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Episode 426: Neurodiversity and Starting a Podcast with Julie J
Making her podcast debut, Julie J is a junior engineer at Codecademy from Skillsoft. Julie answers Brittany's questions about how she learned to code, her role at Codeacademy and her involvement in the Neurodivergent ERG at Codecademy. Then, Julie reveals her plans for a new podcast in the Ruby community! Show Notes & Links: Codeacademy (https://www.codecademy.com) Code in Place (https://codeinplace.stanford.edu/) All Aboard Bootcamp (https://allaboardbootcamp.com/) Julie (@codewithjulie) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/codewithjulie) Ruby for All (@rubyforall) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/rubyforall) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).
Episode 425: The Railsconf At Home 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
Moderated By: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin) Panelists: Aaron Francis, Framework Friends (https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis) Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard (https://twitter.com/andycroll) Brian Mariani, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Drew Bragg, Coding Coders (https://twitter.com/DRBragg) Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Show Notes & Links: Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 424: Women On Rails and VirtualCoffee.io with Aurelie Verrot
Enchanté. Aurelie Verrot is a developer originally from France who now lives in California. She is Software Engineer at Zendesk, working in the i18n team. She answers all of Brittany's questions about working at Zendesk, translating the beloved Women On Rails newsletter and VirtualCoffee.io. Show Notes & Links: General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly) Zendesk (https://www.zendesk.com/) Women On Rails Newsletter (https://womenonrails.substack.com/) VirtualCoffee.io (https://virtualcoffee.io/) Hacktoberfest (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) Aurelie Verrot (@LiliVerrot) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/liliverrot) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 423: Featuring Some of the Nicest People in Rubydom (Brittany + Nick)
Brittany and Nick took a foray into handheld console gaming before celebrating Nick's new role at Shopify on the Ruby/Rails Infra team. They chatted about their favorite parts of Railsconf including Nick's Ruby Archaeology talk and Shopify's Railsconf Afterparty Twitter Space. Also, Past Rubies is back! Show Notes & Links: Unofficial RailsConf Afterparty today on Twitter Spaces | Shopify (https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1529182404060950528) Euruko 2022 CFP (https://2022.euruko.org/cfp/) RubyKaigi 2022 CFP (https://cfp.rubykaigi.org/events/2022) Ruby Weekly Issue 606 | Panel Feature (https://rubyweekly.com/issues/606) Past Rubies Subscription Signup (http://pastrubies.live/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 422: Object Shapes and Open Source (Brittany + Jemma)
Brittany had questions about how to contribute to Ruby but luckily, Jemma was here to explain the process and explain her most recent proposal: Object shapes for Ruby. Object shapes are a technique for representing properties of an object. The two then debate reaching sustainable open source software. Show Notes & Links: Feature #18776: Object Shapes (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18776) Stripe Press — Working in Public (https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public) GitHub user sends notification to 400k users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061) Open Source is Not About You by Richard Hickey (https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 421: I've Been Here For Awhile with David Hill
David Hill is a Staff Software Engineer with CareRev. He just gave his first ever conference presentation at RailsConf 2022, titled “React-ing to Hotwire”. He is thinking about starting a podcast (yes!) so he asks Brittany her thoughts on co-hosts and topics. Show Notes & Links: React-ing to Hotwire | Railsconf 2022 (https://railsconf.org/program/sessions#session-1303) The Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Railsconf Guide (https://railsconf.org/scholarships) David Hill on Twitter (@DavidEsmale) (https://twitter.com/DavidEsmale) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Episode 420: The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
Live from Portland, OR is the Ruby Podcast Panel recording from Railsconf 2022! The panelists discuss why they are loyal to podcasting, the state of the Ruby and Rails communities, opening doors for juniors into our industry and themes they noted from the conference. Moderated By: Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Panelists: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin) Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/schwad_rb) Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes) Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Chris Oliver, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/excid3) Andrew Culver, Framework Friends (https://twitter.com/andrewculver) Colleen Schnettler, Software Social Podcast (https://twitter.com/leenyburger) Robby Russell, Maintainable Podcast (https://twitter.com/robbyrussell) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian)
Brian is back with his insights on how the Rails hiring market is fairing, the differences between JS and Rails recruiting, whether avoiding whiteboarding is a good sign and how companies can effectively evaluate potential developers. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) poteto / hiring-without-whiteboards (https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 418: Flash Forward to Railsconf Day 2 with Andrea Fomera
Andrea Fomera is a Senior Software Developer at Podia who finds enjoyment in updating dependencies and crafting high quality, robust and maintainable code. She and Brittany flash forward to Railsconf Day 2 to discuss Andrea's talk, goals for the conference and an epic quest to find the best donut in Portland. Show Notes & Links: Andrea's Personal Site (https://afomera.dev) Andrea Fomera (@afomera) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/afomera) Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum (https://store.afomera.dev/learn-hotwire) Podia (https://www.podia.com/) WNB.rb (https://www.wnb-rb.dev/) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Episode 417: Treading Water & Panel Planning (Brittany + Jemma)
Fresh off of treading water in a sweatsuit for a swim test, Brittany called up Jemma to do a live brainstorm for the Railsconf 2022 Podcast Panel. After discussing Jemma's team trip to London for Shopify, they go over the panel participants, moderation strategies and potential topics. Show Notes & Links: Railsconf 2022 COVID Policy (https://railsconf.com/covid) Ruby Podcast @ Railsconf 2022 on Day 1 (https://railsconf.com/schedule) Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/) Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Maintainable (https://www.maintainable.fm/) Software Social (https://softwaresocial.dev/) WNB.rb (https://www.wnb-rb.dev/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 416: Tackling Technical Texts with Steve Lynch
Steve Lynch is an Engineering Manager at Root Insurance, working with a full-stack team on a Rails and React stack. Brittany invited Steve on to the show to discuss Engineering Management and his Rubyconf talk, "I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts" so she could tackle some texts on her bookshelf. Show Notes & Links: Voulez-Vous with Zach and Steve (https://voulezvouscast.tumblr.com/) I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts by Steve Lynch | Rubyconf 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnB74T9saN4) Ruby Under a Microscope (https://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope) Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/414) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger is exception, uptime, and cron monitoring, all in one place — and easily installed in your web app. Deploy with confidence and be your team's devops hero. They now have status pages and can monitor SSL certs. They just shipped an update that can help communicate outages to your customers: public status pages with custom domains and branding. Learn more at https://www.honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).
Episode 415: Respect & Retros with Andrew Strovers
Andrew Strovers is a Senior Software Engineer out of Omaha, Nebraska. Being that he has serious opinions on trust and communication in the workplace, he was the perfect guest to discuss retros: how to reward vulnerability, adjust to the remote components and incorporate fun. Show Notes & Links: UpDog (https://updogchallenge.com/) Nathan Knisley on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanknisley/) Andrew Strovers on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adstrovers/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0) mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0) is an online tool for safe email testing in dev and staging environments. Set up in less than 5 minutes to assess the deliverability of an email and share results with team members, check if there are any mistakes with the HTML and CSS validation. Send Emails and monitor their performance with the new Sending Solution. Explore these and many other functions of Mailtrap. Get started for free at mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0).
Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg
Brittany interviews Drew Bragg, the Staff Engineer at Within3 and the host of the new Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast about his origin, his love of the Ruby community and their experience at Sin City Ruby. The pair then switch host seats and Drew interviews Brittany about her love of burpees, what she is working on, her blockers and what she currently finds interesting. Show Notes & Links: With3 (https://within3.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Podcast (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjviPuTopn3AhXkT98KHakMBNwQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1927628&usg=AOvVaw2rx5vPOPVNs7WZfQ4dLXqO) Remote Ruby | Its Always Sinny In Las Vegas aka Sin City Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/174) TextUs Careers (https://textus.com/jobs/) Framework Friends Podcast (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/DRBragg) Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/brittjmartin) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).
Episode 413: Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti
Joe Masilotti is an independent developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and automated testing. He helps clients port their Rails apps to iOS with Turbo Native. Brittany and Brian talk with Joe about building railsdevs in public, the challenges he has faced and the technical decisions he is proud of. They wrap up by discussing Joe's upcoming "Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native" workshop he has been inspired to do. Show Notes & Links: railsdevs - The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers (https://railsdevs.com/) railsdevs on Github (https://github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.com) Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti) Hotwire dev newsletter (https://masilotti.com/hotwire/) Joe's tweet about Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native workshop (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti/status/1507100497286610953) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 412: Plant Killers (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
Emily is guesting as co-host this week with Jemma and Brittany! The trio celebrate Emily's new role at Shopify and discuss taking breaks between roles. Emily and Brittany just wrapped up reviewing CFPs for Railsconf so Jemma asks them about the patterns they observed. They wrap up by talking about their (not) green thumbs and home desk setups. Show Notes & Links: Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby (https://sorbet.org/) Jemma's Tweet to Ruby Central (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff/status/1499096595282870273) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).