SNL: Policia Mexicana For anyone who’s taken intro language classes and had to put together atrociously contrived dialogues for grades.

http://www.rathergood.com/kraftwurst Nothing says my friend Mice like hot dogs and krautroq.

On the 30th of September I presented at Rubyconf XI in New Orleans, LA. My topic was “Practical Metaprogramming.” This presentation was very special for me. Having spent some of my childhood in New Orleans, speaking there was very special. Further, one year ago, inspried by Chad Fowler’s book The Passionate Programmer, I resolved that “One year from now, I will speak at Rubyconf.” I am filled with joy to say that I attained my dream. I spoke on one of the more complicated aspects of the Ruby programming language: Metaprogramming. Ruby’s constructs allow you to fundamentally and flexibly re-direct calls at runtime and change the object model.

As mentioned previously, I gave a talk at Rubyconf XI in New Orleans a few months back. The video is now available. If you want to see me talking about some of the finer details of the Ruby programming language while wearing a shirt from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, here’s your chance.

The first two nights of this past weekend were rainy in Manhattan. Here’s a bit of the experience of taking an intestinally unwell (🤢) dog out in the middle of the night in the middle of a downpour.