A developer with 20 years of experience, known for maintaining popular Ruby packages and writing programming books, says he has applied to more than three dozen jobs and received 24 rejections. Citing the toll of repeated rejection on his mental health, he says he is stepping away from the tech industry. He also notes that remote work from his home in Warrnambool, where he has worked for six years, appears incompatible with current hiring expectations.
ryanbigg.com
· 2026-10-13
DHH used his RailsWorld keynote to announce he 'vibe-rewrote' HEY for performance and declared he no longer needs or cares much about Rails, prompting strong reactions from Ruby developers. One commentator described feeling depressed by the dismissive tone toward the Ruby and Rails community, even while agreeing that AI-assisted coding is now unavoidable.
blog.julik.nl
· 2026-10-12
All of Us, a 70-minute documentary streaming on Apple TV, follows Ruby Bridges Elementary School, a public school where students with disabilities learn alongside their peers in the same classroom rather than being separated out. The film highlights how Augmentative and Alternative Communication apps running on iPads and iPhones help students with severe communication difficulties participate in lessons alongside other pupils. The school's principal and a kindergarten teacher were named Principal and Teacher of the Year in 2025.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-05
The team behind Topcoat, a full-stack Rust web framework covering views, components, mailers and an ORM called Toasty, published an update detailing new features shipped since its debut two months ago. The framework's stated goal is to bring Ruby on Rails-style productivity to Rust-based web development.
tokio.rs
· 2026-09-25
At Rails World 2026, David Heinemeier Hansson said he has retired as a professional programmer, calling himself a 'maker' who directs LLMs to write code in English rather than reviewing the output line by line. He said 37signals' next version of Hey will use LLM-generated Rust on the backend and native apps on each platform instead of the Rails-based web stack he has long championed, and claimed to have produced roughly 150,000 lines of code in August versus about 30,000 lines a year previously.
jardo.dev
· 2026-09-25
Rails 8.0, released in November 2024 with built-in authentication, Solid Queue/Cache/Cable, Kamal 2 deployment and production-ready SQLite, is now down to security-only fixes that end November 7, 2026. Rails 8.1, released in October 2025, is the actively maintained version, while Rails 7.1 and 7.2 have already fallen out of support entirely.
blog.appsignal.com
· 2026-09-09
Security firm Rietta rolled out an emergency hotfix across its client base on July 29, 2026, after a Ruby on Rails ActiveStorage vulnerability—later named KindaRails2Shell and tracked as CVE-2026-66066—jumped from an unrated update to a 9.5/10 CVSS severity score within hours. The flaw, discovered by researchers at Ethiack, allows arbitrary file read and remote code execution through variant processing in Active Storage, a core Rails component used in Rails 8 and newer.
rietta.com
· 2026-09-04
1Password pledged $300,000 to Omacom, the nonprofit behind the Omarchy Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson, prompting criticism from customers and employees over Hansson's history of racist and anti-immigrant commentary. The password manager's leadership, including CEO David Faugno and cofounder Roustem Karimov, has responded internally to concerns about the partnership's optics. Critics on social media have called for boycotts and suggested alternative password managers in response.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-02
A longtime Ruby on Rails developer and HEY email subscriber announced he is quitting the service after growing disillusioned with founder David Heinemeier Hansson's public statements. The writer, who once admired DHH's technical philosophy, says he can no longer support the company after DHH expressed views the writer characterizes as anti-immigrant and racially exclusionary regarding Europe.
kylemcgough.com
· 2026-08-25
DHH describes his Omacom project, including the Omarchy setup, as an application of 'omakase computing' — curated, chef's-choice defaults rather than requiring users to configure every tool themselves. He argues this borrows the same philosophy behind Ruby on Rails, letting newcomers get a cohesive experience while still allowing tinkering once they gain expertise.
learn.omacom.io
· 2026-08-24
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