Keep Ruby Weird 2015
2015-10-23
Austin, TX, United States
[Keep Ruby Weird 2014, Keep Ruby Weird 2015, Keep Ruby Weird 2016, Keep Ruby Weird 2017, Keep Ruby Weird 2018]
who it's for
Ruby developers, web developers, consultants, startup founders, application security engineers, language tooling authors, engineering managers
topics
agent-based zombie simulation; 2D grid epidemic modeling; bundler-invoking gem; git SHA brute-force optimization; GitHub issue automation; Ember.js time-travel demo; Ragel and Racc parsing; language prototyping in Ruby; live Rails security testing with Burp; pricing and recurring revenue strategies
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Prepare yourself against the Zombie epidemic | Christophe Philemotte | 25m |
An agent-based model implemented in Ruby simulates zombies on a 2D grid (demo uses a 10×10 map and runs ~100 days) with four states: susceptible, infected… | ||
| A Collection of Fun with Ruby and Friends | Will Leinweber | 24m |
A series of small projects and measurable hacks: a bundle gem that calls bundler to avoid gem install bundler, a getvain tool that brute‑forces git SHAs by… | ||
| Your Career vs. the 4th Dimension: A Time Travel Story | Brandon Hayes | 30m |
A concrete career simulation maps three stats (technical, connection, vision) and five inventory items (leverage, ambition, education, community impact… | ||
| "Did you know the site is down?": 20 Years of Mistakes, Failures, and Fuck-Ups | Kerri Miller | 27m |
HTML bug is a missing character that makes a submit button dead, an Angular debugging rabbit hole that ends with forgot a closing tag; a marketing script sends… | ||
| At the Mountains of Madness: A primer on Writing | Matthew Mongeau | 18m |
Argues that writing a language teaches deeper design and validation and recommends prototyping in Ruby then porting later, citing Dagon language as a concrete… | ||
| See Hacker Hack | Marcus J. Carey | 32m |
A Rails app called weirdo is built intentionally insecure and then attacked live with Burp proxy and other tools (Nikto, Brakeman/Brakeman Pro, bundler-audit)… | ||
| Kill Your Inner Code Monkey | Patrick McKenzie | 45m |
Argues concrete tactics: charge more with two rates: full rack and free, never discount rate, negotiate scope instead; sell retainers and recurring revenue to… | ||
| nothing matches | ||