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A Rubyist’s Guide to
Existential Dread
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Have you felt it?
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Loss of Cra
Loss of Livelihood
Loss of Community
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Cra
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Livelihood
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Community
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Loss of Cra
Loss of Livelihood
Loss of Community
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“Will I still be able to make
a living doing work I enjoy
with people I care about?”
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1. Don’t Panic
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Being alive is inherently
dangerous.
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I have been through hard
times before.
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I rarely wish for the past.
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2. Cherish Now
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3. Create Space
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Andy Croll
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Jemma Issro
& Emily Samp
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Dave Paola
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Bobbilee Hartman
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Opportunities Someone should help
connect local meetups to
devs looking for speaking
opportunities.
Someone should make a
Ruby conference geared
toward developers with
kids.
Someone should provide
training and support for
experienced devs
transitioning from other
languages.
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4. Get Tedious
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Lucian Ghinda
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Stephen
Margheim
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Bhumi Shah
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Andrew Kane
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"In August, I set out to improve the
machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and
wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the
next 5 months, I ended up releasing 16
libraries and learned a lot along the
way. I wanted to share some of that
knowledge and introduce some of the
libraries you can now use in Ruby."
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I’m happy to announce another round of
machine learning gems for Ruby. … Ruby is
getting better for machine learning. Many
popular Python libraries now have Ruby
counterparts. They can be used in Ruby
scripts, iRuby notebooks, and Rails
applications. This should make it easier to
do machine learning without leaving your
favorite language.
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Opportunities Someone should catalog
tools in the Laravel
community and build the
missing ones for Rails.
Someone should find a way
to connect outdated Rails
apps to available
freelancers who can
maintain and upgrade them.
Someone should write an
in-depth cookbook for
real-world web scraping
and HTML parsing using
Nokogiri.
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5. Sell It
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Irina Nazarova
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Marco Roth
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Nadia Odunayo
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Matt Swanson
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Opportunities Someone should host a
competition to build the
same web app in multiple
languages and stacks with
commentary and judging.
Someone should make a
YouTube show where guests
bring a favorite Ruby
library and do a guided
walkthrough.
Someone should start a
group to support indie
Rubyists learning
marketing and sales.
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6. Go Together
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“Community of Practice”
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Concluding Thoughts
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Nothing lasts forever, not even hard
times.
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In living systems, growth isn’t what
matters, health is. Small is ne, as long as
it’s healthy.
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Ship of Theseus rules everything around
us, from our bodies and communities, to
tooling and language. Identity is in
continuity.
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Human interests will always require
human attention, choice, and
responsibility.
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Going through hardship can help people,
companies, and communities develop
wisdom and tness.
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Better to build con dence in skill and
adaptability than con dence in market
conditions and forecasts.
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As bad as you think things are for you,
someone else has it worse. Lend a hand
and make both your lives richer.
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There’s no limit to the needs of the world,
the work to be done, and the ways we can
show up and care.
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“Will I still be able to make
a living doing work I enjoy
with people I care about?”
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Thanks