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21 Jan 20231: The First Episode00:29:05

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Welcome to the first episode of Rooftop Ruby with Collin and Joel.

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11 Feb 20232: Going Deeper by Getting Broader00:45:32

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Collin and Joel discuss lessons they’ve learned from studying other languages, internet connect troubles and successes, and more.

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21 Feb 20233: Creating Gems00:24:51

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How to create and publish gems.

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07 Mar 20234: Green Dots and Boogie00:39:52

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Joel wrote a testing library and how we approach a new codebase. 

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21 Mar 20235: Vanilla Never Tasted So Hot00:45:20

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Special guest Jared White joins Collin and Joel to talk about Bridgetown, the Spicy Web and more.

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28 Mar 20236: Favorite Developer Tools00:37:21

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Collin and Joel discuss some of their favorite developer tools.

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11 Apr 20238: That Means Interviewing00:42:02

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Collin and Joel discuss interviewing, how to interview, and how to succeed.

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04 Apr 20237: MySQL for Developers with Aaron Francis01:12:10

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Developer educator Aaron Francis on databases, independent software development, and more. 

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18 Apr 20239: Dry-RB and Hanami with Tim Riley01:15:16

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Tim Riley joins to talk about dry-rb and the Hanami web framework.

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25 Apr 202310: Road to RailsConf00:31:44

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Collin has been on a 3100 mile journey from Portland Oregon to RailsConf in Atlanta Georgia. We also discuss going to conferences and how to have the best time. 

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02 May 202311: Still Nowhere Near Portland00:37:14

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09 May 202312: Literally a Ruby Gem00:34:59

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Collin is finally back in Portland — it only took 6156 miles of driving! Meanwhile, Joel made another gem called Literal. Oh, and Collin might be entering a new era.

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16 May 202313: Open Source and More With Marco Roth00:41:24

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Joel is recording from his car, Collin is recording from a sauna, and Marco Roth is here to talk about Stimulus Reflex, Hotwire, and more. 

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06 Jun 202314: New York, Editors and AI00:31:56

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We're back! This week we talk about Joel's trip to New York, code editors, and AI assisted coding.

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16 Jun 202315: Apple Keynote, Literal, and Service Objects00:58:18

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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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21 Jun 202316: MVC Isn’t MVC00:42:16
30 Jun 202317: Technical Debt and Duplication Over Abstraction00:49:48

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05 Jul 202318: American Muffins, Error Messages, RailsWorld00:49:17

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13 Jul 202319: CSS, Stimulus, PhlexUI?00:51:21

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  • 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 touch via Mastodon.

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19 Jul 202320: Literal Metaprogramming00:39:59

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Collin and Joel discuss leaving the cloud, password management, security, and metaprogramming.

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01 Aug 202321: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland00:56:02

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Dave Copeland joins to discuss writing, background jobs, service objects, and more.

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09 Aug 202322: Abstraction Goes All the Way Down00:26:14

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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 is figuring out how to use Sidekiq across processes.

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30 Aug 202323: Head of Open Source at Ruby Central André Arko00:46:43

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Ruby Central head of open source André Arko talks Bundler, Ruby Gems, supporting the community, and more.

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05 Sep 202324: Travel, Developer Maxims, and Paid Gems00:35:19

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Travel, tech unions, developer maxims and paid Ruby gems.

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12 Sep 202325: You Deserve a Tech Union with Ethan Marcotte00:35:45

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We're joined by designer Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book You Deserve a Tech Union.

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28 Sep 202326: Large Language Models with Simon Willison01:25:52

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Django co-creator Simon Willison joins to talk about large language models.

A guide to large language models
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11 Oct 202327: Hiring Juniors with Ryan Bigg00:42:15

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Ryan Bigg talks about hiring juniors, writing, and company culture.

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19 Oct 202328: SQLite in Production With Stephen Margheim01:15:51

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Stephen Margheim talks about SQLite in production Rails and more.

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24 Oct 202329: Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan00:40:04

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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.

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01 Nov 202330: Robot First Graders01:04:56

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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.

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07 Nov 202331: An Accordion of Complexity00:46:58

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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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20 Nov 2023Live at RubyConf 2023!00:39:26

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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.

Artists Who Code in the LA Times

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14 Dec 202333: You Had Me at Battlesnake With ChaelCodes00:54:22

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Rachael Wright-Munn (ChaelCodes) joins to talk everything from coding games to RubyConf to App Store policies.



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30 Jan 202434: They Do Communicate to a Degree00:40:27

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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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07 Feb 202435: Kind of Cool and Interesting00:38:58

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03 Jul 2024When You See It, You Know It00:33:26

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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 to be at Madison Ruby!

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20 Nov 2024Literal 1.0 and Where We’ve Been00:59:16

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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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05 Dec 2024Semantic and Other Versioning Systems00:38:57

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Thanksgiving, mince pies, and Joel is giving up on semantic versioning.

Versioning systems on Wikipedia

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02 Feb 202539: I Just Want Some Structure01:14:07

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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 talk Xcode, text editors, and Difftastic.

Joel goes in-depth on Tree-sitter and writing a SQLite parser. Plus, we discuss task management apps.

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