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Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess

Jul 18 2022

(Anchor.fm link)

We talk a fair bit about careers, the difficulties of dealing with clients and how computer assistance may be the future.

We talk about how Craig got started, of course, and about buzzwords and how he did his early job hunting. We talk a lot about Ruby performance - who’s who, what matters, what’s annoying.

We veer a bit into how Pina Coladas shouldn’t use dark rum (heresy!) and about the example of Centaur Chess, and how it related to other human/computer interactions.

  • Craig’s Twitter: JalisoCSP
  • Craig’s Web Site

  • Nate Berkopec

  • Richard Schneeman

  • Sam Saffron

  • Rails Ruby Bench

  • Google Glass

  • Opal - Ruby to JS translator

  • RubyMotion - Ruby for mobile apps

  • Vim - text editor

  • KISS principle - “Keep It Simple, Stupid”

  • Moore’s Law

  • Green Threads

  • Puma - Ruby app server

  • Human Resource Machine / 7 Billion Humans - games that help you learn assembly language

  • Overcooked - cooking game

  • Centaur Chess

  • Honeycomb.io

  • Spectral Repair for audio engineering (video)

  • Music2000 game