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RR 363: Fir - The Friendly Interactive Ruby REPL with Dean Nasseri
Panel: Dave Kimura Eric Berry Catherine Meyers Special Guests: Dean NasseriIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Dean Nasseri about Fir. Fir is the friendly interactive Ruby REPL that Dean created when he was inspired by the REPL Fish. Dean is a software engineer at VTS, which is a commercial real estate software platform that uses Ruby on Rails. They talk about why he created Fir, how he approached creating it, how long it took him to build, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Dean intro What is Fir? Inspired by Fish REPL Interactive approach Does that work with multi-lines? Quick lookup What’s your favorite way to use Fir? Use REPLs for everything Pry Pry vs Fir How did you approach creating a REPL? Looked at Pry a lot hen creating Fir Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy Do you have a lot of users of it? Wants to direct people to Fish Why would someone switch to Fish? Oh My ZSH Auto suggestions are killer How much time did this take you to build? What kind of terminal do you use? Hyper Mert And much, much more! Links: VTS Fir Ruby on Rails Fish Pry Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy Oh My ZSH Hyper Mert nasseri.io @DeanNasseri Picks:Dave Doorknob Covers Marvel Strike Force Eric Mert Utah Hospitals Chuck Catherine Codeland Conf RubyHack DeanRed Blob GamesSpecial Guest: Dean Nasseri.
RR 362: Measuring Ruby Performance with Rails and Discourse with Noah Gibbs
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Dave Kimura Catherine Meyers Special Guests: Noah GibbsIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Noah Gibbs about measuring Ruby performance with Rails and Discourse. Noah wrote a book called Rebuilding Rails and is currently analyzing Ruby performance for AppFolio. They talk about how he puts benchmarks around Discourse, the 2 distinct audiences that come to Rails, and how Rails is constantly improving. They also touch on his life as a programmer leading up to being a Ruby fellow and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Catherine intro Noah intro Engineering.appfolio.com Ruby Weekly Do you find that your benchmark is applicable worldwide? Rails is going to continue to rise and fall Ruby code goes up and down with Rails in the US Hanami How do you put benchmarks around Discourse? Messy and requires a lot of tooling Always a balance in a benchmark The “real world” is messy 2 distinct audiences for Rails Rails is transitioning over time Nothing has ever come close to Rails Technology revolves around what’s hot Recent shift in technology Server-less technology The life of a Ruby fellow And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rails Discourse Rebuilding Rails AppFolio Engineering.appfolio.com Ruby Weekly Hanami @codefolio Noah’s GitHub Picks:Charles Hogwarts Battles DevChat.tv YouTube Dave Marvel Strike Force GitLab David Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio Catherine Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis Http Cat Noah Wacom Tablet Draw with Jazza The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.
RR 361: Ruby Elapsed Time with Luca Guidi
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Dave Kimura Special Guests: Luca GuidiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Luca Guidi about Ruby elapsed time. Luca works remotely for DNSimple and is most well known in the Ruby community for his open source projects, such as Hanami. They talk about NTP, time drifts, and the pros and cons to using a monoatomic clock. They also touch on the importance of being exposed to different languages in order to be a well-rounded developer.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Luca intro His elapsed time blog post Why he wrote the blog post What is NTP? NTP = Network Time Protocol The importance of keeping your computer time in sync with an external NTP server Time drifts World clock and monatomic clock The blindness around time Building a system around time Working on time and attendance The things you don’t think about are what you take for granted RailsConf How did you come about finding this conclusion? Go Computer Language Being exposed to different languages Ruby is flexible and high-level The dangers of coming to Ruby as their first language Rails And much, much more! Links: DevChat.tv YouTube DNSimple Ruby Hanami Elapsed Time Blog Post RailsConf Go Language Rails LucaGuidi.com Luca’s GitHub @jodosha Picks:Charles Zoom H6 Facebook Marketplace Dave Marvel Strike Force Hondata Mockaroo DavidTrifactaLuca Tasty Daily Stoic by Yyan Holiday Digitakt Special Guest: Luca Guidi.
RR 360: Cucumber is 10 years old with Aslak Hellesøy
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guests: Aslak HellesøyIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Aslak Hellesøy about Cucumber. Aslak has been a software developer since around 1997 and has been in the Ruby community since around 2003. He created Cucumber in 2008, which has been his hobby on the side since its creation. They talk about the difference between TDD and BDD, what Cucumber is, and how it works. They also stress the importance of having conversations in order to facilitate collaboration and trust.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Aslak intro What is the difference between TDD and BDD? Selenium and Cypress Capybara With BDD, you lose your fast feedback loop and your flow People accept slow feedback loops The test pyramid Most tests should be uni-tests Why is it that full-stack tests are slow? io makes full-stack tests slow What is Cucumber? A tool that supports behavior-driven development (BDD) Having conversations around concrete examples Visualization Cucumber used to express examples Allows people to design the tests for the BDD flavor of TDD to develop a software Example mapping The importance of having the conversations Facilitating collaboration and trust Having face-to-face conversations And much, much more! Links: Ruby Cucumber Selenium Cypress Capybara Cucumber’s Slack @aslak_hellesoy Aslak’s GitHub Picks:Charles Udemy course on Blockchain and Ethereum Creating a blockchain with JavaScript YouTube videos David"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. FeynmanAslak BDD and Cucumber Training in June Cucumber Electron Special Guest: Aslak Hellesøy.
RR 359: Panelist Thoughts, Gripes, and Ideas
Panel: Charles Max Wood Brian Hogan Eric Berry Dave Kimura David Richards In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talk about their thoughts, gripe about things they don’t like, and discuss some new ideas. Some of the things they discuss include having a frozen version of your code, node modules, code dependencies, and more. They also touch on the fact that making shortcuts now means that you will have to pay for it later.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Having a frozen version of your code is a good idea Dependency problems Ruby gems Gem in a Box Rubygems.org Node modules npm install Do you have to manually add all the gems to the gem in a box? You don’t ever save time, you just shift time Do the hard work up front that you can Stages of a system Rails, Ruby, and JavaScript Hello World The future of building more complex languages and frameworks Trial and error Sometimes sad when writing code There isn’t a lot of empathy in the programming world Fullstack developer image And much, much more! Links: Rubygems.org npm install Gem in a Box Rails Ruby JavaScript Fullstack developer image Picks:Charles NG Conf DevChat.tv/YouTube RubyHack MicroConf Microsoft Build New Show Ideas Brian Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix by Lance Halvorsen Chunkwm GitHub Chunkwm Tutorial Eric Crabby Bill’s Bob’s Burgers David What should a FAQ for a software company contain? by David Richards George Saunders: what writers really do when they write Dave Rails 5.2 GDPRv
RR 358: Code Automation
Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses code automation. They talk about how automating things tends to make them more efficient and speed the time up it takes to complete them. In a world where time is precious, it’s important to automate anything you can so that you can save yourself valuable time and money. They also touch on the importance of having a structure and a consensus among the company in order to have the best productivity and the pros and cons of using “sprints”.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: The more automated things are, the more efficient they tend to be What can we automate and delegate to make work easier? Why do you think people are having trouble filling senior positions? Retention is a problem among companies Companies need to be more aggressive with incentives to keep people they want to stay There are more jobs every day and not enough people are being trained fast enough People leave companies because their priorities don’t match up with the job priorities Agile processes What is DevOps? Make sure everyone understands the process The importance of structure Without structure, conflicts are going to arise Merge conflicts Planning out the “sprint” The pros and cons to “sprints” Velocity is a planning tool only Test runners TypeScript, CoffeeScript, and ES6 build processes What to do when the “sprint” timeline doesn’t match up with your actual performance? And much, much more! Links: TypeScript CoffeeScript ES6 Chuck@DevChat.tv Picks:Charles Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden Alexa Flash Briefings to come Dave Having a good soldering iron Heat shrink tubing Exercise trampoline
RR 357: Ruby 3 with Takashi Kokubun
Panel: Eric Berry Dave Kimura David Richards Special Guests: Takashi KokubunIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses Ruby 3 with Takashi Kokubun. Takashi works for Treasure Data as a layers application engineer and works with template engines such as Haml and Hamlit. They talk about JIT Compilers and the upcoming Ruby 3.0 launch and the efforts that are going in to making this launch run more smoothly. They also touch on the importance of optimizing your code and discuss the 3 by 3 challenge with the upcoming Ruby 3.0 launch.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Takashi intro Haml Works for Treasure Data What is a JCompiler? JIT Compiler Rails Real world application performance Have you done any benchmarks to see if the actual application performance has increased? Need method inlining for the best application Any efforts being used to speed up Ruby 3.0? Trouble with optimizing Thinking about optimization in your code is important Solve problems using the JIT compiler 3 by 3 challenge How long have you been working on this compiler? Current version of the JIT compiler LLVM Ruby Concurrency Types And much, much more! Links: Haml Treasure Data Rails Hamlit JIT Compiler LLVM Ruby md2key mitamae Takashi’s GitHub Picks:Eric Origin by Dan Brown Tunnel Bear Dave2018 Honda Civic SiDavidJoan DidionTakashi md2key mitamae Special Guest: Takashi Kokubun.
RR 356: Geospatial Programming in Ruby with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham
Panel: Charles Max Wood Eric Berry Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses geospatial programming with Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham. Daniel is a developer at Google and has been doing Ruby for about 14 years. Tee is co-founder and CTO of Neighborland, which is built on Ruby on Rails. Before that, he founded, managed and led technical projects for a small startup for about 8 years. They discuss what geospatial programming is, what RGeo Gem is, and other interesting aspects of geospatial programming.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Daniel and Tee intros What is the landscape when it comes to geospatial programming? What is geospatial programming? Google Maps Get ahold of a lot of data Wide angle of data available Large amount of application available RGeo Gem What does RGeo do? CrimeReports.com Draw shapes on a map to outline the cities or space A lot goes into Geospatial programming What drove you to create this project? Why Ruby? Created out of necessity PostGIS When did this project begin to gain traction? Open sourced it so that other people could use it When did Tee get involved? Rails And much, much more! Links: Ruby Ruby on Rails Neighborland Google Maps RGeo Gem CrimeReports.com PostGIS @TeeParham Tee’s GitHub Daniel’s Blog Daniel’s GitHub Picks:CharlesCodeSponsorEric Polymail CodeSponsor Daniel Project Euler Bloom County Tee Observable MapSchool.io GeoJSON.io The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw Retrospective Album Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham.
RR 355: Code Reviews with Jacob Stoebel
Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Eric Berry David Richards Special Guests: Jacob StoebelIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses code reviews with Jacob Stoebel. Jacob is a Rails and JavaScript developer and works for ePublishing where he does mostly front-end programming. He talks about how he believes that code reviews can be both honest and nice, and that they should inspire the programmer to want to go back and make his/her code better, not tear him/her down. He also gives fours steps to the response process for giving positive and helpful code reviews.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jacob intro Rails and JavaScript Are there other places beside code reviews that we give this kind of feedback? Talking about code reviews is a great ice-breaker at conferences Developing is a creative profession Trust must be present for creativity to flow What led you to this topic? Used to be a high school drama teacher It’s possible to give honest and positive feedback Code reviews CAN be honest and nice Code reviews should be inspiring Code review role play Example if a good code review vs a bad code review Four steps to response process Put the author in the driver’s seat as first The opinion has to be consented Keep the conversation civil and collaborative Rule out passive aggressive comments in the future And much, much more! Links: React Dev Summit JS Dev Summit ePublishing Rails JavaScript @JStoebel Jacob’s GitHub Jacob’s Website Picks:Charles 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegal Dave Humane Development DEWALT 18-Gauge Pneumatic Brad Nailer EricPhoenix Framework on ElixirDavid Thought as a System by David Bohm Radical Candor by Kim Scott Jacob Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process: A method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert Growing Old by Chad Fowler talk Special Guest: Jacob Stoebel.
RR 354: Music, Musicians, and Programmers with Catherine Meyers
Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Eric Berry David Richards Special Guests: Catherine MeyersIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses music, musicians, and programmers with Catherine Meyers. Catherine is a software engineer at Mavenlink in San Francisco and is a co-organizer of a meet-up called Women Level Up. Before getting into coding, she was actually an opera singer. They talk a lot about why she decided to change her career and how she came to be a successful coder after being a singer for many years.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Check out React Dev Summit Catherine intro Previously an opera singer How did you decide to get into programming? Who she performed for and where she performed Her friends suggested she start coding Tips to help those not interested in coding give it a chance Coding is like solving a puzzle Coding boot camps to facilitate a career change HTML Flatiron School The importance of resilience Ruby Conf The ability to communicate with many different typed of people Patterns Do musicians have an advantage as a developer? Patterns in Rails How can music make you a better coder? Your brain as a musician Is there a correlation with brain activity and listening to music? Different music affects different people And much, much more! Links: React Dev Summit Mavenlink Women Level Up Flatiron School Ruby Conf Rails Ruby Hack Conference @CCMeyers324 CatherineMeyers.com Picks:Charles The Greatest Showman React Round Up React Dev Summit Views on Vue Elixir Podcast coming soon Dave Heat Shrink Tubing Heat Gun Eric Pastel de Nata The Expanse Consensys David Marconi Union – Weightless Wintergatan - Marble Machine Catherine Public School Music Education Base.cs Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy Special Guest: Catherine Meyers.
RR 353: Removing Business Logic from Rails Controllers with Aaron Sumner
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guests: Aaron SumnerIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses removing business logic from Rails controllers with Aaron Sumner. Aaron is a long time Ruby developer, using mostly Rails, writes a blog called Everyday Rails, and most people know him from his book, Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec: A practical approach to test-driven development. They discuss service objects, the pros and cons of using them, and they emphasize not trying to change something all at once, but gradually.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Aaron intro How to test code without controller tests? The cons to controller tests Soft deprecation If you’re not writing controller tests, what are you writing? Get the code out of the controllers and test it in more isolation Service objects Problem with a controller having a lot of business logic in it Rails Cons of service objects Using a service object inside of a controller Pros of service objects Getting smaller can happen step-wise Re-architecting should happen gradually not all at once When you write a service object, there is a flow to it How writing his book impacted his views Start small And much, much more! Links: Everyday Rails Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec: A practical approach to test-driven development Ruby on Rails @EverydayRails Everyday Rails GitHub Aaron@everydayrails.com Picks:Charles The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington RubyHACK Conference DavidReady Player One by Ernest ClineAaron No code Deleting code 30 for 30 Podcast Special Guest: Aaron Sumner.
RR 352: React on Rails and Webpacker with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise
Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric Berry Special Guests: Justin Gordon and Rob WiseIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses React on Rails and Webpacker with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise. They talk about the origins of React on Rails and compare it to Webpacker. They also talk about how the two go hand in hand and how you can use them in your own coding to make your life easier.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: React on Rails library Ruby on Rails adopted Webpack and called it Webpacker Define your fence lines for your library JavaScript Key features of React on Rails Props.md Angular issues with Webpacker How the original React on Rails worked Needed a view helper How much of a part is Webpacker to the core team? Webpack was huge win They made a lot of assumptions when making Webpacker Global registration Server rendering HTML HVMN.com jQuery Is there a path with this where you don’t have to be a react expert? Forum.shakacode.com Much Webpack to I need to know to pick up React on Rails? Do we need all of the Ruby stuff built around Webpack? React Router 2 types of developer to target And much, much more! Links: HVMN.com Forum.shakacode.com Shakacode.com @RailsonMaui Rob’s GitHub @RobAWise Picks:Charles Anti-Pick: INTELLIbed Tuft & Needle Bed DaveBostitch LaminatorEricBitBarJustin Why We Sleep on Audible “Top Health Podcasts, Videos, And Books on Ketosis, Intermittent Fasting, Paleo, and related…” “Justin’s favorite productivity tools (with Mac and iOS)” HawaiiChee.com RobThe Prettier Project for JavaScript by James LongSpecial Guests: Justin Gordon and Rob Wise.
RR 351: Thwarting Insider Threats with Greg Kushto
Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraBrian HoganEric Berry Special Guests: Greg KushtoIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses how to thwart insider threats with Greg Kushto. Greg is the vice president of sales engineering and security at Force 3. Greg talks about how it is a team effort to uphold information security in a company, especially insider threats. He got started with computer security when he worked at a helpdesk and then moved his way up to making it his full-time career. This episode is great for understanding insider threats, both what they are and how to prevent them.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: What are insider threats? Malicious or unaware intent Team approach to thwart insider threats How did you get started? Helpdesk worker How to get started in this line of work You need to be an expert in order to be successful in this line of work Making a statement Whistleblowing Prevention Don’t give everyone full access to everything Don’t leave holes in your work Most errors are caused by humans Insider threats don’t always have malicious intent Is there an easy list of things to prevent these threats before they begin? CIA How does the new technology affect insider threats? What to do when there’s a breach And much, much more! Links: Linode Force 3 Interview Cake FreshBooks @Greg_Kushto Greg’s Blog Picks:Charles Apple AirPods ATR2100 Mic Ecamm Call Recorder Upside Dave Auxbeam LED Headlights Native Fire Brian Bloxels S3 Server Eric GitCoin CodePilot Greg The Cuckoo’s Egg Greta Van Fleet Special Guest: Greg Kushto.
RR 350: Episode 350 Celebration!
Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: NoneIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses where they are right now and what their day to day looks like. Dave is with Sage Software and continues to push himself so that he will always be learning and progressing. He has three kids currently and he tries to have a good work-life balance so that he can separate both of his worlds. David is currently at a Fintech company where he is on the core team and does the data science. He also writes a lot and explores his creativity through that. Charles finds himself working a lot on the podcasts and has to schedule time to code. He works from home and therefore gets to spend a good amount of time with his family. The panel also talks about the importance of family, the need to challenge yourself, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Where are you now? Sage Software Stimulus and JavaScript Frameworks Drift and Ruby Python, Ruby, and Elixir CSS Zapier The importance of family Learning new languages Expanding your horizons Python vs Ruby New show ideas Working outside Ruby and your comfort zones Machine Learning Using Ruby knowledge to solve problems elsewhere What projects are you working on right now? And much, much more! Links: Linode Sage Software Zapier Interview Cake FreshBooks Picks:Charles Mormon Sunday School Podcast Having tough conversations Kim Crayton Dave iMac Pro Micro Center David Space E Python Library Prodigy
RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso
Panel: Charles Max WoodEric BerryDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: Sebastian SogamosoIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses failures with Sebastian Sogamoso. Sebastian is a software developer of 6 years, and working with Ruby for the last 5 years, and before worked with Java and PHP. He is currently living in Panama City, but grew up in Colombia. He now works for CookPad and organizes a Ruby conference in Colombia. Sebastian stresses the fact that everyone fails no matter what, and if you take responsibility and learn from your failures, you can more on to become a better programmer and developer because of it.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby, Java, and PHP Failure stories Personal failure stories in software projects Public failure stories in technology companies Failure from a personal perspective I am the worst developer ever? Will I get fired? Will this ever be over? Getting peer support Will I have to carry with the weight of this failure for my entire career? Taking time off to decompress Failure from a company perspective The customer support side The Public Relationships side The engineering side Blameless postmortems (don’t do guilt blame) Root cause analysis Fix the code, but most importantly the processes Gaining confidence back Mental health Why sharing our failures can help Impostor syndrome And much, much more! Links: Linode CookPad Interview Cake FreshBooks SebaSoga.com @SebaSoga Sebastian’s GitHub SourceDiving.com Picks:Charles Craigslist eBay Classified Sites for Non-Running Vehicles Eric Django Cats DaveCostco GlassesDavid The Knowledge Worker by Peter Drucker A Different View of Mindfulness by Zat Rana Sebastian Headspace App You Need a Budget App 1Blocker App Special Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso.