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Jonathan Markwell talks to us about the early days of SaaS, Remote work, and Brighton Ruby. He told us how Brighton Ruby came to be, how he met Andy Croll, and how they hosted two conferences in the same week 🤯

Jon shared the SaaS tool he’s been working on for a while now, and we brainstormed the cool and useful things a SaaS founder might use it on.

The Skiff co-working space in Brighton.

Cogrid - Monitor the Companies You Work With
PlainScaling - Make your first million in calm revenue.

Brighton Ruby Conference hosted by Andy Croll

RailsSaaS Conference

LTVConf
Launch FTW - JUMPSTART your PRODUCT EMPIRE in 12 weeks
Brighton Ruby live-tweeting

Favorite gems

urlbox - urlbox.io

postrank-uri

Production sponsors

SupeRails.com

Avo CMS for Ruby on Rails

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Today we speak with Nezir Zahirović, author of The Ruby On Rails Interview Bible, about how his first contact with technology and how he got started with development, about the tools he used, and more importantly about a few ideas of what to do to stand out in your future job applications.

What is Nezir's favourite gem?
devise

The Interview Bible
Nezir Zahirović on LinkedIn
Nezir Zahirović on Twitter

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Today we talk about our awesome times at the Rails Saas conference in Athens last week. We touched on how well the conference was organized, the great talks, and the fantastic people we both met. We felt like in the presence of stars and online friends.
We also spoke about how important it is to have activities planned outside the conference too and how the people make all the difference.

Yaro making the slides on the spot
Ruby philosophasion
Emmanuel from Rails Changelog
Beach photo by Julian Cheal

Avo
SupeRails

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André is a long-term maintainer for RubyGems and Bundler - fundamental tools of the Ruby community that we usually take for granted.

🎙️ He joins us to tell the exciting history of how RubyGems and Bundler were created and matured over the years, the challenges of working how the longevity of these tool

💰💰💰 Maintaining a LARGE open source project can become very expensive ($500,000/month) and about where this money comes from.

André also talks about RubyCentral (organization that organizes RubyConf, oversees RubyGems and Bundler) and RubyTogether (the financing arm of RubyCentral)

We also get to hear about future development plans for RubyGems 🚀🙏

Finally, we talk about RubyConf 2023 and what to expect from the grand event 🏆

✈️ Visit RubyConf on 13-15 November in San Diego, USA 🇺🇸
💸 Sponsor RubyGems & Bundler
💸 Sponsor André

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I think it was one of our most chill, relaxed episodes.
Take a break and join us as we discuss:

• Building a new Rails starter kit?
• Rails UI frameworks?
• GoodJob vs Sidekiq/Redis?
• Best way to do Multitenancy?
• Devise vs other authentication approaches?
• Avo 3 release date, Avo-2025 UI features
• Providing feedback to software
• How to make superails.com better?

Show notes:

Get Helvetic.rb tickets: https://helvetic-ruby.ch/
Helvetic.rb fondue evening RSVP: https://ruby.social/@marioschuettel/111296355470789293
Notion sharding article: https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion
Phlex UI: https://www.phlexui.com/

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