Personal

I’m working on becoming more active online and returning to my projects, so I thought it would be a good time to share what I’ve been up to lately. Over the past three years, many aspects of my life have changed, from receiving an ADHD diagnosis and moving twice, to landing my first Elixir job. Nowadays, I can confidently say that life is good and I’m doing well. The journey to this point is a story I’d love to share, but I’ll save it for another time. Today, I just want to focus on updating you about my work and projects, as exciting developments are underway! ...

Hi, I’m back! I haven’t written anything on this blog since November 2016, which is sad but it is what it is. I’ve got so much to tell you. A lot happened during this time, and I’ll try to summarize it here and also talk a bit about my plans for the future. The Ruby Prize Almost a year ago I was honored to go to Matsue, Japan, to attend the Ruby World 2017 conference, where I received the Ruby Prize from Matz himself. Getting the prize and visiting Japan was a fantastic experience for me, and I’m deeply grateful. I’ve been thinking a lot about the Ruby community since then, mostly reflecting on how we’re evolving as programmers and trying to see how well my 8+ years of OSS contributions fit in this process. There are clear signs that a lot of Ruby developers are entirely on board with various ideas introduced by projects like rom-rb or dry-rb. Watching growing adoption makes me very happy (dry-types has > 2.7M downloads on rubygems.org already!), but at the same time, I’m aware that there’s much more work that we need to put into these projects if we want more people to use them. ...

Check out a follow-up on Ruby Rogues Exactly 8 years ago I started working professionally as a rails developer. I’ve spent a lot of time working for various clients, on various projects - from small green-field apps to 5+ year old rails monstrosities. In addition to Rails development I got involved in OSS. Back in 2011 I joined DataMapper core team, a couple years later I started working on ROM project and effectively stopped working on DataMapper. ...

Last two years have been pretty intensive for me. I became a husband, a father, a co-founder of Powow and during that time I tried to contribute as much as I could to OSS. I was mostly focused on Virtus and Ruby Object Mapper which consumed a lot of my time and energy. I thought I could go on but I was mistaken. I’ve burned out and decided to take a break from my OSS activities and focus on my family and daily work. ...