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 359: Diffend, Security and Running with Ruby with Maciej Mensfeld
March 3rd, 2021 | 34 mins 44 secs
Maciej Mensfeld is a Software Architect with experience in a wide variety of business applications built using multiple Ruby frameworks. He is an active OSS contributor and maintainer of various projects including Karafka and Diffend.
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Episode 358: Sales for Software Developers with Evie Zawada
February 24th, 2021 | 29 mins 58 secs
Brittany tapped her good friend, Evie Zawada, to guest on the podcast to discuss sales tactics, identifying personas and how important it is to listen. She offers advice for developers who might find themselves selling a product or themselves for a job.
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Episode 357: CSS is a Cat with Utah Newman
February 17th, 2021 | 28 mins 6 secs
Utah Newman is a self taught Front end engineer with a passion for accessibility at Brightwheel. She and Brittany discuss the origin story behind her cat, border-radius: 50%, how important help is and how to navigate ADHD as a developer.
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Episode 356: Fireside Chat on the State of Hiring with Brian Mariani
February 10th, 2021 | 33 mins 10 secs
Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement. He is back on the podcast to discuss the current boom in hiring, remote working, rusty decision making and the drive to love whom you are working with.
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Episode 355: Asynchronous Adaptability with JF Lalonde
February 3rd, 2021 | 26 mins 55 secs
A graduate of the Turing School, JF Lalonde is a senior software engineer at TextUs. JF is passionate about writing clean, well-tested and well-documented code, mentoring others and maximizing productivity with asynchronicity.
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Episode 354: Authentic Developer with Dan Moore
January 27th, 2021 | 35 mins 53 secs
Dan Moore currently leads developer advocacy at FusionAuth, a company focused on authentication and authorization for developers. A first-time author, Dan also created a blog-turned-book dubbed "Letters for a New Developer".
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Episode 353: Rails Committer Heavy Hitter with Rafael França
January 20th, 2021 | 35 mins 25 secs
Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He is a Rails Core team member and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.
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Episode 352: Hanami 2.0 with Tim Riley
January 13th, 2021 | 42 mins 6 secs
Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. He guested on the show to discuss the eagerly anticipated Hanami 2.0 release and how dry-rb, rom-rb and Hanami partnered.
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Episode 351: Haml Sparks Joy with Hampton Lintorn Catlin
January 6th, 2021 | 38 mins 54 secs
Hampton Lintorn Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more. Hampton is Co-Founder and CEO of Veue, a live streaming video platform. If you love Haml, this episode is for you.
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Episode 350: Educating on Speed from the CLI with Nate Berkopec
December 30th, 2020 | 42 mins 2 secs
Nate Berkopec is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, the creator of the Rails Performance Workshop, and the maintainer of Puma. He and Brittany discuss his unique take on his workshop and his experiences maintaining Puma.
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Episode 349: A Diverse Array of New Voices with Starr Horne
December 23rd, 2020 | 33 mins 22 secs
Starr Horne is co-founder and one of the original developers of Honeybadger. Recently she has worked to bring a diverse array of new voices to Honeybadger's blog. She offers insightful advice on producing great content for developers.
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Episode 348: 349: From Air Traffic Controller to Tech Lead with John Cech
December 16th, 2020 | 27 mins 1 sec
Based in Portland, Oregon, John Cech is a Senior Ruby Developer working at Planet Argon. John works on a wide-range of client projects as a Tech Lead and provides mentorship to interns and junior developers having started out there as a junior, himself.
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Episode 347: 348: Chef Acquired and Leading from the Front (Brittany & Nick)
December 9th, 2020 | 33 mins 15 secs
Nicholas Schwaderer joined Brittany to discuss Chef's acquisition and how Brittany has been newly leading the Frontend team at TextUs. They wrap up with a recap of the Ryan Bates/Digital Ocean saga and a mystery topic.
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Episode 346: 347: The Southwest Airlines of File Uploading with Colleen Schnettler
December 2nd, 2020 | 30 mins 46 secs
Colleen Schnettler is an independent Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. She just launched her first product, Simple File Upload, and was eager to answer all of Brittany's questions about it and her experience with Active Storage.
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Episode 345: 346: Elixir and Phoenix with Jesse Herrick
November 25th, 2020 | 33 mins 16 secs
Jesse Herrick is a software engineer based in Columbus, Ohio at Little Lines, a RoR development company. Jesse often works in Rails for work, but his main software passion is Elixir and Phoenix. He dazzles Brittany with how great Phoenix LiveView is.
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Episode 344: 345: Packwerk with Maple Ong
November 18th, 2020 | 22 mins 29 secs
Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.