Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Marla Brizel

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Marla Brizel. Marla works at Test Double and has been programming full time for the past four years. She first got into programming when she got a job at a startup where they helped her learn how to program for herself and she fell in love with it. They talk about her background as a project manager and the importance of empathy for the user. They then touch on how she got into Ruby and things that she is particularly proud of contributing to the Ruby community.

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Marla

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

• 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!

• Rubygems.org
• npm install
• Gem in a Box
• Rails 
• Ruby
• JavaScript 
• Fullstack developer image

• NG Conf
• DevChat.tv/YouTube
• RubyHack
• MicroConf
• Microsoft Build
• New Show Ideas

• Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix by Lance Halvorsen
• Chunkwm GitHub
• Chunkwm Tutorial

• Crabby Bill’s
• Bob’s Burgers

• What should a FAQ for a software company contain? by David Richards
• George Saunders: what writers really do when they write

• Rails 5.2
• GDPRv

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Mindaugas Mozūras

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Mindaugas Mozūras. Mindaugas is from Lithuania and currently works at Vinted. He started about 5 ½ years ago as a software developer writing Ruby and now he the head of engineering at Vinted. He also has written an open source project called Pronto. He first got into programming when he was mesmerized by his father’s work computer and always grew up playing games that had to do with building things. They also touch on how he got into Ruby, what made him fall in love it, how he got his first Ruby job, and what he is working on now.

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Mindaugas

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura

• 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!

• TypeScript
• CoffeeScript
• ES6
• [email protected]

• Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden
• Alexa Flash Briefings to come

• Having a good soldering iron
• Heat shrink tubing
• Exercise trampoline

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Justin Gordon

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Justin Gordon. Justin first got introduced to programming when he was a kid playing video games and in Jr. High when he took some Basic programming classes. By the time he was in High School, he was learning Pascal. He has always been interested in pursuing programming except for a small time in college when he thought he wanted to pursue investment banking. He first got into Ruby when he went to a meetup and found a startup who were using Ruby on Rails. They also talk about working remotely as well as ShakaCode.

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Justin

• Eric Berry
• Dave Kimura
• David Richards

• 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!

• Haml
• Treasure Data
• Rails
• Hamlit
• JIT Compiler
• LLVM
• Ruby
• md2key
• mitamae
• Takashi’s GitHub

• Origin by Dan Brown
• Tunnel Bear

• 2018 Honda Civic Si

• Joan Didion

• md2key
• mitamae

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Trae Robrock

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Trae Robrock. Trae founded and is currently the CTO of Green Bits which builds POS software for the legal cannabis industry. They have been in business for about 4 years now and are growing as the cannabis industry does. He first got into programming started when he was growing up and was always around computers. He started off writing clients for mIRC where he would write chat bots and code. He got into Ruby when he found that Twitter was written in Rails and noticed that he should probably learn about it so he could get a job after college. Now, he’s focusing on Green Bits and growing his team so that he can make it a successful business. 

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Trae

• Charles Max Wood
• Eric Berry
• Special Guests: Daniel Azuma and Tee Parham

• 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!

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Neighborland
• Google Maps
• RGeo Gem
• CrimeReports.com
• PostGIS
• @TeeParham
• Tee’s GitHub
• Daniel’s Blog
• Daniel’s GitHub

• CodeSponsor

• Polymail
• CodeSponsor

• Project Euler
• Bloom County

• Observable
• MapSchool.io
• GeoJSON.io
• The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw
• Retrospective Album

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Derek Prior

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Derek Prior. Derek speaks at conferences more often and is now a development director at Thought Bot. He first got into programming when was 7 or 8 when he got an Apple IIGS for Christmas and he started messing around with writing basic code. This really got him interested in how video games and systems worked behind the scenes and led to his interest in programming. In high school, he took programming classes and found he was actually good at it and decided to pursue programming in college. Once he was hired at Thought Bot, his developing skills really took off and he has been there for almost five years now.

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Derek

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

• 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!

• React Dev Summit
• JS Dev Summit
• ePublishing
• Rails
• JavaScript
• @JStoebel
• Jacob’s GitHub
• Jacob’s Website

• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegal

• Humane Development
• DEWALT 18-Gauge Pneumatic Brad Nailer

• Phoenix Framework on Elixir

• Thought as a System by David Bohm
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott

• 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