Ruby Rogues

Hosts of the JavaScript Jabber Podcast, Dan Shappir, and Steve Edwards join the Rogues on this week's crossover episode. They talk about both of the framework's useful features and how the JavaScript framework may be applied when creating Ruby applications. Additionally, they tackle each of their advantages and disadvantages.
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• Twitter: @wonder95
• Twitter: @DanShappir

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Jean Boussier is a Staff Engineer on Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He joins the show to talk about pitchfork. He begins by defining the pitchfork and describing how the application concept works. Moreover, he explains the reason why he wrote it and tackles some of its useful features. 
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Educational Links

• GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork
• To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at Ruby’s Execution Models
• Heap Profiler: Measure memory allocations and retentions of a Ruby code snippet
• Rails’ eager_load_namespaces
• The Deadline pattern
• Circuit Breakers in Ruby with Semian
• Performance tuning Falcon 
• Ruby’s New GVL Instrumentation API 

Socials

• Jean Boussier (@[email protected]) - Ruby.social
• GitHub : byroot
• Twitter: @_byroot

Promoted Links

• Valentino’s Working On: Docs GPT

Picks

• Chuck - Sushi Go Party! 
• Chuck - Riverside.fm
• Jean - Ruby 3.2.0 Released
• Valentino - watchmeforever - Twitch
• Valentino - ivoanjo/gvl-tracing

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Dave and Valentino join this week's panelist episode to talk about important points to remember in web hosting. Dave begins by discussing ways to prevent security breaches in your system or data and prevent any ransomware attacks. He shares his own experience on how he maintains his website and the resources he is currently using. 
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Links

• Drifting Ruby
• DHH: We’re Leaving the Cloud 
•  ProxMox: An open-source virtualization platform
• AMD Risen 9 7950X 
• GPU computing with NVIDIA’s CUDA cores
• CERN’s LHC@Home volunteer computing platform
• COVID-19 HPC Consortium

Picks

• Dave - SteamDeck 
• Valentino - Flipper Zero

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Brett Chalupa is a hobbyist game maker, creative dabbler, and professional software developer. He joins the show alongside the Rogues to talk about creating video games. He dives into how he got started with DragonRuby, the games he created, and his experience as a game developer. Moreover, he talks about his book, " Building Games with DragonRuby". Sponsors

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Links

• Building Games with DragonRuby
• mruby
• Simple DirectMedia Layer
• OpenGameArt
• Smaug
• GitHub - DragonRidersUnite/scale: Framework with conventions and utils for DragonRuby Game Toolkit
• DragonRuby Game Toolkit
• Exquisite corpse - Wikipedia
• Brett Chalupa - itch.io
• Brett Chalupa
• Brett Chalupa - Mastodon
• Brett Codes - YouTube
• Twitter: @brett_codes
• DocsGPT

Picks

• Chuck - Karma
• Chuck - 1923 (TV Series 2022–2023) - IMDb
• Chuck - The Mistborn Saga
• Brett - How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
• Brett - Murder on the Orient Express
• Brett - Save 60% on Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight on Steam
• Valentino -  Amazing AI — Sindre Sorhus
• Valentino - Why Props Matter - YouTube

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Chuck and Valentino join this week's panelist episode to discuss Ruby 3.2. Valentino takes the lead as he talks about its exciting new features and performance improvements. They also share their insights and opinions about Ruby 3.2 and if these features help optimize web application performance.
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Links

• Ruby 3.2.0 Released
• Ruby Weekly
• What's new in Ruby 3.2's IRB?
• huginn/huginn
• Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions
• THE BENCHMARK SETUP
• Benchmarking Ruby 3.2 with YJIT
• 💎 Ruby 3.2.0 Is From Another Dimension
• YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby
• It is not what you expect, but it is what you want
• kateinoigakukun/wasi-vfs
• Feature #18585 
• Module: RubyLsp::Requests

Picks

• Charles - Midjourney
• Charles - Introducing ChatGPT
• Charles - Sleeping Queens
• Charles - Log in to Xero Accounting Software
• Valentino -  Resemble.ai’s Alexa Skill Template

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Jimmy Koppel is the founder of Mirdin. He also has a Ph. D. in programming languages from MIT. He joins the show alongside Chuck to talk about "Linguistic Antipatterns". It is a persistently bad practice in the name and documentation which could make it more difficult to understand programs. He begins by sharing some of its examples, how to identify them, and how to avoid them. 
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Links

• Advanced Software Design Web Course - Mirdin
• Dropbox - rubocop.md - Simplify your life
• two Ruby case studies
• Linguistic Antipatterns
• Mirdin
• Jimmy Koppel
• Twitter: @jimmykoppel

Picks

• Charles - Forbidden Sky
• Jimmy - Tigris & Euphrates
• Jimmy - Might and Magic series - MobyGames

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Zachary Schroeder returns to the show to talk about the latest trends and frameworks in the community. Chuck starts off by sharing his own experience of staying on top of his podcast and current projects. They also discuss the significance of working on "side projects" in their field. Additionally, they discuss their perspective on using social media platforms in connecting with people.
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Links

• Framework reimagined for the edge! - Qwik
• HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire
• GitHub - arbox/machine-learning-with-ruby
• GitHub - arbox/data-science-with-ruby
• Please follow: Top End Devs in Tiktok
• GitHub: robobluebird

Picks

• Charles - UNO ALL WILD
• Charles - Total Life Freedom
• Charles - DigitalOcean
• Zachary - Microserfs
• Zachary - Macbat 64

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Elia Schito works at Nebulab. He is a Ruby enthusiast and move to a more supporting role for Opal development, mainly reviewing and merging PRs, handling releases, and so on. He returns to the show to talk about Opal and its new features. It is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. They also talk about the difference between Opal and ruby-wasm. Additionally, they discuss the e-commerce platform, "Solidus".
Features recently added to Opal

• freezing
• parallel compilation
• async/await support
• native promises
• io (gets/puts)
• bundle size reduction
• readability of compiled JS
• ruby 3.2 support (coming around Christmas 2022)
• binding.irb

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Links

• Opal 💎
• GitHub - joeldrapper/phlex
• Try Opal: Browser compiler and REPL
• WebAssembly and advanced regular expressions with Opal
• TryRuby/try_ruby.js.rb at master · ruby/TryRuby · GitHub
• Phlex
• Solidus
• GitHub - opal/paggio: Ruby, HTML and CSS at war
• Opal Blog 
• TryRuby playground
• Elia Schito 
• Twitter: @elia
• - Top End Devs
• Ruby Delights Built Into The Language
• GitHub - nebulab/rails_console_toolkit: Configurable Rails Console Helpers

Picks

• Charles - The Game | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
• Charles - TriDot: Home
• Charles - 1923 (TV Series 2022–2023) - IMDb
• Elia - Code I like (I): Domain-driven boldness
• Elia - The waning days of DEI's dominance
• Elia - nd podcast Archives - New Discourses
• Valentino - Ruby Delights Built Into The Language
• Valentino - Shopify’s latest thread on performance metrics from their Ruby 3.2 efforts

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Hilary Stohs-Krause is the Co-Owner and VP at Ten Forward Consulting. Having already spoken at the RubyConf mini last November 2022 about "Salary Transparency", she returns to the show to further talk about it. She explains how they were able to implement it in their company and why it is important. Moreover, she shares their company's process on how to decide on their employees' salaries. 
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Links

• RubyConf Mini
• - Top End Devs
• Ten Forward Consulting
• Rock Agile Consulting
• GitHub - reenhanced/gitreflow
• Twitter: @hilarysk
• LinkedIn: Hilary Stohs-Krause

 Picks

• Charles - Antidote
• Charles - World Cup Soccer
• Charles - Meetup - We are what we do
• Hilary - Greg - Plant Identifier & Care
• John - Pixel 7
• Valentino - How a strategically designed data platform elevates product outcomes

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Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author, and publisher. He also co-authored the best-selling and seminal book, "The Pragmatic Programmer". He joins the show to discuss the important things that software developers should know in this generation. He talks about some of the things that have evolved since he started. 
Important Points

• Reliable CI/CD Pipeline
• Effective low-friction collaboration
•  Free flow of information
• Constant Learning / Skills improvement
• a. Read more technical books
• b. Read more fiction
• Think about how we build software
• a. Software that is replaceable and deposable

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Links

• Toolshed Technologies
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• LinkedIn: Andy Hunt
• Twittter: @PragmaticAndy

Picks

• Andy - Linear – A better way to build products
• Charles - Camel Up
• Dave - Tiltaing Camera Cage

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