🇧🇷🇨🇦 👨🏾💻Software Engineer - Ruby/Rails - Helping businesses build software. 🗣Speak English, French, Portuguese & Spanish. Learning Korean 🇰🇷.
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Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
The more AI can code, the more I believe in Rails.
Builders need the conventions, tooling, and ecosystem of a batteries-included framework. Building and evolving that framework takes a community collaborating through open source.
Engineers have a crucial role: researching and building new tools and platforms. I believe the Rails community is best positioned to do this.
I’m excited for the future of Rails and its ecosystem!
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
The slogan "One Person Framework" is more relevant than ever. A single Software Engineer + Agents + Rails is an incredibly fast combination. Nothing else comes close. #ruby #rubyonrails
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
RubyLLM 2.0 growing to a full-featured AI Framework felt like the perfect moment to redesign the website to communicate that.
Big thanks to gotoinc.co's excellent designers, and @onurozer's excellent marketing advice.
Was a pleasure to work on this together!
rubyllm.com
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Hey rubyists, here's the best way to play with these new decision models like JEV from @typesafeai
Full-featured, and future-proof. Introducing github.com/obie/ruby_decisio…
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Set your livestream reminder on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=V9SxpJpH…
Boy am I glad I haven't even started working on my Rails World keynote. These are the weeks were decades happen. Can't wait to share the very, VERY latest thinking with everyone next week in Austin! This will be the most important one since we started. rubyonrails.org/world/2026/
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Database scaling is a common challenge for applications reaching large scale. Vertical scaling works well to a point but can get expensive fast. At #RailsWorld @thoughtbot's @GriffinTess explores the other approach to scaling your database - horizontally with sharding. Where do you start? Which table do you shard on? How do you keep your transactions atomic when they need to cross multiple shards? Tess will show you how to tackle moving your database to a horizontally distributed system in an approachable way. rubyonrails.org/world/2026/s…
ALT Rails World logo with profile photo of Tess Griffin and text: Speaker Announcement. Tess Griffin. Senior Developer, thoughtbot.
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Anthropic released a threat report on September 11.
China-based actors misused the AI model Claude to target dissidents, religious minorities, and journalists.
Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, Taiwanese Christians, and Uyghur activists were all in the crosshairs.
Writers for Bitter Winter were included.
The operation collected personal data, mapped religious venues, scouted overseas protests in advance, and forced the CCP label of “evil cult.”
Anthropic disrupted the campaigns.
But the real issue is not that AI was abused.
It is that China’s religious repression and overseas surveillance have already reached the stage of using AI to cover a shortage of human agents.
Even beyond its borders, faith and reporting are treated as matters of state security.
Anthropic dropped a bomb by revealing that China, not trusting its own AI, hacks Claude and makes him generate massive illegal campaigns targeting dissidents—including Uyghur journalists who write for Bitter Winter bitterwinter.org/anthropic-r…
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Shipping skills could soon mean as much as READMEs. As AI writes more, libraries that teach agents to correctly use their APIs will win. Rails Hyperdrive lets gems distribute agent guidance, and getting started just takes Markdown files and a gemspec metadata entry.
evilmartians.com/chronicles/…
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Rails + AI are a fantastic pair. What's the best model for your needs?
We partnered with @rails to benchmark different models and answer that question.
The study happened in two stages:
- Stage one: Learning how well models understood Rails and performed with atomic tasks.
- Stage two: Studying how efficient these models are when solving feature tickets, like a human developer would do.
Here's a summary of the findings. Detailed information below.🧵
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
AWESOME: @digitalocean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron with a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy.
This started as a DM on X to @paddix just 1 week ago! Amazing speed of execution.
omarchy.org/news/2026/09/dig…
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Dr. Hak Ja Han is South Korea’s greatest asset for peace between the two Koreas. North Korean leaders trust her despite (or because of) her anti-communist stance. She is now locked up in South Korea. What mandated the campaign to undermine her work and reputation? Was it President Lee Jae-myung’s ego, or his Chinese handlers who need communist North Korea as a buffer against freedom? Let her go!
#ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace
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Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
I think it's now clear how much I love rails engines. I am launching railsengines.com/ to give people a real alternative to small SaaS they need to run their apps.
Nate Bell 🇧🇷🇨🇦 retweeted
Today we shared the first results of Agents on Rails, a new, ongoing initiative to measure how well today's leading agentic coding tools (both frontier and open-weight) actually perform on Ruby on Rails codebases.
Built by @EvilMartians, commissioned by the Rails Foundation.
Read more about the project here: rubyonrails.org/2026/8/12/ll…
Check out the leaderboard: rubyonrails.org/ai
Or head right over to the first benchmark report: rubyonrails.org/2026/8/13/ag…
ALT Agents on Rails. Benchmarking how well today's leading agentic coding tools perform on Rails codebases. Built by the team at Evil Martians. Commissioned by the Rails Foundation.
Will there be a VAR check to see the obvious foul before that 3rd argentinian goal? Of course not 😑 #WorldCup