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Add Eleanor McHugh's talk to February 2025 #372

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Our February meeting is our annual event devoted to short talks of no more
than 10 minutes.

We have space for 4 more talks, and it is our most popular event of the year. So, if you have been on the fence about giving a talk, there is no better opportunity than this. To put yourself on the map, email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
We have space for 3 more talks, and it is our most popular event of the year. So, if you have been on the fence about giving a talk, there is no better opportunity than this. To put yourself on the map, email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

### AI tools for programmers

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> tools, can help engineers rapidly spin up a walking skeleton—a minimal
> yet functional end-to-end system—with minimal effort.

### Never Say, Never Say Die!

[Eleanor McHugh](https://slideshare.net/feyeleanor) says:

> Ruby is a high-level language, and there's a general assumption that
> it's ill-suited to low-level shenanigans. But is this true?
>
> In this lightning talk I'll introduce some basic Ruby tools for
> accessing low-level system features, concentrating on *nix platforms,
> and see if it's possible to replicate tenderlove's Never Say Die gem
> for recovering from segfaults.

## Afterwards

When the talks come to an end we'll decamp to a local pub for some food, some
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