A Casual Conversation with KOW (Karl Oscar Weber) on Camping, Open Source Politics, and More

Fullstack Ruby Podcast

This is a right humdinger of an episode of Fullstack Ruby! I got the chance to talk with Karl Oscar Weber all about the Camping web framework, as well as his Grilled Cheese livestream, working as a freelancer, and how to criticize by creating as a programmer in a world fraught with political upheaval. Great craic, as the Irish say.
Links & Show Notes

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• Guest: Karl Oscar Weber ([e-mail])
• Capsule Graphics
• Camping
• Grilled Cheese (Twitch)
• Kona

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Become an Intuitive+ member and support the show! (00:01:13)

3. It's a good time to be a fan of alternative Ruby frameworks (00:02:02)

4. Introduction to Camping (00:03:27)

5. why the lucky stiff (00:05:32)

6. You'll never learn more than when you build your own framework (00:09:04)

7. Karl's origin story (00:10:02)

8. Jared's PHP era (00:12:14)

9. Learning Ruby outside of Rails (00:13:36)

10. Bridgetown and open source (00:15:28)

11. Database access in Camping (00:17:10)

12. Minimalist core, easy plugin system (00:21:33)

13. Domain modeling not as nicely done in languages like JavaScript (00:23:21)

14. File-based routing concept (00:26:42)

15. Ruby DSLs for HTML generation (00:29:39)

16. Capsule Graphics (00:31:53)

17. Funky times in the industry… (00:32:57)

18. Grilled Cheese screencasts (00:34:13)

19. Eventually we get that operator terminology right… 😂 (00:36:36)

20. Kona, a new programming language (00:37:46)

21. The challenges of wasm (00:44:06)

22. And now two Rubyists talk politics! 😲 (in open source & in Rails) (00:48:15)

23. Optimistic for the future of Ruby and personal goals (01:00:10)

24. Outro (01:02:22)