Ruby Rogues

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RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso Feb 13, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max WoodEric BerryDave KimuraDavid Richards Special Guests: Sebastian SogamosoIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses failures with Sebastian Sogamoso. Sebastian is a software developer of 6 years, and working with Ruby for the last 5 years, and before worked with Java and PHP. He is currently living in Panama City, but grew up in Colombia. He now works for CookPad and organizes a Ruby conference in Colombia. Sebastian stresses the fact that everyone fails no matter what, and if you take responsibility and learn from your failures, you can more on to become a better programmer and developer because of it.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby, Java, and PHP
Failure stories
Personal failure stories in software projects
Public failure stories in technology companies
Failure from a personal perspective
I am the worst developer ever?
Will I get fired?
Will this ever be over?
Getting peer support
Will I have to carry with the weight of this failure for my entire career?
Taking time off to decompress
Failure from a company perspective
The customer support side
The Public Relationships side
The engineering side
Blameless postmortems (don’t do guilt blame)
Root cause analysis
Fix the code, but most importantly the processes
Gaining confidence back
Mental health
Why sharing our failures can help
Impostor syndrome
And much, much more!

Links:

Picks:Charles

Craigslist
eBay
Classified Sites for Non-Running Vehicles

Eric

Django
Cats

Dave

Costco Glasses

David

Sebastian

Special Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso.
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RR 348: Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington Feb 06, 2018

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Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-HarringtonIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panelist speak with Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington. Nell is the Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, the CTO at Operation Code. Nathen is the VP Community at Chef. The topic of discussion is about Chef. Chef is a platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What is Dev Ops? A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high-velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.
Chef Automate - the platform that enables teams to collaborate, share, and automate everything.
Cultural and Professional
Continuous Automation - Chef, InSpec, Habitat
3 Main Focuses: Infrastructure Automation, Compliance Automation, Application Automation
Instanbul, AWS Cloud, Etc.
AWS Bean Stalk
Chef works best at “Massive Scale”
Where Chef shines!
Tests
More on compliance
InSpec
Things to do at the minimum?
Talks about issues with infrastructure issues at Knight Capital
Habitat - Application Automation, Build, deploy, run any application, anywhere.
If you hate Dev Ops?
Chef Community - Slack
The best way to learn about each of these - https://learn.chef.io/#/
and much much more.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen
Chef - Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code - https://www.chef.io/chef/
InSpec - Compliance Automation, testing framework for infrastructure - https://www.inspec.io/
In-browser tutorial - https://www.inspec.io/tutorial
https://www.habitat.sh/ Tutorials - https://www.habitat.sh/learn/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nellshamrell
https://blog.chef.io/author/nshamrell/
@NellShamrell
@NathenHarvey

Picks:David

Zat Rana -https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-ernest-hemingway-became-an-overnight-success-3277b482c39c

Eric

Operation Code
Code Sponsor is Back!

Dave

Kreg Pocket Jig

Chuck

AirPods

Nell

Blue Pearl Animal Clinic
Darkest Hour

Nathen

Special Guests: Nathen Harvey and Nell Shamrell-Harrington.
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RR 347: There's Nothing New Under the Sun with Justin Searls and Josh Greenwood Jan 30, 2018

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Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Justin Searls and Josh GreenwoodIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Justin Searls and Josh Greenwood. Justin and Josh both work for a software agency called Test Double, who are a fully remote software agency. Both Josh and Justin are well versed in many technologies and platforms of development such as Ruby, Javascript and much more. Both Justin and Josh are on the show to talks about their recent presentation “There's Nothing New Under the Sun,” which was presented at conferences.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

History and the knowledge of the community
Abandoning Gems
Exploratory
The rise of Rails
How much of what you do is in Ruby and Rails?
New contracts - How long do they last?
Secrets to onboard members or developers?
Overwhelmed with projects?
Where do you see Ruby in the next few years?
Slowing of processors - intel
Working with other languages, then into Ruby
Jim!
Our industry’s obsession at placing novelty/newness above deeper truths and wisdoms. Once the shine has worn off we tend to ignore it, and even the timeline-style most information consumption software is designed with goes out of its way to bury anything “old”
What important context new Ruby developers tend to lack (this was the motivation for the talk in the first place) and what can we do to make them more comfortable & capable
Straight up nostalgia time. Folks who’ve been in Ruby for a while should find motivation and encouragement by celebrating our past more often to remind ourselves of why we love Ruby
and much much more.

Links:

https://github.com/searls
http://testdouble.com
@searls
@joshtgreenwood

Picks:David

Eric

Dave

Justin

Josh

Elm
Space Max text editor
Mini Metro

Special Guests: Josh Greenwood and Justin Searls.
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RR 346: Ruby Debuggers with Daniel Azuma Jan 23, 2018

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraBrian HoganEric BerrySpecial Guest: Daniel AzumaIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Daniel Azuma, Daniel is has being a “Rubyist", and has been developing for over 20 years, and currently works at Google apart of the Cloud team with programming language support specialist. Daniel leads the Ruby and Elixir team at Google.Daniel is on the show to discuss Ruby debuggers with the Ruby Rogues panel. Topics cover ruby support, cloud debugger, projects, processes for debuggers and much more. This is a great episode to understand more about Ruby debuggers and processes.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Support
Cloud Debugger
First debugger project
Talks about debugging
Why do you use a debugger in the first place?
Figuring out info and where to started - processes to start
Rapid round trips
Pry
Second debugger,
Snapshots of program state
Byte Code
Is this only available on the Google cloud platform
Similar products?
Stack driver gems
Google cloud debugger gem
Standard rails application?
Does the debugger take snapshots of the issue?
Debugger agents
If you could do it about what would you tell yourself?
What are the lessons of writing a Ruby Debugger?
If someone wants to put a Ruby app on App engine how do they do that?
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:Brian

Eric

The Punisher

Dave

Chuck

Daniel

Docker
Music Animation Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWSonBN3Pk

Special Guest: Daniel Azuma.
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RR 345: App Failure Emergencies and Holidays Jan 16, 2018

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Amit ChoudaryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Amit Choudary, Amit is based in India as a Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Fullstack Developer. Amit is working with a company called Big Binary. Big Binary builds web apps and a variety of mobile applications. Amit mentions his informative blog on Ruby 2.5 at blog at Big Binary.Amit and the panel discuss app failure emergencies and holidays. Importantly this episode is about how holidays affect the schedules, staff, and emergency deploying apps or repairing crashes and servers. This is a great episode to learn about strategies to recover from crashes, emergencies, and disaster recovery,In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Holiday and emergency deployment
Staff availability is the biggest problem during that holidays
Coming in on holidays
"The Server is Down email”
Adapting and avoiding the email
Crashes - stories
Redundant storage array
Disaster recovery
Having a plan
Communication
Having the team in-place
Dealing with management and giving updates
Covering things during holidays
Documentations
Deployment
Running tests, CI Code
Guard
Continuous deployment
Rolling back
Database
Debugging
Irreversible migration
Risk assessment
Mistakes happen
and much much more.

Links:

https://www.bigbinary.com
https://blog.bigbinary.com
@bigbinary

Picks:David

Threat Models
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart

Dave

Chuck

Eternium
Atari - Sega Games
Smoker
Instant Pot

Amit

2.5 Ruby

Special Guest: Amit Choudary.
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RR 344: What Are You Working On? Jan 09, 2018

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsBrian HoganEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss things they are playing with or working on now. Much of the discussion covers technologies in Rails and Ruby, Rails. 5.2 beta, React, Sprinkles, redux, and more details with these technologies. Each of the Ruby Rogues members comment on their workflows and personal applications for apps and web applications. Also, how playing with things or technologies, helps build your skills and development.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What are the things you have been playing with? Rails, Ruby, React
React, react components
JS Sprinkles
Tubo Links
Hybrid Apps
Using Angular and React
Why do I thing that way I do?
Comments of DHH
Rails is the Swiss Army Knife
Stimulus
Playing with things helps your development
Environments and Rails
Using Elm
File transfer
Pragmatic Studios - free videos
Podcasting Applications
Understanding how people work.
Docker
Practical Docker
And much much more

Links:

Picks:Dave

David

Article - How Brands Turn Trolling into a Marketing Strategy

Eric

XBox - Call of Duty
iPad Case

Charles

New Shows - React, View and Elixir Indiegogo
Avengers Infinity
Docker

Brian

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RR 343: Ruby 2.5 with Jesus Castello Jan 04, 2018

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Ruby 2.5 with Jesus Castello. Jesus has been a developer for several years, and has learned Ruby 6 years ago and is now teaching Ruby. Jesus is on Ruby Rogues to talk about Ruby 2.5 and performance improvements and performance documentation. Also, Jesus talks about the everything Ruby 2.5 and the next editions for the language.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Improvements and documentation
Changes to the library
RVM - Is Great
System Ruby
What feels most natural working with
Preventing SkyNet!
Language changes
Top-level constant lookup is removed.
Rescue/else/ensure are allowed inside do/end blocks.
Refinements take place in string interpolations.
New methods like Kernel#yield_self (Discuss possible uses)
Removed “ubygems.rb” file from stdlib. (We can talk about why this file existed & why it has been removed.)
Elixir and writing code fast
Ruby performance (Why do so many people complain about it, is it really a limiting factor for them? Would people be happy if it got 3 times faster? Ruby 3x3 project)
And much much more

Links:

Picks:Dave

David

These is nothing new under the sun

Eric

White Board Tests

Charles

Jesus

Special Guest: Jesus Castello.
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RR 342 Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson Dec 27, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsEric BerryIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Rails, Development, and More with David Heinemeier Hansson. David is the creator of Ruby on Rails, the founder and CTO of Basecamp, and the hosts of The ReWork Podcast. David Answers a number of questions form the panel about the front-end on Rails, Turbo Link, Stimulus, How does this differ, cheaper labor, better hardware, and much more. This is a great episode to understand the background of Ruby on Rails, Basecamps, and things to come with Ruby.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

The new book The Com Company
Where are we going with the front-end on Rails?
Turbo Links
Stimulus
Redux Application
Productivity
Do you Stimulus providing enough?
How does this differ from new things coming out?
Ruby on Rails will not last…
Toolkits
Cheaper hardware
Basecamp
Higher cost of programmers
The Frontier
C in Java
Why don’t you hire senior experience?
Experience and career path
Remote Work
Paying developers enough
Competitive pay
Switching jobs and values
What is your vision of where Active Storage is going?
Cloud Storage
Action Cable
What are your thoughts on bitcoin?
Train wrecks and it will end badly
How about BlockChain and the web?
What is your daily driver? Cars? Watches?
Porche 911
Celebrating technological heritage
What is in tech that you are liking?
VR
And much much more

Links:

Picks:Dave

Minio

David

Eric

Secret of Luck
Post - Funding open source

Charles

Special Guest: David Heinemeier Hansson.
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RR 341: Standards vs Reality Dec 22, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Standard vs Reality. The panel discusses how realistic it is to expect standards. Charles, Dave and David cover topics on the appearance of code, the family of origin, conforming when working with a team, community projects, company repos, challenging old standards, and much more concerning how workflows are performed today. This is a great episode for developers to learn to ask if there is a better or time efficient way to do things.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

The reality of standards - Does it work and make money?
The appearance of code - the family of origin
Working with a team and maintaining standards
Community standards
Company standards and repos
Who is the boss in project
Challenging old standard as technology updates
Overhead
Standards are a stand-in for I don’t have to think about it.
Reality Check?
Search Kick
Validation
Code growing
Lines of Code
Rubocop
Building standard on your own projects
Writing code that works, but not beautiful
How quickly can you get it done
Maximizing the individual
Being open to criticism
And much much more!

Picks:Dave

https://sentry.io/welcome/

David

Spy’s Guide to Strategy

Charles

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RR 340: Strings and Encodings in Ruby with Aaron Lasseigne Dec 12, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss Strings and Encodings in Ruby with Aaron Lasseigne. Aaron has been a Ruby developer for over a decade and is the author of Mastering Ruby: Strings and Encodings. Also, Aaron talks about his recent work on a service object Gem called Active Interaction. This is a great episode on learning about Strings and Encodings.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Discussion Points (contributed by guests and hosts):•Why is it so important to understand strings?◦“The internet is powered by multimillion-dollar string manipulation machines. We put strings in a box, and get new strings out. While there’s plenty of mathy things that can happen in the middle, there is no denying the importance of strings in today’s world.” - Schneems◦They’re the only data structure that lies to you. You can see the exact contents of an array or hash but strings mask what’s happening. That’s why you can get situations when a single character has a length of 2.•What are character sets?◦A character set defines a group of characters, their order, and it assigns each an identifier (a code point).▪Unicode is a character set.◦What are code points?▪Unique identifiers within the character set.◦UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are implementations of the Unicode character set▪Each has its own benefits•Normalization forms◦Different representations of the same character. We can represent “é” as a single character or as an “e” and a combining mark (2 characters). Normalization forms allow us to change between forms.◦There are 4 forms, NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD and they all do slightly different things.▪They can be switched between with `String#unicode_normalize`.•Sorting◦Easy for English only but can be quite difficult with other languages. Sorting “e” and “é” can be tricky.•Security◦Identical characters, similar characters, and invisible characters can all be used to spoof user names.▪https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-to-avoid-downloading-a-fake-app_us_5a147d40e4b0f401dfa7eafb ▪https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7ahujw/psa_two_different_developers_under_the_same_name/ •The current state of Unicode support in Ruby. It was improved in 2.4 when methods like `upcase` started working with Unicode characters.•The addition of grapheme support in Ruby 2.5.•Freezing strings with `String#freeze` and with the special comment at the top of a file.◦Immutable strings may still make it into Ruby 3 as the default.•Character set expressions (a term I made up) for use with methods like `String#count` and `String#delete`.◦They’re like the inside of a regular expression character set (e.g. `[a-z]`)•Tofu and mojibake◦Tofu are those white boxes you see when a character doesn’t exist on your computer.◦Mojibake is when the characters show up but they don’t make sense because you’re using the wrong encoding or they were misencoded somewhere along the way.•Fixing bad characters◦Strings can be checked with `valid_encoding?`.◦`String#scrub` lets you replace invalid bytes with a single character which is the replacement character by default (that black diamond with a question mark in it).◦`String#encode` also does replacement work and will let you swap out characters if you go from something like UTF-8 to ASCII.▪You can even change out newline types with it.◦`Encoding::Converter` is an even more powerful way to convert but it’s a tool for when things go seriously wrong.Links: