Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Internal Tools
Search
Sponsored
·
SiteGround - Reliable hosting with speed, security, and support you can count on.
→
Keavy McMinn
November 02, 2012
Technology
9
1.6k
Internal Tools
RubyConf 2012
Keavy McMinn
November 02, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Keavy McMinn
See All by Keavy McMinn
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
keavy
128
17k
Improving your workflow with the GitHub API
keavy
9
1.1k
The Successful Shipper
keavy
8
570
Integrations
keavy
3
780
How to mend a broken identity
keavy
0
250
Better work, through better feedback.
keavy
1
570
Must. Try. Harder.
keavy
0
620
Career Health Check
keavy
0
330
From Artist To Programmer
keavy
1
470
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
SREチームをどう作り、どう育てるか ― Findy横断SREのマネジメント
rvirus0817
0
320
StrandsとNeptuneを使ってナレッジグラフを構築する
yakumo
1
120
広告の効果検証を題材にした因果推論の精度検証について
zozotech
PRO
0
190
15 years with Rails and DDD (AI Edition)
andrzejkrzywda
0
200
Amazon S3 Vectorsを使って資格勉強用AIエージェントを構築してみた
usanchuu
3
450
GitHub Issue Templates + Coding Agentで簡単みんなでIaC/Easy IaC for Everyone with GitHub Issue Templates + Coding Agent
aeonpeople
1
250
顧客との商談議事録をみんなで読んで顧客解像度を上げよう
shibayu36
0
260
CDKで始めるTypeScript開発のススメ
tsukuboshi
1
490
生成AIを活用した音声文字起こしシステムの2つの構築パターンについて
miu_crescent
PRO
3
210
学生・新卒・ジュニアから目指すSRE
hiroyaonoe
2
650
ブロックテーマ、WordPress でウェブサイトをつくるということ / 2026.02.07 Gifu WordPress Meetup
torounit
0
190
インフラエンジニア必見!Kubernetesを用いたクラウドネイティブ設計ポイント大全
daitak
1
370
Featured
See All Featured
The Hidden Cost of Media on the Web [PixelPalooza 2025]
tammyeverts
2
190
Become a Pro
speakerdeck
PRO
31
5.8k
4 Signs Your Business is Dying
shpigford
187
22k
Navigating Algorithm Shifts & AI Overviews - #SMXNext
aleyda
0
1.1k
Hiding What from Whom? A Critical Review of the History of Programming languages for Music
tomoyanonymous
2
420
The untapped power of vector embeddings
frankvandijk
1
1.6k
Cheating the UX When There Is Nothing More to Optimize - PixelPioneers
stephaniewalter
287
14k
Claude Code どこまでも/ Claude Code Everywhere
nwiizo
61
52k
Building a A Zero-Code AI SEO Workflow
portentint
PRO
0
320
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
lara
5
890
Being A Developer After 40
akosma
91
590k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
302
51k
Transcript
@keavy // Internal tools RubyConf, Denver, 2012 1
uses 2
Abuses 3
I <3 Internal Tools 4
class GoodSoftware < Pain end 5
Take your pain away 6
7
8
9
Create the culture you want, through internal tools 10
Pain #1 “I don’t know who is working on what”
11
What do we want? 12
Visibility 13
How can tools help? 14
15
I am next shipping: 16
17
“We see awesome get shipped, so we want to ship
awesome.” @maddox 18
19
Hey waitaminute! 20
Hey waitaminute! 20
https://speakerdeck.com/jnewland/chatops 21
22
Pain #2 “I feel disconnected, because I am remote” 23
What do we want? 24
25
26
How can tools help? 27
Tools we choose 28
29
/play call me maybe 30
/volume +11 31
/i like this song 32
33
shout out to everyone called @maddox who built all this
crazy cool stuff 34
Tools we don’t abuse 35
virtualsugar 36
For good... 37
For bad... “What. is. going. on? do we seriously have
{x} and {y} in this app? Don’t give a fuck if ... Never do {z}” 38
“Never do {z}” “Can you do... ?” 39
virtualsugar 40
turboalieno 41
42
43
43
Pull requests talk, Bullshit walks 44
cooperation without coordination 45
Pain #3 “I don’t like #{that}” 46
What do we want? 47
Always be feedback-ing. 48
49
Shit I don’t like 50
Ideas published in 2012 51
Comments on those Ideas 52
happiness excitement error fear community women being new growing future
focus guidelines culture attracted life language innovate change important better opportunity 53
Create the culture you want, through internal tools 54
using 55
Abusing 56
Pain points? 57
Take your pain away 58
Thanks! 59