I'm Adam, a long-time software developer and entrepreneur based in the Niagara region of Canada. Most of the time I provide consulting to other organizations through my consultancy, Mediadrive. But you might also find me working on one of my startups or micro-bets, such as DNSLint or Suspenders.
While I am familiar with many languages and technologies, Ruby is my first love, and most of the software I ship is written in Ruby.
I'll happily work with other languages such as Golang, Crystal, JavaScript, Python, Elixir.
I started working with Ruby on Rails in 2005, and have come to appreciate the beautiful Ruby ecosystem outside of Rails. Since 2015, I've been incredibly enamored with using other fantastic libraries in Ruby, and you'll commonly find me around the Roda, Rack, Sequel, Hanami, and other communities.
In 2013, I connected with the local grassroots organization Software Niagara, and loved the community built around this organization so much, that I promptly injected myself into championing the ongoing organization festivities. Through the years, we maintained a regular cadence of multiple free events for the local software community, such as DevTricks.
In that same year, to break the monotony of remote work, I connected with the local group Cowork Niagara which was meeting twice weekly at a local coffee shop. The organization aspired for more, and I joined in the formation of Co-work Niagara Co-operative Inc., as a founding member and Corporate Secretary. The co-operative went on to open a physical co-working space in downtown St. Catharines, followed by one located in central St. Catharines. At it's height, Cowork Niagara served many members and contributed back to the community through it's hosting of many local organizations, Software Niagara included.
Today, you'll find me mostly working from home.
I recently built rbz as an experimental Ruby packaging mechanism for
single-file archives (ala jar, phar, or shar of other ecosystems). Crazy?
Maybe. It was based on a Ruby bug tracker ticket from over 9 years prior.
As part of one of my small bets, I've been working on building and shipping DNSLint, a brandable DNS toolkit for web hosts and MSPs. I've also recently launched Suspenders, a toolkit for the DirectAdmin control panel, and NoDNS.fyi, a reverse proxy for previewing websites during migration without changing DNS.
In an ongoing attempt to improve Ruby documentation, I (along with Mediadrive) host and support Gemdocs.org, an experimental Ruby documentation hosting website. Gemdocs currently hosts over 2.4 TB of documentation for published Ruby gems.
- Software Niagara
- Remote working
- Hosting gem documentation at scale
- Non-Rails Ruby
- Starting and running a coworking space
- Organizing a grassroots software meetup
- Running a software consultancy for ~ 20 years
hello [at] adamdaniels [dot] ca
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