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Irina Nazarova
@inazarova.bsky.social
CEO @evilmartians.com
Co-founder of @anycable.io
Organizing @sfruby.com
🪩⚠️ Alert: @sfruby.com is in 10 days ! ! !

What's inside:
💎 two dozen new and hot Ruby startups like @bolt.new
💎 authors of RubyLLM, Herb, Active Agent, Inertia Rails, ZJIT, and more
💎engineers scaling Ruby and Rails at Chime, Cisco, Intercom, Shopify
💎afterparty by GitButler 🪩
(see part 2)
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Anyway, take it, break it, ship it, but mostly—get inspired and have fun!
Check out clouds.sfruby.com for inspiration, and join @sfruby.com on Nov 19-21 to build beautiful new things together, in Ruby!
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Life is happening! I turned 38 this week. Mom is visiting, and we are discovering SF and Bay Area together 💙
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Join us in the Clouds! sfruby.com

November 19-21 is going to be legendary as we organize the first Ruby conference in the Bay Area since 2014.
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The benefits of being a grown-up: I can buy a sparkly maple syrup!!
September 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Anton and Gary just got their tickets! 🥳 tag me when you get yours!
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21!
sfruby.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thank you, @euruko.org 2025 and beautiful Viana do Castelo for the fantastic event, execution and energy of the Ruby community! From so many @evilmartians.com 💙
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
While Martians are busy stealing Carmine, some folks are stealing our booth!! Outrageous! I recognize @yarotheslav.bsky.social and who is he with??? #euruko
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The real footage of Carmine Paolino (RubyLLM) being abducted by @evilmartians.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Dad of Ruby, @matz.bsky.social: I love every programming language, even php, even TypeScript 🥹 #euruko
September 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Every large enough Rails app has extracted some services for performance and scalability reasons. You can do this without losing the joy of building with Ruby and Rails. Keep the recipes in Ruby, and only upgrade the "dumb" (unaware) kitchen tools. Here's how.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Had a blast at #friendlyrb! Forever in my heart❤️. Now, time to fly to Porto for #euruko. Thanks to Austrian for the hazelnut chocolate 😋
September 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We are organizing the Ruby conference in San Francisco, and you are invited! Meet new Ruby startups, CTOs of billion dollar Ruby and Rails stories, authors of ambitious open source, and your Ruby friends. Get your tickets now: sfruby.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I'm thrilled to announce @josevalim.bsky.social speaking at the #SFRuby conference on Nov 19-20. José will talk about how he sees programming languages evolving for AI, which is something we touched on when he visited SF last time. We want your thoughts on the topic! sfruby.com/schedule/#na...
August 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
August 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
⚡️ Irina Nazarova (@evilmartians.com): Cutting CI Build Time in Half for Whop
⚡️ Sergey Karayev (Superconductor ): Getting the Most out of AI Coding Agents for Your Rails App

Grab it here: youtu.be/IMAABWxnbUM
August 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
16 absolutely badass #Ruby startups are all set to demo at the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20. Everything comes together as an incredible level: speakers, sponsors and startup demos. See for yourself, tell me if you agree, and grab tickets for you and team 🏃‍♀️
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Ruby and Rails startups manage to inspire me every single day, thanks to @evilmartians.com. My dream is that they inspire YOU too. And it's happening! Here are the first ten Ruby startups that will demo their products at the #SFRuby conference in November, to inspire and connect with you all 💙
August 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Reminder: we ported the new Rails Getting Started Guide to the browser (using Wasm) to allow engineers to get a taste of @rails before they have to install it: rails-tutorial.evilmartians.io
It's not perfect yet, but please share and bring us feedback!
August 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This recording is live! SF Ruby meetup at Figma:
⚡️ Mike Chlipala and Kim Ahlström: Ruby at Figma ⚡️ Harrison Touw: How Figma builds admin tools
⚡️ Marco Roth: The Modern View Layer Rails Deserves: A Vision for 2025 and Beyond
⚡️ Open mic
⚡️ Jeremy Evans: Eliminating Unnecessary Implicit Allocations
July 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It was pretty amazing to learn about Figma's Ruby stack at the SF Ruby meetup on Tuesday 🔥
The recording is coming in a few days!
July 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
⚡️ We launched the general ⚡️ ticket sale⚡️ for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025
The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥.
Friends, help us share the message!
July 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM