Episode 268: 268: Origins of Discourse & Changing Your Developer Mindset with Sam Saffron

Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".

Links for this episode:

• Sam's Blog
  
• Discourse
  
• miniracer | Minimal embedded v8
  
• Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
  
• Sam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)
  
• Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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