Keynote
summary
Predicts Ruby growth but anchors on concrete examples: a homemade spyc YAML parser in PHP shoved into production and getting 70 downloads; extracting config, introducing Subversion, then landing jobs because code existed publicly; multiple side projects (aimoto FTPD Choice) leading to GitHub, which grows to thousands of users and tens of thousands of repositories; prescribes stopping RSS, using the Seinfeld X streak to ship weekly, and building small single‑purpose tools to learn languages and either ship or move on.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:57The future of Ruby according to Chris
- 5:02Von Neumann’s modern computers
- 10:39Side projects in programming history
- 14:52Spike’s open source power
- 17:59Spike to GameSpot job
- 19:46Side projects and career change
- 21:53Side project time hacks
- 24:42Build what you love
- 25:44GitHub as a side project
- 27:16Start your side project
