165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen

About this Episode

01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.

03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming

05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is

• Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar
• There is No Spec
• There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work

07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out

• Penelope’s Ideas

12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program

• Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem

18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking

20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration

22:44 - Major Challenges Faced

• Finding Time
• No Major Challenges
• Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming
• This is Not a Gem

25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt

28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt

30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback

• There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby

34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs

37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences

• Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People
• Speakers Can Get Their Start
• Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers
• Struggling to Get Speakers
• Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over
• $$ - Hard to Break Even

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