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196 - Defensive Programming with Prarthana Shiva Sep 25, 2023

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This week I'm joined by Prarthana Shiva for a discussion of defensive programming. We talk guard clauses, assertions, null tricks, secure coding, offensive programming, and loud failure. We also get into debugging processes, Prarthana's background, and my upcoming book on AI assisted programming.

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195 - Effective Communication with Mark Shead Sep 18, 2023

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Mark Shead joins me for a discussion on effective communication as an engineering leader. We also get into how understanding your client's needs can help you work efficiently, the difference in difficulty between creating something completely new and iterating on an existing design, how early and frequent feedback helps make the development process more efficient, and focusing on the value developers provide, rather than checking off tasks completed.

194 - Josh Doody, Salary Negotiation Coach Aug 21, 2023

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This week, Josh Doody joins me for a conversation on the ins and outs of salary negotiation. We also discuss increasing your value as an employee, negotiating raises, the importance of precision in professional communications and avoiding pronouns for proper nouns, using positive language as opposed to negative language, and the effect of building goodwill wherever you work.

193 - Amanda Perino, Executive Director of The Rails Foundation Aug 14, 2023

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This week I'm joined by Amanda Perino, Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. We discuss the upcoming Rails World conference in Amsterdam on October 5th & 6th. We also discuss what makes for a great conference experience, learning new languages and studying abroad, cultural differences between the US and Europe, and what's new at the Rails Foundation.

192 - Yeong Sheng Jul 31, 2023

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Today, I'm joined by Yeong Sheng Tan. We discuss his work as a coach and a consultant, how he integrates himself with a team to gain insight into workflows and to gain buy-in on his recommendations. We also get into test design, taking small steps and making frequent commits, epistemology, Bayesian reasoning, and multiple assertions in test cases.

191 - Payload CMS (YC S22) with Dan Ribbens Jul 25, 2023

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This week, I'm joined by Dan Ribbens for an in-depth conversation about his headless CMS software Payload CMS. We also discuss other CMS platforms and Dan's experience with Y Combinator.

190 - PostgreSQL with Sin City Ruby Speaker Andrew Atkinson Jul 17, 2023

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On this episode, Andrew Atkinson returns for a conversation centering on partitioning in PostgreSQL. We also discuss his upcoming book High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Sin City Ruby and some of the benefits of attending conferences, and "getting reps in."

189 - Sin City Ruby Speaker Ernesto Tagwerker Jul 10, 2023

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On today's episode, Ernesto Tagwerker returns for a conversation that touches on my upcoming Sin City Ruby conference (March 21-22 2024, in Las Vegas), addressing technical debt, particularly at small companies, defining technical debt, test coverage metrics, code metrics, the meaning of code quality, and "good enough" software.

188 - Sin City Ruby Speaker Irina Nazarova Jul 03, 2023

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Today I welcome back Evil Martians CEO Irina Nazarova for a discussion of her travels, the relentless march of time, changes we expect to see in the future of large language models, preparing for AI tools of the future, the most effective ways of using ChatGPT, AI as a performance enhancing drug, the upcoming Sin City Ruby conference (March 21-22, 2024), the support of the Ruby community and the importance of surrounding yourself with open, positive people.

187 - Sin City Ruby Keynote Speaker Obie Fernandez Jun 26, 2023

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On today's episode, I'm joined by Sin City Ruby Keynote Speaker Obie Fernandez for a discussion of AI. We talk about his AI project Olympia and the utility of opinions in an AI model. We also get into the suspension of disbelief that AI is capable of engendering, the function and necessity of politeness in AI models, the feasibility of custom AI models, next steps for AI, and social interactions at conferences.

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