🎒Newsletter #35: we missed you !
A bi-monthly newsletter about Ruby on Rails and the web.
In this issue we wonder about AI and its power dynamics on the Internet, we let go our to-do lists, we learn what’s a NoSQL database, we deep dive into HTTP requests, we’re nostalgics of the 90s…
👋 French version (version française) | 🤌 Italian version (versione italiana) | 🤝 Spanish version (versión española)
Web News 🗞️
Something impossible to ditch during the summer: AI generated images (thanks to Dall-e). We tried one for “Women On Rails” and didn’t like the vibe at all:
Mozilla published its 2022 Internet Health Report which is, on point, on AI and its power dynamics. Solana Larsen, editor of the report and Bridget Todd, new host of Mozilla’s IRL podcast, were invited to the Practical AI podcast to talk about it.
🛤️ Ruby and Rails News
There were some Ruby on Rails over the summer, we don’t want you to get drowned (🌊) so we’ll share them progressively:
Brittany Martin wondered how to contribute to Ruby on the Ruby on Rails Podcast and Jemma Issroff shared her recent experience on the subject
Each year people wonder if Ruby on Rails is still a good choice and well yes it in 2022 (🥱)
For those using Postgres with Rails, you got a bunch of updates
A nice Ruby finding: have you ever wondered how GitHub detected languages used in repos ? No ? Well, anyways, you can read its code here.
Ruby Tip 💎
Pick up the last output in the consoleSimple and efficient, to reuse the last output of the console, the underscore does the trick and saves us some precious time:
irb(main):001:0> 9898 => 9898
irb(main):002:0> _ => 9898
irb(main):003:0> a = 'ihh' => "ihh"
irb(main):004:0> b = _ => "ihh"On the Web 🕸️
📑 To-Do List No More
#Productivity #TodoList
Back to School often rhymes with new resolutions. We have one: how about ditching the good ol’ to-do lists? Brie Wolfson, the creator of the Founder Fodder newsletter, has better suggestions. OSR (Ongoing Stack Rank), impact trackers, personal press release… These are good ideas to find good productivity and start again with serenity.
✨ Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact - Brie Wolfson
📦 It Works on my Machine Tho
#Docker #Containers
Why do we use containers? For thousands of developers running Docker became so natural that we don’t even ask the question anymore. Rizèl Scarlet comes back to the origins of this technology and explains how to set up a containerized environment with Github Codespaces… A good article for those who never tried it.
✨ Why are people developing inside containers? - Rizèl Scarlet
❓ Where Are the Women?
#WomenInTech #Inclusivity
How is it to be the only woman in a man’s world? A lot of women in tech know the answer. During a tech conference, gathering hundreds of people, the absence of women is even more noticeable. Chloe Condon, a developer advocate at Google, tells us about her first experience in a hilarious article, and found ideas to make these events more inclusive.
✨ What it’s like to be a woman at a tech conference - Chloe Condon
Some Code 💻
🗄 Storing our Data
#NoSQL #database #graph
Imagine yourself in front of a speaker desk to explain to your colleagues what a NoSQL database is. No please don’t go ! Yasmine Hejazi has it all planned and made a great article explaining NoSQL Graph databases. So don’t stress out (though we can’t help with the pronunciation of “SQL”).
✨ Introduction to NoSQL Graph Databases - Yasmine Hejazi
👋 Have You Met HTTP?
#http #protocole
If you were the kind of person who prefered to write code quickly when you started to code, you probably put the course on HTTP on a side for later. That is the basis though ! Niloofar Arazkhani wrote a really cool article to explain what it is and how it works. No more excuses to avoid it.
✨ HTTP In Simple and Fun way! - Niloofar Arazkhani
🔒 Privacy, please !
#privacy #open-source
If you have enough of these mega companies using your personal data (or even get them stolen…), know that alternatives exist. Alicia Sykes has a repo full of resources, in open-source, that make your privacy a priority.
✨ Awesome Privacy - Alicia Sykes
Fun 🎉
🖍️ Some 90s nostalgia
#design #90s
If this drawing rings a bell, you’re on the same age range that some of this newsletter writers (🤝):
Rease Kirchner explains how it became iconic over the 90s.
✨ 90s jazz design: cups, controversy, and nostalgia - Rease Kirchner
Events 🎡
📖 Online Book Club - Sept 22nd
Women Who Code Seattle will start a new book club series and meet twice a month on Thursdays. Starting this week they will read and share on Creativity Inc, by Ed Catmul.
✨ WWCode Seattle: Bi-Weekly Book Club
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Editors: Aurelie, Camille, Lucille and Juliette
English version: Aurelie
Italian version: Paola
Spanish version: Kattya