Rooftop Ruby Podcast

Feb 01 2025 39 ep. 46 mins 22
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Two Ruby programmers (Collin Donnell and Joel Drapper) discuss Ruby, web and native software development, technology, and more.

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39: I Just Want Some Structure

Feb 01 2025 74 mins  
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 task management apps. Follow

Semantic and Other Versioning Systems

Dec 05 2024 38 mins  
Send us a text Thanksgiving, mince pies, and Joel is giving up on semantic versioning. Versioning systems on Wikipedia Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

Literal 1.0 and Where We’ve Been

Nov 19 2024 59 mins  
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. Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

When You See It, You Know It

Jul 03 2024 33 mins  
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! Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

35: Kind of Cool and Interesting

Feb 06 2024 38 mins  
Send us a text Quickdraw (Joel's testing library)QuickDraw (2d graphics library for classic Mac OS)Russian doll cachingN+1 queries and how to solve itFollow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

34: They Do Communicate to a Degree

Jan 29 2024 40 mins  
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. Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

33: You Had Me at Battlesnake With ChaelCodes

Dec 13 2023 54 mins  
Send 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 MastodonBattlesnakeChaelCodes on Twitch Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

Live at RubyConf 2023!

Nov 20 2023 39 mins  
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 Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

31: An Accordion of Complexity

Nov 07 2023 46 mins  
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. Follow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.

30: Robot First Graders

Nov 01 2023 64 mins  
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 libraryBBEditDall•E in ChatGPTFollow us on Mastodon: Rooftop Ruby Collin Joel Show art created by JD Davis.