Ruby Rogues

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RR 468: Diversity Matters: Diversifying Your Applicant Pool with Tricia Ball Aug 18, 2020

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Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the rest of STEM) since the 1980s, reasons why women are leaving mid-career and how we can help reverse this trend. Tricia gives practical actions that can be taken to improve company culture, recruitment and retention of under-represented groups.Sponsors

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Charles Max Wood
Luke Stutters
John Epperson

Special Guest

Tricia Ball

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John

Chuck

Tricia

Simone Giertz' Youtube channel

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RR 467: Rails at Super Scale with Kyle d'Oliveira Aug 11, 2020

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Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We discuss the lessons learned from Rails megaprojects and how to use these tips in your own projects to reduce technical debt and tools to keep your monolith majestic when the code won't stop coming.Panel

Dave Kimura
Luke Stutters
Matt Smith

Guest

Kyle d'Oliveira

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PicksMatt Smith:

Danger JS

Luke Stutters:

From jQuery to ES6 | Drifting Ruby

Dave Kimura:

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RR 466: Beating Impostor Syndrome with Dylan Andrews Aug 04, 2020

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In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior developer to successful senior software engineer. Dylan and the rogues talk about on-boarding junior developers and building up confidence.Panel

Charles Max Wood
John Epperson
Matt Smith
Luke Stutters

Guest

Dylan Andrews

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Follow Dylan on Twitter > @dylan1andrews, Blog
Amazon Redshift

Charles Max Wood:

Podcast PLaybook

Luke Stutters:

Writing an Ajax long polling server in Ruby, Part 1

John Epperson:

Sublime Merge - Git Client, done Sublime

Matt Smith:

Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers

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RR 465: WebAuthn in Ruby with Gonzalo Rodriguez and Braulio Martinez Jul 28, 2020

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As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our applications. WebAuthn is a standard that allows you to accept biometric, device based, and other types of authentication as a second or first factor. Gonzalo and Braulio have published a gem that allows you to add webauthn to your Ruby applications and have joined the Rogues to talk through the implications of using it in your applications.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
John Epperson
Matt Smith

Guests

Gonzalo Rodriguez
Braulio Martinez

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PicksGonzalo Rodriguez:

Follow Gonzalo > Github,Cedarcode
GitHub Desktop

Braulio Martinez:

Follow Braulio > Github, Cedarcode
ProForm Treadmills

Charles Max Wood:

Dave Kimura:

John Epperson:

S'well

Matt Smith:

YubiKey 5 | strong authentication for secure login

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RR 464: PWAs on Rails with John Beatty Jul 21, 2020

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John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the Rogues through the ins and outs of building a PWA and what it’s like adding the features you need to get a PWA set up on Rails. It turns out to be surprisingly straightforward and yet has a ton of potential.Panel

John Epperson
Matt Smith
Charles Max Wood

Guest

John Beatty

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johnbeatty/hnpwa-app: An implementation of the Hacker News PWA with Rails + Stimulus

PicksJohn Beatty:

Follow John on Twitter @jpbeatty , Blog
RailsConf 2020

John Epperson:

Charles Max Wood:

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RR 463: Can We Fix What We Can't See? with James Thompson Jul 14, 2020

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Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet"In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors in a service-based system and how to prioritize what errors to fix. He goes into how to recognize the errors when they are creeping in and so much more.Panel

Dave Kimura
John Epperson
Matt Smith
Luke Stutters

Guest

James Thompson

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The Annotated American Gods

Luke Stutters:

raggi/async_sinatra

Dave Kimura:

Rubidium
Slim Gemfile for increased application maintainability

John Epperson:

Sharing puzzles with your friends so you can do puzzles during the current stay-at-home era

Matt Smith:

Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code

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RR 462: Graphiti, REST, and GraphQL with Lee Richmond Jun 30, 2020

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Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the spiritual successor to ActiveResource. It provides a convenient way to provide an API that understands the object graph in your application without needing to resort to GraphQL.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
John Epperson
Luke Stutters
Matt Smith

Guest

Lee Richmond

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Rails Remote Conf 2020Links

Nested Forms from Scratch with StimulusJS | Drifting Ruby

PicksCharles Max Wood:

Devchat.tv Remote Conferences

Dave Kimura:

John Epperson:

kschiess/parslet: A small PEG based parser library

Luke Stutters:

Matt Smith:

Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

Lee Richmond:

Follow Lee on Twitter @@richmolj, Graphiti.dev, email:richmolj@gmail.com
Prisma - Database tools for modern application development

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RR 461: Rethinking the View Layer with Components with Joel Hawksley Jun 09, 2020

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Joel Hawksley is an engineer at Github who works on some of their Rails architecture. He is one of the authors of the view_component gem. He walks the Rogues through the genesis of the project and the pros and cons of using a library like view_component and how it adds testability and easy management to Rails views.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Luke Stutters

Guest

Joel Hawksley

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Joel's Website
Visionect

Charles Max Wood:

Dave Kimura:

Arduino

Luke Stutters:

electric-io

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RR 460: How to Brainstorm Introverts with DeeDee Lavinder May 19, 2020

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Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions, thereby getting their input in situations where we otherwise would not. She provides some tips for extroverts to invite the input, Luke brings his patented sarcasm to the table, we discuss some pitfalls and Dee really brings some fantastic advice to the table for those trying to moderate discussions as well as for those of us having small discussions with our colleagues.Panel

John Epperson
Luke Stutters

Guest

DeeDee Lavinder

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking: Susan Cain

PicksJohn Epperson:

Harry Dresden Files
Making Gumbo at home #totally-worth

Luke Stutters:

Missing 411: The Hunted

DeeDee Lavinder:

Follow DeeDee on Twitter > @ddlavinder, Github
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters | Basecamp
Sing, Unburied, Sing - National Book Foundation

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RR 459: Mutation Testing with Dave Aronson May 12, 2020

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JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now!Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation starts with a discussion of what mutation testing is. They discuss the benefits and approaches before diving into implementation details.Panel