Computation Pub Memorandum

Occasionally, we meet in a pub. This page contains a few links and pictures to serve as a reminder for those exuberant occasions.

19th July, 2017

It was agreed that no-one would ever speak of this.

Panorama

Things people mentioned:

James C mentioned the book House of Leaves
Tom mentioned Capybara::Server

note how Capybara::Server#boot polls #responsive?, which checks whether /__identify__ returns success, which depends on behaviour from the Capybara::Server::Middleware Rack middleware which wraps the underlying @app
also neat how the middleware increments and decrements a counter (inside a critical section) when requests go into and out of the underlying app, so that #wait_for_pending_requests? can spin until the counter becomes zero
it’s all pretty nice
Chris L mentioned the userR! conference