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and I am just super excited and super honored to introduce our closing keynote
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speaker uh Nadia she's just an amazing human and does so much for the community
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and is such an inspiration to all of us can we just give her a big round of
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applause Nadia she is the founder and CEO of the story graph which is the main
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alternative to good reads and she is crushing it right now um she's just
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crushing it it's amazing she was showing us her like new user registrations and that graph just sorry I'm riffing off
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your bio by the way sorry but yeah it's just incredible to see um she uh good
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the story graph it helps people discover what they want to read based on their mood and topics or themes that they're
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interested in she's a one-woman Dev team which is absolutely incredible and she
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built her platform using Ruby on Rails um it serves millions of users
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worldwide and she didn't just start writing code she actually got her degree
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in philosophy politics and economics like over aever um at Oxford University
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so she was actually going to be an investment banker but then she decided to learn code uh she did a boot camp in
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London which is awesome and decided to be an engineer she worked at pivotal
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labs and then she started her entrepreneur Journey um she also really
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enjoys dancing if you haven't seen her dance or any of her dance videos you should follow her on Instagram because she's an amazing dancer um really into
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fitness and of course reading she always has a book and as a testament to her broad range of skills and interest
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she'll be presenting something a little different from your usual Keynotes so
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we're in for a treat so get ready for a fun and unique talk on all things Ruby
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welcome Nadia
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hi everyone it's such an honor to be the closing keynote of Ruby comp this year
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thank you so much to Kinsey and all of the organizers for having me do this so as you just heard my name is Nadia o and
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I'm the founder and CEO of a company called the story graph a Reading Tracker
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and book recommendations app we we help you to choose your next book based on
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your mood and your favorite topics and themes we've got a whole range of stats
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where you can learn about your reading habits and see how they develop over time we've got machine learning powered
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personalized recommendations it's like a trusted go-to friend who knows your
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preferences but whose brain is also a book Encyclopedia you can find your next
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perfect read by filtering lists of books by mood Pace fiction and non-fiction
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genre book size and more you can also read alongside friends
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adding live reactions to specific parts of the book and the comments remain locked until your friends reach that
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specific part in their reading and there's a whole lot more on
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offer we have 10 million unique monthly visitors who generate 70 million page
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views per month and each each day we serve 11 million requests so that's
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around 330 million requests a month now not only are we profitable we
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are 100% bootstrapped we've taken no outside
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investment thank you so people often ask me what is story
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graph built-in and I love that I can say Ruby on Rails
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activity we get a lot of customer feedback feature requests and Bug
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reports and given that I run the company's Instagram threads and Twitter accounts I'll often receive messages
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that include something like if you could pass this on to your Dev team that would be
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great now while I have an absolutely awesome co-founder in Rob fro
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the web and app Dev team is made up of just me in fact I was the opening keyot at
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reals comp in Detroit earlier this year and my talk was titled getting to two million users as a one-woman Dev
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team when I first gave a version of this talk back in October 2022 at the
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inaugural rail SAS conference in La the talk was titled getting to 1 million
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users as a one woman Dey and if I were to give this talk
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today as of a few days ago I'd have to update the title to be getting to 3
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million users as one oh
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wow well thank you so when I was putting together this talk um we were at around
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2.9 Million registered users and I did the math and I figured that we would get
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to 3 million like like today or yesterday so I've been keeping tabs on the user numbers to so to know whether I
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would take this out or not um but we went viral on Tik Tok the other day so
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now we're like 70,000 users past 3 million so it's just it was just quite funny
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thanks oh you're really like the intro I hope you like the the meat of the
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talk uh so as you can imagine I've got a lot of work to do and it can be stressful at times but I keep the stress
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at Bay by making time for myself and my hobbies wherever I can I read of course
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as Kinsey said I dance I lift weights at the gym and I
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hang out with my friends and family so this is my siblings and I on a trip in
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Mexico earlier this year and I'm the oldest though I don't look
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it so yeah all of those things keep me mentally healthy and at peace I've been running story graph for
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six years now and people often wonder why I haven't burnt out yet and I reckon
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it's because I make time for all of those things
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but I have a secret don't tell
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anybody some of you may already know what I'm about to say but you can't tell
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anybody else you see I've got this Secret side
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gig that's been taking time away from story graph work sometimes stressing me
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out out and definitely increasing my risk of burnout you see I'm not just the founder
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CEO and soul developer of the story graph I am also a private
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investigator and what is it I investigate you wonder yes you guessed
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it Ruby crimes no not Jew theft I investigate
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crimes and Mysteries relating to our favorite programming language I've been doing this also for about six years now
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and what got me into it in the first place well there had been rumors
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circulating of a shady Mastermind causing havoc and confusion amongst Ruby developers worldwide with his constant
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meddling in the source code and I wanted to be the one to put a
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stop to him oh and I'm sure all of us here know
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just how lucrative of the world of Ruby private investigating is I decided that I couldn't do this
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side gig under my normal name no I needed to protect my identity so I
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decided to call my Ruby private investigating Alter Ego dear Dre buug D
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for short why well isn't it rather
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obvious now I've got several stories from my years of doing this work in fact
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I've shared them at previous Events maybe you've seen some there was case number 17 the case
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of the Missing Method where Mike a junior Ruby Dev at the time was betrayed by his best friend
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Jenny when they were competing for a coveted internship spot at the world famous Ruby Institute of professionals
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you know the organization whose whole reason for existing is to see to it that the Ruby language and Community stays
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alive live and kicking forever I don't know why they never changed their logo anyway Jenny gave
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Mike dodgy interview prep notes which incorrectly explained how Ruby method lookup worked denying the existence of
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Singleton classes I eventually cracked the case and found the answer but Mike lost a
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best friend and then there was case number 48
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the case of the vanished variable where none other than Jenny got
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in touch asking for my help how the tables had turned because her colleague
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Alex tried to sabotage her team in an rip startup incubator competition final
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where there was $500,000 up for grabs by confusing everyone with class variables
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and class instance variables knowing that people often didn't understand understand the differences in how they
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worked do you all know the differences are you
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sure anyway Alex intentionally introduced a bug to his team's code so
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his girlfriend who was on the other team could win ay I I I've seen a lot of Ruby drama
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over the years and that's only two cases so you can imagine what else I've seen
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just recounting those stories was tiring and so I've decided that today will be
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the final debug story I'm going to share case number
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410 the case that led to my retirement from the Ruby private investigating
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field this is the case of the peculiar
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pattern chapter one it's the last day of the month and I decide to get an early
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night the next day was a big day Apple were featuring me and the story for
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their annual Black History Month campaign and we were going to be front page of the App Store worldwide leading
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to a surge in traffic I'd also finally beater launched a new special feature
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reading circles where people were automatically placed into groups with readers with similar interests they
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could buddy read books share recommendations keep each other accountable with their reading goals and
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more the Apple feature was going to be a great way to showcase the Innovative work we were doing
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everything seemed to be running smoothly by the time I'd gone to bed and all of a sudden I'm woken up by my phone
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ringing it's Rob Reading circles aren't working a big book influencer posted
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about it and we're getting so many complaints people are being added to the wrong groups their recommendations are
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off and the public directory is empty even though I can see a bunch of groups have been created I wouldn't have woken you up but
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I know you won't want this broken when the Apple feature goes live I look at the clock it's 2:00
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a.m. I also notice I have a message on my phone from Jenny long shot but any
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chance you around for an emergency rip case oh hell no not now I've got my own
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emergency case to deal with I head out of bed and head down to my
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desk chapter 2 now let me talk you through what the code looked like that night it'd be too
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difficult for me to show you the code as it was so I'm only going to show you a simplified version which extracts the
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key parts so here we have a simplified version of the reading Circle class we
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Define a new class called reading Circle this class will manage groups and their members within a reading Circle
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Community we then define a class method called groups and we define a class instant instance variable groups to
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store our groups we use a conditional assignment operator to initialize groups
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only if it hasn't been set already and we store the groups in a hash structure it was beta I wanted something quick
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that worked well and if a certain group doesn't already exist we just return an empty
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array then we Define another class method add member that takes a group name and a user we access the group's
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hash using the group name as a key and append the user to the array corresponding to that group and then we
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print out a helpful message we Define another class method called publicly listable to determine if a
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group should be listed in the app-wide public directory we attempt to retrieve
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the members of the specified group key returning an empty array if the group doesn't exist we then start a case
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statement to perform pattern matching on the members array now the real life scenario was a lot more complex than
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this but I've simplified it here to just check for at least two members so that's
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either an array with exactly two elements or an array with at least three elements with the underscores acting as
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a wild card and matching any value if the pattern is matched the publicly
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listable method returns true otherwise it returns
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false as a debugging starting point I decided to head to the terminal I
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started an IB session and loaded in the class and then I added in a couple
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members Alice and Charlie to a group called fantasy I check that there are indeed
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two members in the group as expected the minimum criteria for a group showing up in the public
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directory and then I call publicly listable and it returns
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false but the fantasy group matches the true branch in the pattern matching case
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statement the method should return true not
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false what a mystery now I'm not proud to admit it but I was
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feeling lazy that day or that night I should say I hadn't slept enough it was
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12 2 in the morning normally I'd only reach out to this person when I'd already cracked the case and needed more
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context but this was an emergency so I pick up the phone and call Ellen she was 47 an experienced
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freelance developer who'd seen many things she she regularly brought what she'd learned on her adventures to the
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Ruby code base she'd helped me to understand aspects of Ruby internals many a time and now it was time to get
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her expert eye in advance so I give her a call and it
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rings once before it's cut off I go to text her but see that she herself is
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typing I'm sorry can't talk right now family
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emergency I look at the clock quarter past 2 not a lot of time before the
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feature goes live I have a think it's late I'm tired and time is of
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the essence I need to be strategic here so I decide that while I continue to
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debug myself I'm going to go to a forum
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what's the worst that could happen I doubt it but in my tired and
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distracted State maybe somebody can get to the bottom of this bug before I do
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after checking that there wasn't an existing similar question I post my own listing out the
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issue in its basic form I get up to make some coffee and when I return to my desk
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and do a page refresh I see I've already got one response the Shadows hold the patterns
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but only one Shadow is moving I roll my
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eyes I do not have time for nice one right now they're always cropping up
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randomly posting cryptic messages and never actually helping having gotten excited thinking
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someone had already come along to solve my problem and seeing it was nice one up to their Antics yet again now I'm
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frustrated so I decide to call their Bluff for once if you actually know
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what's up let's pair right now okay then
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this is wild I am shocked nice one as
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I'm sure many of you know is an enigma to my knowledge they've never paired
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with anybody before nobody even knows what they look like what they sound like
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at this point I'm just excited to meet the person behind the handle and hopefully crack this
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bug chapter 3 nice one takes a while to get ready
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when they are they send me a random video conferencing link and say there'll be no video only voice oh and I'll share
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my screen and be the one doing all of the driving they'll only be there to point me in the right
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direction it's even later and I'm even more tired and concerned about running out of time so I'm not sure I'm going to
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have the patience for nice ones cryptic Clues but it's the best I've got right
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now I join the call and say hello I hear some faint background noise but nothing
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else then a voice comes out of my
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computer what do you know so far okay then no pleasantries I guess
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we're getting straight into it fine with me I say well I know the pattern
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matching isn't working how would you verify
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that uh I guess I extract it extract the pattern I isolate the problem so I share
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my screen and head back into IRB I load in this publicly listable method which
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takes a collection of groups and a specific group key and then returns true or false based on the same pattern as in
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my reading Circle class and then I set up a group's hash that mimicked what I had from my
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experimentation earlier and then call publicly listable on the groups and it returns true for both as
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expected so it can't be the pattern then because in isolation the matching is
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returning what I'd expect the bug must be somewhere else the starting pattern is that your
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production pattern what on Earth is nice one on about why do they speak in
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riddles and then it hit me what was my starting pattern or my starting point
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during my debugging I had this but do I start with that in
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production I SSH into my production server and take a look at what reading circle. groups returns and it returns an
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empty hash but before I'd gone to bed I'd seen that people had been posting about their
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groups I go back to one of my old local terminal windows and try the same method
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there and again then it returns an empty hash even though I can see above that
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the fantasy group has two members in it so I wasn't even starting from the correct place during my debugging
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efforts why was reading Circle do groups empty nice one who I'd momentarily
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forgotten was there chimes in again as I said the Shadows hold the patterns but
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only one Shadow is moving what on Earth are they on about
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I ask if they can be a little less cryptic and when I hear nothing on the other end I decide to try and dig in
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myself a little more the Shadows hold the patterns what contains patterns in my
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code well the publicly listable method but only one method is moving that
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doesn't really make sense the code isn't changing why Shadows what creates a
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shadow anything can any anything any any
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object wait a sec if a shadow is moving then the object that's creating it is
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moving so one Shadow is moving means only one object is
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moving then I remembered something I'd learned about during case 17 Missing
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Method I'd learned about object space from a guy at co-working space who told
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me that it was a way to interact with all of the live objects within a ruby
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session it had helped me to discover Singleton classes back then when I
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noticed that two new objects were being created in a ruby session every time a
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single new class was instantiated one other method the guy
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had T me about during my investigation was object ID it returns an integer ID
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for an object and the same number will be returned on every single call of object ID for that object and no two
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active objects within a session will share an ID I decided to see what it returned for
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my different groups within a session I head to an old terminal window where I already had a couple of groups
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set up and require object space before calling object ID on each of the groups
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and the same ID was returned so the different groups were the same
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object but why and how then I hear nice one's voice again
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you've solved it but remember the each method takes a
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block huh yeah I know that each method takes a block we must choose between
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Purity and pragmatism huh time for lunch nice one says and
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then they're gone I look to the clock and sigh it's time to properly wrap up this
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bug chapter four so I know a few things right
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now the different groups all have the same object ID but reading circle.
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groups returns an empty hash when it should be returning the groups and their
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members if not from the groups method reading Circle has to be accessing these groups somewhere to be able to print the
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group members there was another method I discovered during my play with object
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space reachable objects from which showed you all methods a given object
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had a reference to perhaps I could figure out where the groups were're living so I head to a terminal window
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and call the method on a fantasy group I set up and it Returns what I'd expect an array with the items Alice and Charlie
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and I start to feel like I'm really on to something when the phone Rings it's Jenny and now I remember her
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text from earlier I'm really sorry to bother you but it's an emergency and before I can cut her off
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she starts talking she explains how the rip grant program has a feature launching for black history months that
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day and there's an issue with this new accountability groups feature that's going
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live everyone is in the wrong group well it looks like everyone is in all of the
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groups actually and hang on AE minute I say interrupting her this sounds very similar to the
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problem I'm having send me your code of course Jenny wastes no time at
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all to do so and I open it up immediately I'm quickly skimming through
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and it looks nothing CL mine except for one part when Jenny initializes an
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accountability group she also uses the conditional assignment operator to create a new hash with a default empty
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array if the class instance variable hasn't already been instantiated exactly like I do in the
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reading Circle code I head back to my terminal to try something else with reachable objects
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from I set up a variable X to be equal to Hash do new where the hash returns an
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empty array if a key doesn't exist and then I check the reachable
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objects the hash and also the default empty array I add the name Aaron to a new key
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fantasy and then I check which objects are reachable from X and as I suspected
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what I assumed to still be the default array has been changed to contain Aon
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and X returns an empty hash because when I tried to access the fantasy key on X
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the key didn't exist so the default array was returned and mutated the default array was the one object that
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was changing every time it was the one shadow that was moving a nice one tried to tell me
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straight away that patent matching wasn't the problem just to be doubly sure I go and
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test out object ID on a key that I know doesn't exist and so we'll return the default array and lo and behold it's the
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same ID what an interesting ruik Quirk Drew
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is Drew in the room do you get cash for some questions to who wants to be a ruby
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the story it's 4:17 a.m. in the morning it's h I have to hurry and fix the code
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but how do I fix this the fact that there's only one array that's being passed around and
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overwritten implies that the initialization is only ever executed once but I need it to be executed
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multiple times each time there's a new key each
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each the each method is an innumerable taking a block and executing each time
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for every item in a list but how can I use this
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info and then nice one's words came back to me they are always one to be cryptic
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and I think I had just solved another of their riddles they had said each method takes a block
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but did they mean to tell me every method takes a block does has. new take a
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block I decide to try I head to my terminal and type in has. new passing a
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block that puts high if a key doesn't exist and it doesn't blow
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up it works okay so what do I need I need that
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each time there's a new key I need for a new default empty array to be created
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not for one single one to be universally used so I try something like taking the
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hash H and say for each key give me a new
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array I adjust my code and then load it into an IB session to test it
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out now reading circle. groups is no longer empty and publicly listable is returning
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true case
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closed thank you it was really hard so by the time I'm done fixing my
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burgain jour's ensuring that there are proper tests I've only got about an hour before I'm due to wake up I'm wrapping
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up the final bits and pieces when the phone rings it's Ellen she's got a a moment
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checking in and after establishing that her family situation is under control I give her a quick rundown of the bug and
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the discovery of the hash's empty array default value causing all of the
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problems why does Ruby behave this way I asked she explains that it's a side
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effect of the fact that in Ruby all data structures are passed by reference a data structure is a way of storing and
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organizing data like arrays hashes and so on in Ruby when you assign an object
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to a variable or pass it as an argument to a method you're always creating a reference to the original object never
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creating a new copy of that object so when you set the default value of the hash to an empty array you not
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saying return a new array each time you're passing a reference to one particular array and saying use this the
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alternative would be passing by value which means that when you assign an object to a variable or pass it to a
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method a new copy of that object is created each variable or method argument
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gets its own copy of that object so changes to one don't affect the others Ruby chose pass by reference for
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objects because it's more efficient creating copies of complex data structures every time would consume a
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lot of memory and processing power passing references allows Ruby to be more performant and
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flexible but there's a trade-off as you've seen Ruby devs have to manage object references carefully to avoid
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unintended shared State Ellen is so wise right I'm sure
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many of you have had the pleasure of speaking with her don't you find that she always makes things so much clearer
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she always makes them make sense she always shows up conveniently at the exact moment I need
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her I thank her for her time once again we say our goodbyes and I wrap up the
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final bits and pieces before going to get a few hours of sleep hoping that everything runs smoothly
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tomorrow chapter 5 it's one month later and story graph
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is going from strength to strength after the Apple feature went live traffic surged and the reading circles feature
00:32:16.159
was a big hit officially launching just a few weeks later but now I'm struggling struggling
00:32:22.880
to juggle story graph work and Ruby private investigating I want to give up
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but I can't let it go one afternoon I'm reading an old
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issue of the rip alive newsletter when I see an advert for a special guest
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lecture that's happening that very day in fact it had already
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started but the guest lecturer was none other than
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Matts I immediately hurry over and turn up just in time to catch the last 10
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minutes Matt had been talking about mutable strings in Ruby and he's going
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through his final points when he says something that stops me in my tracks sometimes in Ruby we must choose
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between Purity and pragmatism where had I heard that
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before we must choose between Purity and pragmatism nice
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one they had disappeared quickly afterwards saying time for lunch and I I
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remember having the fleeting thought that I didn't know where in the world they were but it was very likely
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different to me because it had been just before 400 a.m. where I was 3:48 a.m. to
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be exact I pull out my phone and do a quick Google search for what the time would
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have been in Japan 12:48 definitely an appropriate
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lunchtime oh my gosh nice one was
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mattz chapter six I run after mattz and Corner him as he's leaving the building
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it was you all along you're nice one you've been anonymously helping
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developers all of this time but why he sighed softly a small smile
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forming on his face as a language Creator I needed to understand how
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developers use Ruby and what challenge Alles they face he said but if I just
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directly helped them they might not learn to explore and discover Solutions on their
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own so you chose to help from the Shadows yes he said I wanted to guide
00:34:44.879
not give all of the answers encouraging developers to think deeply is important
00:34:51.320
and besides a language Creator should care about their Community should want them to succeed
00:34:58.160
I want everyone to succeed I've been watching you from afar Nadia or should I say
00:35:05.520
d always hoping you'd overcome each Challenge and grow stronger because of
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them and I can see that you have I am taken aback by mat's
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words I I don't know what to say I'm about to ask some more questions
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but then Matt's glances at his watch and says I have to go but please don't tell
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anyone that I'm nice one I'd rather keep it between us oh my gosh Max I am so
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sorry no matx please come back M I wasn't
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thinking please I wasn't thinking come back I'm sorry oh thank
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you oh thank you I'm so sorry I wasn't thinking I was
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well you know I was surprised that my secret identity was revealed
00:36:11.280
today but I realize it's time to stop hiding as I said in my opening key out
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Ru was created to make programmers happy and to bring joy into
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coding let's continue to help one another because only then can we keep
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the heart of Ruby and this wonderful community alive I love you
00:36:38.760
all and I am proud of you thank you thank you
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m thank you Matt thank you for being so gracious with my hipop wow what an adventure this has
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been you know it just hit me it was in
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his name all along Matt's is nice one mat's is
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nice our community is better when we all try to be like Matts we should all
00:37:20.400
strive to be as nice and helpful as he is to lift each other up because only
00:37:26.240
when we do that can can we truly embody the spirit of Ruby it's not just about the code we write but the connections we
00:37:33.680
make and the support that we offer let's keep that Spirit Alive let's keep
00:37:39.240
choosing to be open welcoming giving and kind it's what sets the Ruby Community
00:37:45.720
apart it makes us special so I have a challenge to each of
00:37:50.960
you go and be the nice one in someone else's story maybe not as cryptic as
00:37:57.560
nice one but offer help without expecting anything in return be generous with your
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time be patient Mentor someone who is just starting out collaborate on open
00:38:09.839
source projects learn about how Ruby really works and contribute to the language whatever you can do whenever
00:38:18.000
you can do it no matter how small every little bit helps and when you're in doubt and not
00:38:25.520
sure what to do just remember that Matt is
00:38:30.680
nice so we are nice oh I like
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that I think I'm on to something
