Remote Ruby

This episode of Remote Ruby opens with stories of exhaustion from a sleepless week. Then, Chris, Andrew, and David spend most of the episode unpacking two big themes: trust and governance in open source, and the growing mess of software security and AI-assisted development. They dig into the new Ruby Central write-up on the RubyGems/Bundler fracture and question whether it actually clarifies the path forward, then pivot into the Axios npm compromise, supply-chain risk, and how fragile modern package ecosystems can feel. Then, they go into a wide-ranging discussion on AI coding, bloated production apps, image-performance headaches, CSS/rendering quirks, and why teams may need to rethink APIs, CLIs, MCPs, and markdown-first docs as agent traffic keeps growing. Hit download now to hear more! 
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RubyGems Fracture Incident Report 
Bundler has moved to the RubyGems organization (GitHub)
Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise (Microsoft Security blog) 
Garry Tan X
The Missing GitHub Status Page

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On this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David bounce from Ruby and Rails security updates into the messy realities of caching, UI architecture, and browser support. They break down the latest Zlib-related Ruby CVE, Dalli updates, Rails security and bugfix releases, and what maintenance windows mean in practice. Then, they swap stories about Redis, Memcached, observations about GitHub’s reliability amid massive Claude attributed code activity, and the kinds of performance problems that only show up at scale. The episode closes with a thoughtful Rails frontend discussion covering nested layouts, active sidebar links, CSS-powered empty states, pagination behavior, popovers, anchor positioning, and why Safari still makes simple UI work harder than it should be. Hit download now to hear more!  
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Zlib::GzipReader
Dalli
Memcached
Attributed Claude activity over the last 90 days on GitHub (Armin Ronacher X)
The Standup with ThePrimeagen Podcast-Is AI ruining opensource? (Lost episode)
Nested Layouts with Rails (GoRails)
current_page?
link_to_if
Geared Pagination
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Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now!
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Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
Invincible
Fallout
Robby Russell X
Sam Altman X
Ghostty
Ruby 4.0.2 Released 
RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV
Rails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update)

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On this episode, Andrew’s buried in messy authentication work spread across legacy code, Chris recounts a frustrating GitHub Actions debugging session, and David explains the mental drain of working across both Vue 2 and Vue 3 in the same application. They talk about using workflow run triggers, scheduled builds, and GitHub’s new Agentic Copilot workflows such as CI Doctor, Automatic Code Simplifier, and issue/PR management, while lamenting low-quality AI-generated PRs and paid AI code review tools. Andrew makes a special announcement about Blastoff Rails, they compare LazyVim, lazy.nvim, and Kickstart Neovim, we hear about Ruby 3.4.9 and its bug-fix release, and Marco Roth’s Herb improvements for ERB tooling. Hit download now to hear more! 
Links
Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
Upload-artifact v7.0.0 (GitHub)
Download-artifact v8.0.0 (GitHub)
GitHub Agentic Workflows
Bringing Code Review to Claude Code
Scott’s Pizza Tours
Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Learn Enough Bridgetown to be Dangerous (Andrew’s talk)
lazy.nvim
LazyVim
kickstart.nvim
kickstart-modular.nvim
Tree-sitter
Herb
Marco Roth X (Herb)

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Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop taking new enterprise customers. Adam shares how the news landed in real time during a founder’s retreat, and the conversation expands into what Heroku’s apparent “maintenance mode” means for developers, pricing, autoscaling, platform alternatives, and the broader challenge of building durable developer businesses in the AI era. They also touch on Judoscale’s upcoming “platform tour” and the value of smaller Ruby conferences. Hit download now to hear more! 

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Adam McCrea LinkedIn
Judoscale
Remote Ruby-Episode 163: Autoscaling Rails with Adam McCrea
Heroku: What’s Next by Jon Sully (Judoscale Blog)
An update on Heroku by Nitin T Bhat
Render
Laravel Cloud
RBQ Conf, March 26-27, 2026, Austin, TX
Blue Ridge Ruby, April 30-May 1, 2026, Asheville, NC
RubyConf, July14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV
Rails World 2026, September 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX
Ruby Events 2026

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