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Emily Samp

@emilysamp.dev

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Engineering Manager at Shopify. Mom, Rubyist, CEO of @wnb-rb.dev. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 09/12/2024

It's ball-shaped on one side and pointy on the other to help release tight muscles. I don't think it technically counts as a "ball" but the marketing says "massage ball" so 🤷‍♀️

The OTSUO massage ball, a blue ball that is round on the bottom with a pointy end on the top.

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 15/11/2024

This talk ends with the shocking reveal that Matz has been nice all along! 😱

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 15/11/2024

So pumped to wrap up #RubyConf2024 by watching @nodunayo.bsky.social celebrating three million users on @thestorygraph.com! 🥳

Nadia stands at the lectern in front of a slide that says “Getting to three million users as a one-woman dev team”

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 14/11/2024

“Come to RubyConf,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. #RubyConf2024

A slide from “Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer” with the code snippet:

p ?????:??

And four multiple choice answers for what that code evaluates to.

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 13/11/2024

Now watching “Flattening Recursion with Fibers” by @jamisbuck.bsky.social and Adviti Mishra, about avoiding stack overflow errors by using multi-threading to flatten out recursive code patterns! #RubyConf2024

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 13/11/2024

Visualizing all the possible combinations of Ruby Tools you could use — over 11,550 combinations! 🤯 #RubyConf2024

Vini standing at the podium next to a slide containing an unreadable, messy graph

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 13/11/2024

Up next: The State of Ruby Developer Tooling with @vinistock.bsky.social!

Vini standing at the podium with a slide that says “is having options a good thing?”

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Emily Samp @emilysamp.dev · 13/11/2024

Coming in Ruby 3.4: actually being able to calculate the largest known prime number! #RubyConf2024

A slide from Matz’s RubyConf 2024 keynote showing Ruby calculating the largest known prime number

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