Kiwi Ruby 2017
as the organisers put it
Kiwi Ruby is a Ruby conference being held in Wellington, New Zealand on November 1st 2019. It will be very good.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Choosing Failure | Lena Plaksina | 22m |
Argues for deliberately inducing and learning from failures: runs the marshmallow tower exercise as evidence that iterative prototyping beats overplanning… | ||
| Here's to History: Programming Through Archaeology | Eleanor Kiefel Haggerty | 26m |
Compares archaeological methods to everyday repo work and shows concrete techniques: uses git bisect and git blame to find a bug introduced in 2012, adds a… | ||
| Security Without Friction | Graham Jenson | 26m |
Coinbase secures billions in assets while keeping deploys fast: 12M users, ~250 projects, 80 engineers, 70 deploys/day and median prod request-to-prod under an… | ||
| Hello Gmom!: Pushing back against loneliness in end-of-life care | Jeremy Flores | 42m |
A custom system replaces a TV with a constantly updating photo-and-text stream using Raspberry Pi Zero, Rails + Twilio and WebSockets to receive MMS from… | ||
| Ruby Writing Machines | Mark Rickerby | 40m |
Presented work shows concrete Ruby tools and results: Rails inflector and an indefinite-article gem fix grammar agreement, Markov chains trained on a Māori… | ||
| Understanding 'Hello World' | Eoin Kelly | 29m |
Starts from the Ruby one-liner "puts 'Hello, World!'" and traces exact behavior down to bytes and CPU: explains Unicode code points, UTF-8 byte encoding, and… | ||
| Parenting + Programming | Amanda Wagener | 30m |
Collates practical, sourced fixes for juggling programming and parenting: prioritize ruthlessly, expect productivity to ebb and open source contributions drop… | ||
| A New Ruby Toolbox | Jojo Hall | 27m |
Shows how a real Ruby stack is built from small gems: dry-web-rod(a) routing, dry-view view controllers, dry-system dependency injection, ROM persistence with… | ||
| Help Me Help You - Levelling up your juniors more effectively | Caitlin Palmer-Bright | 20m |
Argues that juniors learn fastest when tasks sit in the zone of proximal development with clear support and increasing challenge, and recommends concrete… | ||
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