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Carmine Paolino

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AI frameworks, developer tools, and native apps by Carmine Paolino, founder of Plenty and the Floppy Disco music collective, creator of RubyLLM, and Berlin.rb organizer.

Ruby / RailsAI / ML

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38 from 4 Aug 2024 to 28 Oct 2026
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weekly (29 in the last year)
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2026 29

  1. Solco: Stop Preparing Your Tracks, Start Preparing Your Gigs
  2. I Get 215 GitHub Notifications a Day, So I Built a Bot to Triage Them
  3. All projects →
  4. RubyLLM & AI Consulting
  5. Ruby & AI Newsletter by Carmine Paolino
  6. RubyLLM 2.1: You Can Have It All
  7. RubyLLM 2.0: Tool Approval, Video, Speech, Citations, and Cost Tracking
  8. Berlin.rb: A New Monthly Ruby Meetup in Berlin
  9. RubyLLM 2.0: The Agentic Loop, Exposed
  10. kamal-backup 1.0: A Backup Is Only Real After You Restore It
  11. RubyLLM 2.0: Providers, Protocols, and Provider Gems
  12. ArchSpec 1.0: Executable Architecture Specification for Ruby’s Agentic Coding Era
  13. RubyLLM::Schema Is Now Schematist: A JSON Schema DSL for Ruby with Full Draft 2020-12 Coverage
  14. Founding a Company in Germany: €11,800 and 7 Months to Get a VAT ID
  15. RubyLLM 1.16: Concurrent Tool Execution, Rails-Style Instrumentation, and api_base for Every Provider
  16. Engineering Is Not Dead, Because Accountability Isn't
  17. Production Experience Cannot Be Hallucinated
  18. RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate
  19. kamal-backup: Scheduled Rails Backups for Kamal Apps
  20. Ruby Concurrency: What Actually Happens
  21. Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based
  22. Your Agent's Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer
  23. I Built a Monitor Configuration Tool for Hyprland
  24. Comb Shaped Slices
  25. Ruby Deserves Beautiful Documentation
  26. RubyLLM 1.14: From Zero to AI Chat App in Under Two Minutes
  27. Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps
  28. RubyLLM 1.12: Agents Are Just LLMs with Tools
  29. Dictation Is the New Prompt (Voxtype on Omarchy)

2025 7

  1. Nano Banana with RubyLLM
  2. RubyLLM 1.4-1.5.1: Three Releases in Three Days
  3. Async Ruby is the Future of AI Apps (And It's Already Here)
  4. RubyLLM 1.3.0: Smarter Attachments, Multi-Tenancy, and No More Manual Model Tracking
  5. The LLM Capabilities and Pricing API is Live
  6. A Standard API for LLM Capabilities and Pricing
  7. RubyLLM 1.0

2024 2

  1. Building Cluster Headache Tracker from a Hospital Bed
  2. Bye Freshflow