Brittany Martin
Brittany Martin is an Engineering Manager at Shogun, co-host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, and she plays roller derby for Steel City Roller Derby under the pseudonym “Merge Conflict”.
She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and she tweets at @brittjmartin
Brittany Martin has hosted 399 Episodes.
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Episode 456: The Ruby’s Got You Covered World Tour with Kevin Murphy
February 8th, 2023 | 26 mins 20 secs
Kevin Murphy is a software developer in the Boston area, currently working at Bookbub. After discussing Kevin's first commit into Ruby(!), he and Brittany discuss the long-term benefits and effects of community involvement, including speaking. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kevin's tour promo at the end of the episode!
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Episode 455: Adventures in TruffleRuby (Brittany + Nick)
February 1st, 2023 | 30 mins 56 secs
After taking a moment to talk about Chris Seaton's impact on the community, Nick tells Brittany about his adventures in TruffleRuby and Hatchbox. They also discuss how Shopify removed all recurring meetings with more than two people in perpetuity to encourage more focus time.
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Episode 454: Rubyconf @ Home: Hanami Core Team
January 25th, 2023 | 50 mins 21 secs
Captured live from Rubyconf 2022 Home Edition on January 11th, 2023, this is a special episode recorded with the Hanami Core Team: Luca Guidi, Tim Riley and Peter Solnica. Co-moderated by Jason Charnes and Brittany Martin.
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Episode 453: Ruby for All Crossover: Integrations
January 18th, 2023 | 30 mins 35 secs
Brittany guested on Ruby for All this week! She joins Julie J to talk about why integrations are important to developers and why integration knowledge can give Juniors a leg up in hiring. They also discuss the differences between APIs and webhooks and review a real world example.
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Episode 452: 2023 with Finesse (Brittany + Jemma)
January 11th, 2023 | 26 mins 9 secs
After reflecting on their 2022 resolutions, Brittany and Jemma talk about their resolutions for 2023. Afterwards, Brittany congratulates Jemma on shipping Object Shapes in Ruby 3.2, asks what is in store for her next and why everyone should upgrade to Ruby 3.2. They wrap up the episode talking about team changes at TextUs.
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Episode 451: How We Hire Junior Developers with Andy Croll
January 4th, 2023 | 33 mins 52 secs
The podcast voice is back! Andy Croll is starting 2023 off right by joining Brittany to discuss the process they went through at CoverageBook to hire a junior developer. The timing is perfect because TextUs was also hiring a Junior developer so Brittany cons Andy into sharing a bunch of free advice. Happy New Year, listeners!
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Episode 450: Bootstrapping SaaS on Rails + Finding Community with Adam Pallozzi
December 28th, 2022 | 34 mins 42 secs
Adam Pallozzi has been a professional musician, business owner and software developer. Now, he has co-founded SleepHQ, a CPAP support community where users can upload, review and share their therapy data with anyone. Ahead of his (spoiler: successful) launch of the Pro version, Adam sits down with Brittany to discuss his journey to finding Rails, his appreciation of Bullet Train, working on hardware (magic!) and finding community from AU.
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Episode 449: New OSS Maintainers with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo
December 21st, 2022 | 29 mins 5 secs
Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo are back on the show as new maintainers of the Faker gem! The trio discuss what they have learned in OSS so far, when to declare bankruptcy and how to market a project for new contributors. Does Hacktoberfest make a difference?
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Episode 448: Turbo Native Workshop with Joe Masilotti
December 14th, 2022 | 30 mins 58 secs
Joe Masilotti of both Turbo Native and railsdevs fame, joined Brittany to talk about his upcoming Turbo Native workshop. They discuss why he is conducting the workshop(s), whether he is happy with the current state of Turbo Native (with a cool OSS reveal) and of course, an update on how railsdevs is progressing.
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Episode 447: Rubyconf Mini Recap + The Rails Foundation (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
December 7th, 2022 | 36 mins 30 secs
Brittany is joined by the co-organizers of Rubyconf Mini: co-host, Jemma, and Emily Samp. The trio discussed how inclusivity was laced into the event, their futures as conference planners and the adoration of Jemma's Nana. In the back half of the episode, they discuss their expectations and reaction to the announcement of The Rails Foundation.
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Episode 446: I'm Giving A Talk on Thursday (The Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel)
November 30th, 2022 | 43 mins 7 secs
Live from Providence, RI, it is the Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel! Panelists from different community podcasts come together to discuss their experiences at the conference, field questions from the audience attendees and of course, mention their upcoming talks they were giving at the conference.
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Episode 445: The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany + Nick)
November 23rd, 2022 | 33 mins 27 secs
It's back and now a tradition! It's the Holiday Gift Guide episode where Brittany and Nick share their picks for gifts that might appeal to a developer in your life.
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Episode 444: Artificial Intelligence on Rails with Kevin Su
November 16th, 2022 | 24 mins 11 secs
Kevin Su ditched college to pursue the venture-backed startup dream, but found his calling running a small, bootstrapped and profitable SaaS business called Clearscope. Together, Brittany, Brian and Kevin discuss why Rails is the perfect launching pad for SaaS businesses, the tech stack Clearscope has chosen and how they approach hiring.
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Episode 443: Your Network Is Your Net Worth with Roman Turner
November 9th, 2022 | 30 mins
Roman Turner is a classically trained French chef turned developer. He's now a Software Developer at America's Test Kitchen. He and Brittany discuss personal branding, attracting and keeping members in the Ruby/Rails community and advice for junior developers seeking their first role.
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Episode 442: Sierra Rails (The Apprenticeship Pattern) with Dave Paola
November 2nd, 2022 | 33 mins 1 sec
An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results.
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Episode 441: The Pursuit of Mentorship with Meghan Gutshall
October 26th, 2022 | 32 mins 50 secs
Meg Gutshall is a Ruby on Rails application developer at Penn Medicine with a passion for open source. Brittany asks Meg about her love of Virtual Coffee, her fond memories of Mike Rogers and her role as a core team member of Ruby for Good.