With Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out
Larry has 15 years' experience in the military under his belt, and is still training as a software developer. We talk about the up-and-coming developer experience, before his first job and what they'r...
8 Aug 20221h 9min
With Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages
Tobi works at Shopify and is the author of benchee, an Elixir-language benchmarking suite. He runs RUG:B, a Berlin-based Ruby group, maintains SimpleCov and... Lots of stuff. I always feel tired looki...
1 Aug 20221h 18min
With Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms
Oh man, my audio quality is AWFUL here. Luckily Ross's is better and he's great at carrying the conversation! We talk about how Ross "cheats" both to get into teaching and to get into tech, and about ...
25 Jul 20221h 8min
With Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess
We talk about how Craig got started, of course, and about buzzwords and how he did his early job hunting. We talk a *lot* about Ruby performance - who's who, what matters, what's annoying. We veer a b...
18 Jul 20221h 27min
With Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering
This episode is with me, my wife Krissy and Akien McIain, a mutual friend who is also a very senior test automation engineer. When two old engineers get together to talk, you can always expect a lot o...
11 Jul 20221h
With Andrew Owen: the Culture of Programming -- If You're Raised by Missionaries
I barely know how to summarise this one. It's one of my favourites. Andrew is from dot-NET rather than Ruby. He was raised by missionaries, and is thus extremely literate about cultures and how to int...
4 Jul 20221h 37min
With Andrew Mason: I Expected College to be Basically Boot Camp
Andrew is the founder of the Remote Ruby Podcast (now a lot more prominent than when we talked!), RubyBlend and CodeFund. We talk about the prison and court systems, why FTP is a terrible protocol, re...
27 Jun 20221h 33min
With Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical
Shai Schechter, co-founder of RightMessage, has been hustling since he was 11. He believes that what's practical is very different for different people. If you see a task through a particular lens (e....
19 Apr 20221h 1min
