XO Ruby Austin 2025
2025-10-25
Austin, United States
who it's for
rails developers, ruby developers, backend engineers, developer experience engineers, site reliability engineers, indie makers, engineering managers
topics
retrieval for RAG pipelines; text embeddings and vector search; LLM generation for answers; FFmpeg HLS transcoding; Active Storage file uploads; Stimulus IntersectionObserver autoplay; Turbo Streams realtime updates; Scenic materialized views; decay-weighted affinity scoring; puma dev zero-config HTTPS; dnsmasq and Caddy wildcard domains; automatic TLS with Caddy
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rag Demystified | Landon Gray | 32m |
A side project becomes an AI-powered event recommendation engine written in Ruby and built as a RAG pipeline where retrieval is the hard part. The system uses… | ||
| TikTok on Rails | Cecy Correa 2 | 32m |
Builds a local TikTok clone in Rails and demonstrates concrete pieces that work: FFmpeg for async transcoding into HLS (TS and M3U8 chunks), Active Storage to… | ||
| Lost and Alone Over the Pacific | Nickolas Means | 58m |
A wartime pilot loses navigation over the Pacific, flies 22 hours with failing instruments and only 7 hours of fuel, and survives because long‑range help uses… | ||
| The Vibes Are Off in Tech (but we can fix them) | Aaron Harpole | 33m |
Tech dominance is real and fragile: Apple’s market cap > 130 countries, big firms are profitable yet cutting staff, and layoffs chill internal speech… | ||
| Rewriting Localhost: A Modern Approach to Dev Environments | Nathan Hessler | 26m |
Demonstrates exact setups and tradeoffs: puma dev auto-wires .test names and gives zero-config HTTPS for Rack/Puma apps but no Docker support and only works… | ||
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