Jean Boussier is a Staff Engineer on Shopify 's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He joins the show to talk about pitchfork . He begins by defining the pitchfork and describing how the application concept works. Moreover, he explains the reason why he wrote it and tackles some of its useful features. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Educational Links GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork To Thread or Not to Thread: An In-Depth Look at...
Mar 22, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dave and Valentino join this week's panelist episode to talk about important points to remember in web hosting. Dave begins by discussing ways to prevent security breaches in your system or data and prevent any ransomware attacks. He shares his own experience on how he maintains his website and the resources he is currently using. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Drifting Ruby DHH: We’re Leaving the Cloud ProxMox: An op...
Mar 15, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brett Chalupa is a hobbyist game maker, creative dabbler, and professional software developer. He joins the show alongside the Rogues to talk about creating video games. He dives into how he got started with DragonRuby, the games he created, and his experience as a game developer. Moreover, he talks about his book, " Building Games with DragonRuby ". Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Building Games with DragonRuby mruby ...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chuck and Valentino join this week's panelist episode to discuss Ruby 3.2. Valentino takes the lead as he talks about its exciting new features and performance improvements. They also share their insights and opinions about Ruby 3.2 and if these features help optimize web application performance. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Ruby 3.2.0 Released Ruby Weekly What's new in Ruby 3.2's IRB? huginn/huginn Year in Review 2...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jimmy Koppel is the founder of Mirdin. He also has a Ph. D. in programming languages from MIT. He joins the show alongside Chuck to talk about " Linguistic Antipatterns ". It is a persistently bad practice in the name and documentation which could make it more difficult to understand programs. He begins by sharing some of its examples, how to identify them, and how to avoid them. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Advance...
Feb 22, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Zachary Schroeder returns to the show to talk about the latest trends and frameworks in the community. Chuck starts off by sharing his own experience of staying on top of his podcast and current projects. They also discuss the significance of working on "side projects" in their field. Additionally, they discuss their perspective on using social media platforms in connecting with people. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links ...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elia Schito works at Nebulab. He is a Ruby enthusiast and move to a more supporting role for Opal development, mainly reviewing and merging PRs, handling releases, and so on. He returns to the show to talk about Opal and its new features. It is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. They also talk about the difference between Opal and ruby-wasm. Additionally, they discuss the e-commerce platform, "Solidus". Features recently added to Opal freezing parallel compilation async/await suppor...
Feb 09, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hilary Stohs-Krause is the Co-Owner and VP at Ten Forward Consulting. Having already spoken at the RubyConf mini last November 2022 about "Salary Transparency", she returns to the show to further talk about it. She explains how they were able to implement it in their company and why it is important. Moreover, she shares their company's process on how to decide on their employees' salaries. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Lin...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author, and publisher. He also co-authored the best-selling and seminal book, " The Pragmatic Programmer ". He joins the show to discuss the important things that software developers should know in this generation. He talks about some of the things that have evolved since he started. Important Points Reliable CI/CD Pipeline Effective low-friction collaboration Free flow of information Constant Learning / Skills improvement a. Read more technical books...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gavin Morrice is a Senior Ruby Engineer at Cookpad. It is a food tech company and the largest online recipe platform. He joins the Rogues to tackle his article, "How we improved our Rails app’s performance with Conditional Get Requests". He explains the idea of their article, what led them to develop their technique, and the way that this technique improves the user's experience. Sponsors AppSignal Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with ...
Jan 18, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Returning guest, Trae Robrock is the founder of greenbits.com but eventually sold the company. In addition, he experimented with various technologies such as node.js, lambda, python, etc. before returning to Rails. He also got into real estate and started a new tech company in the real estate space called," https://comfort.ly ". Trae joins the show with John and Valentino to discuss his experience and challenges encountered in developing the applications. Moreover, they also tackle some of the t...
Jan 11, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kinsey Durham Grace is an Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub. She is also a lecturer at RailsBridge where they run a workshop to teach scholars to write code. She joins the show with John and Valentino to about a variety of topics mostly focused on DevOps and Mentoring. She shares her experience in teaching scholars in the Ruby Community. Additionally, she talks about her career transition from Go to Ruby. On YouTube DevOps, Mentoring, and Careers with Kinsey Durham - RUBY 576 Sponsors...
Jan 04, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast When working with software or applications, developers and programmers encounter a variety of distinct system issues or problems. The Rogues join the show to share their thoughts about troubleshooting. They discuss identifying and fixing system problems in their applications, whether they're at the front end or the back end, using their own experiences as examples. Additionally, they talk about some of the tools they use to help them fix system issues or errors. Sponsors AppSignal Developer Book...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ivo Anjo is a Software Engineer at Datadog. His main focus is the Ruby Language. He is currently working on building a Ruby profiler and was a speaker at RubyKaigi 2022. He returns to the show with Chuck and Valentino to discuss the gvl-tracing gem, a Ruby gem that he recently created. It is a Ruby gem for getting a timeline view of Global VM Lock usage in your Ruby app. Additionally, he describes how this may be applied to improve performance and speed up Ruby Apps. About this Episode Features ...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast AppSignal is a real-time APM provider for Ruby, Rails, Elixir & Phoenix. In addition to host monitoring and an intuitive custom analytics platform, it provides insights into errors and performance problems. Thijs Cadier is the Cofounder and CTO of AppSignal. He starts off by sharing how their company was founded and what inspired them to develop AppSignal. He joins Chuck in the show to talk about AppSignal’s useful and new features. Moreover, he explains the details of how it functions and h...
Dec 16, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Takashi Kokubun is a staff developer at Shopify. He has been working with Ruby’s MJIT compiler for over 5 years but has been recently maintaining YJIT as well. JIT compilation is a method of running computer code that involves compilation after a program has begun running rather than before. He joins the show to talk about these topics alongside Chuck and Valentino. He also explains their importance as this contributes to running Ruby applications smoothly. He also shares his experience working ...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Game Developer and CEO of DragonRuby, Amir Rajan returns to the show. He joins the rogues to talk about DragonRuby. DragonRuby is a zero dependency, cross-platform, Ruby runtime built on top of mRuby, libSDL, and LLVM. Additionally, Amir talks about how it allows you to use the Ruby language to build video games. He also shares his experiences when it comes to working with mruby. About this Episode All about DragonRuby Building VR games using Ruby Runtime and how it works Sponsors AppSignal Deve...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kevin Newton works at Shopify. He is specifically assigned to the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure Team. He returns to the show to talk about building Parsers in Ruby since he is working full-time on a new Ruby parser called "Prettier Ruby Plugin”. Prettier works with the majority of editors and support different languages. He shares his journey on how he was able to create it. He also talks about "exreg", which is a Ruby regular expression engine that he created. About this Episode All about Parse...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Focus Blocks Bundle" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis. Mani has read 1...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse Spevack currently works at Stripe and specializes in Ruby on Rails. He talks about his success story of shifting careers from being an Educator to a Software Engineer. Jesse returns to show to share his humble beginnings when he started out his first job in the Tech world. About this Episode Changing Careers Experience working in Stripe Transitioning from working in an office to working remotely "Hello Turing World Podcast" Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with...
Nov 23, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Masafumi Okura is a freelance software developer focusing on Ruby on Rails. He joined RubyKaigi 2022 as a helper staff and the chief organizer at Kaigi on Rails 2022 which took place last October. He joins the Rogues to share his experiences and some pointers on arranging a successful Conference amidst the pandemic. Topics discussed How Technology took part in creating a virtual event Recruiting and Inviting speakers for the conference Approaches used to make the process smooth and hassle-free f...
Nov 16, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this all-panelist episode, Chuck, Dave, and Valentino give insights on how to choose your career path, how to kickstart your career, how to take control, and how to advance in your profession. They also share their experiences and some advice on what qualities you should possess in order to become successful Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles - Irish Gauge | Board Game - BoardGameGeek Charles - I Am Not a Serial Killer Dave - Drifting Ruby: Modern Ruby on Rails Screen...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Rogues discuss Turbo and Hotwire with Alexandre Ruban, who created a course on Hotwire and Turbo for Rails at Hotrails.dev . The dive into its origins with TurboLinks and then discuss the various options and tools that come with Hotwire development in Rails and compare it to other front-end frameworks and solutions they've used. Links: Hotrails.dev Hotwire React Bootstrap Tailwind Alexandre's Twitter Picks:Dave DaisyUI Valentino Neo4J Ruby Kaigi Chuck Irish Gauge Kajabi Chuck's Coaching Offe...
Oct 25, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In recent news, Heroku announced they will eliminate free plans and shut down all free data services. With that said, today on the show, the panel discusses tools to substitute this platform and other possible workaround options. In this episode… The Huroku platform Render (tool) Digital Ocean (tool) Fly.io (tool) Words of caution and possible issues Rails templates and docker deployment files Setting up options at home AWS App Runner vs AWS Elastic Beanstalk OpenShift containerization software ...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Import maps is the new feature in Rails 7 that allows us to forego Node.js and tools like Webpack, plus it prevents the need for bundling. Today on the show, Valentino interviews Paweł Dąbrowski to share his insights about import maps in Rails 7. In this episode… Mortal Kombat coding Mastering CSV in Ruby (book) CSV features What are Import maps in Rails 7 and how do you get started Rails app generator and Rails formation How to handle upgrades New Rails features Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching |...
Sep 28, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Post pandemic, remote work is here to stay. Today on the show, the panel and Jake Yesbeck share their insights about remote work for developers and the latest developments for the 2022 workforce and beyond. In this episode… The transition to remote Being intentional about career growth Book clubs Separating work from life Changes post pandemic Connecting in public channels How do you measure productivity? Interviews / interviewing remotely Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast For years, the Rails community has been clamoring for Active Deployment, a magical out-of-the-box mechanism for deploying applications. Today on the show, Cameron Dutro shares how you can deploy Rails apps on Kubernetes with Kuby. De-stress your deployments today with these simple strategies. In this episode… Active deployments for Rails apps Docker containers and Kubernetes Controlling your environment Flexible without vendor lock in Building images with Kuby Plug in providers Why Kubernetes fo...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Taylor joins the show today to share his recent developments about integrating Ruby snippets within a browser in less than a day. The panel asks about his process and what he did to make this a quick and successful strategy. Learn about this new process and what you can do today to make this happen! In this episode… Merging WASI based WebAssembly support The functions to run ruby snippets in your browser Programming education and WebAssembly tooling The WebAssembly package manager Web browse...
Sep 07, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Gordon Bell is back on the show again! Today he shares his views on language tooling, new articles he has recently written, documentation for Ruby, software consulting, and insights into other programming topics. In this episode… What is language tooling? How can tooling be improved? Code linting Documentations for Ruby An unfixable programming language Staff vs line engineers Software consulting Why open source? Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links The Other Kind of Staff So...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wearable technology, Web 3.0, augmented reality, and other emerging technologies are poised for shifting the future for DevOps. Today on the show, the panel discusses how the future of Ruby can adapt to make these changes a reality. In this episode… Wearable tech Virtual reality Web 3.0 Blockchains Non-fungible tokens React native Dragon ruby and rails The future for Ruby Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Antidote Charles- - Top End Devs Charles- Ready Player One: A No...
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