My conference talks, podcast appearances, and more.

I love sharing my experience building Hotwire Native apps and working for myself. Here's where you can find recordings to them all.

Conferences

Hotwire Native workshop

Rails Conf 2025 Upcoming

Join this live workshop to learn how to build native iOS and Android apps from scratch, powered by your existing Ruby on Rails website and Hotwire native.

Podcasts

Simplify Your Stack, Ship Mobile Sooner

Maintainable Software Podcast, May 2025

Joe evaluates maintainability in how fast he can go from "git clone" to coding. He shares how Hotwire Native speeds up mobile development by reusing Rails views and layering in native features.

Return of the Hotwire Native Guy

IndieRails, February 2025

Joe shares about niching down on Hotwire Native, changes in the related open source libraries, the direction of his consulting work, his parental leave last year, and the process of writing his forthcoming book.

Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti

The Ruby on Rails Podcast, February 2025

Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. He joins the show to talk about how Hotwire Native can help you build mobile apps out of your Rails apps.

Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti

Remote Ruby, January 2025

I join Remote Ruby to discuss the evolution of Hotwire Native, insights from my upcoming book, authentication, and push notifications.

Episode 17

Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, February 2023

Joe joins the show to talk about his various projects, why it's so important to build in public, and how doing less is helping him to do it all.

Joe Masilotti

IndieRails, February 2023

Joe shares his journey getting into coding, going independent, consulting in iOS and Rails, building in public, and starting RailsDevs.

Turbo Native Workshop

The Ruby on Rails podcast, December 202

Brittany and Joe discuss why he is conducting the workshop(s), whether he is happy with the current state of Turbo Native (with a cool OSS reveal) and of course, an update on how RailsDevs is progressing.

Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year

Indie Bites, September 2022

Joe Masilotti is an all round top bloke. He's now just a top bloke who's making that juicy bootstrapped cash helping Rails developers get jobs. All while sneakily avoiding being labelled a recruiter. Smart man.

Positivity and RailsDevs

The Ruby on Rails podcast, April 2022

Building RailsDevs in public, challenges I have faced, and the technical decisions I am proud of. Also, a bit about my upcoming workshop.

Building iOS apps using Hotwire / Turbo.js

Remote Ruby, April 2021

We find out what Joe does and things he has built as an iOS and Rails developer. Also, insight on building an App and submitting to the App Store process and using a Ruby gem called fastlane.