Freedom Dumlao

I met @apiguy.dev over Detroit-style pizza at RailsConf last year. His team was in the middle of a big migration at the time.

We talked about leadership, trust, and the power of making decisions—even when the team isn’t fully on board yet.

⌚ It's time to catch up with @Robbyonrails.com & hear about how at FlexCar, @Apiguy.dev led a bold replatforming effort from 70+ microservices back to a Ruby on Rails monolith.
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Freedom Dumlao - Ode to RailsConf A journey of technology transformation unfolds as Freedom Dumlao shares his experience migrating from Java to Ruby on Rails amidst the pressure of RailsConf. Highlighting community support, leadership...

Freedom Dumlao ( @apiguy.dev ) joins me today on the Ode to RailsConf podcast.

We talk a bit about his journey back into Rails, the crazy launch story from RailsConf 2024, and his new position as Director and Treasurer for Ruby Central.

www.odetorailsconf.com/2363110/epis...

My next guest on the podcast is Freedom Dumlao (@apiguy.dev)! We talk about his journey re-joining the Rails Community after some time away, the crazy story from RailsConf 2024, and about his recent appointments as a Director and Treasurer of Ruby Central. Episode drops Monday morning!

GitHub - jtushman/babar: An elephant never fogets. Babar is an intelligent codebase analyzer designed to bridge the gap between your existing codebase and modern AI-powered development workflows An elephant never fogets. Babar is an intelligent codebase analyzer designed to bridge the gap between your existing codebase and modern AI-powered development workflows - jtushman/babar

Babar looks awesome - it will spider your codebase, understand the purpose of the code and then help you and your team to understand it too. Excited to add another awesome tool to the toolbox!

github.com/jtushman/babar

New for Ruby 3.4: Modular Garbage Collection and MMTk This post describes the new modular garbage collection feature in Ruby 3.4: The ability to override Ruby’s GC at runtime. We also introduce our first concrete alternative GC implementation, based on t...

eightbitraptor.bsky.social wrote about the new Modular Garbage Collection in Ruby 3.4, how it works and what it means: railsatscale.com/2025-01-08-n...

My friends Flexcar know what this means 😉🤫 #Ruby

What an honor to be able to support this amazing community however I can, along side some truly amazing people!

I’m interested in this too. Hadn’t considered there would be a noticeable difference

Maybe a board game swap at #RailsConf…?

Also… buy board games…. 😬

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Yes!!!

Karaoke at #RubyConf is kind of a big deal…

A great keynote to start the day @baweaver.bsky.social demystifying Monads #RubyConf #RubyFriends

As expected @matz.bsky.social has everyone inspired after the keynote. Loved the framing of Automatic Typing #RubyFriends #RubyConf

Logo board available in dark mode!
#RubyConf

Ok #RubyConf friends - heading down to get a beer at Kitty’s. Is that where folks are hanging out?

Hello Chicago! Super pumped for #RubyConf