Ruby Rogues

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

• Nathan intro
• Should I use Ruby on Rails? Video
• Engineer for Obama’s re-election campaign
• Created Draft
• Inkling using Rails
• Worked ad Y Combinator
• Chose Rails to create startups
• Lives are better when people feel like they’re being heard
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Why did you use Rails over something like Django?
• Looking into discussion boards and the libraries already created
• What made you think it would stay the hottest?
• Hosting was awful
• Using the hype of Rails to get good press for his startup
• When did you first feel confident in your decision to use Rails?
• Rackspace 
• Do you still use Rails or have you switched to something like Node?
• Still confident in his decision and loves it as a platform
• Using Rails for what it’s good for
• And much, much more!

• Rails
• Should I use Ruby on Rails?
• Highrise
• Y Combinator
• Draft
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Django
• Rackspace 
• Node
• @natekontny
• Nathan’s Medium
• Nathan’s YouTube
• Nathan’s GitHub
• [email protected]

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Life Promises for Leaders by Zig Ziglar
• Spend time with the people you care about

• Nest Hello
• Okyere and Acheampong House Fire GoFundMe

• The Right Stuff

• ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
• Amazon Echo Spot

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
• Something Really New by Denis J. Hauptly
• Bluetooth Air Filter

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

• Olivier intro
• Sass and Haml
• Code School
• Why they are shutting down Code School
• Transferring expertise to PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App
• What is a package manager?
• Where would you see a package manager?
• Reusable code
• More structured and sustainable process
• Conversations that helps the community mature
• Ruby Gems
• What’s acceptable across communities
• Dependencies
• Having collaborative conversations
• Yarn
• Transitive dependencies
• Authentication
• Dependencies as degrees of liability
• Taking on risk
• And much, much more!

• Ruby
• Code School
• Sass
• Haml
• PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App Talk
• Ruby Gems
• Why Won’t Bundle Update?
• Rails
• JavaScript
• Yarn
• @olivierlacan
• OlivierLacan.com
• Human Errors Talk
• KeepAChangeLog.com
• Olivier’s GitHub

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

• Cobra Kai
• Oculus Go

• GitHub Checks

• StickerMule
• The Handmaid’s Tale

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Dear White People

• Rising Strong by Brené Brown
• What is Health Justice? by Tim Faust

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Benjamin Wood

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Benjamin Wood. Ben and his brother Josh own a consultancy company together called Hint, where they specialize in upgrading Rails apps and run UpgradeRails.com. He first got into programming because he was interested in computer hardware and built a computer out of spare parts for fun as a child. They talk about what led him to Ruby and Rails, what he has learned in throughout his life, especially with running a business, and much more!

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Catherine Meyers

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Catherine Meyers. Catherine first got into programming after a significant career change from being an opera singer to being a developer. Friends of hers suggested that she begin a programming career and she hasn’t looked back since. They talk about boot camps, such as Flatiron School, the importance of life-long learning, how she got into Ruby, and why she loves the language so much.

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• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers

• 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!

• VTS
• Fir
• Ruby on Rails
• Fish
• Pry
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
• Oh My ZSH
• Hyper
• Mert
• nasseri.io
• @DeanNasseri

• Doorknob Covers
• Marvel Strike Force

• Mert
• Utah Hospitals
• Chuck

• Codeland Conf
• RubyHack

• Red Blob Games

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Sam Aaron

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Sam Aaron. Sam is a programmer who likes to try to get other programmers involved and programming in creative ways. Currently, he has been making music with programming with Sonic Pi and teaching children how to do so as well. He first really got into programming when he picked up a graphing calculator when he was in school and would program games and pictures on it. They talk about what led him to Ruby and what led him to create Sonic Pi.

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

• 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!

• Ruby
• Rails
• Discourse
• Rebuilding Rails
• AppFolio
• Engineering.appfolio.com
• Ruby Weekly
• Hanami
• @codefolio
• Noah’s GitHub

• Hogwarts Battles
• DevChat.tv YouTube

• Marvel Strike Force
• GitLab

• Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

• Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis
• Http Cat

• Wacom Tablet
• Draw with Jazza
• The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Noah Gibbs

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Noah Gibbs. Noah works currently at AppFolio as their Ruby Fellow, where he does a lot of measuring and writing about Ruby performance. He also writes a lot for Ruby Weekly about Ruby performance. He first got into programming when was in the third grade and he got to use an Apple II in class. In class, they had to draw on graph paper and then “program” what they drew on their computer, and this fascinated him. They also touch on what led him to Ruby, why he fell in love with it, and what he is most proud of contributing to the Ruby community.

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• Charles Max Wood
• David Richards
• Dave Kimura

• 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!

• DevChat.tv YouTube
• DNSimple
• Ruby
• Hanami
• Elapsed Time Blog Post
• RailsConf
• Go Language
• Rails
• LucaGuidi.com
• Luca’s GitHub
• @jodosha

• Zoom H6
• Facebook Marketplace

• Marvel Strike Force
• Hondata
• Mockaroo

• Trifacta

• Tasty
• Daily Stoic by Yyan Holiday
• Digitakt

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Josh Greenwood

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Josh Greenwood. Josh was recently on Ruby Rogues and he works for a consulting company called Test Double, where he works remotely with clients all across the country. He first got into programming because he was always around computers because of his Dad, and he always loved playing video games. His first real exposure to programming was when he found an HTML book on his Dad’s bookshelf and he used it to build a website. They talk about what led him to Ruby, what made him fall in love with programming, and much more!

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