I’m giving a talk at FutureStack! I want to share my new talk with people on my portfolio site, because SpeakerDeck and SlideShare cost money. I’m a developer, why do I need to pay a company and expose you to ads to share my slides?

Let’s build a simple demo website in our Jekyll-Twitch gem! This will allow us to test inside the repo, and demonstrate the plugin live to users. It’ll serve as documentation, demo, and local testing environment!

Your body has been kind to you. It has tolerated your dehydration, exhaustion, hunger, and lack of exercise without complaint for YEARS. That ends today. This game built using the DragonRuby framework will remind you how generous your body has been with its mistreatment.

Time for another open-source adventure! We’ll be joined by Max Jacobson as we visit the Rust cli-tool Tokei. Tokei generates statistics around your code and language usage. For example, chael.codes looks like:

Corey Haines has been developing software professionally in some capacity for over 20 years. During that time, he’s spent time in most roles, from individual contributor through training software teams to founding a company. He’s currently on a retreat into competency and also survive Covid sabbatical doing contract stuff for development and spending time with his two cats, Little Miss Louise and Sir Nickle of Noosie. He is the co-creator of the Coderetreat Workshop, author of Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design, but most importantly, he loves cats, keep that in mind.

I built a Gem that embeds Twitch clips in Jekyll Sites! Unfortunately, I can’t use it, because I’m deploying using github-pages. So let’s change the deploy process. 😏

I’m really happy with my new website! But I can’t embed Twitch clips. In fact, no one can embed Twitch clips in Jekyll, because there’s no liquid tag for it. But we can fix that, not just for us, but for everyone!

I have too many links and social pages. I can’t even keep track of them all. What if I could store them all in one place, for free, and build the site using my favorite language? Let’s build the technical plan!

Today I’m visited by Dr. Mahmood Hikmet, Head of Research and Development at Ohmio and HMI Technologies, is currently tasked with overseeing and synchronizing research and development activity for autonomous vehicles. I know Moody through Twitch, and he’s a science communicator focusing on bringing technical information to non-technical stakeholders. Throughout his career, he’s been closely involved with the direct development of IoT infrastructure for intelligent transportation and mobility.

Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, international public speaker, mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and people. And as a Polyglot developer, she’s worked at a wide range of tech stacks and has built desktop, mobile, web, and backend applications. She is the treasurer of the board of directors for Prototype PGH, a non-profit with a mission to build gender and racial equality in tech and entrepreneurship. She is also one of the organizers of Code & Supply, Pittsburgh’s largest technology community. She is currently mentoring an all-girls high school robotics team and has been mentoring and judging FIRST competition teams since 2001. I first met Sarah Withee through her Twitch stream at twitch.tv/geekygirlsarah.