Rooftop Ruby Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis
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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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- https://ruby.social/@collin
47 shares
- https://ruby.social/@joeldrapper
47 shares
- https://discord.gg/tdt3P5uJwm
45 shares
- https://discord.gg/HDtqrZ2P
1 share
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39: I Just Want Some Structure
Episode 39
dimanche 2 février 2025 • Duration 01:14:07
Exciting News! We're both unemployed! Someone hire us 🥺 You could even hire both of us—a dream team for hire, you might say.
This week, Collin accidentally deletes his Application Support folder on his Mac, and we talk Xcode, text editors, and Difftastic.
Joel goes in-depth on Tree-sitter and writing a SQLite parser. Plus, we discuss task management apps.
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Semantic and Other Versioning Systems
Episode 38
jeudi 5 décembre 2024 • Duration 38:57
Thanksgiving, mince pies, and Joel is giving up on semantic versioning.
Versioning systems on Wikipedia
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29: Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan
Episode 29
mardi 24 octobre 2023 • Duration 40:04
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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28: SQLite in Production With Stephen Margheim
Episode 28
jeudi 19 octobre 2023 • Duration 01:15:51
Stephen Margheim talks about SQLite in production Rails and more.
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27: Hiring Juniors with Ryan Bigg
Episode 27
mercredi 11 octobre 2023 • Duration 42:15
Ryan Bigg talks about hiring juniors, writing, and company culture.
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26: Large Language Models with Simon Willison
Episode 26
jeudi 28 septembre 2023 • Duration 01:25:52
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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25: You Deserve a Tech Union with Ethan Marcotte
Episode 25
mardi 12 septembre 2023 • Duration 35:45
We're joined by designer Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book You Deserve a Tech Union.
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24: Travel, Developer Maxims, and Paid Gems
Episode 24
mardi 5 septembre 2023 • Duration 35:19
Travel, tech unions, developer maxims and paid Ruby gems.
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23: Head of Open Source at Ruby Central André Arko
Episode 23
mercredi 30 août 2023 • Duration 46:43
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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22: Abstraction Goes All the Way Down
Episode 22
mercredi 9 août 2023 • Duration 26:14
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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