When learning new skills, connecting what you already know is key. Studying the most common code smells in Ruby and their fixes, exposes a pattern that is similar to how the game mechanic in the popular video game Pokemon works. Grouping certain types and finding the way to beat them.

Melanie Keatley works as a software developer at YoungCapital. When she was young she would watch Star Trek TNG every Sunday. Her step-dad would get them Greek take-out, so if you’d ask her what a Klingon …