Speaking at meshU

On May 20th, I’ll be in Toronto presenting at meshU. Probably about climate change or Thin, haven’t decided yet.
From meshU site:

meshU is a one-day event of 12 focused workshops in three streams (design, development, management) given by those who have earned their stripes in the startup game; people who can talk knowledgeably about everything from [...]

Ruby to C, a couple snippets

As you might already know, the Ruby interpreter you’re (probably) using (the one at ruby-lang.org) know as MRI, for Matz Ruby Interpreter, is written in C. The VM is entirely written in C and most of the standard libraries too. So it seems that the way to make code run faster is really to dive [...]