Lightning Talks

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Twenty fast demos: a case for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as problem-solving and self‑defense for engineers, a white‑label SaaS postmortem (scaling to millions, tighten robots.txt and Nginx rules, add tests), origin story of community karaoke, a tiny simple_configuration gem that lets you write dynamic Ruby config, daily practice projects and one‑file Minesweeper, composing web apps with rack lambdas, and a scratch testing framework showing description/expectation classes and a Failure exception.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 0:10High-level problem solving with BJJ
3. 7:07Takeaways from white-labeling Boss
4. 12:09A brief history of Ruby Karaoke
5. 17:14Dynamic config files in Ruby
6. 21:12Daily practice and open-source
7. 24:54The good bad and ugly of RubyConf
8. 30:13Building a blog in five minutes
9. 36:20Writing a testing framework
10. 40:10Closing remarks and Q&A

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