Rooftop Ruby Podcast
Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Two Ruby programmers (Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper) discuss Ruby, web and native software development, technology, and more.
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Nov 20, 2023
Live at RubyConf 2023!
Collin and Joel are joined by friend of the show Roman to talk about the conference, before being joined by special guest Catherine Ricafort McCreary to discuss Artists Who Code.
Artists Who Code in the LA Times
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Nov 7, 2023
31: An Accordion of Complexity
Collin and Joel discuss creating the router and ORM for Yipee! (Joel's new web framework) and how to think about using resourceful versus custom routes.
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Nov 1, 2023
30: Robot First Graders
Collin and Joel catch up and talk the Rooftop Ruby RubyConf party, becoming a morning person, tricking AI, making a web framework, and time travel.
* Joel's testing library
* BBEdit
* Dall•E in ChatGPT
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Oct 24, 2023
29: Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan
Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan join the show to discuss Ruby Central, how organizing conferences has changed in the past few years, and more.
* Ruby Central
* RubyConf — Buy your ticket now.
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Oct 19, 2023
28: SQLite in Production With Stephen Margheim
Stephen Margheim talks about SQLite in production Rails and more.
* Stephen’s website
* Litestream
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Oct 11, 2023
27: Hiring Juniors with Ryan Bigg
Ryan Bigg talks about hiring juniors, writing, and company culture.
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Sep 27, 2023
26: Large Language Models with Simon Willison
Django co-creator Simon Willison joins to talk about large language models.
A guide to large language models
OpenAI Clip
Datasette
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Sep 12, 2023
25: You Deserve a Tech Union with Ethan Marcotte
We're joined by designer Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book You Deserve a Tech Union.
* You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart
* Ethan's website
* Kickstarter United
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Sep 5, 2023
24: Travel, Developer Maxims, and Paid Gems
Travel, tech unions, developer maxims and paid Ruby gems.
* You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
* Premature Optimization — Universally Misunderstood
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Aug 29, 2023
23: Head of Open Source at Ruby Central André Arko
Ruby Central head of open source André Arko talks Bundler, Ruby Gems, supporting the community, and more.
* André Arko will be speaking at RubyConf 2023 this year
* Support Bundler/RubyGems open source work via Ruby Central
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Aug 9, 2023
22: Abstraction Goes All the Way Down
We talk about CODE by Charles Petzold, which is great and everyone should read.
Collin is done ranking his hacks and is doing some comfort C programming.
Meanwhile Joel has finished implementing Literal in a real project and is figuring out how to use Sidekiq across processes.
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Aug 1, 2023
21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland
Dave Copeland joins to discuss writing, background jobs, service objects, and more.
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Jul 18, 2023
20: Literal Metaprogramming
Collin and Joel discuss leaving the cloud, password management, security, and metaprogramming.
* iCloud passwords in Chrome
* Metaprogramming Ruby 2
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Jul 13, 2023
19: CSS, Stimulus, PhlexUI?
* Joel is coming to RubyConf in San Diego!
* Collin has been thinking about CSS, Stimulus, and building on top of Phlex.
Collin is available for freelance work. You should hire him! Get in touch via Mastodon.
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Jul 5, 2023
18: American Muffins, Error Messages, RailsWorld
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Jun 29, 2023
17: Technical Debt and Duplication Over Abstraction
* Collin’s Blog Post
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Jun 20, 2023
16: MVC Isn’t MVC
* MVC Isn’t MVC blog post
* Xerox PARC
* Model 2 architecture — Wikipedia
* Older Apple document about MVC
* Observable objects in Swift
* morphdom
* Phoenix Live View
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Jun 15, 2023
15: Apple Keynote, Literal, and Service Objects
We’re both recording from inside our homes for the first time in weeks! We discuss the Apple Keynote, Joel’s progress on his Literal gem, and Collin’s assertion that service objects sometimes just don’t pass the vibe check.
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Jun 6, 2023
14: New York, Editors and AI
We're back! This week we talk about Joel's trip to New York, code editors, and AI assisted coding.
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May 16, 2023
13: Open Source and More With Marco Roth
Joel is recording from his car, Collin is recording from a sauna, and Marco Roth is here to talk about Stimulus Reflex, Hotwire, and more.
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May 9, 2023
12: Literally a Ruby Gem
Collin is finally back in Portland — it only took 6156 miles of driving! Meanwhile, Joel made another gem called *Literal*. Oh, and Collin might be entering a new era.
* Joel's new gem: Literal
* Don't Make Me Think
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May 2, 2023
11: Still Nowhere Near Portland
* British cold water storage tank article from The Guardian
* Reconcilable Differences: Hand Cuppers & Faucet Slurpers
* GreenDots
* Wyoming Wikipedia Article
* Wyoming is slightly larger than the United Kingdom (94,530 sq mi vs 97,914) but with a population of *576,851* compared to *67,886,011* in the UK.
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Apr 25, 2023
10: Road to RailsConf
Collin has been on a 3100 mile journey from Portland Oregon to RailsConf in Atlanta Georgia. We also discuss going to conferences and how to have the best time.
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Apr 18, 2023
9: Dry-RB and Hanami with Tim Riley
Tim Riley joins to talk about dry-rb and the Hanami web framework.
* dry-rb
* Hanami
* Tim on Mastodon
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Apr 11, 2023
8: That Means Interviewing
Collin and Joel discuss interviewing, how to interview, and how to succeed.
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Apr 4, 2023
7: MySQL for Developers with Aaron Francis
Developer educator Aaron Francis on databases, independent software development, and more.
* MySQL for Developers Course
* Hammerstone — A drop-in report builder for Laravel Nova & Ruby on Rails
* Aaron on Twitter
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Mar 28, 2023
6: Favorite Developer Tools
Collin and Joel discuss some of their favorite developer tools.
* BBEdit
* Warp
* xScope
* GitHub Desktop
* Tower
* Pastebot
* Zed
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Mar 21, 2023
5: Vanilla Never Tasted So Hot
Special guest Jared White joins Collin and Joel to talk about Bridgetown, the Spicy Web and more.
* Bridgetown
* The Spicy Web
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Mar 7, 2023
4: Green Dots and Boogie
Joel wrote a testing library and how we approach a new codebase.
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Feb 21, 2023
3: Creating Gems
How to create and publish gems.
* Speedify
* Ruby Gems
* Panic Playdate
* Collin on Mastodon
* Joel on Mastodon
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Feb 10, 2023
2: Going Deeper by Getting Broader
Collin and Joel discuss lessons they’ve learned from studying other languages, internet connect troubles and successes, and more.
* Dry RB
* Sorbet
* Solargraph
* Yardoc
* Kotlin
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Jan 20, 2023
1: The First Episode
Welcome to the first episode of Rooftop Ruby with Collin and Joel.
* Phlex
* Collin on Mastodon
* Joel on Mastodon
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