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Building an army of
robots
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I’m Kyle Neath
On the interwebs @kneath
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I’m Director of Design
I work at GitHub. It’s a tech thing.
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Mostly, I discuss features
write code
sketch
design
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2009 201
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2010 201
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2011 201
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NOW June 8, 2012
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Mission: Take over the world
Let’s build the best company in the world
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does robot work
Illustrations by @broccolini
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USB 12 NANO CONNECTOR
HIGH EFFICIENCY
INSERT/RETRACT POLYMER
VISUAL ACQUISITION SENSOR
1M DPI RETINAL TRANSCEIVER WITH
HIGH FIDELITY SQUIGGLY LINE OUTPUT
OBJECT ACQUISITION DEVICE
3,000,000 PSI
“DEATH PROOF” CLAW ARM
EXTERNAL INPUT TERMINAL
PREDICTIVE LOGIC
MINI QUERTY TECHNOLOGY
PLASMA ARM
HYPOTHETICAL TERMINUS
POINT RETENTION TECHNOLOGY
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Hubot load fe
memcache evict
image me
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Hubot
load fe
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Hubot
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play thermonuclear war
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Hubot deploy
Any app. Any branch. Production or staging.
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Anyone can deploy
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Everyone does deploy
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Hubot auto-deploy
Starting to get complicated…
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Did the tests pass?
Is your branch up to date?
Is someone using production?
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That’s what robots are for
Doing computer work so I don’t have to
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janky
monitors
app-perf
groceries
heaven
team
haystack
kod
office me
play
coalminer
halp
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github’s internal tools
introducing
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… and so many more
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increase your potential for
building rad shit
TOOLS
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Network Ops
Business
Executive
Copywriter
Visual Designer
UX Designer
Sysadmin
Assembly Hacker
Kernel
Hacker
Mac
Developer
Marketer
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This is your potential
How do you want to spend it?
Proficient
Mastered
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1997
I want to be a master
Mac Developer
Mastered
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1997
I want to be a master
Visual Designer
Mastered
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1997
I want to be a proficient
Visual Designer
and play around as a
Mac Developer
Proficient
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2012
I want to be a master
Visual Designer
and a proficient
Mac Developer
Proficient
Mastered
TOOLS
and a proficient
Marketer!
and learn me some
Unix!
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Our internal tools
level up the whole company
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No managers
No top-down “vision”
No core hours
No mandatory meetings
No conference calls
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GitHub’s tools prevent chaos and give
power to employees
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Our internal tools
scale our business
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Our internal tools adapt
Because that’s what software does
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But, what if we didn’t build these
tools?
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become the culture
internal TOOLS
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You should deploy
MR. MANAGER
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deploy github to production
HUBOT
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Everyone does deploy
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You need to run tests!
MR. MANAGER
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Kyle, your branch has failing tests. I
can’t deploy it right now.
HUBOT
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Everyone does care about tests
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We’re a distributed company
MR. MANAGER
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Everyone is distributed
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We’re an idea centered company
MR. MANAGER
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GHTeam::Idea.count
=> 238
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No, we are an idea centered
company
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Building software makes me happy
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Common sense scales companies
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To us, building internal tools was
common sense
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Internal tools are the DNA of software
companies
Don’t look at them as wasted effort
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Internal tools
can be beautiful
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“If you want a golden rule that will t everything,
this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do
not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
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Surround yourself with beautiful
software