years ago and that it was naturally gluten free an I’ve done it every year since.
Merry Christmas! Kransekake complete! Not as perfect as the formal bakers but I’m happy. Much better than last year’s!
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Merry Christmas! Kransekake complete! Not as perfect as the formal bakers but I’m happy. Much better than last year’s!
So it begins! Stollen done, pies wrapped, (all gluten free!), smoker going with a ham from our friends farm and brisket from our own, and kransekake is up next!
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So it begins! Stollen done, pies wrapped, (all gluten free!), smoker going with a ham from our friends farm and brisket from our own, and kransekake is up next!
Most of the world prompts AI, saying "build me a house" and then complains that it sucks when it's not the house they had in mind. Tools like this prompt generator help see the possibility of specificity that you can get to: f-stop.vercel.app
f-stop.ai | Professional AI Scene & Prompt Director
Generate cinematic, photorealistic prompts with true camera physics.
f-stop.vercel.app
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Most of the world prompts AI, saying "build me a house" and then complains that it sucks when it's not the house they had in mind. Tools like this prompt generator help see the possibility of specificity that you can get to: f-stop.vercel.app
Black Friday time! 50% off "Typography for Developers". Fix the basics of your application look and feel with good typography.
learn.developerux.com/p/type-is-de...
learn.developerux.com/p/type-is-de...
Typography for Developers
learn.developerux.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Black Friday time! 50% off "Typography for Developers". Fix the basics of your application look and feel with good typography.
learn.developerux.com/p/type-is-de...
learn.developerux.com/p/type-is-de...
Oh Editors was so good. I played those records a lot and did photo of them at their 930 club stops. Such a fun era musically.
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Oh Editors was so good. I played those records a lot and did photo of them at their 930 club stops. Such a fun era musically.
Reposted by John Athayde
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
Speaking at 10:30 this morning at NOVA Code Camp (novacodecamp.org ) today! (18 October). Come say hi!
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Speaking at 10:30 this morning at NOVA Code Camp (novacodecamp.org ) today! (18 October). Come say hi!
#RailsWorld Day 1 in the books. From our fun morning boat ride with the Baltic Ruby crew to DHH's keynote, the great hallway track in a beautiful space here in Amsterdam, and the random cat in the window spotted on the way through... Lots of great talks and new and old Ruby Friends.
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#RailsWorld Day 1 in the books. From our fun morning boat ride with the Baltic Ruby crew to DHH's keynote, the great hallway track in a beautiful space here in Amsterdam, and the random cat in the window spotted on the way through... Lots of great talks and new and old Ruby Friends.
Reposted by John Athayde
I’m a consultant. I’ve seen inside every kind of organization. Good managers/leaders doing important work don’t run their teams ragged, and especially don’t brag about it.
September 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I’m a consultant. I’ve seen inside every kind of organization. Good managers/leaders doing important work don’t run their teams ragged, and especially don’t brag about it.
That’s a fun venue. We did a client conference there two years ago and it was nice.
August 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
That’s a fun venue. We did a client conference there two years ago and it was nice.
Hopefully better than the developer betas! How much did they change “glass”?
August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hopefully better than the developer betas! How much did they change “glass”?
Interesting. We did something like that back at LivingSocial with a precursor design system in a gem. The generator installed all the basic stuff. This was 2012, however, so a radically different era. We also had a Bower package for non-Rails apps.
July 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Interesting. We did something like that back at LivingSocial with a precursor design system in a gem. The generator installed all the basic stuff. This was 2012, however, so a radically different era. We also had a Bower package for non-Rails apps.
Some small UI oddities compared to Chrome, especially with some custom fonts, but interested to follow this!
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some small UI oddities compared to Chrome, especially with some custom fonts, but interested to follow this!
Playing with the Ladybird browser: A browser and rendering engine built from scratch (and not just on top of Chromium). Kinda fun to do the build from source ... feels a bit like 15 years ago.
github.com/LadybirdBrow...
github.com/LadybirdBrow...
GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser
Truly independent web browser. Contribute to LadybirdBrowser/ladybird development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Playing with the Ladybird browser: A browser and rendering engine built from scratch (and not just on top of Chromium). Kinda fun to do the build from source ... feels a bit like 15 years ago.
github.com/LadybirdBrow...
github.com/LadybirdBrow...
The RailsConf talks have been released! Here’s my talk on UX for Rails devs. Thanks to everyone who came out and I hope you enjoy it!
youtu.be/ybUhVeTqGN4
youtu.be/ybUhVeTqGN4
RailsConf 2025 UX & Design for Rails Devs: Elevating the "One Person Framework"... by John Athayde
YouTube video by Ruby Central
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The RailsConf talks have been released! Here’s my talk on UX for Rails devs. Thanks to everyone who came out and I hope you enjoy it!
youtu.be/ybUhVeTqGN4
youtu.be/ybUhVeTqGN4
I did some branding work for Origin Wireless a few years back. Their CeO was one of the scientists who had done a lot in this realm. They were more interested in elder care applications. Pretty nuts what they could do then.
July 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I did some branding work for Origin Wireless a few years back. Their CeO was one of the scientists who had done a lot in this realm. They were more interested in elder care applications. Pretty nuts what they could do then.
WebDev has forgotten the utter pain of slow FTP. Stuck on a low-speed pool wifi and trying to FTP parts of a WordPress site. The sheer number of hours I spent in Adobe ImageReady trying to crunch images smaller so I could upload the site in less than an hour… countless.
July 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
WebDev has forgotten the utter pain of slow FTP. Stuck on a low-speed pool wifi and trying to FTP parts of a WordPress site. The sheer number of hours I spent in Adobe ImageReady trying to crunch images smaller so I could upload the site in less than an hour… countless.
Alright Ruby Friends, let's do this (thanks @joemasilotti.com for building it!)
rubyfriends.app/profiles/QPDR
rubyfriends.app/profiles/QPDR
rubyfriends.app
July 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Alright Ruby Friends, let's do this (thanks @joemasilotti.com for building it!)
rubyfriends.app/profiles/QPDR
rubyfriends.app/profiles/QPDR
ChatGPT overburdens its arguments with ostentatious erudition—a sure sign of faux writing.
July 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
ChatGPT overburdens its arguments with ostentatious erudition—a sure sign of faux writing.
So is this where we pop this into Flickr and start tagging everyone?
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So is this where we pop this into Flickr and start tagging everyone?
Really enjoyed @marcoroth.dev ’s talk on Herb - herb-tools.dev and a new way to handle view templating. Lots to dig into and I look forward to playing with it on a few of my projects. So much new coolness in the View layer!
July 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Really enjoyed @marcoroth.dev ’s talk on Herb - herb-tools.dev and a new way to handle view templating. Lots to dig into and I look forward to playing with it on a few of my projects. So much new coolness in the View layer!