Samuel Giddins
Samuel is a developer well-versed in the rituals of writing software that occasionally work. By day, Samuel is doing random interesting things for Nerdsniped LLC; by night he can be found breaking open source projects such as RubyGems.org, Bundler, and Bazel (let’s be honest, the day and night activities are starting to converge). Before this whole "developer" thing, Samuel studied in the highly impractical Mathematics & Economics departments at UChicago, learning subjects such as "numbers", "social theory", and "memes". When not coding, Samuel is often in the kitchen, marveling at the fact that dinner smells better than it looks.
Sessions
Package ecosystems burst onto the scene, sometimes slowly and sometimes… a little bit loudly. That part of the story is familiar. But what happens when that ecosystem is no longer the new shiny thing, and the larger ecosystem it lives in has moved onto? This talk will chronicle the tale of CocoaPods, the unofficial 3rd party package manager for Apple ecosystem development, and how its maintainers have helped it gently fade away over the past decade.