165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
Greater Than Code
English - January 15, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsTechnology Business technology psychology tech education humanity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.
03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming
05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is
* Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar
* There is No Spec
* There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work
07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out
* Penelope’s Ideas
12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program
* Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem
18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking
20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration
22:44 - Major Challenges Faced
* Finding Time
* No Major Challenges
* Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming
* This is Not a Gem
25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt)
28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt)
30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback
* There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby
34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs
37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences
* Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People
* Speakers Can Get Their Start
* Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers
* Struggling to Get Speakers
* Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over
* $$ - Hard to Break Even
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
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01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.
03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming
05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is
Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar
There is No Spec
There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work
07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out
Penelope’s Ideas
12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program
Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem
18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking
20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration
22:44 - Major Challenges Faced
Finding Time
No Major Challenges
Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming
This is Not a Gem
25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt
28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt
30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback
There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby
34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs
37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences
Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People
Speakers Can Get Their Start
Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers
Struggling to Get Speakers
Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over
$$ - Hard to Break Even
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.