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Welcome To Keep Ruby Weird!

Save the Date: November 9, 2018

This is the electronic web front for the best daylong conference in Austin celebrating (figurative) hugs, rock paper scissor, magic, singing, & dancing!

Oh, ruby too.

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Aaron Patterson

Master of Ceremonies

Aaron is on the Ruby core team, the Rails core team, and the team that takes care of his cat, Gorby puff. During the day he works for a small technology company called GitHub. Someday he will find the perfect safety gear to wear while extreme programming.

Avdi Grimm

Keynote

Avdi Grimm is a father, a Ruby Hero, the head chef at RubyTapas.com, and author of the books Confident Ruby and Exceptional Ruby. He splits his theoretical spare time between hiking the Smoky Mountains and dancing to oontz-oontz music.

Mystery Guest

Mystery Talk

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Yusuke Endoh

Transcendental Programming in Ruby

'A MRI committer at Cookpad Inc. He is an advocate of "transcendental programming" that creates a useless program like this bio (^_^)'.sub(?^){eval$_=%q{puts"'#$`^_#$''.sub(?^){eval$_=%q{#$_}}"}}

Beth Haubert

Cats, The Musical! Algorithmic Song Meow-ification

Beth is a software engineer at Flywheel, a web infrastructure startup in Omaha, Nebraska. She’s also a former airborne cryptologic linguist for the US Air Force, fluent in Mandarin. Things you can ask her about include Ruby, cats, board games, BSG, karaoke, and building applications that convert songs into auto-tuned cat meows. Things she’ll have to kill you if you ask her about: the airborne linguist part. Also, she likes to make emojis look like they’re farting. 🐈💨

Nathan Ladd

Distributed Fizz Buzz: Passing the Microservices Interview

Nathan Ladd has flowing locks of dark splendor and will unashamedly exploit your susceptibility for attributing credibility to people merely because they are tall. Nathan is a contributor to the Eventide toolkit for event-sourced, autonomous services in Ruby.

Scott Bellware

Distributed Fizz Buzz: Passing the Microservices Interview

Scott Bellware is a short, bald man with 25 years of experience who works with development teams who have completely screwed themselves into an intractable mess of tightly-coupled monolithic madness by paying attention to cute people rather than smart people. Scott is a contributor to the Eventide toolkit for event-sourced, autonomous services in Ruby, but Scott does it better than Nathan, and he’s totally not bitter.

Louisa Barrett

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Guide to Color Theory

Louisa is the Director of the Front-End Engineering program at the Turing School of Software and Design. She is the former director of Colorado for Women Who Code and past chapter leader for Girl Develop It Denver/Boulder. She began her career as an illustrator/graphic designer, and a passion for understanding people lead her to programming. She has a soft spot for UX, typography, and correcting students when they refer to an assignment operator as an ‘equals sign’.

Andrew Louis

Using Ruby to build a modern Memex!

Andrew is a software developer based in Toronto. He’s currently working on building a digital Memex as well as researching the history of similar projects. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of ShopLocket, an ecommerce startup acquired in 2014. When he’s not coding, he spends his time on obsessive projects such as attempting to bike on every street in Toronto, taking photos of only doors (instagram: @hyfen), and making voxel art.

Will Leinweber

\watching Star Wars in Postgres and other silly things

Will doesn’t really want to think about how long he’s been working with Postgres. He is currently working on horizontally scalable Postgres at Citus Data, and before that was a principal member of the Heroku Postgres team. Please don’t try to right-click and steal the source for his WebSite bitfission.com.

9:00

Second Breakfast

registration, coffee, tacos

10:00

Opening Remarks

Let's get this party started!

10:14

Mystery Talk

Nope, still won't tell you.

11:00

Break

Icebreakers with @schneems!

11:29

Nathan Ladd & Scott Bellware

Distributed Fizz Buzz: Passing the Microservices Interview

12:00

Louisa Barrett

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Guide to Color Theory

12:30

Luncheon

Well, technically Luncheon starts at 1pm, but I'm sure you're hungry.

2:00

Will Leinweber

\watching Star Wars in Postgres and other silly things

2:29

Beth Haubert

Cats, The Musical! Algorithmic Song Meow-ification

3:02

Break

Your Fitbit just buzzed

3:30

Andrew Louis

Using Ruby to build a modern Memex!

4:00

Yusuke Endoh

Transcendental Programming in Ruby

4:30

Friday Hugs!

OMG It's Friday!!!!

5:00

Avdi Grimm

Keynote

5:45

Closing Remarks

Closing time and the final goodbye :'(

7:00

Party @ Zilker Brewing Co. and Taproom

Socialization Practices

spinning globe

We'll be at the

Alamo Drafthouse Ritz

320 E 6th St. Austin TX

The Conference venue is the historically weird Alamo Ritz Drafthouse, located in the heart of downtown. Each theater seat has its own table. During the conference you'll enjoy some weird talks as you're served gourmet food from the comfort of your oversized seat. All in front of one of the largest screens we've ever seen.

Alamo Drafthouse Ritz

Too late, those tickets have danced out!

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