The Seal

In which I babble on about how some code written by a junior developer in the UK caught my interest and ended up in Envato's Slack channels.

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2. The Seal In which I babble on about how some code written by a junior developer in the UK caught my interest and ended up in your Slack channels.
3. paj ttys000 2017-02-22 13:02 % who am i
4. Pete Johns • Development Team Lead • @johnsyweb • Reformed C++ and Python developer • Occasional marathon runner and frequent parkrun participant • Terrible, but enthusiastic bassist • Confused as to nationality • Likes bad jokes, lists, tea, working on Envato Market • Dislikes trailing white-space Source: https://webuild.envato.com/people/pete-johns/
5. I have probably reviewed some of your code!
6. I write code! Markdown is code right?
7. What’s worse than trailing whitespace?
8. Things that frustrate me • Wasted effort • Disparity and inequality • Unfinished business
9. Over-Starting and Under-Finishing Source: https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/over-starting-and-under-finishing/
10. Over-Starting and Under-Finishing Source: https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/over-starting-and-under-finishing/
11. The Seal
12. July 2015
13. Tatiana Stantonian (née Soukiassian) • @binaryberry • Makers Academy graduate • (Junior) Developer • French • London, UK • GDS Core team Sources: • https://github.com/binaryberry • https://twitter.com/binaryberry
14. Who is The Seal? Source: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ 1yiFebJfKlcCooBDmiUFJSAfGKJgplXFs8S_O3uU4z-M The Seal is Tatiana’s first 20% project at GDS
15. Ruby! source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'slack-poster', '~> 1.0.1' gem "octokit", "~> 3.0" group :test do gem 'rspec' gem 'timecop' gem 'pry-byebug' end Beauty in simplicity!
16. YAML Configuration made easy boxen: channel: '#boxen' repos: - boxen-web - our-boxen use_labels: true exclude_labels: - wip customer-group: channel: '#customer-engineering' repos: - docs - envato-cloud-management - envato.com - handdrill - lua-deflector - market-dev-expectations - market-shopfront - marketplace - marketplace-puppet - shopfront-infrastructure - themeAudit - toolbox - webuild.envato.com use_labels: true exclude_labels: - wip
17. Seal at Envato • https://github.com/envato/seal • Took a little work to get this useable • Refactoring as a learning tool • Small, incremental changes • Facilitated change • Stopped specs hitting the Internet • Sent PR back to @binaryberry • Tried to keep fork close to upstream
18. Where does it run?
19. Heroku: It’s not just for web apps!
20. Feedback!
21. I ❤ Feedback!
22. Expectations
23. Teaching and Learning I share my skills and knowledge freely, both with my team mates and with the broader development community • I contribute to existing open source projects • We share our education and experience with the community • I help other developers where and when I can • I learn from and contribute to the Envato development community and external development community equally Source: https://webuild.envato.com/expectations/
24. From Tatiana’s presentation to her colleagues
25. How can commit messages help?
26. Technical Competence I ship code to production early and often • We ship early, we ship often • I don’t leave Pull Requests open and let my work expire Source: https://webuild.envato.com/expectations/
27. In conclusion
28. I like finishing things! • Don’t text and drive • Finish one thing before beginning the next • Review Pull Requests and help someone else finish • Contribute to Free and Open Source Software Projects for Great Good! • Improve The Seal • Hack Four is coming https://speakerdeck.com/johnsyweb/the-seal