Cody Norman

Here's how I'd sum up my experience dipping my toe into the job market for the first time in a few years.

@kcdragon.bsky.social has been dropping Ruby knowledge on me for over a decade. This will be great if you're able to make it!

We finally got some snow in Colorado so decided to take my first powder day.

Really excited for this one. Wale was one of the first people I connected with in Philly after finishing my bootcamp back in 2014. It's been great re-connecting at conferences the past few years.

Last week, I released a huge update for Spot Squid that lets shops pre-book time slots for events. They completely sold out the event in a few hours! Was awesome having a chance to stop by the event and see everything humming along in person. "It was incredible. So smooth. Everyone loved it..." 😤

Do I know any founders who write their own content and would participate in a UX interview for Knowatoa's new onboarding for $$?

Had a great time hanging out with @jasonswett.bsky.social earlier this year. Thanks for having me, Jason! www.codewithjason.com/podcast/1788...

Got to see Taking Back Sunday and Coheed and Cambria and Red Rocks this past weekend and the best way to describe it is it felt like a high school reunion, but one that I'd actually want to go to. Fred re-joined TBS and both bands went harder than any other show I've been to.

So glad my trip to Amsterdam was so much easier than last time. Ready to kick things off at #RailsWorld

Quick pit stop in Iceland on the way to Amsterdam for #RailsWorld

Merged a few hotfixes before review this morning and was trying to make a Cowboy Coding joke when sending an update. I attempted to put my face on Cowboy Curtis but ended up with this abomination and I can't stop laughing at it.

Rocky Mountain Ruby early bird tickets are up at rockymtnruby.dev. Join us in October for a great local conference!

Was amazing meeting Edy and some of the other @codeminer42.bsky.social crew at the final #Railsconf Hearing that sharing my experience speaking at RailsConf helped them be a speaker this year blew my mind. This post came off the top rope on to my feels blog.codeminer42.com/railsconf-20...

"We didn’t sponsor RailsConf to try to sell Judoscale or win customers..." And yet this will both sell @judoscale.com and win them customers! They have an AWESOME product and they are present in the community for the sheer love of it. Be more like Judoscale. judoscale.com/blog/rails-o...

My brain is full of open source, blogging and growth ideas, thanks to #rubyfriends! Thanks @rubycentral.org @rosa.codes @codynorman.com @jeremysmith.co @manu-j.com @andyatkinson.com @adrianthedev.com @inazarova.bsky.social @jesper.dev @kaspth.com and so many others! Hope to see everyone again soon!

My perfect record of never having an on time departure for a conference when flying American remains intact but finally in Philly

@davidhill.dev was just thinking it'd be great to organize an Ode to Railsconf group photo next week

You know it's a good breakdown when you stank face so hard your face id stops working.

Meet Shardly Romelus, one of our Scholars attending this year's #RailsConf! 👋 Shardly is a Boston-based fullstack engineer who loves building with Rails and React and taking on big challenges (including running 250 miles in a month!)

Just under a month until the final #RailsConf in Philly. On top of getting to head back to Philly and and getting in some final memories, I was fortunate enough to be selected for a guide! See you in Philly! railsconf.org/about/#schol...

Dinesh is the last person driving a Tesla because he's still stuck with his leases. Jian Yang starts smuggling from China to skirt tariffs. Big Head fell into bonkers money during Web3. Fiona the AI robot finds Richard and they start dating.

With #RailsConf about a month away, I've been doing some reminiscing about my Philly days. Spent my 30th birthday at National Mechanics for the Weblinc holiday party and the Careless Whisper sax guy played Happy Birthday for me 😆

Looking to give away some tickets for brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of Noah Gibbs. Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June. forms.reform.app/goodscary/b...

Flying out for Rails World a couple of days early to spend some time in Europe.

Managed to snag a ticket to Rails World!

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Lianna did a killer job helping me out with a landing page! This is a great chance to get some outside advice and save yourself from endless tinkering.

I've seen a few people mention that the actor that plays Greg on White Lotus also plays Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. Watched The Monster Squad this past weekend and realized he's also the human version of the Wolfman! Why am I just now finding this out?!

Fixed a failing CI build in a single try. Didn't even get to the "please work" commit message stage. Feel like I should buy a lottery ticket now.

Deployed a huge update for a client yesterday that re-writes their frontend to use Inertia + Rails. After working with Inertia the past couple of months, it's really been growing on me.

Snagged my ticket. Can't wait to head back to Philly for a few days!

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Doesn’t appear to be a big following over here but any one looking to attend @microconf.com I have a member of my mastermind group looking to offload an extra ticket at a discount. Shoot me a message and I can connect you if you’re interested

A Ruby tattoo has been on my list for a long time. I thew out this idea to my tattoo artist a few months ago and after floating out a couple of ideas for my appointment, this was the one he wanted to do the most. So stoked with how it turned out!

Just realized that as of today, I've been self-employed longer than any of my other jobs in tech.

Had a customer in my neck of the woods yesterday that reached out to me to grab a drink at a local Mexican restaurant. Customer feedback is way easier to get over tequila shots.

I'm almost 40 and haven't touched a snowboard in about 20 years but decided this past weekend was time to knock the dust off. My old dude skate sessions have been paying off and did 11 miles over 25 trails and only fell 2-3 times.

Our learnhotwire.com course is going to be hefty. I have 46 lessons recorded for the Rails + Hotwire section and more to come. That doesn't include @williamkennedy.ninja's iOS and Android portion either. Should be the most complete Hotwire course when we're done.

Was expecting 4-7 inches of snow from yesterday's storm and woke up to about 17. Guess that means spring storm season in here.

My @cred.blue score is 326! 🦋 I've been on Bluesky for 121 days, joined during the "public release" era, and have a social status of "Highly Engaging Pathfinder" Get your score: cred.blue It also said I'm a 'Reply Guy' and not sure if that's a good or bad thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Guess when I enabled jemalloc on @hatchbox.io ?

Shipped some big Spot Squid upgrades today! Upgraded to Rails 8 and Ruby 3.4 while also swapping the admin panel to Madmin. I've been stuck on so many outdated projects in the past and it's such a drain.

Come hang with me at Sin City Ruby in April! We're giving away a free ticket INCLUDING HOTEL!! You just need to get yourself there. 😁 @jasonswett.bsky.social puts on an amazing show (so I've heard), and Judoscale is excited to be a sponsor. Details here: judoscale.com/blog/sin-cit...

The final RailsConf CFP is live! I wasn't planning on submitting a talk this year but changed my mind as soon as I heard it was in Philly. sessionize.com/railsconf-20...

And probably way too many picklebacks at National Mechanics.

So pumped for Philly. I’m gonna be pounding City Wides and cheesesteaks

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There's a lot of reasons why I live having tattoo shops and artists as customers. One of my favorites has to be their feedback when they like something. "Dude!! That fuckin rules!!!" "No that's fuckin spectacular" I'm almost 40 now, is that too old to say it hits different?