Panel:


Charles Max Wood
David Richards
Dave Kimura


Special Guests: Luca Guidi

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Luca Guidi about Ruby elapsed time. Luca works remotely for DNSimple and is most well known in the Ruby community for his open source projects, such as Hanami. They talk about NTP, time drifts, and the pros and cons to using a monoatomic clock. They also touch on the importance of being exposed to different languages in order to be a well-rounded developer.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Luca intro
His elapsed time blog post
Why he wrote the blog post
What is NTP?
NTP = Network Time Protocol
The importance of keeping your computer time in sync with an external NTP server
Time drifts
World clock and monatomic clock
The blindness around time
Building a system around time
Working on time and attendance
The things you don’t think about are what you take for granted
RailsConf
How did you come about finding this conclusion?
Go Computer Language
Being exposed to different languages
Ruby is flexible and high-level
The dangers of coming to Ruby as their first language
Rails
And much, much more!


Links:


DevChat.tv YouTube
DNSimple
Ruby
Hanami
Elapsed Time Blog Post
RailsConf
Go Language
Rails
LucaGuidi.com
Luca’s GitHub
@jodosha


Picks:

Charles


Zoom H6
Facebook Marketplace


Dave


Marvel Strike Force
Hondata
Mockaroo


David


Trifacta


Luca


Tasty
Daily Stoic by Yyan Holiday
Digitakt

Special Guest: Luca Guidi.