Typesense
WorkOS
Fin
Laravel Cloud
AppSignal
Persona
Avo
Beyond Finance
SumIt
TRMNL
Order.co
Chatwoot
Chime
FastRuby.io
Buildkite
CodeRabbit
Legacy? I prefer battle-tested.
Pair grazing. Like pair programming, but greener.
This dock is mine now. Non-blocking, though.
Scoot over. This plank is taken.
Sunbathing is a lifestyle.
I only surface for major releases.
Formation lead. Zero merge conflicts.
I review fish. Approve, approve, approve.
Squad's over there. I'm remote.
Drop a churro. I dare you.
Telegraph Hill rent: one cracker.
Wild parrot of Telegraph Hill, doing a flyby.
Check Agents on Rails: the first benchmark report
Peace, love, and open source.
Series A? We prefer Series Mars.
Great reception up here. Home says hi.
Karl the Fog? We go way back.
Mrrp. Come closer. See what happens.
X-ray glasses. Chris left them here.
starlark_compiler
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kamal-backup
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libx11
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yabeda-schked
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foobara-rubocop-rules
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rux-rails
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thamble
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haml-rails
pay
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sunstone
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i18n-js-assets
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third_base
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pg_partition_manager
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ruby-boolean
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revise_auth
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activehistory
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webrick
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nitro_sg
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compact_index
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scgi
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kuby-redis
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simple_mailer
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rails_appengine
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net-http
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kuby-crdb
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irb
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gem_server_conformance
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jeremyevans-exception_notification
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industrialist
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evilr
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kaeruera
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powerhome-attr_encrypted
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scaffolding_extensions
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downstream
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xcactivitylog
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rubocop-anycable-rails
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open311
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prefixed_ids
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debug_socket
shortlook
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benchmark_driver
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twitter_cldr_js
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rodauth
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jdbc-hsqldb
Return to Charles Nutter
arugula
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maven_gem
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m
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active_event_store
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jruby-readline
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madmin
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sigstore-cli
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I’m Carmine Paolino, a software engineer, founder, and musician based in Berlin. I run [Plenty](https://plenty.is), the company behind my products and open-source work. I created [RubyLLM](https://rubyllm.com), a framework for building AI applications in Ruby. I also build [Chat with Work](https://chatwithwork.com), developer tools like [ArchSpec](https://archspecrb.dev) and [Kamal Backup](https://kamal-backup.dev), and native Spotify and WhatsApp clients [Spotifast](https://spotifast.rocks) and [ZapFast](https://zapfast.rocks). I build the software I need and make it a pleasure to use. My favorite problems are the ones I run into myself: something missing, frustrating, or slower than it should be. I care about speed, beauty, and the details that make a tool feel right, from the interface down to the code. My background is in computer science and AI, and I’ve worked in machine learning since 2012. I got involved in open source as a teenager, running the Italian Gentoo Linux community. Previously, I co-founded [Freshflow](https://freshflow.ai), using AI to reduce supermarket food waste. I help organize [Berlin.rb](https://berlinrb.org), founded the [Floppy Disco](https://floppydisco.live) music collective, and make house and disco as [Crimson Lake](https://crimsonlake.live). I’d love to meet fellow maintainers, independent founders, people building with Ruby and AI, and anyone interested in software and music. [All my projects](https://paolino.me/projects/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/crmne)
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