James Thompson
where else to find them
website:https://james.thomps.onl
github:plainprogrammer
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what they talk about
all 7 in the filters
where they keep going back
on a stage with
- Amy Howesonce
- Andre Arkoonce
- Andrew Faradayonce
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who talks about the same things
- Michael Hartl13 talks
- Jason R. Clark23 talks
- Sam Phippen15 talks
- Jamie Gaskins6 talks
- Justin Searls26 talks
- Craig Buchek11 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Building for Gracious Failure | RailsConf 2019 | 2019-05-01 |
Everything fails some of the time and the concrete wins: add Bugsnag and SignalFX to move from noisy logs to metrics that reveal staging jobs are 100% failing… | ||
| Day 1 Lightning Talks | Ruby Hack 2019 | 2019-04-04 |
Quick checks for a bad job: shipping features over customer value, tests discouraged, and people doing untracked shadow work. Operational advice: return… | ||
| Building For Gracious Failure | RubyConf 2018 | 2018-11-28 |
Systems need concrete practices not platitudes: Bugsnag exposes spikes (231,000 vs ~2,000 and ~10,000 errors), SignalFx and custom metrics show jobs started ≈… | ||
| Interfaces Not Required | RubyHACK 2018 | 2018-05-03 |
Argument: formal interfaces are unnecessary in Ruby because tests provide stronger guarantees. Uses RSpec shared_examples to specify a repository contract… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RubyConf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Thirty lightning talks compress concrete takeaways: RubyGems traffic hits 4 billion gems and funds are needed to keep mirrors running; practical Git rescue… | ||
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