1. The Best Kind of Brilliant

    The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him:
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    December 7, 2022
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Justin Searls
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    Ruby
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  2. Activism for developers

    Whether considered luck or a curse we've surely inherited interesting times. I'm sure many of you, like me, often wonder what, if anything, you can do to help. In the past few years, I've volunteered some consulting time with a number of small nonprofit groups in my town which led me to gain some insight into how they produce change.
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    June 23, 2020
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Josh Klina
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    Community
  3. Abstractions II debrief

    Test Double consultant Ali Ibrahim shares his takes from Abstractions II.
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    December 12, 2019
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    Ali Ibrahim
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    Community
  4. Debrief: Lead Dev New York 2019

    Last weekend I packed a head cold and a southern nonchalance towards weather preparation1, and flew northeast to attend The Lead Developer conference in New York. It wasn’t until I got there that it occurred to me I had bought my ticket based entirely on my experiences at the 2018 version of this conference in Austin, and had no idea who was going to be speaking at this one.
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    May 6, 2019
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Brittany Moore
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    Community

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