Build and Learn

Types of Content Tweet Blog Posts / newsletter Live Streaming (Twitch, etc) YouTube & YT Shorts TikTok & Instagram Resources Rubyists who tweet useful and helpful stuff  https://twitter.com/websebdev https://twitter.com/siaw23 https://twitter.com/ShinoKouda Niche blogs Blended Edge on building integrations: https://www.blendededge.com/blog Newsletters  Ruby Radar: https://rubyradar.dev/ Ru...

Disclaimer: The episode on Creating Pull Requests got lost so Episode 6 ended up being our Build vs Buy episode.  Upcoming Conferences Of Note Rails SaaS - Oct 6-7, 2022 (already happened) Ruby Conf Mini - Nov 15-17 RubyConf  - Nov 29-Dec 1 Chirp - Nov 16th Pull Request Guide from Thoughtbot Other Tips for giving a nice PR review Remember the person on the other end of your review is a human. As d...

Colin's RailsConf 2022 Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-GDhlBTHoo  Innovation tokens blog post -  Choose Boring Technology ReadMe jobs -  https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/readme/jobs

- PTO & Taking Time Off   - Self-care   - Accrual caps   - Burnout    - Unlimited time off - good or bad?   - Trap of not taking enough, personal guilt, fear of letting team down   - Brad Feld’s 1 week a quarter - completely off grid, no work (= 4 weeks a year)    - Why taking time off is good for your team / company   - Marathon / not a sprint, you need to be able to take time off   - Ensures...

Paths Educational paths toward programming  Self-taught - blogs, articles, tutorials, online platforms like Udemy, code academy 4-year computer science degree 2-year “web design” degree 12-week full-time boot camp 6-month part-time bootcamps Bootcamps that specialize in a discipline like data science, graphics design Bootcamps that serve underrepresented groups - resilient coders, shecodes.io ,  t...

Welcome from Build & Learn! Learnings from our first full episode: The First Pancake Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want. Developer Profile  Education Learning to code Experience Roles Where Who Technologies  Most loved Most dreaded Most wanted Worked with vs Want to work with...

Why a podcast?  Fun to hang out We learn a lot from one another. Chance to share what we’re building and learning in public Chance to meet and elevate other folks in the community Set the stage for what to expect on the show  We are figuring this out, so don’t hold us to it in these first few episodes ;) Building and learning from Software Development but also life Introduction and background - Ou...

Welcome to Build & Learn, a podcast about software development and developing ourselves as software engineers. Hosted by CJ Avilla and Colin Loretz.