<div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thought I might piggy back off Fred’s announcement about our Jan meeting to encourage you all to come up with some talks for our February lighting talks meeting.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 22:37, Frederick Cheung via Chat <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">If you really want to tick off a new year's resolution early then there's still plenty of room to speak at February's Lightning talks' meeting - we're looking for up to 8 talks of around 5-10 minutes. It's the perfect opportunity to try your hand at speaking or float a new idea / hot take. Please drop us a line at <a href="mailto:talks@lrug.org" target="_blank">talks@lrug.org</a> if you're interested</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Here are a few specific ideas that I thought would be easy talks to give and this limbo between Christmas and Hogmanay is the perfect time for exploring them:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">* Ruby 4 is our Christmas treat from Matz Claus this year. What’s in it? You could do a summary talk using <div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><a href="https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html" style="font-size:inherit">https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html</a> as a starter, or you could go deep on a single new feature like `Ruby::Box` or ZJIT or your favourite.</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">* Minitest 6 is out (<a href="https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html" style="font-size:inherit">https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html</a><span style="font-size:inherit;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">) and has “please don’t just blindly update particularly if you’re railsy” vibe - what are the gotchas? Why might we be interested in upgrading - what exciting new features are there?</span></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:inherit;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">* Hanami had a major release in late Nov and is worth exploring in a talk on it either on its own merits or as a compare and contrast with rails feels very timely. The “state of the union” blog post <div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><a href="https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/" style="font-size:inherit">https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/</a> might be a good start</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">Of course I’m sure you have plenty of your own ideas. What fun things have you been up to in Ruby this year? Share them with us!</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">Cheers</div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-size:inherit" dir="auto">Murray </div></span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"></div></div>
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