Riccardo is a long-time Ruby enthusiast. He bought a Mac after his roommate Fabio showed him that ruby came preinstalled from the terminal, and TextMate was a natural progression. This was around Ruby 1.8.0 and Rails 2.2, circa 2009.

The Rubicon river had been for centuries the northern border between the area directly controlled by Rome and its allies and the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.