Ben is joined by Tom Stuart to talk about incorporating computer science topics into Ruby, his process of preparing talks, enriching your development career with a bit of computer science knowledge, and gushing about how amazing computers truly are.

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Links & Show Notes

Refactoring Ruby With Monads
A Lever for the Mind
The Elements of Computing Systems (From NAND to Tetris)
OmniOutliner
"Doing the hard work to make it bearable"- Russell Davies
To the Moon!-Russ Olsen
Ben, transcribed & annotated
Understanding Computation- Tom Stuart
How to Write a Web Application in Ruby
London Ruby User Group
Tom on Twitter

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