Rhiannon Payne & Justin Bowen - Agents of Change
Rhiannon Payne and Justin Bowen are one of the very few couples working together in the Ruby and Rails ecosystem. Justin is a long-time Rails developer, consultant, and AI and computer vision specialist. Rhiannon runs Sea Foam Media and is the Marketing Director for Ruby Central. Together they are building Active Agents, an AI framework for Rails. We chat about their professional backgrounds (Justin's in software development, Rhiannon's in marketing), how they collaborate as a couple, the birth of Active Agents, and AI in the Ruby/Rails landscape. Oh, and we may have a cameo from a few cats!
Rhiannon
Twitter
Bluesky
The Remote Work Era Book
Justin
Twitter
Bluesky
Active Agents
Website
activeagent gem on GitHub (latest release: v0.4.0)
Documentation (new)
Discord Invite
Sea Foam Media
Website
Twitter
Rhiannon
Bluesky
The Remote Work Era Book
Justin
Bluesky
Active Agents
Website
activeagent gem on GitHub (latest release: v0.4.0)
Documentation (new)
Discord Invite
Sea Foam Media
Website
Creators and Guests
Host
Jeremy Smith
Designer & Rails dev • Co-organizing: https://t.co/q8XwVUrgxU • Studio: https://t.co/ZrmGeEnhcI • Side project: https://t.co/X0kD85uiQf • Newsletter: https://t.co/IaoJVazkkr
Host
Jess Brown
Indie rails dev since 08, currently building CSePub & TRACT. Co-host https://t.co/TpDORNDqZV. Family of 4, also interested in faith, crossfit, cycling, RV'ing, finance
Guest
Rhiannon Payne
Author of The Remote Work Era book 📖 | Founder of Seafoam.media 🌊 | Marketing for clients including ActiveAgents.ai & Ruby Central 💎 | SF-based & semi-nomadic 🌁✈️
