Talks ∋ Names from a hat

Introduction

I gave this talk in November 2024 at RubyConf in Chicago.

A write up of the talk, with all the slides and a full transcript, along with a link to the recording will eventually appear here, but for now, it’s the links and “keywords to search for later” I mentioned in the talk.

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text: Names from a hat; Murray Steele Cleo, @hlame@ruby.social; RubyConf

General links
- “Pursuing Pointlessness” by Chris Howlett - a talk I suggest you watch on building fun things
Fibers
- Keywords to use to find out more:
  - Co-routines
  - Co-operative multitasking
- “Flattening Recursion with Fibers” by Jamis Buck & Adviti Mishra - a session later in the Conf that I suggest you watch
Shoes
- Keywords to use to find out more about shoes:
  - shoesrb
  - You can’t just search “shoes” or even “shoes ruby”
- shoesrb.com
- Keywords to use to find out more about art in shoes:
  - nodebox
  - processing
  - shoesrb art
- The shoes manual on art
Rougelikes
- Keywords to use to find out more about building roguelikes:
  - dungeon generation
  - rougelike wiki
- Description of the dungeon generation technique I used
- Blogpost about building your own roguelike in ruby by Dmitry Tsepelev
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