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 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 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
