Brandon Weaver

Staff Eng / Ruby Lead / Global Neurodiversity Chair at @Square. Autistic / ADHD, He / Him. I'm the Lemur guy.

Missouri Joined on Jan 16, 2019 https://www.twitter.com/keystonelemur

Work

Staff Engineer - Ruby Frameworks and Language Communities at Square

Brandon Weaver

Aug 1

Functional Programming in Ruby – State

#ruby #functional

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8 min read

Understanding Ruby - Triple Equals

I should probably remember this as I was part of that discuss...

Feb 23

Understanding Ruby - Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas

I seem to recall mentioning the first item somewhere, if not ...

Feb 23

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Predicate Conditions

Whoops, forgot to switch that comment to false. Nice catch!

Feb 16

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Intro and Interfaces

Got it fixed, thanks for the mention!

Feb 13

Understanding Ruby - Comparable

If taken to the next conclusion it can be somewhat annoying t...

Feb 10

The Surprising Case of `gets` in Ruby

The same with IO which means this same concept applies to fil...

Jan 21

Assertions of Truth in Ruby Tests

It's a good idea, because in a lot of Ruby things only have t...

Jan 21

A Simple Way To Get Started With TDD

....and this is a note to read twice, post once 😅

Jan 19

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Brandon Weaver

Jul 31

Understanding Ruby - For vs Each

#ruby #rails #functional

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6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 16

Let's Read – Polished Ruby Programming – Ch 2

#ruby #books

17 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 15

Let's Read – Eloquent Ruby – Ch 2

#ruby #books

8 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 9

Let's Read – Eloquent Ruby – Ch 1

#ruby #books

9 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 8

Let's Read – Polished Ruby Programming – Ch 1

#ruby #books

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19 min read

Brandon Weaver

May 15

Interviewing - Perspective of the Interviewee

#interview #jobhunt #career

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14 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 12

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Coercion

#ruby #rails

3 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 12

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Iterating and Taking

#ruby #rails

4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 12

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Combining

#ruby #rails

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 12

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Grouping

#ruby #rails

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Counting

#ruby #rails

3 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Sorting and Comparing

#ruby #rails

4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Searching and Filtering

#ruby #rails

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Predicate Conditions

#ruby #rails

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4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Transformations

#ruby #rails

3 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 11

Understanding Ruby - Enumerable - Intro and Interfaces

#ruby #rails

18 3

3 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 9

Understanding Ruby - Comparable

#ruby #rails

18 2

4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 8

Understanding Ruby - to_proc and Function Interfaces

#ruby #rails #functional #patternmatching

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6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 7

Definitive Pattern Matching - Array-like Structures

#ruby #rails #patternmatching #functional

9 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 7

Understanding Ruby - Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas

#ruby #rails #functional

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11 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 6

Understanding Ruby - Triple Equals

#ruby #rails #functional

68 3

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Feb 1

Matchable - Class-level Pattern Matching Macros Explained

#ruby #functional #metaprogramming

11 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jan 14

Ruby 3 Pattern Matching Applied: Tic-Tac-Toe

#ruby #ruby3 #patternmatching

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6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jan 13

Ruby 3 Pattern Matching Applied: Poker

#ruby #ruby3 #patternmatching

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12 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jan 8

Introducing Patterns in Parallelism for Ruby

#ruby #functional #monoids #endofunctors

30 1

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 30 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 06 - Custom Customs

#ruby #adventofcode

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 29 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 05 - Binary Boarding

#ruby #adventofcode

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 29 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 04 - Passport Processing

#ruby #adventofcode

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 28 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 03 - Toboggan Trajectory

#ruby #adventofcode

1 2

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 27 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 02 - Password Philosophy

#ruby #adventofcode

8 2

9 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 27 '20

Advent of Ruby 3.0 - Day 01 - Report Repair

#ruby #adventofcode

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5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 25 '20

Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Expert

#aspergers #autism #mentalhealth #expert

18 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 25 '20

Tales of the Autistic Developer - Becoming an Organizational Leader

#senior #staff #career #mentalhealth

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12 min read

Brandon Weaver

Sep 2 '20

Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Mentor

#aspergers #autism #mentalhealth #mentoring

10 min read

Brandon Weaver

Sep 2 '20

Ruby 3 - Set Literal

#ruby #rails #ruby3

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4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Sep 1 '20

Ruby 3 - Anonymous Struct

#ruby #rails #ruby3

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4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 6 '20

Clocks are Monoids Too!

#functional #ruby #monoid #endofunctors

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 2 '20

Tales of the Autistic Developer - Senior Developer

#aspergers #autism #mentalhealth #senior

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11 min read

Brandon Weaver

Dec 6 '19

The Night Before Code Freeze

#devops #sre #ops

51 1

4 min read

Brandon Weaver

Nov 1 '19

Deeper Magics: Monoids in Ruby and Rails

#ruby #rails #functional #endofunctors

24 5

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Sep 14 '19

Tales of the Autistic Developer - Myth of the Autistic Jerk

#autism #mentalhealth

53 3

8 min read

Brandon Weaver

Sep 5 '19

The Nature of Success

#discuss #career #life

12 2

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 20 '19

Decorating Ruby - Part Three - Prepending Decoration

#ruby

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 19 '19

Of a Higher Order - Map, Filter, Reduce

#javascript #functional

10 1

7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 18 '19

Decorating Ruby - Part Two - Method Added Decoration

#ruby

20 2

8 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 17 '19

Decorating Ruby - Part One - Symbol Method Decoration

#ruby

50 4

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 5 '19

How it's Made - Tales of the Ruby Grimoire

#ruby #art

11 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 4 '19

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire - Part Five - On the Nature of Magic

#ruby

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 4 '19

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire - Part Four - The Lemurs of Haskell

#ruby #haskell

8 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 4 '19

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire - Part Three - The Lemurs of Javascript

#ruby #javascript

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 4 '19

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire - Part Two - The Lemurs of Scala

#ruby #scala

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Aug 4 '19

Tales of the Ruby Grimoire - Part One - The Grimoire

#ruby #haskell #javascript #scala

22 2

6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 14 '19

Tales of the Autistic Developer - The 10x Engineer

#mentalhealth #autism #aspergers #burnout

47 5

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jul 14 '19

Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Ecstasy of the Void

#mentalhealth #autism #aspergers

42 3

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jun 21 '19

A Scoop of Sorbet - First Impressions

#ruby #statictyping #sorbet

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7 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jun 14 '19

Ruby 2.7: The Pipeline Operator

#ruby

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6 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jun 1 '19

Ruby 2.7 — Pattern Matching — Destructuring on Point

#ruby #functional #rails

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jun 1 '19

Ruby 2.7 — Pattern Matching — First Impressions

#ruby #functional

5 min read

Brandon Weaver

Jun 1 '19

Ruby 2.7 — Numbered Parameters

#rails #programming #ruby

9 1

3 min read

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