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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
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (@yukihiro_matz)

👉 Keynote 👈

Video
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
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
Lunch
Evan Phoenix (@evanphx)

👉 RUBY FAMILY FEUD 👈 (unfortunately, missed half of it)

Video
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
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
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
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
Saron Yitbarek (@saronyitbarek)

👉 Keynote: How to build a magical living room 👈

Video
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
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
Lunch
Team Mob

👉 Live Mob Refactoring 👈 (was funny)

Video
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
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
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
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
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
Jessie Shternshus (@theimproveffect)

👉 Keynote: Unlearning - The challenge of change 👈

Video
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 💯
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
Lunch
Joseph Wilk (@josephwilk)

d[-_-]b REPL-ELECTRIC (didn't attend, used that time to get some rest after lunch)

Video
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
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
Afternoon Break
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (@yukihiro_matz)

👉 Q&A with Matz 👈

Video

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