Here’s a quiz: I went back to the online program for RailsConf 2008, which was the first one I attended.
Here are 20 talk titles. Some are from the 2008 program, some are from the 2016 program. Can you guess which is which?
I’ve seen kind of an uptick of comments recently about how tools such as Haml, Sass, CoffeeScript, and ActiveRecord are supposed to be abstractions but are nothing but a big stack of lies, lies lies!
There’s been some discussion this week about the TSA’s airport security randomizer app, which you probably remember as being that thing being held by a bored TSA agent that would point an arrow left or right to tell you which security line to go to.
Looking at it very abstractly, the time a software team spends on a project goes into one of three buckets.