title	conference	date
We Who Remember Magic	RubyConf 2026	2026-07-14
Compares Rails’ early magic to today’s AI and shows concrete wins and costs: automated six months of manual testing across 30 teams and five groups in a week… Talk on
We Who Remember Magic	Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025	2025-10-06
Claims that AI automates huge chunks of work: six months of test writing across 30 teams in five organizations gets done in about a week, with prompts… Talk on
Red In Fantasyland	RubyConf 2024	2024-11-13
A fairy‑tale walkthrough turns into concrete Ruby work: functions become Mapable/Reducible modules implemented with wrap/value and empty/join, examples show… Talk on
Teaching Capybara Testing - An Illustrated Adventure	RailsConf 2023	2023-04-24
Shows how end-to-end specs actually look and run: config a Selenium Chrome driver with an env var to toggle headless, use binding.irb to interactively discover… Talk on
Behind the Lemurs - Creating an Illustrated Talk	RailsConf 2022	2022-05-17
Shows concrete workflow and deliverables: ideation with index cards and a CFP outline, storyboarding that yields 200+ slides, full digital art on iPad with… Talk on
Delightfully Fashionable Lemurs in Decorating Ruby	RubyConf 2021	2021-11-08
Explains concrete decorators: builds a caching wrapper by capturing instance_method and the unbound method then using define_method to rebind and store… Talk on
Playing a Hand with Ruby Pattern Matching	rubyday 2021	2021-04-07
Code shows Ruby 2.7 pattern matching scoring poker hands by building Card and Hand classes, implementing deconstruct hooks, Comparable-based sorting, and… Talk on
Tales of the Autistic Developer: The Expert	RubyConf 2020	2020-11-17
A personal account of expertise framed as four archetypes — hero, discerner, creator, authority — that gives concrete workplace remedies: adopt pick a linter… Talk on
"Tales from the Ruby Grimoire"	RubyConf Au 2020	2020-02-20
Shows concrete hacks: implements placeholder arguments via operator overloading returning procs, pulls block parameter names with Proc#parameters to build a… Talk on
Tales of the Ruby Grimoire	RubyConf 2019	2019-11-18
Prototypes show concrete hacks: a PArg class that overrides + on a singleton to emulate placeholder arguments, a destructuring helper that reads… Talk on
Ignite Roulette	RubyConf 2019	2019-11-18
Five improvised five‑minute ignites where slides auto-advance every ten seconds and each contestant must fold two audience prompts into a coherent bit. Expect… Talk on
The Action Cable Symphony - An Illustrated Musical Adventure	RailsConf 2019	2019-05-01
A Rails app converts MIDI to JSON, splits tracks into per-instrument ActionCable channels, and assigns roughly a hundred phones as players; clients synthesize… Talk on
Reducing Enumerable - An Illustrated Adventure	Ruby Hack 2019	2019-04-04
Reimplements Enumerable methods by showing actual reduce code that builds arrays and hashes rather than abstract promises, illustrating reimplement… Talk on
Reducing Enumerable - An Illustrated Adventure	RubyConf 2018	2018-11-28
Claims that reduce can reimplement many Enumerable operations and then shows it: concrete code for map via reduce, select via reduce, find by breaking with a… Talk on
Using Test Automation for Continuous Integration, Delivery and Quality	DevOps Pro Vilnius 2016	2016-05-26
Describes how test automation plugs into build automation and environments so CI/CD actually blocks bad code: Jenkins TeamCity Bamboo TFS drive standardized… Talk on
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