Rooftop Ruby Podcast
Two Ruby programmers (Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper) discuss Ruby, web and native software development, technology, and more.
Episodes
39 episodes
39: I Just Want Some Structure
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...
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Episode 39
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1:14:07
Semantic and Other Versioning Systems
Thanksgiving, mince pies, and Joel is giving up on semantic versioning.Versioning systems on Wikipedia
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Episode 38
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38:57
Literal 1.0 and Where We’ve Been
Collin and Joel discuss where they’ve been, Collin’s broken wrist, getting into film photography, and the release Literal 1.0.
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Episode 37
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59:16
When You See It, You Know It
Join the Rooftop Ruby Discord!Fahrenheit versus celsius? How many degrees fast is a race car?The new "it" in Ruby, and why do unnamed block parameters start with _1? We're going ...
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Episode 36
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33:26
35: Kind of Cool and Interesting
Quickdraw (Joel's testing library)QuickDraw (2d graphics library for classic Mac OS)
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Episode 35
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38:58
34: They Do Communicate to a Degree
Joel and Collin are back and better than ever! We talk about what and when to outsource, what we've both been up to, Collin's drivers license finasco, TypeScript, and more.
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Episode 34
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40:27
33: You Had Me at Battlesnake With ChaelCodes
Rachael Wright-Munn (ChaelCodes) joins to talk everything from coding games to RubyConf to App Store policies.chael.codes (all Rachael's links)
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Episode 33
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54:22
Live at RubyConf 2023!
Collin and Joel are joined by friend of the show Roman to talk about the conference, before being joined by special guest Catherine Ricafort McCreary to discuss Artists Who Code.
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Episode 32
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39:26
31: An Accordion of Complexity
Collin and Joel discuss creating the router and ORM for Yipee! (Joel's new web framework) and how to think about using resourceful versus custom routes.
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Episode 31
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46:58
30: Robot First Graders
Collin and Joel catch up and talk the Rooftop Ruby RubyConf party, becoming a morning person, tricking AI, making a web framework, and time travel.Joel's testing library
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Episode 30
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1:04:56
29: Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan
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
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Episode 29
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40:04
28: SQLite in Production With Stephen Margheim
Stephen Margheim talks about SQLite in production Rails and more.Stephen’s websiteLitestream
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Episode 28
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1:15:51
27: Hiring Juniors with Ryan Bigg
Ryan Bigg talks about hiring juniors, writing, and company culture.
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Episode 27
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42:15
26: Large Language Models with Simon Willison
Django co-creator Simon Willison joins to talk about large language models.A guide to large language modelsOpenAI Clip
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Episode 26
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1:25:52
25: You Deserve a Tech Union with Ethan Marcotte
We're joined by designer Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book You Deserve a Tech Union.You Deserve a Tech Union, A Book Apart
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Episode 25
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35:45
24: Travel, Developer Maxims, and Paid Gems
Travel, tech unions, developer maxims and paid Ruby gems.You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte
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Episode 24
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35:19
23: Head of Open Source at Ruby Central André Arko
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
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Episode 23
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46:43
22: Abstraction Goes All the Way Down
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...
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Episode 22
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26:14
21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland
Dave Copeland joins to discuss writing, background jobs, service objects, and more.
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Episode 21
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56:02
20: Literal Metaprogramming
Collin and Joel discuss leaving the cloud, password management, security, and metaprogramming.iCloud passwords in Chrome
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Episode 20
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39:59
19: CSS, Stimulus, PhlexUI?
Joel is coming to RubyConf in San Diego!Collin has been thinking about CSS, Stimulus, and building on top of Phlex.Collin is available for freelance work. You should hire him! Get in to...
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Episode 19
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51:21
15: Apple Keynote, Literal, and Service Objects
We’re both recording from inside our homes for the first time in weeks! We discuss the Apple Keynote, Joel’s progress on his Literal gem, and Collin’s assertion that service objects sometimes just don’t pass the vibe check.
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Episode 15
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58:18