Episodes
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Episode 525: Catching Up With Ruby Central with Marty Haught
October 9th, 2024 | 29 mins 23 secs
Ruby Central has been a foundational part of the Ruby community since 2003. They organize Ruby Conf and Rails Conf and maintain critical Ruby infrastructure like rubygems.org. With Ruby Conf Chicago just around the corner and new initiatives at Ruby Central, we thought it would be a good time to catch up with our friends at Ruby Central. Marty Haught joins the show to tell us more about Ruby Central's open source initiatives.
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Episode 524: Writing Code Using AI with Landon Gray
September 25th, 2024 | 28 mins 39 secs
Large language models are everywhere now. They’re changing the way we work, from tools code completion tools like Copilot, to audio generation apps like Suno.ai. Apple recently announced huge updates with generative AI for all of their platforms. Adobe, Canva, and Google have all added AI to their products. It seems like every vendor is building these features. So how will this change the way we write and think about code. Landon Gray joins the show to tell us how AI will change software development.
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Episode 523: Welcome Back, Nick Schwaderer
September 11th, 2024 | 31 mins 52 secs
Our illustrious cohost Nick is back from parental leave! We talk about life as a parent and coder, committing to Ruby on Rails, and being coworkers.
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Episode 522: Mentoring Junior Devs with Adam Cuppy
August 28th, 2024 | 39 mins 42 secs
A recent focus of many in the community has been expanding the community. We all love Rails and want to create the best community possible. Part of this focus has to include early career devs. We need to expose them to Rails and mentor them into the senior developers and tech leaders we need in the future. Adam Cuppy joins the show today to teach how to be better mentors.
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Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic
August 14th, 2024 | 27 mins 50 secs
EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news about Ruby and its friends. Every year it takes place in a different European city, the location being chosen by participants.
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Episode 520: Backend Accessibility with Hilary Stohs-Krause
July 24th, 2024 | 36 mins 29 secs
In our last episode, we talked about Web Accessibility. But, did you know that there are accessibility concerns on the backend and in our interactions with our teams. Hilary Stohs-Krause joins the show to tell us more about how we can be more accommodating to our teams.
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Episode 519: Joel Hawksley on Web Accessibility
July 10th, 2024 | 37 mins 53 secs
Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy. For the last several years, he has been part of the team working to improve the accessibility of GitHub.com. He also leads development of the ViewComponent framework. Today, he joins the show to teach us about Web Accessibility
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Episode 518: Live From The Rails Conf Hallway Track!
June 26th, 2024 | 26 mins 1 sec
While at Rails Conf, I caught up with several attendees and organizers to discuss their experiences.
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Episode 517: Rails Conf 2024 Crossover: Off The Rails
June 12th, 2024 | 29 mins 32 secs
At Rails Conf 2024, I gathered several of our favorite ruby podcasters for a giant crossover episode!
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Episode 516: Catching Up On The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino
May 22nd, 2024 | 32 mins 28 secs
Over the last year, the Rails Foundation has been hard at work on several initiatives. After a successful Rails World last year, they’ve been working on the program for this year’s Rails World in Toronto. The Rails Foundation has also been working on several other initiatives that are very important to our community. Amanda Perino, Executive Director of The Rails Foundation joins the show to talk about the Foundation's work on the Rails Guides, Rails Girls Brazil, Tropical.rb, tutorials, working with Rails Core, and Rails World
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Episode 515: Livestreaming Code On Twitch with Rachael Wright-Munn
May 15th, 2024 | 32 mins 32 secs
I am very excited for today’s episode! Twitch is a livestreaming service where users can stream themselves to the internet. Twitch is known for video game streaming. But, people stream all kinds of things, including software development. Today's guest is Rachael Wright-Munn who livestreams Rails development on Twitch
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Episode 514: Rails Camp! With Bobbilee Hartman
April 24th, 2024 | 29 mins 22 secs
There are so many Ruby events happening recently, that it can be hard to know which one to go to. Today we’re going to talk about a rather unique event in the Ruby community. What if you could go to an event that was just the Hallway Track? And that event happened at a summer camp?
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Episode 513: Modern Rails Apps Ayush Newatia
April 10th, 2024 | 31 mins 37 secs
Rails 7 and Hotwire have completely revolutionized server side Rails apps. Developers can now get much more reactivity with way less javascript, less tooling, and simpler deployments. You’ve probably heard a lot about Rails 7.1 and Hotwire. Maybe you’re even using it in production? Ayush Newatia joins the show to talk about his new book, The Rails and Howtire Codex.
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Episode 512: RailsConf With Ufuk Kayserilioglu
March 27th, 2024 | 30 mins 46 secs
RailsConf is coming up fast! The program committee has released the schedule and keynote speakers. Ufuk Kayserilioglu joins the show to talk about the program and Ruby Central
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Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel
March 13th, 2024 | 31 mins 2 secs
You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.
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Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook
March 6th, 2024 | 34 mins 29 secs
Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked from the increased demands of the smaller teams. I know some of my listeners have experienced burnout. I myself have had a recent experience with burnout that took months to recover from. Dr. Katy Cook joins the show to teach us more about Burnout.