Lightning Talks
summary
Titles with meat: oga installs in 1.2s and claims to be a Ruby XML/HTML parser that runs on MRI Rubinius and JRuby, is thread safe, supports XML namespaces and will add XPath/CSS selectors, and replaces nokogiri which crashes every 30s on production. Another demo explains the Burrows Wheeler transform is reversible with banana→nnbAAA and shows simple Ruby encoder/decoder used in compression and genomics. Shoes4 demos runnable cross‑platform Ruby GUIs with pluggable backends.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Lightning Talks intro
- 0:28Oga: Ruby XML/HTML parser
- 2:37Sketch noting for devs
- 7:01Shoes 4: Ruby GUI revival
- 11:38Europe Code Week
- 16:37Ruby without literals
- 21:14Borrow-Wheeler transform explained
- 26:10Bots vs developers
- 30:44Nomadic freelancer lessons
