Andy Waite
andyw8.bsky.social
Andy Waite
@andyw8.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 Ruby and Rails Developer, Toronto
Nice video about the Don Valley MTB trails in Toronto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnA...
Don Valley MTB: 30+ Years of Epic Rides | The Ultimate Toronto Mountain Biking Experience!
YouTube video by Andre Laurent MTB
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
When using Claude Code to write Ruby, I often see it adding `puts` calls to investigate failures. I wonder if it could be taught to use ruby/debug to set breakpoints and explore interactively. 🤔
July 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
@stoppodcasting.bsky.social it would be amazing if you could have fellow Vancouverite @helenzaltzman.bsky.social as a guest sometime
June 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The built-in agent prompts for @zed.dev are an interesting read: zed.dev/leaked-prompts
Zed — Leaked Prompts
Nothing's a secred in Zed.
zed.dev
June 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
Joe Leo and I have officially launched a very special first episode of The Ruby AI Podcast: "Beyond Chat: Phoenix Tests, Ruby Agents & the AI Tipping Point"

In the pilot episode, we chat about shipping real AI products in Ruby and how Phoenix got started.

www.therubyaipodcast.com
The Ruby AI Podcast
The Ruby AI Podcast explores the intersection of Ruby programming and artificial intelligence, featuring expert discussions, innovative projects, and practical insights. Join us as we interview indust...
www.therubyaipodcast.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Pinkpop music festival is sharing some great performances from their archive:
Pinkpop Archive
Welcome to the official Pinkpop Archive YouTube channel! Pinkpop is the world’s oldest and longest-running annual pop and rock music festival. Held each year in Landgraaf, it’s The Netherlands’ larges...
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm giving a talk at Toronto Ruby next week on Exploring the Ruby AI ecosystem lu.ma/i00pdbmp
May 2025 Edition · Luma
Join us for our May edition at our sponsor Phoenix's offices! We're also happy to be featuring these topics and speakers: Exploring the Ruby AI ecosystem by…
lu.ma
May 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's great to see the official launch of Agentic Editing in Zed. I've been using the beta for the past few weeks, and it's been very impressive.
zed.dev Zed @zed.dev · May 7
The world's fastest AI code editor is here
Zed is engineered from scratch in Rust like a video game. Not another fork, but a purpose-built editor designed for collaboration between humans and AI, delivering a lightning fast agentic editing experience.
zed.dev/blog/fastest...
May 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
Just released the Ruby extension v0.5.6 for @zed.dev, packed with goodies and fixes contributed by the community. This is so awesome! Thank you all! github.com/zed-extensio...
Release v0.5.6 · zed-extensions/ruby
What's Changed Remove default tasks.json by @vitallium in #36 Remove else from outdent triggers by @vitallium in #42 Add completion_query_characters by @smitbarmase in #49 Add minimal README by @a...
github.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I've been really enjoying Meteor recently as background music while reading or coding. Synthwave/darksynth with no vocals: open.spotify.com/artist/3A4fN...
Meteor
Artist · 44.5K monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Looking forward to these gigs in Toronto over the next few months!
April 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Andy Waite
Look at this fantastic speaker lineup for @brightonruby.com in June. I am such a fan of @andycroll.bsky.social!

brightonruby.com
Brighton Ruby Conference
brightonruby.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I don't play many video games but I bought RoboCop: Rogue City and loved it. Such a great tribute to the first two movies. I'm looking forward to the Unfinished Business expansion coming out later this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjUA...
Robocop: Rogue City - Official Unfinished Business Expansion Reveal Trailer | Nacon Connect 2025
YouTube video by IGN
www.youtube.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Reposted by Andy Waite
It's been like 2 years since I last wrote anything about debugging in Ruby, so here's a list of suggestions I'd give in 2025.

st0012.dev/my-ruby-debu...
My Ruby Debugging Tips in 2025
This is a quick & unpolished collection of my Ruby debugging tips and recommendations. You can use the Ruby LSP extension to connect to debug.gem too. It requires a slightly different launch.json configuration (example) and provides better error han...
st0012.dev
March 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
I did a thing. If you know a Rubyist or Ruby-friendly person near Belfast, let them know. Our goal is to reach the heights
@inazarova.bsky.social has achieved with SFRuby 😅

www.meetup.com/belfastruby/...
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I converted ruby-lsp-rails to use the new experimental RBS syntax for inline signatures: github.com/Shopify/ruby... (see the commit list for the steps)
February 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
There’s a petition to the Canadian Parliament to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I think every Canadian who’s on Fedi or Bluesky should sign this now, no exceptions. If you have Canadian followers, please repost this or just post it yourself. This matters.
Petition e-5359 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
Ontario votes this Thursday, February 27th.

Wasting taxpayer money to tear out safe bike lanes is reckless and dangerous. On election day, send a strong message: no city has ever solved congestion by prioritizing cars—bike lanes should remain a municipal decision.
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Andy Waite
Had some time to wrap up some features on ruby-lsp.nvim. New features include auto-detection of standard/rubocop (opt-in), and a command to update the Ruby LSP. github.com/adam12/ruby-...
GitHub - adam12/ruby-lsp.nvim
Contribute to adam12/ruby-lsp.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A short blog post: Extracting transcripts from Just Press Record
www.andywaite.com/2024/12/08/e...
Extracting transcripts from Just Press Record
Just Press Record is a nice little app available on macOS, iOS and watchOS for recording voice memos.
www.andywaite.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:46 PM
I donated to help the fight to save bike lanes and resist Bill 212 #toronto
www.cycleto.ca/donate @cycletoronto.bsky.social
Unlock a better cycling future today
www.cycleto.ca
December 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM