🤡 Newsletter #26: public speaking, faking a command, making mistakes, learning to code with Tumblr
A bi-monthly newsletter about Ruby on Rails and the web.
In this issue we talk about faking a command, we develop our public speaking skills, we get trolled by Google Slides, we improve our Git flow…
👋 French version (version française) | 🤌 Italian Version (versione italiana) | 🤝 Spanish version (versión española)
Web News 🗞️
Which future of the web do we want? Molly White questions the ethic of new technologies (mostly the blockchain and the you-know-who 3.0) and the place of underrepresented folks in this domain since they are unfortunately always the ones who don’t see the benefits from it.
🛤️ Ruby and Rails News
You can participate in the Ruby on Rails survey and declare your love to it (or not)
A new article from someone who tried serverless technology to eventually come back to Rails after tearing their hair out. And since sharing is caring, here is another article from someone who switched from a SPA (Single Page Application) to Rails (and here an analysis of the feedback the article received).
So please let people say Rails is not pertinent anymore in 2022, we love to hear it. 💖
A tiny Ruby release, but release anyway: 3.1.1
Ruby tip 💎
command —dry-run
This option can fake the command so you can test it without executing it.
For example, you can use it if you want to clean up your dependencies but you want to check first which ones will be removed before doing it for good:
bundle clean —dry-run
✨ Spring Cleaning: Tidying up your codebase
On the Web 🕸️
🗯 Let’s Read to Speak (in public)
Do you hesitate to give a talk because the idea gives you anxiety? You should know that speaking at a conference or even just during a meeting is a skill you can learn. Awesome news because Lara Hogan’s book is available online for free to help you go over your fears and even develop your own style.
✨ Demystifying public speaking - Lara Hogan
🤡 A Trolling Story
Have you ever gotten angry at software that has obviously decided on its own to target you (and only you) to make you feel miserable? This is what happened to Laura Javier who narrates in a funny article that made the buzz the despair that came from using the Google Slides interface.
✨ Google Slides is Actually Hilarious - Laura Javier
🧑🏫 Whiteboard No More
Assitan Koné’s video that questions the use of technical tests during interviews was the most viewed content of our previous newsletter issue, so as a follow-up, we want to share this open source project with a list of companies that don’t use whiteboarding during their recruitment process.
✨ Hiring Without Whiteboards - Lauren Tan
Some Code 💻
🎼 The Melody of Tests
Do you hear this little song telling you that you need to test your code? Maddy shares her best tips to finally love writing tests, or at least do them and do them well.
✨ How to start enjoying writing tests - Maddy
🌐 The Web Browser Explained
We are absolutely fans of the illustrations so kawai used in the articles. And they will also help you understand what are CPU, GPU, how the DOM is built…
✨ Inside look at modern web browser: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 - Mariko Kosaka
🌪 A Git Tornado
PRs that show a list of commits changing multiple things at a time and even an out-of-scope bug are not super helpful or nice to review. We always appreciate reading a PR with commits separated by changes. Annie Sexton created a little revolution at the beginning of January presenting a new type of flow using git reset rather than git rebase. She even talked about it in a podcast.
✨ Git Organized: A Better Git Flow - Annie Sexton
Fun 🎉
🌸 The Tumblr Girls’ Conquest of the Web
Batman’s villains are not the only ones with an origin story, there are also the women developers who wrote their first lines of code to improve the design of their Tumblr. These are stories we hear a lot recently and in this article, we can read many testimonies of women who discovered code and its creativity by tweaking their blog design, and it melts our hearts to read how their passion and success started.
✨ From Tumblr girl to engineer: How the platform inspired a generation of women to code - Elizabeth de Luna
Events 🎡
🎤 Lighting talks - March 3rd
No matter if you want to give your first talk or become a stand-up comedian, the most important is to make the first step. And for that, why not start with a lightning talk?
✨ Lightning talks, Women in Tech Nottingham
🪜 Elevate Conference - March 8th
For the so-called International Women’s Day, listen to more than 35 speakers talking about career development in tech, from women to women. Plus, it’s free and online.
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Editors: Camille and Juliette
English version: Aurelie
Italian version: Paola
Spanish version: Kattya