# Talks

Talks and demos worth knowing about from Ruby's history.

- ["How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" (DHH, 2005)](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/fifteen-minute-blog.md): The demo that launched Rails, and a generation of Ruby programmers.
- ["Programming with Nothing" (Tom Stuart, 2011)](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/programming-with-nothing.md): Tom Stuart rebuilds numbers, booleans, and a whole running program in Ruby using nothing but procs.
- ["Wat" (Gary Bernhardt, 2012)](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/wat.md): Four minutes of programming comedy that everyone has seen.
- ["Y Not? Adventures in Functional Programming" (Jim Weirich, 2012)](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/y-not.md): Jim Weirich derives the Y combinator live in Ruby, and makes one of computer science's hardest ideas feel like a gift.
- [_why's RailsConf 2006 Keynote](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/whys-railsconf-2006-keynote.md): The keynote that was part code, part comedy, and part live band. Probably the most _why thing ever to happen on a conference stage.
- [How to Crash an Airplane (Nickolas Means, 2015)](https://chunkybacon.dev/talks/how-to-crash-an-airplane.md): A RubyConf talk with almost no Ruby in it: the true story of a doomed flight, told to teach software teams how to work together.

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