New Year, New Blog
For a while, I've been toying with the idea of writing down thoughts, or sharing some code snippets on things I find exciting but never actually got around to building it. To be fair, work projects have been taking up most of the time I am willing to spend in front of my computer screen so I was a bit reluctant to add more hours to that.
But holidays came, free time multiplied and here we are. Somewhere between binging Netflix and eating my weight in kourabiedes (Greek festive butter cookies), I started my brand new blog around everything tech/software related!
I have a lot of subjects I want to write about over the following weeks, mostly revolving around Ruby on Rails developments, LLMs and the new trends in software engineering and some more personal career stuff. If that sounds interesting, feel free to subscribe using the RSS or just join the newsletter.
For this first one, I'll do a quick retrospective on a 2025 event that had an impact on me, inspiring me to become more vocal about Ruby and Rails.
Rails World 2025
In September I had the pleasure of attending Rails World in Amsterdam. Hearing top engineers talk about how they go about building solutions, learning about the upcoming goodies in our framework and chatting with other passionate Rails devs really felt like home.
(Most talks from the conference have been uploaded to this YouTube playlist)
On the subject of Rails and upcoming goodies, during DHH's keynote there was a mention of Lexxy, a new WYSIWYG editor based on Meta's Lexical that will be replacing Trix. My new blog is the best excuse for me to try it out and it seems to be working great already, even though it's still pre-release (currently 0.1.24.beta).
AND_THE_MOST_AWESOME_PART = "Lexxy supports live code syntax highlighting"
How awesome is that? A great OSS gift for my coding blog!
Wishing everyone a great 2026! Stay tuned.
