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When I work with folks new to Ruby and Rails I am often asked how to get started. While there is a plethora of resources if you “just Google it” one of the things that my friend Henry pointed out to me is there is a lot of noise when it comes to coding content. Many folks new to coding flood the market with low quality content that hides the good stuff. So here are my recommendations.

• Healy Announces Transition Team Chairs from Commonwealth Magazine. Congrats to my former colleague at MAPC Lizzi Weyant for co-chairing the Climate readiness, resiliency and adaptation committee with Gina McCarthy (!!!).
• The Healy Driscoll Transition Website has forms for submitting your ideas and resume.
• Layoffs.fyi is aggregating the tech layoffs. Rough times to be a software engineer.
• President Biden is Turning 80. Experts Say Age is More Than Just a Number.
• Making is_a? Fast was one of the most interesting presentations at RubyConf Mini.
• Welcome back Google Searchers. I discovered the URLs were breaking in Google Search because of this issue. If you’ve linked to my site in the past, please make sure to include the trailing / in the URL going forward.

Yesterday a large number of twitter employees, potentially a majority of the engineering staff, resigned. As far as most people are aware, a skeleton crew remains keeping the website alive. The question to many seems to be not if but when the site is going to collapse like a Jenga tower.

I am on the train to Boston from Providence and glad I spent the past few days at RubyConf Mini. Today we learned about peephole optimizations in compilers, functional programming in Ruby, and class macros. While I did not fully grok all the technical presentations, I enjoyed seeing aspects of Ruby that I have not explored.

Day two of RubyConf Mini was action packed. Nadia Odunayo hit a home run with her morning keynote. As the founder and sole developer of Storygraph she shared a Ruby mystery with the crowd. A fitting genre to be delivered with a British accent.