Nick Schwaderer works in Production Engineering at Shopify. He loves Ruby history and lore.
He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland with his wife Laura.
Nick has worked on projects with Ruby to help forecast pain for individuals with chronic illness and assist in communications during a natural disaster.
When not writing Ruby Nick enjoys making music and IoT creations with Arduino.
Nick Schwaderer has hosted 24 Episodes.
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Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
March 5th, 2025 | 30 mins 15 secs
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
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Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
December 11th, 2024 | 31 mins 35 secs
This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.
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Episode 526: Rails World with Robby Russell
October 23rd, 2024 | 31 mins 58 secs
Nick and I recorded an episode at Rails World with Robby Russell. This is a test of new format we're running where we discuss Rails News. Robby joins us to talk about the Rails Developer Survey that ran this summer. WE also chat about all the new things announced at Rails World.
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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 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
February 21st, 2024 | 23 mins 29 secs
Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT inside Shopify. YJIT is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby written in Rust. Dr. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert joined the show to talk about YJIT
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Episode 500: Episode 500 Bonanza!
December 20th, 2023 | 30 mins 3 secs
Can you believe its been 500 Episodes? What a wild ride. It's been so much fun to take over the show and to get to be a part of this history. Our co-host Nick Schwaderer sat down with me to talk about the history of the show, what it's been like taking over, and some ideas for things we might experiment with in the future. I hope you enjoy it.
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Episode 494: Rails World Live! Pt 2 with Nick Schwaderer and Rafael França
November 1st, 2023 | 38 mins 8 secs
Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Raphael França about his work on the Rails Core team and releasing a new version of Rails.
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Episode 493: Rails World Live! Pt.1 With Nick Schwaderer and Andrew Mason
October 25th, 2023 | 31 mins 36 secs
Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Andrew Mason about podcasting, engaging with the Ruby community, how interest rates impact the tech industry, Turbo , and some of the new things announced at Rails World.
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Episode 485: A Ticket Giveaway and Kamal / Kemal (Brittany + Nick)
August 30th, 2023 | 33 mins 2 secs
Nick is heading to Rails World to represent the show and he has a ticket to giveaway to a lucky listener! The pair talk about doing hard things first, the renaming of MRSK to Kamal and then a random deep dive on our show's archives. Check out the show notes for giveaway details!
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Episode 479: Create What You Want to Exist: Brighton Ruby (Brittany + Nick + Andy)
July 19th, 2023 | 35 mins 7 secs
Brittany and Nick sync up after Nick's one-night-only talk at Brighton Ruby 2023. It wouldn't be a recap without the conference organizer so they were lucky to find Andy Croll free to fill them in on why he continues to run the event and his thoughts on the uptick on conference attendance.
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Episode 470: A Smorgasbord of Topics (Brittany + Nick)
May 17th, 2023 | 33 mins 25 secs
Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat.
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Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)
March 22nd, 2023 | 34 mins 49 secs
What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany.
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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 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 437: It's Not Only Sauerkraut and Pickles (Brittany + Nick)
September 28th, 2022 | 30 mins 52 secs
After diving into CrossFit and their favorite comfort foods, Nick and Brittany talk all things conferences: RubyKaigi 2022, Rails SaaS and Rubyconf 2022. Nick ends the episode by sharing some cool Rails upgrade tooling he is working on.
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Episode 427: Nick is an Influencer (Brittany + Nick)
July 20th, 2022 | 29 mins 15 secs
Nick is officially an influencer! After Nick accidentally launched a co-host of Rubyists learning Japanese (including Brittany!), the duo chat about learning styles and recommended podcasts. Oh, and upgrade your Rails applications, listeners!