Keep Ruby Weird 2018
2018-11-09
Austin, TX, United States
[Keep Ruby Weird 2014, Keep Ruby Weird 2015, Keep Ruby Weird 2016, Keep Ruby Weird 2017, Keep Ruby Weird 2018]
as the organisers put it
The best daylong conference in Austin celebrating (figurative) hugs, magic, singing, & dancing! Oh, ruby too.
who it's for
Ruby developers, creative coders, backend engineers, database engineers, software architects, open-source maintainers
topics
event sourcing patterns; idempotency and sequence patterns; psql-driven ASCII animation; Postgres node-relationship graphs; audio melody extraction with ffmpeg; meow voice synthesis; color theory for UI palettes; color-blindness simulation; contrast checking tools; executable QR-code quines; process-oriented programming
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed Fizz Buzz: Passing the Microservices Interview | Nathan Ladd, Scott Bellware | 24m |
A FizzBuzz microservice in Ruby becomes a concrete example of event‑sourced autonomy: commands (TakeTurn) publish events (TurnTaken, TurnRejected), projections… | ||
| The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Guide to Color Theory | Louisa Barrett | 30m |
Claims that color can raise blood pressure and affect respiration, breaks colors into warm cool neutral groups, maps each Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to a hue… | ||
| Game Show | 39m | |
Live game-show format quizzes the Ruby ecosystem with concrete takeaways: actual answers like vacation gem deploys to S3, concrete standard-library detail… | ||
| Using psql to \watch Star Wars And other silly things! | Will Leinweber | 20m |
Shows how to load Simon Jansen’s ~2MB Star Wars ASCII payload into Postgres, store slide numbers and repeat counts, and use a Postgres sequence plus psql… | ||
| Cats, The Musical! Algorithmic Song Meow-ification | Beth Haubert | 30m |
A project that turns uploaded audio into a cat-voiced rendition, demonstrating which parts actually work and which are brittle. It extracts melody with third… | ||
| Using Ruby to build a modern Memex! | Andrew Louis | 27m |
A personal digital Memex is built end to end in Ruby: importers and scrapers ingest browser history, phone GPS, YouTube views, GitHub stars, Slack and email… | ||
| Transcendental Programming in Ruby | Yusuke Endoh | 27m |
Claims concrete hacks: a gem that encodes Ruby programs to a natural number and decodes them back, a generator that emits a QR code containing an executable… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Avdi Grimm | 53m |
Claim: code is incidental and programming is applied philosophy; a 20‑year career surfaces a concrete bug in OO — the myth of messaging — traced to return… | ||
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