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Lightning Talks Part Three

Lightningat BathRuby 2016 · on Friday, 2016-03-11· [ruby, career-development]

speakers

name:Adam Butler

linkedin:butleradamj

name:Ed Robinson

links:none on file

name:Cheryl Morgan

links:none on file

website:https://philna.sh

name:Peter Saxton

github:CrowdHailer

resources

video:https://youtu.be/UT0Rl_EJNN4

slides:none on file

summary

One person reports running 230 days of daily open‑source contributions, experimenting with LinkedIn posting, trolling spam, travel and personal availability and says the experiment boosted productivity but strained relationships. Another demos gRPC with Ruby and Go, showing protobuf service files, generated Ruby and Go code, and a working cross‑language hello world. A community project TransCode runs hack days and cites trans unemployment falling from ~35% to ~11% and a 50+‑person hackday. One developer publishes an is_even gem (v0.1.0) and urges more useful gems; another argues for a value‑object month* instead of raw strings.

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