Mike Dalessio

Mike Dalessio

Open-source maintainer, 37signals

Mike has been contributing to open source since 2006, and helps maintain many commonly-used gems. He’s currently at 37signals working on security, infrastructure, and performance. He likes coffee, intimate chats, and long walks, and has been known to combine all three.

SEPT 23 3:45 PM TRACK 1

Lingua Clanka: Markdown APIs for Action Text

Agent accessibility is now table stakes, and Markdown is the lingua clanka — the universal rich text format for both AI agents and humans. If you want your Rails app to be agent-accessible, your API needs to emit Action Text content as Markdown and accept Markdown updates from agents. This talk walks through Markdown support for Action Text: how Markdown is generated, and how parser configuration shapes what's stored when agents send Markdown.