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 Panelists: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby Chris Oliver, Remote Ruby A...
Jun 01, 2022•44 min
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 poteto / hiring-without-whiteboards Sponsored By: Honeybadger 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 Honeybadge...
May 25, 2022•25 min
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 Andrea Fomera (@afomera) · Twitter Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum Podia WNB.rb Sponsored By: AppSignal Monitor your apps from A to Z: error...
May 18, 2022•31 min
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 Ruby Podcast @ Railsconf 2022 on Day 1 Remote Ruby Framework Friends Maintainable Software Social WNB.rb Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps ...
May 11, 2022•29 min
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 I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts by Steve Lynch | Rubyconf 2021 Ruby Under a Microscope Episo...
May 04, 2022•35 min
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 Nathan Knisley on LinkedIn Andrew Strovers on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into...
Apr 27, 2022•29 min
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 Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Podcast Remote Ruby | Its Always Sinny In L...
Apr 20, 2022•44 min
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...
Apr 13, 2022•29 min
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 Jemma's Tweet to Ruby Central Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps her...
Apr 06, 2022•33 min
Brittany and Nick gush about their long awaited reunion at Sin City Ruby in Las Vegas. They talk about talk prep, hype music, and even costume changes. After discussing how to pull off a company onsite and remote whiteboarding, they wrap by sharing their thoughts on "No Railsconf". Show Notes & Links: Sin City Ruby Miro Figjam Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in moni...
Mar 30, 2022•32 min
Ufuk is the Engineering Manager of the Ruby Infrastructure team (Jemma's team!) at Shopify. After transitioning his career from physics to software development, Ufuk has had the fortune of working with lots of interesting technologies at various levels of the stack. He, Jemma and Brittany chat about management philosophies, why he remains excited about Ruby and what is the ideal role for Shopify in the larger Ruby ecosystem. Show Notes & Links: Shopify / maintenance_tasks Shopify / yjit Sorb...
Mar 23, 2022•31 min
Jennifer Konikowski had been doing mostly Rails since 2012, though is currently taking a detour and working in Go at Splice. She and Brittany talk about what lead her to Pittsburgh, her fitness journey and tips. Show Notes & Links: Splice Jaybird PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells The Peloton App Strava TrainingPeaks | Reclaim Your Race Day Strong - Workout Tracker & Gym Log Workout of the Day | Concept2 Rowing Machines Jennifer Konikowski (@jenkoni) / Twitter Jennifer’s Website Sponsored B...
Mar 16, 2022•34 min
Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals. Show Notes & Links: 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh PlanetScale - The Database for Developers GitHub - vitessio/vitess CrossFit Games: The Open Rogue Stock Bot - Real Tim...
Mar 09, 2022•35 min
Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo, the duo behind hevdevs, join Brittany to discuss their new course launch "Get to Senior", sharing your career goals with your manager and how to feel like a promotion was deserved. Show Notes & Links: Get to Senior Crash Course Get to Senior hexdevs Interview with Brittany Martin Buy Get to Senior (10% off) Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and...
Mar 02, 2022•36 min
Tanner Johnson, Engineer, and Nick Gervasi, CTO, of Flowdash join Brittany to talk about why they chose Rails, how customers deploy their app on premise and the design of their internal users dashboard. They wrap up discussing the perks and challenges of all engineers being involved in growth, sales, and marketing at Flowdash. Show Notes & Links: Flowdash Flowdash on Youtube How we automated new user insights — in 10 minutes | Flowdash Tanner Johnson on LinkedIn Nick Gervasi on LinkedIn Spon...
Feb 23, 2022•32 min
Ben Greenberg is a second career developer who previously spent a decade in the fields of adult education, community organizing, and non-profit management. He works as a lead developer relations engineer at New Relic by day and is building hirethePIVOT, a reverse job board for career changers, at night. Show Notes & Links: On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s by Ben Greenberg hirethePIVOT Hummus on Rails Ben Greenberg (@RabbiGreenberg) · Twitter Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a s...
Feb 16, 2022•39 min
After a campy true crime start, Brittany and Jemma recap Brittany's first full marathon, Brittany's promotion to Engineering Manager and Jemma brings up the exciting news of YJIT porting to Rust. They wrap up by discussing the tracks for the Railsconf 2022 CFP. Start applying! Show Notes & Links: Feature #18481: Porting YJIT to Rust (request for feedback) Railsconf 2022 CFP Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transp...
Feb 09, 2022•31 min
Damian Galarza is the VP of Engineering at Buoy Software. Buoy is building software for good — connected intelligence that unlocks more plasma supply. Brittany, Brian and Damian discuss scaling engineering culture and reflect on technical decisions in a post Rails 7 world. Show Notes & Links: Buoy Software Damian Galarza (@dgalarza) / Twitter Buoy Software on Github Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—au...
Feb 02, 2022•24 min
What is an Engineering Lead without her UX Designer? Nikki "Pancakes" LeServe, Senior UX Designer at Textus, joined Brittany to discuss her UX origin story and to respond to Brittany's controversial UX theories. Should design by committee die? Should Bootstrap ever be used? Should some stuff be designed to be difficult to use? Tune in. Show Notes & Links: How to Get to Senior | HexDevs | 10% Discount How to avoid ‘design by committee’ and why you should at all costs Sponsored By: Hook Relay ...
Jan 26, 2022•25 min
Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions. Show Notes & Links: Sin City Ruby Get Your Conference Proposal Accepted - Schneems Gusto/apollo-federation-ruby - GitHub meeoh - GitHub Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure...
Jan 19, 2022•29 min
Joining Brittany to celebrate episode 400(!), Collin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails Developer at GoRails. They discuss why he committed to Rails so early in his career, his various ambitious projects (Ruby Radar, fleur de ruby), his love of the community and what his new role will entail. Show Notes & Links: fleur de ruby (@fleur_de_ruby) Ruby Radar GoRails Jumpstart Pro pay-rails/pay: Payments for Ruby on Rails apps - GitHub Collin (@collin_jilbert) Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a serv...
Jan 12, 2022•26 min
Will Ruby 3.1 drop on Christmas (spoiler: it did!)? Jemma and Brittany catch up with the changes from this past year, talk about some resolutions they are planning for 2022 and whether the pursuit for mediocrity should be one of them. Oh yes, they also touch on the release of Rails 7. Show Notes & Links: Ruby 3.1.0 Released WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) · Twitter In Praise of Mediocrity Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision Sponsored By: Hook Relay Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhoo...
Jan 05, 2022•31 min
It's a The Ruby on Rails Podcast x Remote Ruby collab! Brittany is joined with Jason Charnes and Andrew Mason so they can interview the editor of their shows, Paul Bahr, on how he got into podcast editing and the tools you need to get started. Find out the answers to fascinating questions such as: what is everyone's filler word? Is there really room for more podcasts? Are Ruby podcasts a great palate cleanser after editing true crime? A fun episode to record, we hope you enjoy listening. Show No...
Dec 29, 2021•32 min
Victor David Santos is a fullstack Engineer at Tremendous and the creator of the Ruby platformer, Super Bombinhas. Victor joined Brittany to share insights on game development in Ruby, how to publish a game to Steam and how generous the gaming community can be. Show Notes & Links: Tremendous The Ocra Gem The Gosu Library The MiniGL Library MiniGL Tutorials Super Bombinhas on Steam victords / super-bombinhas Victor's Itch Page Victor on Github Victor David Santos (@VictorDS92) / Twitter Spons...
Dec 22, 2021•25 min
Zachery Hostens is a Senior Rails Engineer at TextUs. He is a self taught techie to his core, who tries to have his hands in all the cookie jars. He and Brittany discuss what it was like working as Wells Fargo as a Rails engineer, how he landed at TextUs and some strategies on finding the hidden Rails developers out there. Show Notes & Links: Zachery Hostens on Github Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in m...
Dec 15, 2021•26 min
It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts. Brittany's Picks Code & Supply Coding Pennants Jumpstart Pro Chill Pill V4 LL Bean Tech Tote Monolisa Font Scribd Nick's Picks SKÅDIS (IKEA) Wired Magazine Subscription Ergodox EZ Tailwind UI Components Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a ...
Dec 08, 2021•31 min
Brittany and Jemma record right after Rubyconf 2021 so they could share their experiences and favorite talks both in-person and virtual. Oh, also, this is now a running podcast. Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf 2021 Introducing: MemoWise Talks Discussed: Achieving fast method metaprogramming: lessons from MemoWise by Jemma Issroff, Jacob Evelyn Minimize Your Circus Factor: Building Resilient Teams by Mercedes Bernard Managing Up: Strategies for Leveling Up by Mina Slater On Being an Early Career...
Dec 01, 2021•30 min
Recorded live from Rubyconf 2021 in Denver, CO with an audience! Panelists from The Ruby on Rails Podcast, Code with Jason and Remote Ruby gathered to chat about why they were excited to attend Rubyconf, favorite episodes and to field listener questions. Moderated By: Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Panelists: Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby Jason Swett, Code with Jason Emily Giurleo, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Show Notes &a...
Nov 24, 2021•51 min
No holiday break on the recruiting front! Brittany and Brian catch up on the Rails recruiting trends. They discuss how companies need to up the ante now that so many are remote first, how interviews should be structured and whether it is worth getting in the door, if it is not for the role you want. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement Rubyconf 2021 Job Fair Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring ...
Nov 17, 2021•29 min
Justin Searls helped start Test Double—a software agency of experienced developers who work with clients to build great software together, as a team. He gave Brittany the scoop on Mocktail, an opinionated alternative to minitest's mocks, rr, mocha, and rspec-mocks. As a bonus: he offers his insights and advice on being a confident speaker. Show Notes & Links: testdouble/mocktail Test Double | An Agency Improving the World's Software Mockito framework site Jim Weirich's Tweet searls/gimme jim...
Nov 10, 2021•39 min
