This month, we did something a little different: Other People’s Lightning Talks!
Rather than our usual format, we watched a curated selection of interesting lightning talks from recent Ruby and Rails conferences — including RubyConf, Brighton Ruby, Blastoff Rails, and more (culled from the collection on RubyEvents.org).
Between talks, we paused for short discussions to chat about what stood out, unpack interesting techniques, and bounce ideas around the room.
Talks
We watched the following talks:
- Woodworking for Rubyists - Tijmen Brommet
- Rails Performance and Sky Cards - Kyle Powers
- F̶r̶a̶m̶e̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ Core focus in the AI age - Jed Schneider
- Your own gem named “rails” - André Arko
- Teaching Claude Code to Upgrade Rails - Ernesto Tagwerker
Thanks
- Event space provided by CO+HOOTS, Mesa
- Pizza and Sodas provided by Bloomlight