On Being A Journeyman Software Developer

An Emu, get it?
Programming communities are full of inspirational people. People who do great things. Not only great things, but specific things that inspire us. Whether it is blogging, working on open source projects or mentoring, I often look out and say to myself...

Yesterday I made a mistake. Without thinking, I put up a mean tweet about some code that Heather Arthur wrote. And I want to apologize.
I value being supportive. And I value being nice. I have thoughts around code, but they are all trumped by my strong belief that we should be working to bring each other up. Yesterday I went against all of those things, and I am ashamed. There are constructive...

or, why I actively replace ActiveSupport::Concern with Ruby in codebases I work on
tl;dr
I don't use ActiveSupport::Concern.

I recently participated in an awesome Kata Battle at 8th Light against the worthy adversary, Craig Demyanovitch. The kata was the wonderful Roman Numerals Kata, converting arabic numbers to their roman numeral equivalent.
While practicing the kata, I noticed a lot of interesting things around the decisions I made in the solution. So, I thought I would record a katacast and lay over some voice commentary around it....