RustConf gathers developers from around the world to learn and share with one another ... and this time it's virtual. 0:00 Title Card 20:43 Opening Keynote 1:12:50 Error Handling Isn't All About Errors 1:55:12 How to Start a Solo Project That You'll Stick With 2:17:32 Under a Microscope: Exploring Fast and Safe Rust for Biology 2:47:37 Kids Corner (Music Together) 2:59:53 Lunch Break 4:45:05 Afternoon Introduction 4:48:02 Bending the Curve: A Personal Tutor at Your Fingertips 5:16:36 My First Rust Project: Starting a 2D Game with Amethyst 5:40:19 Controlling Telescope Hardware with Rust 6:13:15 Macros for a More Productive Rust 6:37:27 Rust for Non-Systems Programmers 7:03:08 Closing Keynote

The joy, excitement, and surprise of computing!!! http://bangbangcon.com/livestream.html - Live captioning is also available at the link!

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Webpacker, It-Just-Works, But How? by Justin Gordon How does the Webpacker gem provide "it-just-works" webpack integration with Rails? That simplicity did not come easily. The rich functionality, complexity, and rapid evolution of the webpack ecosystem necessitated extension points beyond a simple Ruby config file. Yet you need to know almost nothing about webpack to leverage the modern JavaScript ecosystem. But what if you want to extend the standard configuration? What information might help you upgrade webpack and webpacker in the future? This talk will explain the magical plumbing of Webpacker so you can leverage the webpack ecosystem on your terms. For the talk slides, email Justin at justin@shakacode.com _________ Justin has been a passionate user of webpack since early 2014 when he just could not stand copy-pasting one more jQuery file into his Rails project. In 2015, he created the gem "React on Rails," which integrated server-side rendered React and Webpack with Rails long before the Webpacker gem. These days, as CEO of ShakaCode.com, he helps companies optimize their Rails websites. He and his ShakaCode team also build Rails apps with modern front-ends, including their startup app, HiChee.com.

Building a Performance Analytics Tool with ActiveSupport by Christian Bruckmayer "Setting up a performance analytics tool like NewRelic or Skylight is one of the first things many developers do in a new project. However, have you ever wondered how these tools work under the hood? In this talk, we will build a basic performance analytics tool from scratch. We will deep dive into ActiveSupport instrumentations to collect, group and normalise metrics from your app. To persist these metrics, we will use a time series database and visualise the data on a dashboard. By the end of the talk, you will know how your favourite performance analytics tool works." __________ "Christian Bruckmayer originally from Nuremberg, Germany, but now calls Bristol, UK, his home. In his day job, he makes everyday cooking fun at Cookpad, the best place to find and share home cooked recipes. Since 2014 he is an avid open source contributor hacking for instance on JRuby, openSUSE Linux or various gems. If he's not hacking Ruby, he's out doing what 'young' people do: traveling the world, skiing in the alps or going to concerts of his favourite band."

The Sounds of Silence: Lessons from an 18 hour API outage by Paul Zaich Sometimes applications are behaving “normally” along strict definitions of HTTP statuses but under the surface, something is terribly wrong. In 2017, Checkr’s most important API endpoint went down for 12 hours without detection. In this talk I’ll talk about this incident, how we responded (what went well and what could have gone better) and explore how we’ve hardened our systems today with simple monitoring patterns. ___________ Paul hails from Denver, CO where he works as an Engineering Manager at Checkr. He’s passionate about building technology for the new world of work. In a former life, Paul was a competitive swimmer. He now spends most of his free time on dry land with his wife and three children.

Wrangle Your SQL With Arel by Eric Hayes "You wanted to use those fancy Postgres features so you wrote raw SQL. Some time and a few more features go by and now your app is littered with SQL strings. Keep the power and lose the mess by building composable query objects that leverage Arel, the query builder under the hood of ActiveRecord. Come to this talk and learn what Arel is, how to construct complex SQL with Ruby, and how to wrap it all up in model-like classes that play nice with Rails." __________ Eric Hayes started using Ruby while working at a school district in 2006. He's been social distancing since 2016 working remotely for Red Hat. In 2017 he became the CTO of a small, all-remote business where he gets to play with everything from design to databases.

Debugging: Techniques for Uncertain Times by Chelsea Troy "When we learn to code, we focus on writing features while we understand what the code is doing. When we debug, we don't understand what our code is doing. The less we understand, the less likely it is that our usual programming mindset—the one we use for feature development—can solve the problem. It turns out, the skills that make us calmer, more effective debuggers also equip us to deal with rapid, substantial changes to our lives. Whether you're uncertain about what's going on in your code, your life, or both, in this talk you'll learn debugging techniques to get you moving forward safely." __________ "Chelsea writes code on projects like the Zooniverse Citizen Science Mobile App and the NASA Landsat Image Processing Pipeline. She looks for clients who are saving the planet, advancing basic scientific research, or providing resources to underserved communities. She streams some programming sessions to YouTube, so you can watch her code (and narrate!) in real time. Chelsea also teaches Mobile Software Development at the Master’s Program in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Chelsea flings barbells around for fun. She drives an electric cafe cruiser named Gigi."