Ruby Rogues

By Charles M WoodBusiness Technology Education How To Careers

Ruby Rogues episodes

March 05, 2019RR 402: Ruby 2.6.0 Bugs, Kafka, and Karafka with Maciej Mensfeld
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Eric Berry
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Charles Max Wood
Joined by special guest: Maciej MensfeldEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Maciej Mensfeld, Senior Software Engineer at Castle Intelligence and the creator of the Karafka framework. Maciej explains to listeners the Karafka and Kafka frameworks and their advantages, the differences between Karafka and gems like DeliveryBoy and Racecar, certain use cases where Kafka can be used efficiently such as for fast data processing (messages at the rate of 50k per second), normalizing the request stream, buffering data and event-driven architecture. They discuss the framework’s contrast with respect to a traditional queue system and comparison to different languages.Maciej talks about some problems faced in the development stage and answers questions related to Kafka features such as strong ordering and error handling with examples. He also explains the procedure of using a consolidated gem with Docker containers, which is a part of his project set to release in April 2019. They discuss some specific errors in Ruby 2.6.0 and finally, he gives details about the Ruby users group based in Krakow, Poland and their meetups.Links
Karafka framework
Ruby Kafka
DeliveryBoy
Racecar
WaterDrop
Dry Libraries
Apache Kafka
Bug – Socket connect timeout exceeds timeout value
Bug – ‘Numeric#zero?’ is much slower than ‘== 0’
Mutant library
Maciej’s blog
Maciej’s GitHub
RubyKaigi
PicksEric Berry:
Dave Kimura’s beautiful video setup
Andrew Mason:
Mac keyboard shortcut for nice screenshots: ⌘⌃ ⇧4 + space-bar and click on open window.
Contributors’ names listed in the Readme file of the open source project – Andrew’s contribution
Dave Kimura:
Gatorade powder - to mix with Amoxicillin for better taste
Elgato Cam Link 4k (reason for the excellent video setup!)
Charles Max Wood:
Disney Heroes : Battle Mode
Kingdoms of Heckfire
Special Guest: Maciej Mensfeld.

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1 hr
February 27, 2019MRS 079: Chandan Jhunjhunwal
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Chandan Jhunjhunwal
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Chandan Jhunjhunwal, a tech lead at Coupa Software from Pune India.
Listen to Chandan on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.
Chandan studied electronics in university but was hired as a software engineer at IBM after university and really liked programming. He then continued working as a developer for a startup before founding his own startup. Chandan is now working for the procurement department at Coupa Software. Chandan feels that no matter what your background is, nothing is too hard and if you like something you should dive in and do it. He also points out that especially in technology there is always a learning curve.
Links
Ruby Rogues 314: DynamoDB on Rails with Chandan Jhunjhunwal

Chandan's GitHub

Chandan’s Twitter

Chandan's LinkedIn

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Chandan Jhunjhunwal:
Rescuing The Daughter

No Ordinary Moments by Dan Millman

Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta

Charles Max Wood:
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Ultramarathonman by Dean Karnazes
29 min
February 27, 2019RR 401: Environment Variables & Ruby with Jesus Castello
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Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Charles Wood
Joined by special guest: Jesus CastelloEpisode SummaryIn this episode, Jesus Castello, a ruby developer who has been programming since he was 10 years old. He has been a Ruby Developer for 7 years. He teaches Ruby and has a Youtube channel and website. — discusses with the panel his post about Environmental Variables. Jesus teaches what an environmental variable is, and then together Jesus and the panel discuss the uses of environmental variables. One specific topic they go into detail on is credentials and the master key. They also ask him questions about his career teaching Ruby to those on the web.Links
Ruby Guides - Jesus Castello
Jesus Castello Twitter
Ruby Guides Youtube - Jesus Castello
The Twelve Factor App
Jesus Castello Facebook
Heroku
AWS - Amazon
nginx
Apache
bkeepers/dotenv - GitHub
Enivronmental Variable in Ruby
laserlemon/figaro GitHub
Removing sensitive data from a repository - GitHub
Codefund
dry-configurable
https://12factor.net/config
yuki24/did_you_mean GitHub
Picks Dave Kimura:
Nobilechairs Epic
Satechi Clamp Hub
Andrew Mason:
EugeneMayer/ docker-sync
Jesus Castello:
Brakeman 4.4.0 Released
acts_as_list GitHub
awesome-print/awesome_print GitHub
Ruby Deep Dive
Eric Berry:
CODEFUND Jobs
Charles Wood:
Canon EOS M6 (Black) EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens Kit
Rode VideoMic GO Lightweight On-Camera Microphone with Integrated Rycote Shockmount
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Special Guest: Jesus Castello.

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46 min
February 20, 2019MRS 078: Vlad Dem
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Vladimir Dementyev
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Vladimir Dementyev, a backend engineer at Evil Martians and a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang. He is also the author of Author of AnyCable, TestProf and ActionPolicy.
Listen to Vladimir on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.
Vladimir studied mathematics in university and started programming with ActionScript in an internship during his university education. He then went onto developing with Ruby and became heavily involved in open source projects. He is originally from Moscow but is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY working for Evil Martians, a web development consultancy company that supports open source projects. Vladimir will be a speaker at the RailsConf 2019.
Links
Ruby Rogues: Cables, Concurrency, and Ruby 3×3 with Vladimir Dem

Evil Martians

Vladimir’s Twitter

Vladimir's GitHub

Vladimir's LinkedIn

Vladimir's Dev.to

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks
Vladimir Dementyev:
danger.systems
Charles Max Wood:
MyFitnessPal

CardioCoach VO2 Max App
25 min
February 19, 2019RR 400: Celebrating a Milestone - Ruby Rogues 400th Episode
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Episode Summary In this 400th episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists - Dave Kimura, Andrew Mason, Eric Berry, Charles Max Wood talk about themselves, their backgrounds, things they are working with, their journey and perspectives on life in general.Eric has been a developer since 1998 and is working on Ruby on Rails since 2008. He talks about his current company – CodeFund, an ethical advertising platform that helps open-source developers generate a recurring passive income which encourages them to maintain existing software as well as contribute to additional projects. Dave is currently in a transition phase employer-wise, and in addition, has also been running “Drifting Ruby”, an online screencast and tutorial site for the Ruby language from the past 4 years. Andrew has recently graduated with a Computer Science degree and is working at a Ruby on Rails shop full-time. Charles is currently working on making sure that devchat continues smoothly which includes getting relevant sponsorships, building systems around the podcasts, ensuring that shows go out on time and more. He talks about wanting to improve the show and make it as useful as possible to listeners.They each talk about their favorite episodes and reminisce about some good ones. They also discuss hobbies and activities that they enjoy apart from regular development work. Towards the end, Charles speaks on the end goal and vision behind devchat and the steps he is currently taking in creating a resourceful site for people that in turn pushes them to achieve their own goals.Links
Gitcoin
Drifting Ruby
CodeFund
JavaScript Jabber podcast with Jeremy Ashkenas
Hope in Source podcast
Living Out in Faith
PicksAndrew
Kubernetes Failure Stories
Release Notes
Dave
Netgear Orbi Wi-Fi system
org
Eric
Rollbar
A21 foundation
Charles
Operation Underground Railroad
Villainous Board Game

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1 hr 6 min
February 13, 2019MRS 077: Radoslav Stankov
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Radoslav Stankov
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Radoslav Stankov, the head of the engineering team at Product Hunt.
Listen to Radoslav on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.
Radoslav was interested in technology from a young age, he was recruited by a company at a youth community center for IT support. He was interested in web development so he started to coding in PHP. He then started learning Ruby on Rails and started working for a company which sells trucks where he built the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in Rails. The user interface for this ERP system was very successful and Radoslav stresses any software that can’t be used by the client can not be considered very good.
Radoslav then started working for a startup which failed but there he met the team which eventually led him to the job at Product Hunt. Radoslav and Charles share stories where they were hired by people they had met at other projects. They point out that people like to keep hiring those they trust and admire. Radoslav then goes on to share projects he has been proud of throughout his career.
Radoslav is currently at Product Hunt and one of the working to make the app work better and faster.
Links
Ruby Rogues: GraphQL at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov

React Round Up: React at Product Hunt with Radoslav Stankov

React Native Radio: React Native at Product Hunt feat. Radoslav Stankov and Vlad Vladimirov

Radoslav’s Website

Radoslav’s GitHub

Radoslav’s Twitter

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Radoslav Stankov:
The Ruby Toolbox

formulaic
Charles Max Wood:
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Writing Excuses Podcast
37 min
February 12, 2019RR 399: Jets Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen
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Dave Kimura
Charles Max Wood
Nate Hopkins
Special Guest: Tung NguyenEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy, a Bay Area based DevOps infrastructure consultancy. Tung is also the creator of Ruby on Jets. Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework, allowing you to to create serverless applications with Ruby. It includes everything needed to build and deploy applications to AWS Lambda.Tung explains how Jets works and that even before AWS Lambda supported Ruby, Jets used a shim to run Ruby. The shim was written in a language that is natively supported by AWS Lambda and called out to Ruby. Tung describes this process using the dream in dream concept in the movie Inception. Since AWS Lambda has started supporting Ruby, Jets has since moved to the official AWS version of Ruby.They discuss Tung’s decision to open source Jets and his end goal with it. Tung explains he created Jets because he needed it, he wanted to run Ruby functions without managing a server. So by building tools like Jets he is able to help his clients and his consulting company. By open sourcing them, he is able to give back to the community.Tung talks about the development process of Jets and explains that he has already re-written Jets a couple of times. Finally, for people who want to find out more about Jets, Tung directs them to the documentation and support links on the Jets website and the YouTube videos he has posted.Links
Jets Ruby Serverless Framework
Jets Blog Post
http://rubyonjets.com/docs/crud-html-activerecord/
http://rubyonjets.com/docs/crud-json-activerecord/
https://asyncy.com/
BoltOps
BoltOps Nuts and Bolts Blog
AWS Lambda
Serverless Framework
Tung's LinkedIn
Tung's GitHub
Tung's Twitter
Tung's YouTube Channel
Support Jets
Introducing Jets: A Ruby Serverless Framework on AWS Lambda
Build an API with Jets Ruby Serverless Framework
PicksNate Hopkins:
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Eric Berry:
https://asyncy.com/
https://scoutapp.com
Light Therapy Lamp
Andrew Mason:
H68G Drone
Dave Kimura:
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard for Business (5KV-00001)
Inversion Table
Charles Max Wood:
The 1-Page Marketing Plan bu Allan Dib
Cholesterol Clarity by Jimmy Moore
The Keto Reset Diet by Mark Sisson
Deseret Book Company
Tung Nguyen:
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
Special Guest: Tung Nguyen.

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1 hr 14 min
February 06, 2019MRS 076: Sihui Huang
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Sihui Huang
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Sihui Huang, a software engineer at Gusto, which is a startup that works with payroll, benefits, and HR for companies.
Listen to Sihui on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode.
Before taking programming classes in university, Sihui didn’t know anything about programming. In fact, she had originally planned to study accounting and switched her major on the first day of classes. Read Sihui’s blog piece “From Hello World to Six Job Offers From Facebook, Airbnb, Salesforce…” to learn more about a step by step account of her programming studies.
Sihui did a couple of internships to figure out exactly what kind of a work environment she wanted to be in and Gusto fit that environment the best. She has been there since graduation. In her career, Sihui follows an iterative methodology where she sets one goal, unblocks herself and performs the necessary steps to reach that goal and then sets her next goal. Every 6 months she reflects on what she has learned the past 6 months and puts it in a blog piece to remember it. Check out Sihui’s blog here.
Links
Ruby Rogues: “How to Contribute to Ruby” with Sihui Huang

Sihui’s GitHub

Sihui’s Website

Sihui’s LinkedIN

Sihui’s Twitter

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Sihui Huang:
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Charles Max Wood:
31 Days to Build a Better Blog - ProBlogger
34 min
February 05, 2019RR 398: Productivity with Mani Vaya
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Eric Berry
Charles Max Wood
Nate Hopkins
Dave Kimura
David Richards
Brian Hogan
Andrew Mason
Special Guest: Mani VayaEpisode SummaryIn this episode Mani Vaya — founder of 2000books.com and former programmer — discusses productivity. He speaks on the following subtopics: the importance of planning out one’s day; identifying priorities and getting the top 3 done each day; taking time to get things done without any distractions - the benefits of single tasking as opposed to multi-tasking; the attention space in one’s brain; the importance of meditation; focusing on the important as opposed to the urgent; the importance of measurement; and lastly project orientation vs outcome orientation and when to use each.Mani helps motivate and inspire productivity in all aspects of a coder’s life.Links:
Double Your Productivity by 5 PM Tomorrow
Never Procrastinate Again Program
Learn to Meditate
2000 Books Podcast iTunes
2000 Books Podcast Android
2000 Books YouTube Channel
2000 Books Website
The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Mani's Meditation Program
The One Thing by Gary Keller
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covery
10x Productivity
PicksDavid:
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Nate:
Paul Graham - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Dave:
Standing Desk from Micro Center
Charles:
Standing Desk Floor Mat
Andrew:
Make Your Own Bed - by William H. McRaven
Eric:
Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On by Mark A. Reinecke PhD
The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Dr. Kristin Neff
Charles:
Purple Seat Cushion
Pomodoro Timer
Mani:
Do not disturb button at the bottom of your iPhone

Special Guest: Mani Vaya.

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14 min
January 31, 2019MRS 075: Luca Guidi
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Host: Charles Max Wood
Special Guest: Luca Guidi
Episode Summary
In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Luca Guidi, Senior Software Developer at DNSimple and creator of Hanami ( previously Lotus framework) from Italy.
Listen to Luca on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode and this episode.
Luca grew up playing video games and took his first programming class when he was 12. His dream was to become a programmer. After studying Information Technology, Luca started working as a programmer and Ruby felt the most natural to him. He found that Rails was a great to start off applications with but not necessarily maintain with. So he created Ruby web framework Lotus which he renamed as Hanami after IBM created software named Lotus as well. Luca is currently working on Hanami preparing for a 2.0 alpha release, he will also be a speaker at the RubyDay2019 conference that will be held in Verona in April.
Links
Ruby Rogues: Ruby Elapsed Time with Luca Guidi

Ruby Rogues: The Lotus Framework with Luca Guidi

Hanami

aculo.us

Prototype

Luca’s LinkedIN

Luca’s Twitter

com

Luca’s GitHub

RubyDay2019

https://devchat.tv/my-ruby-story/

https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
Picks
Luca Guidi:
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo
Charles Max Wood:
Podfest Multimedia Expo

MicroConf

The Gifted TV Show
33 min

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