socrates18.md

SoCraTes 2018

Meta

• List of Resources by dcarral
• Blog post by Katja
• Blog post by Gabriel

Sessions

Music Programming with Sonic Pi

• Sonic Pi
• Benjamin's resources / snippets
• put together loops in Ruby
• loops can be synced with each other (e.g. a beat with a melody)
• lots of functions to alter amplitude, make minor/major chords, etc.
• can receive MIDI events, e.g. read a note/velocity from a keyboard
• Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi

Tracker stuff shown by eBrnd:

• SID Tracker
  • Cheese Cutter
  • no samples, parametrize SID sound chip
• Modern Tracker (Sample based)
  • Open MTP

Functional Calisthenics

• Codurance Blog Post, with list of rules to constraint your code

Outside-in TDD with React

• Acceptance tests with Geb / Spock
  • Groovy/Ruby mixture somehow (not sure what is used where)
  • based on WebDriver
  • PageObject patterns (works nice with React - one page object per Component)
• JS lib for mocking HTTP: nock

Modern Frontend CSS and JS

• Session by Yulia Startsev (Mozilla)
• WebComponents - for fallback, Polymer can be used
• links as shared in Slack by Yulia:
  • Web Components
  • CSS Grid
  • JS Map
  • JS WeakMap
  • JS Symbols

Switching your "JS" Backend

• Session by Michelle
• Nest: node.js based server-side apps with TypeScript
• Swagger (opt-in)
• GraphQL, etc.

Rust

• setup with rustup and rls
  • curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
  • rls
  • WSL: add ~/.cargo/bin to PATH
  • rustup update
  • rustup component add rls-preview rust-analysis rust-src
• StanU CS140e

Unknown Codebase Quality

• CodeCharta example

Non-Violent Communication

Four Components

• Observation (≠ judgement)
  • Person talking loud vs. he is angry
• Feelings (≠ thoughts)
• Needs (≠ strategies)
• Request (≠ demand)
  • Should be doable, concrete, present ("SMART")
  • Can also be request for feedback ("I opened myself, can you repeat it back to see if we have a common understanding")

Resources

• Wikipedia
• Marshall Rosenberg, "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life"
• also good YT videos by him
• Nancy Kline: "Time & Think"

Popcorn Flow

• Session by @dmn1k
• collect problems & observations (e.g. after daily)
• options; rule of three (single option is bad)
• make experiments with defined end date and expected outcome; remind each other (e.g. "why are you working alone, we wanted to do pairing only?")
• review outcome
• can be too much at first (too many experiments at once), makes sense to have a limit (e.g. "3 experiments per sprint")

Quantum Computing

• Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit
  • brings Q#, .NET based language
  • simulated quantum operations (gates) and qbits
• IBM Q
  • web based, graphic editor for qbits and gates
  • can simulate or be run on a real quantum computer
  • you will get notified when results are in