Keep Ruby Weird 2016
2016-10-28
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, backend engineers, production engineers, engineering managers, developer educators, language and tooling authors
topics
Piatt esoteric language implementation; JRuby performance and JIT; graph-based parsing to VM lowering; perceptual training for intuition; production failure taxonomy; git bisect and profiling workflows; Postgres timestamp range types; generate_series and window functions; decision-making checklists and apprenticeships; structural-failure engineering case study
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Cultivating Instinct | Katrina Owen | 29m |
Claims that intuition is teachable through short interactive trials with immediate feedback and lots of varied examples note concrete results: pilots rise from… | ||
| Implementing An Esoteric Programming | Tom Enebo | 22m |
Implements the Piet-like esoteric language Piatt by porting a Python reference to Ruby, adding an ASI image format, an image generator, and a graphical… | ||
| A Practical Taxonomy of Bugs | Kiley Stradley | 26m |
Classifies real production failures into four reproducible types — Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Mandel — and gives concrete fixes: reproduce locally and in… | ||
| A Hands-on Experience with Complex SQL | Craig Kerstiens | 21m |
Live SQL builds a daily run‑rate query that projects each day with billing totals and computes week‑over‑week and month‑over‑month growth using Postgres… | ||
| Hot takes welcome: @Searls | Justin Searls | 26m |
Satirical manifesto that makes concrete claims: it calls for shutting down hero worship, demands negotiation with JavaScript, and urges a temporary migration… | ||
| Make Better Decisions | Marty Haught | 30m |
A concrete checklist appears: a five-step process for high‑value choices (define goal, list options, qualify, weigh factors, reflect), a set of eight tricks… | ||
| Keynote: The Building Built on Stilts | Nickolas Means | 39m |
A Citibank tower is cantilevered over St. Peter’s Church via a novel diagonal-brace skeleton built after the first air rights deal in NYC; the structure uses a… | ||
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