Two Ruby programmers (Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper) discuss Ruby, web and native software development, technology, and more.
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Discussions about designing and developing iOS and Mac apps.
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Send us a text Joel and Collin discuss a variety of topics ranging from road trips and procrastination to coding tools and AI advancements. They share personal experiences from recent travels, delve into the challenges of productivity, and reflect on their conference experiences. The discussion also touches on the evolution of coding tools, the fut…
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Send us a text We follow-up with an audio based piece of feedback on the Australian pronunciation of "Pinnochio." Collin is sick with shingles 🥺 Testing and security MVVM in Ruby desktop app development Performance in server design And of course, talk about British and American food. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel …
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Send us a text Joel explains why he loves Svelte 5 so much and Collin talks about an iOS app he put on GitHub. Collin realizes relating everything back to how it's like Swift might only be a useful comparison for himself. Links: Svelte Turbo Mount Inertia Rails Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD …
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text Thanksgiving, mince pies, and Joel is giving up on semantic versioning. Versioning systems on Wikipedia Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Collin and Joel discuss where they’ve been, Collin’s broken wrist, getting into film photography, and the release Literal 1.0. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text 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! Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text Quickdraw (Joel's testing library) QuickDraw (2d graphics library for classic Mac OS) Russian doll caching N+1 queries and how to solve it Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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33: You Had Me at Battlesnake With ChaelCodes
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54:22Send us a text Rachael Wright-Munn (ChaelCodes) joins to talk everything from coding games to RubyConf to App Store policies. chael.codes (all Rachael's links) Rachael on Mastodon Battlesnake ChaelCodes on Twitch Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text 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 Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text 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 BBEdit Dall•E in ChatGPT Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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29: Ruby Central’s Adarsh Pandit and Allison McMillan
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40:04Send us a text 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 RubyConf — Buy your ticket now. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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28: SQLite in Production With Stephen Margheim
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1:15:51Send us a text Stephen Margheim talks about SQLite in production Rails and more. Stephen’s website Litestream Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Ryan Bigg talks about hiring juniors, writing, and company culture. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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26: Large Language Models with Simon Willison
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1:25:52Send us a text Django co-creator Simon Willison joins to talk about large language models. A guide to large language models OpenAI Clip Datasette Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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25: You Deserve a Tech Union with Ethan Marcotte
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35:45Send us a text 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 Ethan's website Kickstarter United Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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24: Travel, Developer Maxims, and Paid Gems
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35:19Send us a text Travel, tech unions, developer maxims and paid Ruby gems. You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte Premature Optimization — Universally Misunderstood Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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23: Head of Open Source at Ruby Central André Arko
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46:43Send us a text 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 Support Bundler/RubyGems open source work via Ruby Central Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Coll…
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21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland
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56:02Send us a text Dave Copeland joins to discuss writing, background jobs, service objects, and more. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Collin and Joel discuss leaving the cloud, password management, security, and metaprogramming. iCloud passwords in Chrome Metaprogramming Ruby 2 Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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18: American Muffins, Error Messages, RailsWorld
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49:17Send us a text Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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17: Technical Debt and Duplication Over Abstraction
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49:48Send us a text Collin’s Blog Post Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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Send us a text MVC Isn’t MVC blog post Xerox PARC Model 2 architecture — Wikipedia Older Apple document about MVC Observable objects in Swift morphdom Phoenix Live View Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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15: Apple Keynote, Literal, and Service Objects
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58:18Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text We're back! This week we talk about Joel's trip to New York, code editors, and AI assisted coding. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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Send us a text 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. Joel's new gem: Literal Don't Make Me Think Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text British cold water storage tank article from The Guardian Reconcilable Differences: Hand Cuppers & Faucet Slurpers GreenDots Wyoming Wikipedia Article Wyoming is slightly larger than the United Kingdom (94,530 sq mi vs 97,914) but with a population of 576,851 compared to 67,886,011 in the UK. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: R…
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Send us a text 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. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell
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9: Dry-RB and Hanami with Tim Riley
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1:15:16Send us a text Tim Riley joins to talk about dry-rb and the Hanami web framework. dry-rb Hanami Tim on Mastodon Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Collin and Joel discuss interviewing, how to interview, and how to succeed. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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7: MySQL for Developers with Aaron Francis
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1:12:10Send us a text Developer educator Aaron Francis on databases, independent software development, and more. MySQL for Developers Course Hammerstone — A drop-in report builder for Laravel Nova & Ruby on Rails Aaron on Twitter Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.…
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Send us a text Collin and Joel discuss some of their favorite developer tools. BBEdit Warp xScope GitHub Desktop Tower Pastebot Zed Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Special guest Jared White joins Collin and Joel to talk about Bridgetown, the Spicy Web and more. Bridgetown The Spicy Web Follow Jared on Mastodon Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Joel wrote a testing library and how we approach a new codebase. Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Send us a text How to create and publish gems. Speedify Ruby Gems Panic Playdate Collin on Mastodon Joel on Mastodon Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Collin and Joel discuss lessons they’ve learned from studying other languages, internet connect troubles and successes, and more. Dry RB Sorbet Solargraph Yardoc Kotlin Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell & Joel Drapper
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Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of Rooftop Ruby with Collin and Joel. Phlex Collin on Mastodon Joel on Mastodon Join the Discord Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.By Collin Donnell, Joel Drapper
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Episode 20: Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software
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43:05Collin speaks with founder of Bare Bones Software and creator of BBEdit Rich Siegel on the last thirty years of developing software.By Collin Donnell
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Collin discusses the release of Acorn 7, undo, testing, and more with Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software. Special Guest: Gus Mueller. Links: Acorn 7 — The newly-updated image editor from Flying Meat Software. Real Basic/Xojo — Wikipedia link for Real Basic/Xojo. VoodooPad — The desktop wiki Gus first made in the early 2000s. Cocoa Script — JavaScr…
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Saul Mora talks working in China, kitchen sink apps, and Magical Record. Special Guest: Saul Mora. Links: GitHub - magicalpanda/MagicalRecord: Super Awesome Easy Fetching for Core Data 1!!!11!!!!1! WeChat - Free messaging and calling app LINE : Free Calls & MessagesBy Collin Donnell
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Brian Papa comes on to talk Nintendo, subscriptions as a business model, and more.By Collin Donnell
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Casey joins Collin to discuss QBasic, ATP, live podcasts, RxSwift, software methodoligies, and much more. Special Guest: Casey Liss. Links: QBasic - Wikipedia ReactiveX/RxSwift: Reactive Programming in Swift Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) Liss is More RxSwift Primer: Part 1 — Liss is More…
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Michele Titolo talks about contributing to open source, learning new things, and more. Special Guest: Michele Titolo. Links: Michele's Blog Michele on Twitter Your Apps and Evolving Network Security Standards - WWDC 2017 - Videos - Apple Developer Privacy and Your Apps - WWDC 2017 Support the Show on Patreon…
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Noah Read joins Collin to talk about design trends, the line between development and design, iPad productivity, and more. Special Guest: Noah Read. Links: Noah Read’s Work, Writing, and Snippets | noahread.net Their Story is Our Story IDEO The Elements of Typographic Style Ellen LuptonBy Collin Donnell
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Soroush Khanlou joins Collin to talk about developing the Beacon app, server side Swift, blogging, and languages. Special Guest: Soroush Khanlou. Links: Seaside Web Framework Release Notes Podcast Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014) - YouTube Business Insider Article on Genius Sourcery: Meta-programming for Swift Swift Evolution:…
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