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Preeventualist. Rubyist at Shopify
Another successful BelfastRuby in the books! Thank you @altabyte.bsky.social, @petr.codes for your wonderful talks! And a huge shoutout to Stora for hosting and sponsoring!! 🙌
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Calling my shot for 2026

I'm working on something big
Cool
Interesting
And I'm gonna want to talk about it
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
LinkedIn influencer
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
this is when i peaked
September 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I did a thing. If you know a Rubyist or Ruby-friendly person near Belfast, let them know. Our goal is to reach the heights
@inazarova.bsky.social has achieved with SFRuby 😅

www.meetup.com/belfastruby/...
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
4 years. I have worked at Shopify for four years! 3 out of 4 Shopifolk are newer than me. Am I old?

It has been a joy to be on the front lines of Ruby, Rails and Commerce.

(P.S. If you'd like to learn more about my experience at Shopify, and love Ruby, DMs are open)
February 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A little side project I know Noah would’ve thought was neat.

A television from 1979 I’ve set up (through short range analog broadcast) playing television from 1979-1981 all day long.

I just turn it on whenever and TV is going.

Video sourced from Marion Stokes archive.
January 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
coming soon 👀

make room in your coding playlists 🎧
December 6, 2024 at 11:53 AM
The etymology behind quintessential is cool
November 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
For all the best Schwogs go to IRB

blog.schwad.org/schwogs/3
November 14, 2024 at 10:02 PM
[BLOG] Ruby pomodoro timer with exceptional tunes
blog.schwad.org/schwogs/2
November 13, 2024 at 10:42 PM
November 11, 2024 at 9:50 PM
if you aren't using bloopsaphone to provide audio feedback in your executables what are you even doing
November 11, 2024 at 10:35 AM
one of my favourite slides in @searls.bsky.social 2017 talk "Nothing.new under the sun"

www.rubyvideo.dev/talks/there-...
November 8, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Rails 8 is out!!! github.com/rails/rails/...
November 8, 2024 at 7:57 AM
it gets a bad rap but I do find golf oddly therapeutic

walk around outside

try to get better against yourself

maybe make some friends
November 7, 2024 at 8:41 PM
the fish said hello
May 2004

files.scene.org/view/music/g...
November 7, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Today schwad learned about the schwa
November 4, 2024 at 10:26 PM
if you wish to make a blog from scratch you must first invent the universe
November 3, 2024 at 9:13 AM
November 2, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Spooky skeletons today.

Bout to write some ‘eval’s
October 31, 2024 at 6:46 PM
do you know what a piton is?

it's that metal thing climbers use as they go to ensure they don't fall to far en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piton

so that's why when spiking, I use `git commit -m 'PITON'` to communicate to myself this is the last point things worked. Easier to clean up later
October 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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