Job Transition Week 2
This Week’s Program: May 2 - May 6
My focus this week, like last week, has been on talk preparation for !!con.
Next week, I’m very excited to begin a new job at Harry’s, the men’s shaving company. I’ll be managing their platform engineering efforts. I’m very stoked. I’ve gotten some FAQs about joining the team there; here are my answers: I will not be shaving my beard. I am, in fact, a Harry’s customer because a good beard requires maintenance and the product is good. Yes, a razor company requires a strong, dedicated software team because Harry’s sells its wares on-line and good custom software is necessary for a vertically integrated company to succeed. Rails on Heroku.
This week, I returned to coding but I did not focus on
sonic-sketches.
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It’s been nearly a year since I last released
rumoji, my Ruby Gem for
translating between emoji Unicode codepoints and
emoji cheat sheet codes. I had
mostly moved on since it did what I needed it to do. As new emoji were
released, I accepted pull requests, but hadn’t released the gem in a
while. Apparently, people actually use it in production! This felt
like the right time to get the latest code packaged and released.
First, I had to get the repo building again. Newer versions of Ruby
moved minitest out of the standard library.
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When I first created Rumoji, it started with a ranty blog post. Most browers did not support native emoji display. The advice I gave in the blog post was to alter user-generated content before writing to the database by transcoding emoji unicode codepoints. My reasoning was this: most folks did not (and still do not) understand String encoding throughout their stack. I’ve kind of calmed down a bit from this notion, but I think Rumoji is still a useful tool for handling user content. I update the README to reflect my newer attitude.
🏷 v0.5.0
Rumoji 0.5.0 is now available on RubyGems.org.
lol im so random!
My conference talk is all about random number generation. In preparation for the talk I explored PRNG’s in a smattering of different programming languages:
My hope is that my talk provides several jumping-off points for folks interested to dive a bit deeper. The conference will be livestreamed at http://confreaks.tv/live/bangbangcon2016. My talk is on Sunday right around noon. Hope you’ll be able to tune in!
‼ Mark