Jemma Issroff is a backend software developer, mainly working in Ruby. She is a founder and co-organizer of WNB.rb, a women / non-binary Ruby community. An avid blogger, Jemma also writes the Tip of the Week for Ruby Weekly.
When not programming or writing, Jemma is most likely to be found outdoors: hiking, running or swimming.
Jemma Issroff has hosted 26 Episodes.
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Episode 412: Plant Killers (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
April 6th, 2022 | 33 mins 6 secs
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.
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Episode 410: Ruby Loyalty and Engineering Management with Ufuk Kayserilioglu
March 23rd, 2022 | 30 mins 34 secs
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.
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Episode 404: 404: Developer Not Found (Brittany + Jemma)
February 9th, 2022 | 30 mins 30 secs
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!
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Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma
January 5th, 2022 | 30 mins 40 secs
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.
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Episode 394: Rubyconf 2021 Recap: Live + Virtual (Brittany & Jemma)
December 1st, 2021 | 30 mins 16 secs
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.
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Episode 393: The Rubyconf 2021 Live Podcast Panel
November 24th, 2021 | 51 mins 17 secs
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.
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Episode 388: Ruby is Still a Diamond with Emma Hyde
October 20th, 2021 | 36 mins 25 secs
After Emma's blog post, "Ruby is Still a Diamond", took the software engineering world by storm, Brittany and Jemma invited Emma on to the show (her podcast debut!) to ruminate why she continues to be excited about Ruby, why you should invest the effort into upgrading to Ruby 3.0, the differences between parallelism & concurrency and an introduction to Ractors.
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Episode 386: Marginally Wiser (Product Management) with Danny Issroff
October 6th, 2021 | 30 mins 3 secs
It's a family affair! Danny Issroff, Jemma's older brother, visited the show to discuss all things product management. Jemma and Brittany quizzed him about how developers can understand product, advice for aspiring PMs and why developers are a precious resource.
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Episode 381: Life Stories and Some Of Our Favorite Things (Brittany & Jemma)
August 25th, 2021 | 28 mins 56 secs
Jemma is going to be joining Shopify as a member of the Core Foundations team! She and Brittany discuss the interview process from Jemma's perspective. They then talk through their favorite developer tools, what they would improve and what sponsorship means for this show and WNB.rb.
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Episode 376: Technically Speaking (Brittany and Jemma)
July 21st, 2021 | 29 mins 29 secs
Jemma's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Brittany and Jemma discuss WNB.rb's upcoming Fireside Chats about Technical Speaking and how Jemma is approaching the event as a moderator. Brittany shares her experience onboarding three (!) new Junior developers at TextUs and they both discuss how the approach writing and submitting talks. Lastly, they talk about setting engineering cultures within teams.