AI-driven development - it's a spectrum
I want to share my experience regarding AI-driven development.I know it's not a new and shiny thing, and it's been around for a while now, but some things should need some time to take it through its
Own it - A blog from Adrian Marin
Sharing my lessons on becoming a thriving #indiedev.
馃殌 Launching Avo into the world! - 馃 A beautiful, easy-to-use Ruby on Rails admin panel framework
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SF Ruby 2025 and the Thousand People Framework
I think it's important that the Ruby community knows what just happened in San Francisco last week. 400+ Rubyists got together and shared ideas and visions. They exchanged opinions and presented the past, present, and future of Ruby. I went to very ...
Friendly is taking a break
Tl;DR; We're taking a break with Friendly.rb. We had three beautiful editions, incredible fun, and learned so much in the process. This happening changed us, the hosts in ways we could not imagine. We're taking a break because things have happened in...
Your company's digital brain
What do you need in your digital brain? That's how I think about Avo now. It's not some closeted admin panel where only five people dare to go because touching the data wrong might crash the app. It's the place where you invite your whole team to run...
Developer marketing is important
Here's something that's been on my mind lately about the Rails ecosystem. For the past 10 years, there's been massive investment in dev tooling, especially for JavaScript and TypeScript companies. They take some of that funding and deploy it to marke...
One of the first medium-sized Hotwire apps
Remember the pandemic when we were all stuck at home? That's when I built the first version of Avo. It started as a challenge to see if I could do it. A Vue.js frontend with a Rails API backend. Nothing fancy, just me experimenting during lockdown. T...
RailsConf '25 and the Imposter Syndrome
I'm heading to the last RailsConf's Hack Spaces and honestly, I have massive imposter syndrome. I'm looking at the other maintainers and seeing Marco Roth, Rosa from Solid Queue, Steven, Jose Valim with Hotwire Combo Box, Chris Oliver. These are the ...
Avo beyond admin panels
I've been marketing Avo as an admin panel framework for years. And it's a very good one, but I think it's time to make the distinction between a "thrown-together" admin panel that nobody really uses (because they're afraid of touching the data or the...
Two things I wish I knew when I started to build an internal tool framework
There are two things I wish I knew when I started to build an internal tool framework. 馃檶 If you do them properly, you'll be on the right track. People want to get started fast. Fast is the main word here. They have a problem to fix, an idea to share...