Ifat Ribon

Ifat is a Principal Architect at LaunchPad Lab in Chicago. She enjoys untangling complex problems, finding the right words for hard things, and helping teams make confident technical decisions. She’s a big fan of good abstractions, long runs along the lakeshore, and finding the signal in the noise.

Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation

Did you know Ruby is an improviser? With its ability to take blocks at will, Ruby lets methods pass the conversation to blocks that happily accept what’s given and add to it. This talk explores blocks, procs, and lambdas as Ruby’s way of saying “Yes, and…”, with playful examples, surprising behavior, and joyful chaos along the way.