Caleb Albritton @wa9ace@ruby.social

Like many others right now, I've been let go along with 30+% of my coworkers. If anyone knows of positions or needs someone with 10 years software engineering experience writing backend and frontend along with 5 years of React and TypeScript experience, I'm you're guy.

At #RubyConf!

Slack finally has dark mode! https://slackhq.com/dark-mode-for-slack-desktop

Thought I'd add a little more fuel to the "funding" open source kerfuffle floating around with my own thoughts.

https://wa9ace.net/2019/09/03/what-oss-consumers-owe-you.html

@baweaver Great talk Friday at #SERuby. Thoroughly enjoyed all the illustrations and showing the ways to warp Ruby in to doing what you want.

`bundle install --path vendor/bundle` should be default behavior.

Gave a talk at ChaDev lunch last Thursday on security. Here's the blog post with recorded video, links to things referenced in the talk as well as the slides. Any input is appreciated so I can be better!
https://wa9ace.net/2019/02/24/perceived-security-trust-and-the-ken-thompson-hack.html

The Git Flow blog post came out 9 years ago.

Joel Spolsky's The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) was published 16 years ago.

Anyone have other blost posts that have stood the test of time and are still available?

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

RubyGems 3 released! https://blog.rubygems.org/2018/12/19/3.0.0-released.html

looks like Ruby 2.6 on Christmas is landing with RubyGems 3 and Bundler 2

Exciting!

Ruby on AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/

My thoughts on the blame placed on the original author of the event-stream node package https://wa9ace.net/2018/11/27/what-oss-maintainers-owe-you.html

I would like to put forth an alternative to the word `blocker` during a standup. Sometimes you just run into a hard thing, but it's not blocking. Just takes time. The electrical term is called impedance, and I think it maps well to use in standups for describing a nonblocking hard problem.

This is the most terrifying shit.

https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/2391

When I personally have to deal with interplanetary time, I'm fucking done with my career.

Great resource on profiling ruby apps

https://test-prof.evilmartians.io/#/

I haven't thought of anything tech related as magical in a long time, but I just bought a pair of AirPods. These things are actually magical.

At #GigCityElixir it's amazing to think my little city has hundreds of devs that drove or flew in here to listen to some really big names speak. 😎

Staying up all night to not miss an early flight. Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House is grade A stuff 👌

Upcase is now free https://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-upcase-is-free