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Episode 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee Mar 05, 2019

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Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

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Episode 262: 262: Reasonably Up-To-Date with Jan Krutisch Feb 27, 2019

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Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers.

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Episode 261: 261: Domain Driven Design & Bots with José Albornoz Feb 18, 2019

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Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place.

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Episode 260: 260: Rails Performance with Nate Berkopec Feb 14, 2019

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Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.

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Episode 259: 259: Continuous Deployment (dpl) with Hiro Asari Feb 08, 2019

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Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI.

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Episode 258: 258: Run.rb and Mental Health Awareness with Jason Charnes Jan 31, 2019

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Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. After discussing their mutual love of Ruby, Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community.

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Episode 257: 257: Apprenticing at thoughtbot with Sarah Dawson Jan 26, 2019

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Brittany is on the road in NYC! Her company is a new client with thoughtbot, a creative studio that helps clients build applications. Brittany took a coffee break to chat with Sarah Dawson, their newest apprentice about thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, the thin line between junior developer and established developer and her initial reaction to Rails.

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Episode 256: 256: Empowering Founders with Emily Wazlak from Shine Registry Jan 12, 2019

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Emily is the CEO of Shine Registry, a startup built on Rails that’s working on reshaping tradition to increase gender equity in entrepreneurship. Brittany has been consulting on the project so she invited Emily on to discuss prototyping an application quickly in RoR, being a non-technical founder and how our listeners can get involved with Shine Registry.

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Shine Registry
Project Olympus
Shine Registry on Instagram
info@shineregistry.com for interest in joining Shine Registry
Emily Wazlak on Twitter
Episode Music: "Keep Dancing" by Podington Bear

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Episode 255: 255: Submit Your Railsconf CFP with Marty Haught Jan 03, 2019

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On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions.

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Episode 254: 254: Ruby Support for AWS Lambda with Alex Wood Dec 27, 2018

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Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime.

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