Alternative Ruby Symbol Literals
Periodically I take episodes from the RubyTapas archives and publish them for free. This episode from October 2012 is about symbol literals, and how you can use alternative quoting syntax…
Rubber Duck Session: Rails Polymorphic Attributes with Karim Talek
In this public Rubber Duck Session, my pairing partner Karim wanted to move some logic for editing message-display rules from the frontend to the backend. We settled on using JSONB…
Jessitron & Avdi Learn About Alloy
A dive into formal model checking, plus a bonus cocktail recipe
Jessitron & Avdi Attempt Event Storming
Recently Jess & I decided we needed an app idea to give us an excuse to write code, and last night we spent 45 minutes sketching it out with post-its…
Jessitron & Avdi Pair on Dark and the Square API
This was one of our after-hours sessions so there’s a bunch of yelling and cursing and probably some inappropriate variable names.
Eric & Avdi Talk About the Developer Education Business
Eric Normand (of LispCast and PurelyFunctional.tv) and I have been trading notes about the developer education business for years. The other day we caught up and talked about business models,…
Test-Driven Re-implementation with Josh Thompson
Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete…
How to meet people at tech events when you’re awkward and shy
Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr discuss strategies fro making meaningful connections at tech events.
Refactoring a tech talk abstract
Rewriting a conference talk proposal to better “sell” the content.