This year marks the 20th anniversary of full-time development on JRuby. We have thousands of users all over the world and depend on support customers to fund my work. We can scale apps to great levels and are keeping up with Ruby and Rails compatibility.
Meanwhile, both of my proposals for #RubyConf were rejected by @rubycentral.
Do with that what you will.
re:
> How developers sound to non-developers when you talk shop
Ohh yeah! the Rockwell retro encaburator, I featured that in my 2022⁺ #RubyConf talk while talking about #Monads in #ruby
Never again without a contract: dry-validation
https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/never-again-without-a-contract-dry-validation
where I also featured your work, Ryan :)
⁺ wow almost 3 year ago to the date.
#dryrb
The same as you shouldn't work without a contract, our systems should accept external inputs without one, a written, clear and enforceable one. Define the structure & expected payload being aware of their schema, structure & types. Using dry-schema or dry-validation this part is a matter of a few lines of codes covering most of the cases you may find with the cherry-on-top: error handling out-of-the-box and if this not enough with optional pattern matching for results.
@marcoroth I'm not Nick Robinson :P
Also I need folks's old backup discs really. So I need to also know the Ruby folks over there.
But uh
I would love a trip to Japan to raid some Hard Offs for weird PS/55s and copy some backups for some weird versions of Ruby. Would make for a fun #RubyConf talk.
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