The best presentation ever
The presentation is “Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator” by Giles Bowkett and it’s ostensibly about this Ruby thing but actually just chock full of stories and fun and about all sorts of open source / startup / vc stuff. Just go watch it and make sure you get past the first 5 minutes of midi stuff (which is also fun). But the part after that is way better.

Hi! My name is Alex Miller and I live in St. Louis. I write code for a living and currently work for
Thanks for the recommendation – thoroughly enjoyable.