Keep Ruby Weird 2017
2017-10-27
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, creative coders, open source maintainers, remote team leads, software educators, engineering managers
topics
binary search and K-nearest neighbors; quicksort versus mergesort tradeoffs; shortest processing time scheduling; PID controllers for rockets; Hohmann transfer maneuvers; roleplaying game collaboration practices; negative space and gesture drawing; audio synthesis voice fabrication; fake-news intervention tools; open source governance models; bootcamp teaching lessons; Elm Model View Update
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Algorithms to live | Elle Meredith | 34m |
Explains concrete algorithms and their life-sized payoffs: binary search cuts 100 down to 7 guesses, the 37% rule for optimal stopping when hunting apartments… | ||
| An Atypical 'Performance' Talk | Chris Arcand | 31m |
Background as a conservatory clarinetist informs practical claims about learning and focus: break complex scores down, sing it before playing, practice problem… | ||
| Dungeons & Collaboration: A Player’s Handbook on How To Work With a Distributed Team | Rolen Le | 23m |
A concrete playbook for remote teamwork: five players across four time zones and two continents run recurring 4‑hour sessions 5–9pm ET using roll20, a session… | ||
| Learning to see | Ben Scofield | 27m |
Argues that learning to draw fixes faulty mental models by practicing specific techniques: negative space and gesture drawing with timers, using charcoal for… | ||
| kerbal_space_program.rb | Brad Grzesiak | 30m |
Uses kerbal_space_program.rb plus the kRPC Ruby gem to write control code that actually hovers a rocket, launches to orbit, and does a trans‑moon insertion… | ||
| The Psychology of Fake News (and What Tech Can Do About It) | Cecy Correa | 29m |
Explains that audio synthesis like Project Voco can fabricate voices from seconds of audio and that fake sites during 2016 peak made an estimated $10k–$30k a… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Amanda Chang, Dave Rupert, Jordan Reuter, Nickolas Means | 30m |
Four short reports: one recounts teaching almost 100 students at a bootcamp and extracts three concrete lessons — beginner courage, contagious attitude, keep… | ||
| The Feedback Loop: Growing healthy open source projects | Yehuda Katz, Dave Herman | 36m |
Argues that healthy projects adopt a one-OSS vs two-OSS governance model, favor positive-sum solutions over zero-sum shortcuts, and actively turn frustrated… | ||
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