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Learning to seeKeep Ruby Weird 20172017-10-27
Argues that learning to draw fixes faulty mental models by practicing specific techniques: negative space and gesture drawing with timers, using charcoal for…
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Great Developers StealLA RubyConf 20122012-02-02
Argues that useful reuse is concrete: identifies sampling (Girl Talk using snippets), influence (SUnit → JUnit → rspec) and ports (bad: NUnit line‑by‑line Java…
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NoSQL: Death to Relational DatabasesRubyConf 20092009-11-19
Argues that NoSQL isn’t a slogan but tradeoffs: shows memory-bound Redis crash from a Rails Rumble deployment, demonstrates Cassandra’s eventual consistency…
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Cleanliness Is Next to Domain SpecificityRubyConf 20072007-11-02
Claim: using domain-specific vocabulary in Ruby shapes clearer thinking and better code; evidence: examples with ActiveRecord is not a language and RSpec…
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