Anton Tkachov
@antontkachov.bsky.social
Talent-as-a-Service Founder | Ukrainian 🇺🇦 living in Chicago 🇺🇸 | Helping Tech Leaders engage incredible coding and design professionals via flexible | Ruby / Python / Node.js / React.js / Vue.js / UX / UI
The final #ChicagoRuby meetup of the year is here ⚡️
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The final #ChicagoRuby meetup of the year is here ⚡️
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Dec 3 — and the first ChicagoRuby Hack Night in years!
Talk by @jefflcohen.bsky.social: “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
🔹 Colleen Schnettler at #sfruby — “Building Products Without Overbuilding”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔹 Colleen Schnettler at #sfruby — “Building Products Without Overbuilding”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
- Ship constraints, not fantasies
- Business problems > frameworks
“Most founders don’t fail from under-building. They fail from building the wrong thing too well.”
🔹 Eugene Kenny at #sfruby — “Intercom Engineering: Scaling the Unscalable
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🔹 Eugene Kenny at #sfruby — “Intercom Engineering: Scaling the Unscalable
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
- A strong “ownership culture” beats any platform tooling
- Guardrails matter more than abstractions
“You can’t scale what no one feels responsible for.”
🔹 @obiefernandez.bsky.social at #sfruby — “Performance Starts With You”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🔹 @obiefernandez.bsky.social at #sfruby — “Performance Starts With You”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
- Rails is fast enough, developers are often the bottleneck
- “Accidental complexity” compounds until it becomes culture
“You don’t scale the app. You scale the people who build the app.”
🔹 Fireside + Live Demo at #sfruby: Bolt.new (Albert Pai & Alex Kalderimis)
An unplanned fireside stepped in for the scheduled talk — and somehow turned into one of the most mind-bending sessions of the day.
- AI acts as a co-developer, guiding decisions instead of dumping code
An unplanned fireside stepped in for the scheduled talk — and somehow turned into one of the most mind-bending sessions of the day.
- AI acts as a co-developer, guiding decisions instead of dumping code
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔹 planetscale.com — Zero-to-Sharded in Minutes
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🔹 planetscale.com — Zero-to-Sharded in Minutes
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
@samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly.
- Vitess handles ID generation and routing
Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
🔹 AngelList — Financial Reporting at Scale
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🔹 AngelList — Financial Reporting at Scale
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
Chamod Gamage at #sfruby showed one of the most creative engineering approaches
- Excel workbooks treated as directed graphs
- Their gem Zexcel compiles Ruby -> Excel
“When checks fail, we trace the graph to find the exact source of the mismatch”
🔹 Thatch — Modern Healthcare Benefits
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🔹 Thatch — Modern Healthcare Benefits
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
@bdewater.bsky.social at #sfruby live-demoed how to set up personalized healthcare benefits for an entire team in under 10 minutes.
- Smart allowances (state-adjusted budgets)
- A wellness marketplace for leftover budget: from Kaiser plans to Oura Rings
🔹 Stepful — Healthcare Career Training
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🔹 Stepful — Healthcare Career Training
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
Wyatt Ades at #sfruby demoed a clean, practical product for training medical assistants and placing them into jobs, a reminder of how well Rails handles multi-party, workflow-heavy products.
🔹 Recognize — Employee Recognition Platform
Peter Philips at #sfruby showed how Recognize supports 3M+ ARR, 200+ customers, and even 80k-employee orgs, all on Rails
“Ten years of callbacks can crush throughput — so we built an event system that works in parallel.”
Peter Philips at #sfruby showed how Recognize supports 3M+ ARR, 200+ customers, and even 80k-employee orgs, all on Rails
“Ten years of callbacks can crush throughput — so we built an event system that works in parallel.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🔹 Recognize — Employee Recognition Platform
Peter Philips at #sfruby showed how Recognize supports 3M+ ARR, 200+ customers, and even 80k-employee orgs, all on Rails
“Ten years of callbacks can crush throughput — so we built an event system that works in parallel.”
Peter Philips at #sfruby showed how Recognize supports 3M+ ARR, 200+ customers, and even 80k-employee orgs, all on Rails
“Ten years of callbacks can crush throughput — so we built an event system that works in parallel.”
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Product Demos that surprised me (in the best way) 🤩
I expected great talks, but I didn’t expect the demos to be this good. Let me share the insights in the next posts!
P.S. There’s also a short video of how the conference T-shirt merch was made 👕
I expected great talks, but I didn’t expect the demos to be this good. Let me share the insights in the next posts!
P.S. There’s also a short video of how the conference T-shirt merch was made 👕
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Product Demos that surprised me (in the best way) 🤩
I expected great talks, but I didn’t expect the demos to be this good. Let me share the insights in the next posts!
P.S. There’s also a short video of how the conference T-shirt merch was made 👕
I expected great talks, but I didn’t expect the demos to be this good. Let me share the insights in the next posts!
P.S. There’s also a short video of how the conference T-shirt merch was made 👕
🎙️ Rachael Wright-Munn — “Play With Your Code”
An invitation to treat code as a space for exploration, not just execution.
- Constraints often spark creativity rather than limit it
“You only discover the interesting answers when you give yourself permission to experiment.”
An invitation to treat code as a space for exploration, not just execution.
- Constraints often spark creativity rather than limit it
“You only discover the interesting answers when you give yourself permission to experiment.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎙️ Rachael Wright-Munn — “Play With Your Code”
An invitation to treat code as a space for exploration, not just execution.
- Constraints often spark creativity rather than limit it
“You only discover the interesting answers when you give yourself permission to experiment.”
An invitation to treat code as a space for exploration, not just execution.
- Constraints often spark creativity rather than limit it
“You only discover the interesting answers when you give yourself permission to experiment.”
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Day 1 (Part 2): Talks changing how we think about Ruby 🤯
If Part 1 was about views, performance, and AI in monoliths, Part 2 dives into something even deeper: how languages evolve, how we design systems, and how AI fits into Ruby’s future
If Part 1 was about views, performance, and AI in monoliths, Part 2 dives into something even deeper: how languages evolve, how we design systems, and how AI fits into Ruby’s future
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@sfruby.com (#sfruby) — Day 1 (Part 2): Talks changing how we think about Ruby 🤯
If Part 1 was about views, performance, and AI in monoliths, Part 2 dives into something even deeper: how languages evolve, how we design systems, and how AI fits into Ruby’s future
If Part 1 was about views, performance, and AI in monoliths, Part 2 dives into something even deeper: how languages evolve, how we design systems, and how AI fits into Ruby’s future
🎙️ José Valim #sfruby — “Navigating Language Evolution in the AI Era”
- If AI generates the boilerplate, frameworks must focus on higher-order abstractions
“AI doesn’t replace language design — it reshapes what languages are for.”
- If AI generates the boilerplate, frameworks must focus on higher-order abstractions
“AI doesn’t replace language design — it reshapes what languages are for.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🎙️ José Valim #sfruby — “Navigating Language Evolution in the AI Era”
- If AI generates the boilerplate, frameworks must focus on higher-order abstractions
“AI doesn’t replace language design — it reshapes what languages are for.”
- If AI generates the boilerplate, frameworks must focus on higher-order abstractions
“AI doesn’t replace language design — it reshapes what languages are for.”
🎙️ Dave Thomas #sfruby — “Start Writing Ruby (Stop Using Classes)”
Dave asked a beautifully uncomfortable question: Do we reach for classes out of habit rather than necessity?
- Ruby is about objects, not mandatory hierarchies
“Stop reaching for a class when an object with a job will do.”
Dave asked a beautifully uncomfortable question: Do we reach for classes out of habit rather than necessity?
- Ruby is about objects, not mandatory hierarchies
“Stop reaching for a class when an object with a job will do.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🎙️ Dave Thomas #sfruby — “Start Writing Ruby (Stop Using Classes)”
Dave asked a beautifully uncomfortable question: Do we reach for classes out of habit rather than necessity?
- Ruby is about objects, not mandatory hierarchies
“Stop reaching for a class when an object with a job will do.”
Dave asked a beautifully uncomfortable question: Do we reach for classes out of habit rather than necessity?
- Ruby is about objects, not mandatory hierarchies
“Stop reaching for a class when an object with a job will do.”
🎙️ Stephan Hagemann #sfruby — “Pack It Up: Why Packwerk Can’t Save Your Messy Rails App (But You Can)”
Stephan’s message cut straight to the truth: Architecture isn’t something tools create, it’s something teams maintain.
- Modularity is evolutionary work: learn -> refine -> adjust
Stephan’s message cut straight to the truth: Architecture isn’t something tools create, it’s something teams maintain.
- Modularity is evolutionary work: learn -> refine -> adjust
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🎙️ Stephan Hagemann #sfruby — “Pack It Up: Why Packwerk Can’t Save Your Messy Rails App (But You Can)”
Stephan’s message cut straight to the truth: Architecture isn’t something tools create, it’s something teams maintain.
- Modularity is evolutionary work: learn -> refine -> adjust
Stephan’s message cut straight to the truth: Architecture isn’t something tools create, it’s something teams maintain.
- Modularity is evolutionary work: learn -> refine -> adjust
🎙️ @paolino.me #sfruby — “RubyLLM: One API, One Person, One Machine”
Carmine brought a vision for Ruby’s future in AI, one that feels deeply aligned with Ruby’s DNA.
“RubyLLM is gifted to the community — built to make AI feel native, not bolted on"
Carmine brought a vision for Ruby’s future in AI, one that feels deeply aligned with Ruby’s DNA.
“RubyLLM is gifted to the community — built to make AI feel native, not bolted on"
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🎙️ @paolino.me #sfruby — “RubyLLM: One API, One Person, One Machine”
Carmine brought a vision for Ruby’s future in AI, one that feels deeply aligned with Ruby’s DNA.
“RubyLLM is gifted to the community — built to make AI feel native, not bolted on"
Carmine brought a vision for Ruby’s future in AI, one that feels deeply aligned with Ruby’s DNA.
“RubyLLM is gifted to the community — built to make AI feel native, not bolted on"
🎙️ @marcoroth.dev — “Herb -> ReActionView”
A fresh vision for Rails views: modern, reactive, but still unmistakably Rails.
- Rails should feel modern without becoming a JS framework
“I don’t want Rails developers to learn a whole new mental model just to build views.”
A fresh vision for Rails views: modern, reactive, but still unmistakably Rails.
- Rails should feel modern without becoming a JS framework
“I don’t want Rails developers to learn a whole new mental model just to build views.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🎙️ @marcoroth.dev — “Herb -> ReActionView”
A fresh vision for Rails views: modern, reactive, but still unmistakably Rails.
- Rails should feel modern without becoming a JS framework
“I don’t want Rails developers to learn a whole new mental model just to build views.”
A fresh vision for Rails views: modern, reactive, but still unmistakably Rails.
- Rails should feel modern without becoming a JS framework
“I don’t want Rails developers to learn a whole new mental model just to build views.”
🎙️ @baweaver.bsky.social — “AI Agents That Get Your Monolith”
Not AI as a copilot, but AI as a teammate that understands your Rails app’s structure.
- Your monolith already contains the domain knowledge AI needs
- Conventions and naming matter more than generic “smartness”
Not AI as a copilot, but AI as a teammate that understands your Rails app’s structure.
- Your monolith already contains the domain knowledge AI needs
- Conventions and naming matter more than generic “smartness”
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🎙️ @baweaver.bsky.social — “AI Agents That Get Your Monolith”
Not AI as a copilot, but AI as a teammate that understands your Rails app’s structure.
- Your monolith already contains the domain knowledge AI needs
- Conventions and naming matter more than generic “smartness”
Not AI as a copilot, but AI as a teammate that understands your Rails app’s structure.
- Your monolith already contains the domain knowledge AI needs
- Conventions and naming matter more than generic “smartness”
🎙️ @bensheldon.bsky.social — “Performance Starts at Boot”
A reminder that real performance begins long before the first request hits your app.
- Boot time is a mirror of your architecture
“Performance begins long before your app hits production traffic.”
A reminder that real performance begins long before the first request hits your app.
- Boot time is a mirror of your architecture
“Performance begins long before your app hits production traffic.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
🎙️ @bensheldon.bsky.social — “Performance Starts at Boot”
A reminder that real performance begins long before the first request hits your app.
- Boot time is a mirror of your architecture
“Performance begins long before your app hits production traffic.”
A reminder that real performance begins long before the first request hits your app.
- Boot time is a mirror of your architecture
“Performance begins long before your app hits production traffic.”
🎙️ Takashi Kokubun — “ZJIT: The Future of Ruby Performance”
Ruby’s next big leap toward deep, automatic optimization.
- ZJIT introduces a high-level IR and whole-method optimization
- Opens doors YJIT simply couldn’t reach
“ZJIT lets Ruby optimize whole-method behavior, not just local blocks.”
Ruby’s next big leap toward deep, automatic optimization.
- ZJIT introduces a high-level IR and whole-method optimization
- Opens doors YJIT simply couldn’t reach
“ZJIT lets Ruby optimize whole-method behavior, not just local blocks.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🎙️ Takashi Kokubun — “ZJIT: The Future of Ruby Performance”
Ruby’s next big leap toward deep, automatic optimization.
- ZJIT introduces a high-level IR and whole-method optimization
- Opens doors YJIT simply couldn’t reach
“ZJIT lets Ruby optimize whole-method behavior, not just local blocks.”
Ruby’s next big leap toward deep, automatic optimization.
- ZJIT introduces a high-level IR and whole-method optimization
- Opens doors YJIT simply couldn’t reach
“ZJIT lets Ruby optimize whole-method behavior, not just local blocks.”
🔥 Day 1 of SF Ruby Conference felt like a crash course in Ruby’s future — the view layer, performance, modularity, and the emerging role of AI inside real-world Rails apps. With two tracks in parallel, I could only attend part of the lineup
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🔥 Day 1 of SF Ruby Conference felt like a crash course in Ruby’s future — the view layer, performance, modularity, and the emerging role of AI inside real-world Rails apps. With two tracks in parallel, I could only attend part of the lineup
Kicking off the San Francisco Ruby Conference in great company — @robbyonrails.com, Andrés Yebra, @bencurtis.com, Iliana Hadzhiatanasova, @jeremysmith.co, @joshuawood.net, and @mileswoodroffe.com. So glad to see both familiar faces and new connections around.
Day one starts now 🤩
Day one starts now 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kicking off the San Francisco Ruby Conference in great company — @robbyonrails.com, Andrés Yebra, @bencurtis.com, Iliana Hadzhiatanasova, @jeremysmith.co, @joshuawood.net, and @mileswoodroffe.com. So glad to see both familiar faces and new connections around.
Day one starts now 🤩
Day one starts now 🤩
Finally made it to California — all thanks to San Francisco Ruby Conference
Flew into LA, drove Road 1 to SF through fog, rain, and closures, but the coastline still feels unreal 🤩 Today is my first day in San Francisco, excited to finally experience the city that has shaped so much of our industry
Flew into LA, drove Road 1 to SF through fog, rain, and closures, but the coastline still feels unreal 🤩 Today is my first day in San Francisco, excited to finally experience the city that has shaped so much of our industry
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Finally made it to California — all thanks to San Francisco Ruby Conference
Flew into LA, drove Road 1 to SF through fog, rain, and closures, but the coastline still feels unreal 🤩 Today is my first day in San Francisco, excited to finally experience the city that has shaped so much of our industry
Flew into LA, drove Road 1 to SF through fog, rain, and closures, but the coastline still feels unreal 🤩 Today is my first day in San Francisco, excited to finally experience the city that has shaped so much of our industry
“If AI writes clever code, you might not even be clever enough to debug it.” (c) @scottwernervt.bsky.social at @boulderruby.bsky.social, while guiding us through his extensive vibe coding experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBh7....
Special kudos to Rylan Bowers and to @viget.bsky.social Boulder
Special kudos to Rylan Bowers and to @viget.bsky.social Boulder
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“If AI writes clever code, you might not even be clever enough to debug it.” (c) @scottwernervt.bsky.social at @boulderruby.bsky.social, while guiding us through his extensive vibe coding experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBh7....
Special kudos to Rylan Bowers and to @viget.bsky.social Boulder
Special kudos to Rylan Bowers and to @viget.bsky.social Boulder