Lockdown: The Mother of Invention
summary
A year of lockdown leads to concrete Ruby results: a proof‑of‑concept On-Air alert system uses a Wi‑Fi smart light with a REST API and a Twilio video app to change colors when meetings start (hardware bought, API calls working, full Zoom integration pending). A quick survey finds about 47% productivity tools, Music Taco surfaces cheapest places to buy digital albums, a property‑scraper alerts on new listings and helped someone buy a house, and GitHub shows ~271,171 public Ruby repositories.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Moving to Europe
- 4:35Lockdown challenges and Ruby
- 6:20First lockdown: to-do app
- 9:09Second lockdown: Zoom alert
- 12:37Ruby community side projects
- 16:47Side project ideas
- 19:55Remote work tips
- 31:07Programming and community
- 33:16Q&A
