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
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
ブロックテーマでサイトをリニューアルした話 / 2026-01-31 Kansai WordPress Meetup
torounit
0
440
クレジットカード決済基盤を支えるSRE - 厳格な監査とSRE運用の両立 (SRE Kaigi 2026)
capytan
6
2.5k
2026年、サーバーレスの現在地 -「制約と戦う技術」から「当たり前の実行基盤」へ- /serverless2026
slsops
2
210
ファインディの横断SREがTakumi byGMOと取り組む、セキュリティと開発スピードの両立
rvirus0817
1
1.1k
CDK対応したAWS DevOps Agentを試そう_20260201
masakiokuda
1
190
Context Engineeringが企業で不可欠になる理由
hirosatogamo
PRO
3
390
FinTech SREのAWSサービス活用/Leveraging AWS Services in FinTech SRE
maaaato
0
120
ClickHouseはどのように大規模データを活用したAIエージェントを全社展開しているのか
mikimatsumoto
0
190
【5分でわかる】セーフィー エンジニア向け会社紹介
safie_recruit
0
42k
モダンUIでフルサーバーレスなAIエージェントをAmplifyとCDKでサクッとデプロイしよう
minorun365
2
130
15 years with Rails and DDD (AI Edition)
andrzejkrzywda
0
170
GitLab Duo Agent Platform × AGENTS.md で実現するSpec-Driven Development / GitLab Duo Agent Platform × AGENTS.md
n11sh1
0
120
Featured
See All Featured
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
productmarketing
PRO
24
3.9k
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
359
30k
Unlocking the hidden potential of vector embeddings in international SEO
frankvandijk
0
170
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
soudai
PRO
196
71k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
carmenintech
77
5.2k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
tanoku
273
27k
The Limits of Empathy - UXLibs8
cassininazir
1
210
The State of eCommerce SEO: How to Win in Today's Products SERPs - #SEOweek
aleyda
2
9.5k
We Are The Robots
honzajavorek
0
160
First, design no harm
axbom
PRO
2
1.1k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
275
41k
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
thoeni
21
3.6k
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