ChaelCodesHello Philadelphia!
I'm excited to attend #RailsConf and see all of you! It was a little bit of a bumpy flight today, and I've never seen an airplane dodge clouds before.
I really loved the focus on our community and what makes Ruby special in the opening comments. The Ruby community is so big and has been a warm and welcoming home for so many.
So cool to hear a follow-up on Flexcar which moved from microservices in Java to Rails!
* Rails was easier, fast, and overall a great choice. :)
* They kept their React frontend
* Frontend devs could work on backend changes
* we're a welcoming community :)
OMG!!! I met @juanvqz who was one of my earliest contributors!! His PRs were always well-built and easy to deploy! ✨✨
I'm currently hiding out and prepping for my lightning talk tomorrow! I'll be starting at about 6pm, depending on the talks before me.
I like @kaspth 's talk on fitting in bite-size learning and deep dives while working on other projects. He's very brave for ending it with a live demo on learning more about initializers (a suggestion from the audience).
I lost my notes on the Shopify lightning talks. 🥺
There'll be a lot of exciting improvements around errors in Rails 8.1. Filtering sensitive data from parameters, structuring them for observability platforms, and more!
Reading Terminal Market is a nice but hot walk, and the place was busy before a bunch of Rubyists dropped in. Once we found seats though, Hershel's is good, and so was the conversation!
I'd get a half sandwich next time though, and was really grateful that I could take a break and clean up after!
I loved this talk from Manu! He did an incredible job with an overview of the different servers, their trade-offs, and their use cases. His final summary slide is my favorite!
This talk by @matheusrich was an amazing overview of syntax trees and parsers that built from a simple example to a complex one. I really loved how he tied the examples to actual Ruby history!!
I was starving at the Power Happy Hour. I went straight to a pretzel and a chair, and barely paused to breathe.
No friends. Only food.
It's time for Hack Spaces!!!! ✨
Hack Spaces are such an incredible opportunity to meet, pair with, and thank the maintainers of your favorite gems! I love seeing the organic conversations that pop up between maintainers, first time contributors, and I'm really glad that Ruby Central has made space for these interactions.
Hack Spaces are such an incredible opportunity to meet, pair with, and thank the maintainers of your favorite gems! I love seeing the organic conversations that pop up between maintainers, first time contributors, and I'm really glad that Ruby Central has made space for these interactions.
Hack spaces were so awesome!!! I had time to work on my app, meet people and catch up, and hang out over at the GitLab booth!!
I had some struggles with wifi and my dev environments, but I'm so excited and energized by the conversations I had.
I gave my lightning talk!! Gamifying Developer Environments!!
I got on stage, and everyone looked so intense and serious when I was talking about the games that I was TERRIFIED they hated it, but I only had one talk, and one way forward!
Afterwards people kept telling me how much they liked it, and that they were looking so serious because they were trying to parse "firehose of information" speed!! 🤣
I am so relieved that people liked it!! ❤️❤️❤️
Dinner afterwards - amazing!! But there's a flooding notice in Philadelphia???? Glad I packed my poncho! Please stay safe and out of the rain!
Sidekiq game night!!
Please notice my complete domination of Ghost Blitz! I scooped up 10 cards, and then left to give someone else a chance to win. :P
This is one of my absolute favorite keynotes I've ever seen - perhaps because it's all of them!
Aji Slater crafted a thoughtful, beautiful, brave, incredible keynote. ❤️
Eric Tillberg@ChaelCodes Thanks for posting this thread! I'm getting serious FOMO, especially since I just moved to Philly. I hate that I'm missing the conference but I'm surrounded by moving boxes and only yesterday got functioning AC sooo it woulda been too much.
Collin Donnell@ChaelCodes that looks so fun!
@collin Thanks!!! I really enjoy the hack spaces. Are you going to the next RubyConf? I'm looking forward to saying hi again!!
@ChaelCodes I need to look at it and see if I can afford it, but I’d love to if I can!
@collin That's fair! I hope the job hunt is going well!
Bradley Schaefer@ChaelCodes I would love more information about this - is there anywhere I could read more about this?
@soulcutter Hmmmmm. I can definitely link it here once the talks are up, but someone from Shopify would have a way easier time answering this question.
3 of the 4 PRs are merged and should be in the Rails repo. I can try to dig them up once I've had a bit of recovery time.
WNB.rb@ChaelCodes Kick butt!!! You got this 🥳
@wnb_rb Thank you! Y'all are the best! ❤️
alexanderadam@ChaelCodes ha, @kaspth is everywhere 😅
Kasper Timm Hansen@ChaelCodes enjoy 😊