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165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.
03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming
05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is
- Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar
- There is No Spec
- There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work
07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out
- Penelope’s Ideas
12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program
- Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem
18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking
20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration
22:44 - Major Challenges Faced
- Finding Time
- No Major Challenges
- Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming
- This is Not a Gem
25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt
28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt
30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback
- There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby
34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs
37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences
- Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People
- Speakers Can Get Their Start
- Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers
- Struggling to Get Speakers
- Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over
- $$ - Hard to Break Even
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Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.