Sarah Mei
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- RailsConf4 editions2009–2025
- GoGaRuCo3 editions2010–2014
- Rocky Mountain Ruby2 editions2014–2017
all 15 in the filters
on a stage with
- Aaron Pattersononce
- Chad Fowleronce
- Chris Eppsteinonce
all 10 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Vaidehi Joshi24 talks
- Dave Thomas33 talks
- David Heinemeier Hansson21 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Ernie Miller18 talks
- Adam Cuppy27 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The role of software design in an AI world | San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 | 2025-11-19 |
Claims that AI coding assistants change daily work and raise abstraction level, based on six months with code assistants applied to real Rails codebases rather… | ||
| Rails Then, Now, and Next: A Conversation with our Community | RailsConf 2025 | 2025-07-08 |
Panelists name the concrete wins and pain points: Rails powers 4.2 million users and a solo dev ships web plus iOS and Android apps using Turbo/Hotwire native… | ||
| Making a Career out of Your Jobs | All Things Open 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
Argues that concrete side projects change careers by providing specific skills and visibility: worked on diaspora, a Ruby on Rails federated social network… | ||
| Keynote - Livable Code | RailsConf 2018 | 2018-04-17 |
Argues that a code base is a place to live, not a finished building, backing that claim with Conway’s Law (1967) and Brooks’s No Silver Bullet (1986), warns… | ||
| Livable Code | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017 | 2017-09-29 |
Argues codebases are living interiors, not finished buildings: Conway's Law maps team communication to architecture and Brooks’ no silver bullet limits grand… | ||
| Closing Keynote | EmberConf 2017 | 2017-03-28 |
Argues that code mirrors team communication and that software is interior space, not a finished building; cites Conway's law, a five‑engineer example with five… | ||
| Factory, Workshop, Stage | Philly ETE 2016 | 2016-04-11 |
Argues the 60‑year factory metaphor is misleading and offers a concrete replacement: a stage model that treats development as a live, deadline‑driven creative… | ||
| Is Your Code Too SOLID? | RubyConf Colombia 2015 | 2015-10-15 |
Argues that SOLID is a mixed bag — SRP has medium utility, O and L are low utility, I and D are high utility — and that patterns alone don’t tell you when to… | ||
| Fields & Fences | RubyConf AU 2015 | 2015-02-04 |
Argues that the real claim is concrete: measuring and refactoring code reveals service boundaries, not buzzwords. Shows a largest ActiveRecord model at 1100… | ||
| Keynote: Multitudes | Nickel City Ruby 2014 | 2014-10-02 |
Argues that Ruby has two engineering personas — application developers and gem developers — backed by a rough count of ~90,000 gems versus fewer than 150… | ||
| Unpacking Technical Decisions | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2014 | 2014-09-24 |
Argues that decisions hinge on concrete signals not slogans and offers a reusable four-quadrant matrix of evidence: interface activity popularity… | ||
| Lightning Talks | GoGaRuCo 2014 | 2014-09-19 |
Fast-paced set of concrete tips and tools: clear bug reports with expected vs actual plus steps and screenshots; an open-source agent system Hugin with ~8,000… | ||
| Unpacking Technical Decisions | MountainWest RubyConf 2014 | 2014-03-20 |
A concrete method emerges: categorize evidence into interface, activity, popularity, accessibility, then evaluate frameworks and gems by checking READMEs… | ||
| The End of Fun | LoneStarRuby Conf 2013 | 2013-08-11 |
Argues that creativity and play measurably improve software and shows concrete habits that produce that: red‑green‑refactor as a deliberate closed↔open cycle… | ||
| TBA – Sarah Mei | MountainWest RubyConf 2013 | 2013-04-03 |
Argues creativity and “luck” are learnable habits not traits, citing studies that find no innate differences and an experiment where people noticing a large ad… | ||
| The End of Fun | Ruby on Ales 2013 | 2013-03-07 |
Claim: creativity and play measurably improve software quality, and grown teams must preserve habits that enable creative thinking. Evidence: use of… | ||
| Three Mini-talks | GoGaRuCo 2012 | 2012-09-14 |
Three mini-lectures that give concrete takeaways: Celluloid is presented as threads on Rails, showing how to add it, use dot async, futures and pools (default… | ||
| Using Backbone.js with Rails: Patterns from the Wild | RailsConf 2012 | 2012-04-23 |
Backbone.js pairs with Rails by providing model mirroring (models/collections that sync via REST), DOM-owning views that render templates, and optional… | ||
| MongoDB to MySQL the How and the Why | RubyConf 2011 | 2011-09-29 |
A large Rails social project starts on MongoDB with MongoMapper, accumulates thousands of users and complex linked social graphs, then migrates to MySQL… | ||
| Ruby APIs for NoSQL | GoGaRuCo 2010 | 2010-09-17 |
Ruby examples show Rails apps using Redis Riak CouchDB MongoDB Cassandra plus S3 and Solr via Sunspot, building a cephalopod social network with a denormalized… | ||
| Indoctrinating the Next Generation: Teaching Ruby to Kids | LA RubyConf 2010 | 2010-02-19 |
Argues that teaching kids Ruby works best with short, concrete goals, 15-minute iterations and visual immediate feedback; recommends installing lightweight… | ||
| Indoctrinating the Next Generation: Teaching Ruby to Kids | RubyConf 2009 | 2009-11-19 |
Three-hour workshop uses Ruby and Shoes to build a visual drawing app that updates mouse coordinates in an animate loop, draws lines only while a button is… | ||
| Women in Rails | RailsConf 2009 | 2009-05-04 |
Proposes concrete fixes: run monthly RailsBridge workshops targeting designers, returners and non-CS hires, release the slide sets and exercises for reuse, and… | ||
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