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    1. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      "How many Rails devs does it take to query a database?" "n + 1" #BathRuby

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    2. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ Shift-left testing: encourage developers to do testing as early as possible. #BathRuby

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    3. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ Focusing more on testing makes code more maintainable and resilient. #BathRuby

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    4. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ Shift-right testing: doing testing in production eg with feature flags. Encourages better monitoring and altering because we need to see how well things are performing. #BathRuby

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    5. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ Testing in production doesn't have to be a bad thing! #BathRuby

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    6. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ Shift-left and shift-right testing encourages developers to test throughout the development cycle, not just in a dedicated test phase. #BathRuby

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    7. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ This talk is about trying to run old code. Sometimes dependencies disappear, there are breaking API changes, etc. #BathRuby

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    8. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      ⚡️ What can we do about this? We can either keep a computer around running the software, OR we can use containers! #BathRuby

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    9. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      Containers let us package up a whole system indefinitely. #BathRuby

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    10. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      Docker is a commercial entity though. Not great for preservation. But there's the Open Container Initiative! #BathRuby

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      Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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      A lot of the OCI has been donated by Docker to the Initiative, which is under the care of the Linux Foundation. #BathRuby

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        2. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Is your software going to be able to run in two years? #BathRuby

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        3. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          ⚡️ How Can Automation Help With Development Practices? #BathRuby

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        4. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Using `commit.verbose` in Git lets you see the diff while you write the commit message. Makes it easier to write good, descriptive commit messages! #BathRuby

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        5. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Hoping that my laptop 🔋 lasts until I get an opportunity to charge it after the lightning talks... 3%! #BathRuby

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        6. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Having "unstable" CI testing that runs tests against latest versions of all dependencies helps keep things up-to-date and forward-compatible. I've never heard of this before, but what a great idea! #BathRuby

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        7. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          2%! #PrayForAlyssasBattery #BathRuby

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        8. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Matt from the Parliamentary Digital Service is doing the next lightning talk. He starts off by telling us that PDS is much better than @gdsteam. "I work in a palace!" he says smugly. #BathRuby

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        9. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          The talk is about a graph relational mapper whose name I didn't catch :( #BathRuby

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        10. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          A graph database is a network of interconnected objects. Instead of asking for data you "sort of massage it". #BathRuby

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        11. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Having a graph database lets PDS deal with having 800 years worth of data that gets less complete the further back you go. #BathRuby

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        12. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          They created a library called GROM, an ActiveRecord alternative for graph databases. #BathRuby

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        13. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          1%! #PrayForAlyssasBattery #BathRuby

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        14. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          And that's the last lightning talk for now! I can charge! #BathRuby

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        15. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          On 6% as we start the next talk! #PrayForAlyssasBattery #BathRuby

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        16. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          The next talk is Esoteric, Obfuscated, Artistic Programming in Ruby by Yusuke Endoh. #BathRuby

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        17. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          (@mametter - forgot the handle) #BathRuby

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        18. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Cookpad, his employer, now employs two engineers (including him) to work on Ruby full time! 👏 #BathRuby

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        19. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          First trick! "Ruby with limited letters" We're shown a string of characters that looks utterly incomprehensible, but is executable. Next we get a Ruby program composed entirely of numbers. #BathRuby

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        20. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          "We can encode any Ruby program into just numbers" #BathRuby

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        21. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          (This talk is tricky to livetweet because it's heavy on code examples) #BathRuby

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        22. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          `ObjectSpace.each_object` - "Ruby's black magic". Lets you iterate over every live object in your program. #BathRuby

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        23. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          I'm already on 1% again... #PrayForAlyssasBattery #BathRuby

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        24. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          "This is a hello world written only using underscores and spaces" O_O #BathRuby

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        25. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          "Again, this is not limited to hello world. You can do this with any program!" #BathRuby

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        26. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          "We can write Ruby programs using only a keypad! Or only two keys!" #BathRuby

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        27. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          Now we're moving on to "self-descriptive Ruby programs" #BathRuby

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        28. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          “I call this a self-descriptive FizzBuzz” The program outputs a Ruby program formatted as a FizzBuzz number/word in ASCII art. The outputted program outputs the next item in the sequence and so on. #BathRuby

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        29. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          A Quine is a program that can print its own source code. #BathRuby

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        30. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          It’s very easy to produce executable ASCII art in Ruby because of its very versatile syntax #BathRuby

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        31. Alyssa‏ @qyliss 23 Mar 2018
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          (My laptop is now dead, so I’m livetweeting from my phone now. I won’t be able to keep up quite as well, I’m afraid.) #BathRuby

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