Blue Ridge Ruby 2026: A Conference About the Long Game

The first morning of Blue Ridge Ruby , John Athayde stood at the front of the YMI Cultural Center and showed us pictures of trees. Forests. His own land. The projector at the venue was so good that the photos felt like windows. His talk, Learning from Permaculture: Sustainable Software Development , used permaculture principles to talk about how we tend our codebases. I came in expecting a Ruby conference. I didn't expect to spend the morning thinking about how a forest grows itself, and how the