title	conference	date
Dystopia: How We Got Here, and What We Can Do About It	XO Ruby Chicago 2025	2025-09-06
This lays out a history starting around 1995: cyberpunk’s influence, Internet Explorer hitting ~97% market share, Netscape -> Mozilla Firefox clawing back 37%… Talk on
The World Set Free	RubyConf AU 2023	2023-02-16
Traces the concrete line from H. G. Wells’s 1913 prophetic idea to Leo Szilard’s patents and the Manhattan Project that builds an actual atomic bomb and proves… Talk on
The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source	RailsConf 2021	2021-04-12
Claim: open source is complicit by design because the open source definition permits use for any purpose, including abuses. Evidence: a new licensing option… Talk on
The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source	rubyday 2021	2021-04-07
Argues that the open source license freedom-to-do-anything norm makes projects complicit in abuses and insists on community action not platitudes. Points to… Talk on
The Rising Ethical Storm in Open Source	FOSS Backstage 2021	2021-02-10
Argues that open source code is actively powering mass surveillance, protest suppression and ICE detention operations, not just benign projects, and proposes… Talk on
Thomas Edison vs Three Teslas in a Trenchcoat	RubyConf 2019	2019-11-18
Compares Edison vs Tesla history to concrete engineering practices and prescribes a checklist: a new technology matrix (ease of adoption vs usefulness) used at… Talk on
Programming Empathy: Emotional State Machines	RailsConf 2019	2019-05-01
Claims that emotions are emotional state machines and proposes a concrete five-step model (trigger → experience → reaction → decision → outcome). Examples… Talk on
The broken promise of Open Source	EuRuKo 2018	2018-08-24
Argues that open source’s founding ideals—meritocracy, shared ownership—haven’t survived reality: power concentrates, dissent is punished, and unpaid emotional… Talk on
Day 2 Welcome	EuRuKo 2018	2018-08-24
Quick logistics rundown and schedule: Wi‑Fi details and emergency exits are repeated, there is a gender‑neutral bathroom on the first floor and a quiet room… Organiser on
Lightning talks	EuRuKo 2018	2018-08-24
Five-minute snapshots: one demo shows Google Sheets running Apps Script JavaScript to fetch JSON into sheets, call HTTP APIs, integrate Google services and… Lightning on
Wrap up & announcing the next EuRuKo's location	EuRuKo 2018	2018-08-24
Last Video, see below for all links! ###################### ### \o/ EuRuKo 2018 \o/ ### ###################### ### Day 1 ### Yukihiro Matsumoto -… Talk on
Scaling the Software Artisan	RailsConf 2018	2018-04-17
Argues that software shifts from bespoke craft to interchangeable parts, showing concrete historical parallels (Maudslay lathe, Eli Whitney demo) and modern… Talk on
Alice's Adventures in Artificial Intelligence-land	Strange Loop 2017	2017-09-28
A working Slack bot called Alice actually exists: about 10,000 lines of Ruby behind a single Sinatra route, hooked to Slack via bossy, storing user facts in… Talk on
Your First Legacy Codebase	RailsConf 2016	2016-05-04
Your First Legacy Codebase by Coraline Ehmke So you've just graduated from a bootcamp and you're starting your first real job in software development. You've… Talk on
How NEO4J Saved my Relationship	BathRuby 2016	2016-03-11
NEO4J is presented with concrete details: a native HTTP console, an on-disk layout of fixed-size records (nodes ~9 bytes, relationships ~33 bytes), and an ACID… Talk on
He Doesn't Work Here Anymore	AlterConf Chicago 2015	2015-08-08
A developer announces a public gender transition, started hormones August 11 2013 10 13 pm, describes suicidal crisis and cites the stark statistic 40% of… Talk on
Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code	Open Source Bridge 2015	2015-06-23
A 2014 survey rates six languages across API CLI documentation UI and readability and produces an aesthetic index with Python first Ruby second JavaScript… Talk on
Data-Driven Refactoring	MountainWest RubyConf 2015	2015-03-09
Argues for refactoring driven by measurable claims: validate assumptions with boundary/generative tests, approval tests and attribute checks, time the test… Talk on
Pre-factoring: Getting it (Closer to) Right the First Time	RubyConf AU 2015	2015-02-04
Claims that a little upfront design prevents long-term tech debt and that refactoring must be baked into the process. Case study builds panometer from… Talk on
He Doesn't Work Here Anymore	Keep Ruby Weird 2014	2014-10-24
Coming out publicly in October 2013, hormone therapy starts Aug 11 2013 and full‑time transition is set for March 1; a glowing review and promotion to… Talk on
Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code	Nickel City Ruby 2014	2014-10-02
Claim: aesthetics in code are measurable. An unscientific September poll produces an aesthetic index across five interaction channels and six languages: Python… Talk on
Artisans and Apprentices	RailsConf 2014	2014-04-22
Argues that modern bootcamps mirror medieval guilds: both set standards, charge steep entry costs and shrink diversity, and both can create conservative… Talk on
Lightweight Business Intelligence with Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB	Big Ruby 2014	2014-02-20
Claims a working lightweight BI built with Ruby on Rails, an event-sourced Leviathan, and MongoDB on the backend that captures every message from RabbitMQ… Talk on
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