Ruby Rogues

• David Richards
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers

• Eliav intro
• Studied music originally
• Risk analyst at Riskified
• Company started on Ruby on Rails
• Been a professional developer for the last year and a half
• Self-taught programmer
• Used blogs and books to learn
• How welcoming and helpful the Ruby community is
• What’s the developer scene like in Israel?
• Rails and JavaScript jobs common in Israel
• English as the common denominator for code
• What is Timeasure?
• Needed a way to measure the run-time of code
• Safe to use in production
• Easy DSL
• Did you look at other gems first before creating this?
• Used NewRelic originally
• How is the data stored?
• What to do with all the collected measurements?
• NewRelic Insights
• Ruby Prof
• And much, much more!

• How I Built Timeasure
• Riskified
• Ruby
• Scala
• Ruby on Rails
• Timeasure
• NewRelic
• NewRelic Insights
• Ruby Prof
• Eliav’s Medium
• Eliav’s GitHub
• @eliavlavi
• Riskified’s GitHub

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• Make Your Life a Story Worth Reading by Jake Wilder

• Sun Catchers

• Golf

• Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level by Tarah Wheeler

• Andy Warhol Museum

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Andy Hunt

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Andy Hunt. Andy has previously been on Ruby Rogues for Episode 277, and is known for his book The Pragmatic Programmer, his company The Pragmatic Bookshelf, and much more. He first got into programming because of his interest in electronic music and his first RadioShack project he created, which led him to finding a book on the future of integrated circuits. They talk about how he found Ruby, why he wrote Programming Ruby, what he is working on now, and more!

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• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers

• Vishal intro
• BigBinary posts a lot of blogs
• Write about the experiences that they encounter while working
• Plan-free Fridays
• Is there any type of motivation or culture that adds to people wanting to provide so many blog posts?
• Suggestions for someone trying to get into blogging
• Vishal’s blog posts at BigBinary
• Start with a simple topic
• Your blog post doesn’t have to “change the world”
• Blogging about new things coming up
• Ruby 2.5 backtrace
• His blog post
• Changes to backtrace in Ruby 2.5
• Makes debugging convenient
• Huge change for companies who do logs
• Effect of change from a developer standpoint
• Time saved
• Mixed sentiments on this change
• When this features is enabled
• And much, much more!

• Ruby 2.5 prints backtrace and error message in reverse order
• BigBinary
• Ruby on Rails
• Kuberernetes
• Elm
• Vishal’s blog posts at BigBinary
• Vishal’s GitHub
• Vishaltelangre.com
• @suruwat

• FreshBooks
• Loot Crate

• Husky 20 Gallon Air Compressor

• Developer conundrum

• LeetCode.com
• Marcella Hazan Pesto Recipe

• The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart

MRS 050: Jacob Stoebel

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jacob Stoebel

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Jacob Stoebel. Jacob is a Ruby and JavaScript developer and he works for a small company that works with publishers. Jacob first got into programming in high school when he took a computer science class where he messed around with Pascal and C++. He got back into programming after college when he went back to school for programming to try to make his data entry job easier. They talk about his journey pushing the boundaries with technology, how he went about starting his programming career, and more!

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• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers
• David Richards

• Daniel intro
• Likes to blog - 6ftdan.com
• Released Faster Path gem
• Ruby
• Improving Ruby Performance with Rust blog article
• Why Rust?
• Rust to the rescue (of Ruby) blog article
• Rust was exciting because of the promises it gave
• No garbage collector in Rust
• Why is not having a garbage collector a positive?
• Rust’s ownership model
• Why would use a Rust extension in Ruby?
• Have you played around with sending objects into a Ruby function?
• The story behind creating his Faster path gem
• rubyflow.com
• Turbolinks and Spring and how they react
• Helix project
• And much, much more!

• Faster Path
• Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
• Rust
• CodeShip
• Rust to the rescue (of Ruby)
• Ruby
• 6ftdan.com
• rubyflow.com
• Turbolinks
• Spring
• Helix
• @6ftdan
• Daniel’s GitHub

• FreshBooks
• Loot Crate

• Logrotate
• charlesmaxwood.com
• devchat.tv/blog
• DevChat.tv YouTube

• Orange Computers
• Proxmox
• Gitlab

• Arrested Development

• Dead Alewives Club YouTube video

• How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast

• Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff
• All Your Dev YouTube channel
• LegalShield
• GoSmallBiz

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Amit Choudhary

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Amit Choudhary. Amit was previously on Ruby Rogues in January 2018 on episode 345 discussing app failures. Amit is a software developer at Big Binary, where he is a full-stack Ruby developer. He first got into programming when he learned C for a computer engineering course. They talk about how he got into Ruby, what he has done with Ruby, what the Ruby community is like in India, and what he is working on now.

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• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers
• David Richards

• Victor intro
• What is functional programming in terms of Ruby?
• Used to be a computer journalist and historian of programming languages
• Higher-order functions
• Functional style of programming was possible from the beginning in Ruby
• Haskell
• Functional style in any language
• Making the functional style more natural in the future
• His current interests
• Is pattern matching something you would like to see changed?
• What are some changes in Ruby that you would like to see?
• What is pattern-matching?
• Seeing code in a more idiomatic way
• Still a lot of discussions happening
• Immutable objects
• Speeding up Ruby
• The more functional Ruby is becoming, the more room for optimization there is
• Writing at a higher level
• Elixir
• Gentle extension to what is already there
• The “old self”
• And much, much more!

• Ruby
• Haskell
• Elixir
• Victor’s GitHub
• @zverok
• zverok.github.io

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

• Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson

• Gila Tint for Garage Door Windows

• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Ellington gem

• Ruby versus the Titans of FP by Cassandra Cruz – RubyConf 2016 Talk
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott

• Victor’s GitHub
• Reality

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: James Shore

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to James Shore about his background, how he got into programming, pitfalls that happened along the way, and his Agile story. James Shore is a thought leader in the Agile software development community. He was an early adopter of Agile development and he continues to lead, teach, write, and consult on Agile development processes.

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James

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards

• Paweł intro
• Build your own RSpec blog post
• Wanted to dive in and share his thoughts on the topic
• The importance of branding yourself
• He wants to be able to share his skills to others
• What prompted you to want to write a blog?
• Importance of contributing to the Ruby community
• Developer therapy
• Write a blog post and then make it into a script
• Do you find yourself going back to your blog posts in the future?
• Why did you decide to create your own version of RSpec?
• How far did you get into creating your own RSpec before it got really difficult?
• Remind yourself it’s just Ruby code
• Did you use TDD?
• Do you think about the application code differently now?
• Writing application code is easier for him now
• How hard was it to get into blog writing?
• The fear of the opinions of others
• Blog writing has changed the way he looks at code
• Blog writing as a way to confirm your skills
• His inspiration for the blog posts
• And much, much more!

• DevChat.tv
• Ruby
• iRonin
• Paweł’s Ruby blog
• Build your own RSpec blog post
• RSpec
• Paweł’s GitHub 
• Views on Vue Podcast
• VoV Episode 3: Nuxt.js Podcast
• @pdabrowski_k1

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

• Audible
• The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
• The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

• Retractable Hose Reel
• 20V Power Trimmer

• Making Learning Whole by David Perkins
• Soft Skills by John Sonmez

• Nuxt.js

• Chartable
• Soft Skills by John Sonmez

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: David Hemmat

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to David Hemmat about his educational background, career choices, and suggestions for developers. David is a web developer who works mainly with Ruby on Rails. In the past few years, David has done work for a number of clients including Condé Nast, Six Red Marbles, ShopKeep, and Couplewise. Currently, David is working on a number of personal and professional development projects.

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