Katrina Owen
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where they keep going back
- RailsConf2 editions2013–2016
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on a stage with
- Beverly Nelsononce
- Jeff Casimironce
- Jon Alluredonce
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who talks about the same things
- Adam Cuppy27 talks
- Betsy Haibel14 talks
- Sarah Mei24 talks
- Vaidehi Joshi24 talks
- Brandon Weaver16 talks
- Sandi Metz22 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Cultivating Instinct | RubyConf TH 2023 | 2023-10-06 |
Argues that perceptual learning can be taught deliberately and compressed: training pilots with 3 hours of perceptual training raises correct map matches from… | ||
| Cultivating Instinct | YOW! Perth 2023 | 2023-09-11 |
Argument: train the perceptual side of expertise with short classification trials plus feedback using huge noisy datasets so brains learn which features… | ||
| One Small Step | Codemotion Berlin 2019 | 2019-11-12 |
Ruby code that generates a children’s song gets refactored end-to-end: a characterization test captures existing output, the lyrics are split into verses… | ||
| Cultivating Instinct | Codemotion Berlin 2019 | 2019-11-12 |
Argues that explicit perceptual training compresses intuition: a 1920s Japanese chick-sexing school produces sexers doing 1,200 chicks per hour at 97% accuracy… | ||
| One Small Step (interview) | Codemotion Berlin 2019 | 2019-11-12 |
Describes how perceptual learning makes experts prefilter irrelevant details, notice patterns and parallelize tasks so cognitive load drops, with the concrete… | ||
| "One Small Step" | RubyC 2019 | 2019-09-14 |
Starts from a working here‑doc that generates a children’s song and performs an end‑to‑end refactor using small, safe steps: add a characterization test that… | ||
| Cultivating Instinct | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Argues that perceptual learning—short, repeated classification trials with immediate feedback and massive, messy datasets—lets brains compress instincts into… | ||
| Cultivating Instinct | TraversalConf 2019 | 2019-03-28 |
Argues that intuition is teachable by perceptual learning and gives concrete experiments: Eleanor Gibson’s swivel trials show recognition without explicit… | ||
| Keynote: Cultivating Instinct | Keep Ruby Weird 2016 | 2016-10-28 |
Claims that intuition is teachable through short interactive trials with immediate feedback and lots of varied examples note concrete results: pilots rise from… | ||
| Succession | RailsConf 2016 | 2016-05-04 |
An end-to-end refactoring of a hard‑coded Ruby here‑doc becomes a concrete recipe: add a simple test, introduce a parallel implementation, isolate algorithmic… | ||
| Here Be Dragons | BathRuby 2015 | 2015-03-13 |
A broken gossip site feature yields a missing I18n interpolation key tidbit_sender fixed by editing the ERB template; debugging uses the JavaScript console… | ||
| Here Be Dragons | BathRuby 2015 | 2015-03-13 |
A gossip app debug turns into a forensic tour: a JavaScript console shows a 500, a curl request reveals a one-line stack trace, and the real failure is a… | ||
| Overkill | Ancient City Ruby 2014 | 2014-04-03 |
A Ruby test suite called the Bob kata classifies utterances into silence, question, shout or other and sees real-world lessons: about 2,000 people solve it… | ||
| Workshops | Ancient City Ruby 2014 | 2014-04-03 |
Workshops run Wednesday April 2, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM with a lunch break and you may choose only one of three concurrent sessions. Options are refactor an existing… | ||
| Here be Dragons | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 | 2013-09-25 |
A broken share-by-email-or-sms flow gets a minimal ERB patch to restore tidbit_sender interpolation and return emails, then the presenter pulls the thread into… | ||
| Here Be Dragons | Barcelona Ruby Conference 2013 | 2013-09-14 |
A concrete postmortem of a rotten Ruby feature: a gossip app whose share by email or SMS endpoint throws 500s, calls an external TinyURL service on every… | ||
| Properly Factored MVC in Rails Applications | RailsConf 2013 | 2013-04-29 |
A real refactor of a large Rails app: the stats controller is ~800 lines and one index action is ~200 lines with ~35 instance variables, so code is extracted… | ||
| Therapeutic Refactoring | Cascadia Ruby 2012 | 2012-08-03 |
A 300‑line module with one huge method, no tests, running on a Cron job and manipulating temp files, FTP and EXIF data for JPEGs gets safety and clarity by… | ||
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