RubyConf '18 - Notes
👉 👈 = Attended
👍 = Interesting (but did not attend)
💯 = Really wish I had attended (but did not attend either)
Day 1
| Biltmore Bowl / Regency Room / Sponsor Galleria | Emerald Room Eithcal Decisions / General |
Gold Room Scaling Teams |
Crystal Ballroom General / Taming Services |
Tiffany Room General |
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| Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (@yukihiro_matz) 👉 Keynote 👈 Video |
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| Caleb Thompson (@calebthompson) Responsibility, Nuremberg, and Krishna (other attendees were really liking this one) Video |
Aaron Harpole (@harpaa01) 👉 Sweat the Small Stuff 👈 Slides | Video |
Andy Croll (@andycroll) The Games Developers Play |
Pranav Garg (@pgtgrly) RubyPlot - Creating a Plotting Library for Ruby |
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| Eric Weinstein (@ericqweinstein) Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine Ethics Slides | Video |
Jack Danger (@jackdanger) 👉 Designing an engineering team: Making room for everyone 👈 Slides | Video |
Beth Haubert (@haubertdashery) Cats, The Musical! Algorithmic Song Meow-ification Slides | Video |
Ryan Davis (@the_zenspider) Graphics and Simulations (and Games), Oh My! Slides | Video |
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| Lunch | ||||
| Evan Phoenix (@evanphx) 👉 RUBY FAMILY FEUD 👈 (unfortunately, missed half of it) Video |
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| Audrey Eschright (@ameschright) 👉 Unraveling the Masculinization of Technology 👈 (finished early, went to another one) Slides | Video |
Annie Sexton (@anniethesexton) The Dangers of Tribal Knowledge 💯 Video |
Daniel Azuma (@danielazuma) 👉 Yes, You Should Provide a Client Library For Your API 👈 (joined later after finishing the other talk) Slides | Video |
Andy Glass (@andrewglass1) Ruby for Makers: Designing Physical Products With Ruby 👍 Slides | Video |
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| Cecy Correa (@cecycorrea) The Psychology of Fake News (And What Tech Can Do About It) 💯 (read so many good things about it on twitter) Slides | Video |
Mercedes Bernard (@mercedescodes) Empowering Early-Career Developers 👍 Video |
Jeremy Hanna (@almostjeremy) 👉 Uncoupling Systems 👈 (didn't like it at all, he wasn't well prepared) Video |
Jonan Scheffler (@thejonanshow) Wafflebot: Cloud Connected Artificially Intelligent Waffles 💯 (heard it was very interesting as well) Video |
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| Afternoon Break | ||||
| Colin Fleming (@ridethecatbus) Ethical Data Collection for Regular Developers 👍 Video |
Katherine Wu (@kwugirl) Secrets of a Stealth Mentee 👍 Video |
James Thompson (@plainprogrammer) 👉 Building for Gracious Failure 👈 (went in a little late, liked the talk) Slides | Video |
Alex Peattie (@alexpeattie) Ruby-us Hagrid: Writing Harry Potter with Ruby 💯 (heard many good things about this) Video |
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| Bianca Escalante (@biancacreating) 👉 Keynote: Who and What We're Leaving Behind 👈 Video |
Day 2
| Biltmore Bowl / Regency Room / Sponsor Galleria | Emerald Room General |
Gold Room Incident Response / Make It Faster |
Crystal Ballroom Inside Ruby / General |
Tiffany Room General |
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| Saron Yitbarek (@saronyitbarek) 👉 Keynote: How to build a magical living room 👈 Video |
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| Brad Urani (@bradurani) The Ruby Developer's Command Line Toolkit 👍 Video |
Courtney Eckhardt (@hashoctothrope) Retrospectives for Humans 💯 Slides | Video |
Michael Herold (@mherold) Let's subclass Hash - what's the worst that could happen? 👍 Slides | Video |
Jeremy Evans (@jeremyevans0) 👉 Running a Government Department on Ruby for over 13 Years 👈 (felt it was very abstract, wish it had went into more detail) Slides | Video |
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| Noel Rappin (@noelrap) The Developer's Toolkit: Everything We Use But Ruby 👍 (read on twitter it was very interesting) Video |
Cory Chamblin (@chamblin) 👉 What poker can teach us about post-mortems 👈 (didn't like the talk) Slides | Video |
Colin Fulton (@peterquines) Trash Talk: A Garbage Collection Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (heard from other attendees it was a nice talk) Video |
Allison McMillan (@allie_p) BDD: Baby Driven Development 👍 (twitter was on fire for this one) Slides | Video |
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| Lunch | ||||
| Team Mob 👉 Live Mob Refactoring 👈 (was funny) Video |
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| Tony Drake (@t27duck) The Anatomy of a Ruby Gem: Going From Zero to Sharing Code 👍 Slides | Video |
Kelsey Pedersen (@kelsey_pedersen) It's Down! Simulating Incidents in Production (I wish I had attended this one as well) 💯 Video |
Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) 👉 Pointers for Eliminating Heaps of Memory 👈 (great talk) Slides | Video |
Mark Siemers Refactoring the Technical Interview 💯 Slides | Video |
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| Brandon Weaver (@keystonelemur) Reducing Enumerable - An Illustrated Adventure 👍 Slides | Video |
Jamie Gaskins (@jamie_gaskins) Optimizations in Multiple Dimensions Video |
Koichi Sasada (@koichisasada) 👉 Parallel programming in Ruby3 with Guild 👈 (planned to attend this, skipped all talks at this time slot, needed some reset) Slides | Video |
Sumana Harihareswara (@brainwane), Jason Owen (@jasonowen) Code Review, Forwards and Back 👍 Video |
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| Afternoon Break | ||||
| Cody Stringham (@cstringy) Inheritance, Composition, Ruby and You 💯 Video |
Molly Struve (@molly_struve) 👉 Cache is King: Get the Most Bang for Your Buck From Ruby 👈 (loved the talk) Slides | Video |
Masayoshi Takahashi (@takahashim), Yurie Yamane (@yuri_at_earth) ROM: the final frontier of mruby 👍 Slides | Video |
Greggory Rothmeier (@greggroth) Documentation Tradeoffs and Why Good Commits Matter 👍 Slides | Video |
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| Nadia Odunayo (@nodunayo) 👉 The Case of the Missing Method — A Ruby Mystery Story 👈 Video |
Anna Gluszak Practical guide to benchmarking your optimizations 💯 Video |
Takashi Kokubun (@k0kubun) The secret power of Ruby 2.6: JIT (initially wanted to attend this, changed my mind at last minute in favor of missing method talk) 💯 Slides | Video |
Alex Stephen (@rambleraptor) Make Ruby Write Your Code for You 💯 Video |
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| Multiple speakers Lightning Talks (didn't attend any, but the one by @searls was particularly interesting) Video |
Day 3
| Biltmore Bowl / Regency Room / Sponsor Galleria | Emerald Room General / RubyKaigi |
Gold Room General |
Crystal Ballroom Lead Rubyist |
Tiffany Room General |
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| Jessie Shternshus (@theimproveffect) 👉 Keynote: Unlearning - The challenge of change 👈 Video |
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| Thomas Enebo (@tom_enebo), Charles Oliver Nutter (@headius) JRuby 2018: Real World Performance Video |
Tekin Suleyman (@tekin) Branch in Time 👍 Slides |
Jim Liu (@jimeister) 👉 No Title Required: How Leadership Can Come From Anywhere 👈 Slides | Video |
Kevin Kuchta (@kkuchta) Ruby is the Best Javascript 💯 |
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| Tomohiro Hashidate (@joker1007), Satoshi "Moris" Tagomori (@tagamoris) Hijacking Ruby Syntax in Ruby 💯 Slides | Video |
Chris Salzberg (@shioyama) Building Generic Software 👍 Slides | Video |
Jennifer Tu (@jtu) 👉 Humans Aren't APIs And Your Request Is 400 Denied 👈 Slides | Video |
Cameron Dutro (@camrtron) Cheating with Ruby 💯 Video |
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| Lunch | ||||
| Joseph Wilk (@josephwilk) d[-_-]b REPL-ELECTRIC (didn't attend, used that time to get some rest after lunch) Video |
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| Yoh Osaki (@youchan) Building web-based board games only with Ruby Video |
Andrew Louis (@hyfen) 👉 Building a Memex (with Ruby!) 👈 Video |
Brandon Hays (@tehviking) The New Manager's Toolkit 💯 Video |
Damir Svrtan (@damirsvrtan) Building Serverless Ruby Bots 👍 Slides | Video |
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| Itoyanagi Sakura The New Design of Ruby's Documentation 💯 Video |
Adam Forsyth Beating Mastermind: Winning with the help of Donald Knuth Video |
Nickolas Means (@nmeans) 👉 Eiffel's Tower 👈 Video |
Vladimir Dementyev (@pulkan_tula) High-speed cables for Ruby 👍 Slides | Video |
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| Afternoon Break | ||||
| Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (@yukihiro_matz) 👉 Q&A with Matz 👈 Video |