(Anchor.fm link)

Tobi and I talk about education and *so* much software history, including the interesting points of a lot of languages.

Tobi works at Shopify and is the author of benchee, an Elixir-language benchmarking suite. He runs RUG:B, a Berlin-based Ruby group, maintains SimpleCov and… Lots of stuff. I always feel tired looking at all the stuff Rubyists do :-)

Tobi had a pretty extensive formal computer science education, and it’s served him well. We also talk about a lot of different Ruby implementations, and various Ruby folks he’s met.

We also manage to cover a ridiculous variety of different languages and topics, and lots of older software history. He’s a very computer-history-literate fellow!

• Tobi’s Twitter: PragTob
• Tobi’s web site
• Tobi’s GitHub - he’s done some interesting stuff!
• Hungarian Notation
• Borland Delphi
• Turing machine
• Bundeswettbewerbe Informatik - a German computer science competition
• Scrum of Scrums
• DataMapper
• XP / Extreme Programming
• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - book
• Refactoring - book
• The Agile Samurai by Rasmussen - book
• Boolean algebra
• Finite State Machines
• EuRuKo
• The Fabulous Rubycorns study group
• Julius Volz - an author of Prometheus
• Buffer Overflow
• Address Space Layout Randomization
• NOP Slide attack
• Metasploit
• AFL
• Fuzzing, or Fuzz Testing
• MagLev Ruby - Ruby implementation based on the Smalltalk VM
• Topaz Ruby - Ruby implementation based on the PyPy VM toolchain
• SimpleCov - a Ruby coverage tool that Tobi maintains
• RubyTogether - a charitable Ruby foundation
• SkotOS.net - a commercial MUD company, now defunct
• Dworkin’s Generic Driver - the interpreter for the DGD language for MUDs, ancient multiplayer text games
• Elixir language
• Crystal language
• Mirah language - formerly Duby, now defunct
• _why the lucky stiff
• Camping - Ruby HTTP microframework by _why the Lucky Stiff
• Shoes GUI framework
• Hackety Hack
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Shaughnessy
• Tagged Pointers - how you attach “extra” bits of information inside a pointer
• Screeps - scripted game for programmers
• Vala language
• Alan Kay - inventor of Smalltalk and Object Oriented Programming
• Xerox PARC - an older innovation centre that came up with the mouse, the modern GUI and far more
• Bret Victor - an amazing visionary in learning, interfaces and media for thinking