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.

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, JavaScript, Python, Elixir.

While I am thankful for the opportunity and world that Ruby on Rails opened for me back in 2005, I don't believe that a monoculture is great for any language, and since 2015 have been working daily with Ruby but with minimal Rails involvement. I will still use Rails if the job requires, but enjoy working with other fantastic libraries in the Ruby ecosystem.

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.

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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