Davy Stevenson
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where they keep going back
- RubyConf3 editions2012–2019
- Cascadia Ruby2 editions2013–2014
- Ruby on Ales2 editions2013–2014
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who talks about the same things
- Rein Henrichs16 talks
- Adam Cuppy27 talks
- Ariel Caplan9 talks
- Sandi Metz22 talks
- Zachary Scott11 talks
- Ernie Miller18 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Davy Stevenson at LeadDev West Coast 2023 | LeadDev West Coast 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Lists five failure modes — uneven participation, topic too broad, unprepared attendees — and prescribes concrete fixes: pick one meeting purpose, publish an… | ||
| A blueprint for making scary choices | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
The talk presents a specific six-step rubric—identify grief, embrace nonlinear paths, commit to yourself, focus on reciprocity, find hidden benefits, take the… | ||
| Syntax Error Game Show | RubyConf 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
A live game builds a playable Tic Tac Toe grid modeled on Hollywood Squares, with contestants picking squares, experts answering and players agreeing or… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | MountainWest RubyConf 2016 | 2016-03-21 |
Humans are lousy at extreme scales: innate number sense up to four but counting and naming bigger quantities is learned and misleading. Optical and electronic… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | RubyConf Portugal 2015 | 2015-09-14 |
Claim: human number sense stops around four so naming huge quantities doesn’t make them comprehensible. Uses historical counting, optics and modern… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | Full Stack Fest 2015 | 2015-09-01 |
Claims that human number sense ends at four and that naming large magnitudes doesn't confer understanding, demonstrations of scale from a meter baseline to 14… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | eurucamp 2015 | 2015-07-31 |
Human number sense ends at small counts so number sense ends at four and naming numbers doesn’t mean understanding them; concrete scales are given (hair ~1e-4… | ||
| Benchmarking Ruby | RubyConf 2014 | 2014-11-17 |
Concrete results trump topic blur: shows Benchmark IPS reporting 3.2 million vs 41.5k iterations/sec, introduces Benchmark Big O to chart scaling (at cost ~10x… | ||
| The Science of Success | Cascadia Ruby 2014 | 2014-08-11 |
Claims that applying the scientific method yields measurable improvements, demonstrates a Ruby tool benchmark Big O built on benchmark IPS, and shows real… | ||
| Ruby as Science, Art & Craft | Ruby on Ales 2014 | 2014-03-06 |
Compares concrete convex hull algorithms: a brute‑force O(n^3) check of every pair and point, Jarvis March gift‑wrapping at O(n·h) (worst‑case O(n^2)), and… | ||
| Ruby as Art; Ruby as Science; Ruby as Craft | Cascadia Ruby 2013 | 2013-10-14 |
States there is zero code and uses math to compare convex hull algorithms including O(n^3) brute force versus Gift Wrapping (Jarvis March) at O(nh) and faster… | ||
| The Fourth 'R' | Ruby on Ales 2013 | 2013-03-07 |
Argues for adding programming as a fourth R with concrete proposals: start logic and hands‑on activities in elementary, basic programs by middle school… | ||
| DRb vs. RabbitMQ Showdown | RubyConf 2012 | 2012-11-01 |
Company replaces DRb point-to-point RPC with RabbitMQ/AMQP using the ruby amqp gem and EventMachine to gain persistence and decoupling. They move transient… | ||
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