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 423: Featuring Some of the Nicest People in Rubydom (Brittany + Nick)
June 22nd, 2022 | 32 mins 1 sec
Brittany and Nick took a foray into handheld console gaming before celebrating Nick's new role at Shopify on the Ruby/Rails Infra team. They chatted about their favorite parts of Railsconf including Nick's Ruby Archaeology talk and Shopify's Railsconf Afterparty Twitter Space. Also, Past Rubies is back!
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Episode 420: The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
June 1st, 2022 | 43 mins 43 secs
Live from Portland, OR is the Ruby Podcast Panel recording from Railsconf 2022! The panelists discuss why they are loyal to podcasting, the state of the Ruby and Rails communities, opening doors for juniors into our industry and themes they noted from the conference.
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Episode 411: Sin City Reunion (Brittany + Nick)
March 30th, 2022 | 32 mins 24 secs
Brittany and Nick gush about their long awaited reunion at Sin City Ruby in Las Vegas. They talk about talk prep, hype music, and even costume changes. After discussing how to pull off a company onsite and remote whiteboarding, they wrap by sharing their thoughts on "No Railsconf".
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Episode 401: From Frontend to Fullstack with Shameel Abdullah
January 19th, 2022 | 28 mins 49 secs
Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions.
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Episode 395: The Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany & Nick)
December 8th, 2021 | 30 mins 35 secs
It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts.
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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 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton
September 29th, 2021 | 30 mins 11 secs
Kevin Newton is a staff engineer at Shopify on the Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He’s working on improving the speed and efficiency of CRuby. The trio (Kevin, Nick and Brittany) discuss RubyKaiji talks, Kevin's work on the Prettier plug-in for Ruby and RegularExpression, the Shopify HackDays project Kevin and Nick worked on.
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Episode 377: The Ruby Super Team (Brittany and Nick)
July 29th, 2021 | 32 mins 20 secs
Nick's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Nick tells Brittany about the ambitious project he and his Hack Day team took on at Shopify. Brittany updates Nick on her trip to Denver to meet the team at TextUs and how her junior team members are doing a month in. They wrap up by reflecting on how much hiring has changed since they discussed it in depth last spring.