Sometimes, it's hard to know where to find me. Even for myself. So here's an up-to-date list of some of my creative efforts and content productions.
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First things first
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- updated (17/01/25)
- updated (02/02/25)
🛠 Building your BusinessOS API platform at ClickFunnels. (having tons of fun building and seeing customers making more money and doing useful things with our API ecosystem)
👨🏻🏫 Helping 100 developreneurs and indie hackers to kickstart their app with marketing in mind. (main program: MFBOSS)
- 1 student in progress (building his Challenges app).
- 2 product tandems started (as of 2nd of February).
🕹️ Building an open-source social games SaaS app on Bullet Train and the ClickFunnels API to show you how to build your app marketing first and delegate the user management to a 3rd party BusinessOS API. (Definition of done: TBD)
📜 Tweaking Rails gems to auto-generate the perfect OpenAPI schema for Rails projects. (Definition of done: OpenAPI is auto-generated seamlessly in Rails projects, or DHH tells me that OpenAPI will never make it into Rails)
🔎🧑💻🧑💻 Looking for Tandem Rails Coding buddies on our side projects: Apply Here. (Do 1-2 tandems on one of the projects above)
(coming soon) 🎙️ Chatting about all this on a "Rails Apps And APIs" Podcast Show.
It looks like a lot, but I'm chipping at them bit by bit and many of them are highly intertwined, so don't worry about me. 😅
Conference talks
"A Picture is Worth a 1000 Lines of Code" - RailsConf 2023
The talk is available on YouTube:
Get your visual brain activated 🎨
Writing and Visualizing ✍️ 🎨
🎉 The source of truth of my content is richstone.io/blog, you are already here 🎉
I might be occasionally cross-posting to other platforms, but here is the up-to-date original stuff.
Outstanding:
- Trending in JavaScript Reddit: How To Start Understanding JavaScript
- Upvoted on StackOverflow: What does the map method do?
- Trending in Ruby Reddit: First Step To Start Learning Ruby or Ruby Open Source Projects
- Guest blog on HubSpot: You Guide to Data Migrations and Synchronizations
- My first published sketchnote on Sam Julien's blog
Past tech blogs:
My ancient German poker blog from my times as a poker-pro kid:
Podcasts 🎙️
I co-hosted the Curious Coders Chronicles with Bouwe.io to interview ourselves and the industry's curious minds about all the incredible things that are going on in the software engineering industry.
Appearances on other podcasts:
- Smart Testing Practices at Code with Jason (and other episodes; I stopped counting 😅)
- Testing APIs and Loggers at Ruby Rogues (2023) and Ruby Dev Summit Community Chat (2024)
- APIs You Won't Hate - Clickfunnels and Rails APIs with Rich Steinmetz (2025)
Meetups and Events 🏟️
I'm was organizing a local meetup in Barcelona for people to chat about Ruby, Rails, getting unstuck in their projects, and preparing themselves for their overall tech challenges:
Active in Communities 👯
With more and less active periods:
- RailsLink Slack.
- Founder Hub (Discord).
- ClickFunnels Facebook and their native community.
- Reddit: r/ruby, r/rubyonrails.
- Sometimes on X and LinkedIn.
Office hours 🗃️
I sometimes have office hours with various topics and times scattered throughout my blog posts. Check if there is one active here: