title	conference	date
Hastening The Apocalypse: Self-replicating Personal AI Assistants	Infobip Shift 2023	2023-09-18
Asserts that private, self‑replicating personal assistants are practical today by combining local LLMs with a peer‑to‑peer fabric: a portable DXs Halo USB key… Talk on
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… Talk on
Lightning Talks	RubyConf 2019	2019-11-18
Twenty four rapid items actually state what was done: a call for Ruby for Good volunteers; a concrete push to use make for build glue instead of misusing rake… Lightning on
Wafflebot: Cloud Connected Artificially Intelligent Waffles	RubyConf 2018	2018-11-28
Builds a waffle-making robot from Raspberry Pi boards, stepper drivers, high-torque servos (and many servos murdered), a solenoid valve and pump fed from a… Talk on
Inventing Friends: ActionCable + AVS = 3	RailsConf 2017	2017-04-25
A Rails app named Friendsterbookspace uses ActionCable for a live MMOC chatroom, wires Alexa via the Alexa Skills Kit and the Amazon Voice Service, sends text… Talk on
Building HAL: Running Ruby with Your Voice	RubyConf 2016	2016-11-10
A voice-driven deployment pipeline actually gets built: an Alexa → IFTTT → Slack → Hubot → GitHub → Heroku flow that sometimes demos cleanly and sometimes… Talk on
Hacking Minecraft!	Open Source Bridge 2015	2015-06-23
Shows concrete how-to and what breaks: uses Spigot and Canary plus Minecraft Forge and Sponge workarounds, demonstrates a pyramid of TNT that sometimes crashes… Talk on
Robolove	Ruby on Ales 2015	2015-03-05
Two tiny Lego robots get built around Raspberry Pi 2 boards with Bluetooth dongles, microphones, speakers, wireless-charging batteries and Pulu distance… Talk on
Sauron: DIY Home Security with Ruby!	RubyConf 2014	2014-11-17
This is the story of how I built an all-seeing eye with Ruby, and how I use it to defend the sanctity of my suburban home. Using a Raspberry Pi and some… Talk on
The Future of Computer Vision: How Two Rubyists Are Changing The World	Ruby on Ales 2014	2014-03-06
Two implementations for scanning and identifying Magic: The Gathering cards are described: a fixed dispenser built from LEGO Mindstorms that feeds cards to a… Talk on
Hacking Cognition	Ruby on Ales 2013	2013-03-07
Claims concrete: aim for eight hours of sleep because chronic short sleep degrades cognition, do six minutes of exercise after study to amplify primacy, prefer… Talk on
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