Aja Hammerly
where else to find them
website:http://www.thagomizer.com
github:thagomizer
bluesky:thagomizer.bsky.social
linkedin:ajahammerly
devto:thagomizer
what they talk about
all 21 in the filters
where they keep going back
- RailsConf5 editions2015–2021
- RubyConf5 editions2011–2017
- MountainWest RubyConf4 editions2013–2016
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Stephanie Wong2×
- Addy Osmanionce
- Ben Gilbertonce
all 28 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Craig Buchek11 talks
- Ariel Caplan9 talks
- James Edward Gray II9 talks
- Brandon Weaver16 talks
- Jason R. Clark23 talks
- Richard Schneeman23 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Developer recap of | Google Cloud Next '26 | 2026-04-22 |
Live demo shows a three‑agent system that plans a Las Vegas marathon for 10,000 runners by combining an Agent Development Kit (ADK) planner, a GIS Python skill… | ||
| From the main stage to the terminal | Google Cloud Next '26 | 2026-04-22 |
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform now ships an end‑to‑end stack for building, scaling, governing and optimizing agents: Agent Development Kit… | ||
| Hiring is Not Hazing | RailsConf 2021 | 2021-04-12 |
Compares whiteboard, take‑home, and portfolio screens with concrete fixes: prefer one‑sentence prompts like write a function that takes input X does Y and… | ||
| 4 Programming Paradigms in 45 minutes | RubyHACK 2018 | 2018-05-03 |
Four concrete implementations compare paradigms by doing the same problem: an OO Ruby cash‑drawer class with encapsulated state and methods, a pure recursive… | ||
| Testing in Production | RailsConf 2018 | 2018-04-17 |
Hands-on techniques and outcomes: phased rollouts via canaries and blue/green with scripted auto rollback, smoke tests scheduled (every few hours) that caught… | ||
| 4 Programming Paradigms in 45 Minutes | RubyConf 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
The session claims programming languages are tools and demonstrates that by actually building a cash‑change routine four different ways: an imperative OO… | ||
| Syntax Isn't Everything: NLP for Rubyists | RailsConf 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Live demo shows using Cloud Natural Language via the google-cloud-language gem to pull tweets, compute sentiment (score -1..1 and magnitude) and extract syntax… | ||
| Datacenter Fires and Other 'Minor' Disasters | RubyConf AU 2017 | 2017-02-09 |
Midnight release pushes master instead of release branch and runs unapproved migrations, forcing a drop and restore from a full database backup and causing a… | ||
| Datacenter Fires and Other "Minor" Disasters | RubyConf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Midnight release corrupts production after pushing master instead of the release branch and running migrations then a 45-minute restore from a backup recovers… | ||
| Exploring Big Data with rubygems.org Download Data | GORUCO 2016 | 2016-06-25 |
Uses BigQuery and the gcloud Ruby client to load and query rubygems.org download data, streaming or batch via CSV. Shows actual sizes — ~125k gems, ~900k… | ||
| Postcards from GorbyPuff | RailsConf 2016 | 2016-05-04 |
Live demos use Cloud Vision to label landmarks (it returns "Fremont Troll" and lat/long), identify a wombat at 93% confidence, and OCR signage that yields… | ||
| Sharpening The Axe: Self-Teaching For Developers | Ruby on Ales 2016 | 2016-03-31 |
Lists concrete learning paths and results: MOOCs like Coursera (Stanford machine learning yields made a neural net), study groups of ~six to eight meeting… | ||
| Sharpening The Axe: Self-Teaching For Developers | MountainWest RubyConf 2016 | 2016-03-21 |
Clear, practical tactics for self-teaching: structured Coursera/edX courses (4–8 hours/week, set a schedule), small-group study with ~8 starters and 5–6… | ||
| Keynote: Stupid Ideas for Many Computers | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
Built a crude load tester from a Rails log and Mechanize log-driven load generator, spun it up with bash, commodity boxes and a Kubernetes deployment on cloud… | ||
| Stupid Ideas For Many Computers | LA RubyConf 2015 | 2015-10-10 |
Ruby scripts replay a Rails log with mechanize playback across 30–50 processes on VMs to do naive load testing, uses Bash to spawn infinite loops, and admits… | ||
| DevOps for The Lazy | RailsConf 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Builds a minimal Rails scaffold, swaps sqlite for Postgres, writes a three-line Dockerfile and a three-line init script, and shows that with about twenty lines… | ||
| Forensic Log Analysis with BigQuery | MountainWest RubyConf 2015 | 2015-03-09 |
A workflow for hunting production incidents using logs, CSV extraction and Google BigQuery that finds needles in haystacks: convert Rails/nginx logs to CSV… | ||
| Storytime with Auntie Aja | Ruby on Ales 2015 | 2015-03-05 |
Series of workplace fables that give concrete tactics and outcomes: using a Cadbury Creme Egg bribe to get a production fix, forking a spare machine into 10… | ||
| A World Without Assignment | RubyConf 2014 | 2014-11-17 |
Claims that common Ruby tasks work with no assignment, using Ruby and Scheme side by side and showing exact code that runs. Demonstrates recursion, anonymous… | ||
| Giant Pile of Data | GoGaRuCo 2014 | 2014-09-19 |
Uses the recruiterspam dataset to show concrete clean-up and analysis steps: finds 1,500 unparsable messages, duplicate raw/parsed bodies and an unused… | ||
| N design patterns you might actually use | Cascadia Ruby 2014 | 2014-08-11 |
Clear claim: five concrete Ruby patterns are explained and shown working in real code — n = 5 — with production examples: reports refactored into a template… | ||
| A World Without Assignment | MountainWest RubyConf 2014 | 2014-03-20 |
Demonstrates that Ruby and Scheme solve common problems without mutation by using recursion, lists, anonymous functions and function composition, with no… | ||
| We're sorry, but something went wrong | Cascadia Ruby 2013 | 2013-10-14 |
Advocates using the scientific method for debugging: start from a known state (branch or git stash), reproduce the failure with a failing test, form a simple… | ||
| Going on a Testing Anti-Pattern Safari | MountainWest RubyConf 2013 | 2013-04-03 |
Catalog of concrete anti patterns and fixes plus measurable wins: tests must be trustworthy and simple; stop testing ActiveRecord (example: asserting find on a… | ||
| A Taste of Prolog | Cascadia Ruby 2012 | 2012-08-03 |
A concise Prolog primer that demonstrates concrete results: uses facts and rules to model editor and keyboard matches and produces actual pairings via… | ||
| Powerful (but Easy) Data Visualization with the Graph Gem | RubyConf 2011 | 2011-09-29 |
Builds full visualizations from XML using the graph gem and nokogiri, turning a 2,800-line lesson-dependency XML (about 500 lessons total) into colored… | ||
| Powerful (but Easy) Data Visualization with the Graph Gem | Cascadia Ruby 2011 | 2011-07-29 |
Code reads a giant XML with Nokogiri and emits dot files for Graphviz via the graph gem, turning 700+ lesson activities into directed graphs, exporting… | ||
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