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Ashley Ellis Pierce @aellispierce

Staff Software Engineer. Formerly Shopify, GitHub, & thoughtbot. Runner. Writer. Internet aficionada.

Joined October 2014
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Remembering what it's like to code just for fun. Honestly forgot how much I loved it 🥹💻✨
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Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
25 Apr 2023
The Rails Core team will be hosting their office hours at the Shopify booth today at 2pm! Come connect with @eileencodes, @tenderlove, @rafaelfranca, @_matthewd, @nik_vasilevsky, @adriannakchang, @paarthmadan_, @GannonMcGibbon for all your Rails questions! #RailsConf2023
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allie_p@allie_p
7 Feb 2023
Almost every job in tech I’ve ever had I’ve been lucky enough to get mostly through Twitter. I’m newly on the market and open to new opportunities. If you’re looking to fill an engineering leadership role, feel free to reach out!
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Aaron Patterson@tenderlove
7 Dec 2022
In memory of @ChrisGSeaton, a giant. tenderlovemaking.com/2022/12…

In Memory of a Giant

The Ruby community has lost a giant. As a programmer, I always feel as if I’m standing on the shoulders of giants. Chris Seaton was one of those giants. I’ve been working at the same company as Chris...

tenderlovemaking.com
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In every interaction, Chris was unwaveringly kind and helpful. He was a giant in the community and in our team. He'll be missed dearly.
mike dalessio@flavorjones
7 Dec 2022
I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton.
Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

ALT Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

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eileencodes@eileencodes
30 Nov 2022
I'm speaking @rubyconf tomorrow at 10:45am CST about finding exits in YJIT and how we can use that information to make optimizations. If you're interested in running YJIT you won't want to miss this. #yjit #ruby #rubyconf2022
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@bettymakes@ruby.social@bettymakes
16 Nov 2022
Thanks for paving the path for all of us @qrush 🙌❤️!! And way to turn #RubyConfMini into GoiterConf @jenshenny 🤪. Fantastic talk 🔥!! MFA All The Things!
Nick Quaranto ⛵️@qrush
16 Nov 2022
It’s always a bit surreal watching a talk about one’s open source project many years later. 🥲 #RubyConfMini
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Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
2 Aug 2022
Shopify Ruby on Rails = 💚 Our Ruby & Rails Infrastructure team joined us in the studio to discuss Rails, why they're invested in this community, and what's next. Watch the full video on YouTube 👇 bit.ly/3zvRpvA
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Over the weekend I became a maintainer of Rubygems.org. 🥳🚀 I'm excited to continue working w/ the community to make this amazing ecosystem even better & more secure. 🎉 Along with this we're launching the first phase of our new MFA policy today 🎉🥳!

RubyGems Status@rubygems_status
13 Jun 2022
To better secure RubyGems, today we're introducing a new policy. - Popular gem maintainers will see prompts to enable multi-factor auth. - Starting Aug 15, MFA will be enforced. This move will help us build a safer community inline with other ecosystems. blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13…
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Jenny@jenshenny
13 Jun 2022
New week, new RubyGems.org maintainer ✨ From being terrified of contributing to OS 9 mo ago to becoming a maintainer feels unreal. Thanks to the RubyGems.org maintainers my team for getting me here. Excited to continue to work on and level up RubyGems!
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Join us at WNB.rb tomorrow! @bettymakes has something TRULY special in store for us all
WNB.rb@wnb_rb
10 Jun 2022
✨Join us on Tuesday at noon eastern for our meetup sponsored by @ShopifyEng featuring two talks: 👩‍💻 A Rails Developer's Guide to the Ruby VM by @OngMaple 💎 Gem install: What could go wrong? by @aellispierce and @bettymakes tinyurl.com/join-wnb-rb
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Naj@najjmahal
10 Jun 2022
a quote from ocean vuong that shapes everything i do. happy pride y’all 🌈❤️
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Broadcast team is amazing because i don't look nearly as terrified in this as I felt 😂
Ufuk Kayserilioglu@paracycle
26 May 2022
The video we shared at @railsconf 2022 is finally out: youtube.com/watch?v=FUy64bt5… I love working at a company that cares so deeply about its tools, infrastructure and the communities around them. We also have amazing eng comms and broadcast teams who put this together! ❤️
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our talk today. MFA all the things! ⚡️ #RailsConf2022
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Gabi Stefanini
@lastgabs
18 May 2022
gem install awesome-talk // awesome-talk.gemspec s.authors = [ @bettymakes , @aellispierce ] Join us at BR 254! Bonus points for custom limited edition stickers that you can only get here! #RailsConf2022 @ShopifyEng #railsconf #rubyonrails
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Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
18 May 2022
💎 Meanwhile next door, @aellispierce & @bettymakes will explore the risks of installing a gem and what you can do to prevent attacks in your application dependencies. 7/10
A photo of Ashley Pierce and Betty Li from Shopify in front of a green gradient background. A card to they left shows information on their RailsConf 2022 session 'Gen install: what could go wrong?' taking place at 1:30pm PDT on May 18th.

ALT A photo of Ashley Pierce and Betty Li from Shopify in front of a green gradient background. A card to they left shows information on their RailsConf 2022 session 'Gen install: what could go wrong?' taking place at 1:30pm PDT on May 18th.

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Adrianna Chang@adriannakchang
18 May 2022
Spending time with this group at the @wnb_rb social has been one of my @railsconf highlights so far ❤️
10 badass engineers

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I’m so excited to grace the stage with @bettymakes and these amazing doodles tomorrow #RailsConf2022
@bettymakes@ruby.social@bettymakes
12 May 2022
I aint no artist ... but I sure love to doodle! The past week, I've taken my love of doodlin' in @MiroHQ to the next level 😅. Here's a sneak peek into one of the doodles I was working on for @railsconf 👀🎨✨!
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This was a great conversation. Thanks to everyone who joined and listened in!
Shopify Engineering
@ShopifyEng
30 Mar 2022
💎 We're hosting #RubyOfficeHours on Spaces April 12th to talk Ruby Gems, open source, & more! Bring your thoughts to join @aellispierce, @bettymakes, @jenshenny & @jacques_chester for this Space for all Rubyists! Click to get notified when we're live 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1DXxyDyqMjWJM
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It's been a while since I've paired regularly and I forgot how much I love learning random keyboard shortcuts and sharing the best bits from everyones workflows
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