Remote Ruby

[00:09:02] We find out what Steve is doing now and what he did before thoughtbot. [00:13:30] Steve explains how the team works at thoughtbot. [00:17:00] Since people roll in and out of the team, how does Steve manage to bring someone up to speed quickly? [00:20:02] We learn what the onboarding process is when they get new clients so the team can easily jump in. [00:23:46] Jason brings up a thought...

[00:00:00] Jemma Issroff: Live from Portland at rails comp 2020. We're recording a podcast panel crossover episode. I'm Gemma is off one of the co-hosts of the Ruby on rails podcast. I'll be moderating this panel. We have five podcasts represented here across eight panelists. We're going to go around to start and hear what all everyone is excited about. For rails comp. First up...

Welcome to Remote Ruby and thanks for joining us!  Today the guys cover bet, basketball, and Adidas! And if we haven’t lost you yet, we have a “Three-peat” guest joining us, and that is Steve Polito, who’s a Developer at thoughtbot. We’ll be talking with Steve about careers around programming, the importance of practicing Code Review, and great emojis to use for a good PR Review.  We also find out...

[00:02:49] Jason and Andrew have been working on some GitHub actions and what’s been going on with that. Also, Jason and Chris challenge Andrew to do the typing speed test before the end of this episode! ☺ [00:06:07] We hear about a cool thing Andrew’s been working on, Chris and Jason tell us they ran out of build minutes, and Andrew mentions “act” to test your Actions locally. [00:08:54] Chris an...

[00:01:22] Andrew tells us about a blog post he put out about his Twitter profile image and some stuff he did with his GitHub actions repo. [00:05:29] The Tweet sharing begins. Tweet #1 topic is someone who’s learning Rails, has no idea how to read the documentation or where to go, and getting lost easily.  [00:13:55] Tweet #2 topic is about Matestack, and Jason brings up a previous episode they d...

[00:01:29] José tells us his background and what he does, and Seth explains how he found himself on a Ruby podcast with the Elixir creator. [00:03:47] We find out how José got started in Ruby and progress into being a Rails core team member. [00:07:40] We hear how José went from being a Rails core team member to creating Elixir, and he tells us about an influential paper called, “The Free Lunch Is...

[00:03:34] Chris tells us about Command Pallet, Ninja Keys, and Lit element. [00:09:25] Andrew asks the guys if they’ve looked at Shoelace style, he talks about using Bridgetown Quick Search plugin and Chris and Andrew talk about using CSS variables. [00:12:05] Andrew educates the guys on CSS Toggles since an unofficial draft is out. [00:19:52] We hear more from Chris about the Command Pallet stuf...

[00:00:41] The guys banter about Suns vs Grizzlies, some Tweets between Jason and Andrew, and the Footprint Center.  [00:06:00] Jason and Andrew were brainstorming topics for this podcast and there was talk about minting the first episode of Remote Ruby and sell it as an NFT. [00:07:19] Andrew explains the little oopsie that happened with Heroku and GitHub over the weekend. [00:13:19] Andrew tells...

[00:03:05] Chris tells us more about the bug he was trying to fix, working on Stripe tax support, Stripe payment element and addresses, and he fills us in on a JavaScript tool that Shopify for formatting addresses in different countries that makes Andrew sweat. [00:07:28] As a follow up from last week’s episode, Andrew defines “Posterized.” [00:08:06] The guys chat about WebAssembly stuff. [00:11:...

[00:00:58] It’s Day 1, Jason and Andrea got to ride in Andrew’s mustang and Jason now feels like a cool, hip Boomer and Andrew is sporting the Adidas wardrobe as usual.  [00:04:11] The guys tell us that Drew Bragg gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks they’ve ever seen, as well as Chris Seaton from Shopify.  [00:05:11] The guys discuss some other great talks with Kelly Sutton, talki...

[00:02:03]  The guys catch up and talk about some really good shows they are watching and a great book that’s worth a read.  [00:05:21] Sebastien tells us about himself and how he got into doing the Ruby on Rails tips on Twitter. [00:07:30] Find out where Sebastien started in his journey.  [00:11:42] Since Sebastien didn’t have Rails experience, he tells us what he put on his resume and ideas of w...

[00:02:15] Jason shares some interesting news that happened at Podia that involves Harry Connick Jr. and load testing.  [00:05:54] Chris tells us a story about his first Rails job which was building a website for Justin Timberlake’s 901Tequila. [00:07:08] Jason tells us about a tool they used called k6.  [00:18:11] Chris and Jason chat about query times with Heroku Postgres and Heroku Dashboard. [...

[00:05:09] Kevin gives us a brief introduction of himself.  [00:07:33] Kevin tells us about the grant he received, and he tells us about rubyfmt and SyntaxTree. [00:12:27] We learn why you have to do plugins in your language and why Kevin is convinced we need a new parser for Ruby. [00:16:43] Jason wonders if prettier was Kevin’s first introduction to parsers and how he got so knowledgeable about...

[00:01:12] We start with Taylor explaining where Laravel came from.   [00:03:32] Taylor tells us what Laravel 1.0 looks like and more about validations happening at the controller layer. [00:07:18] After version 1 comes out, Jason asks Taylor if he’s still at the trucking company and what the reception was like in the community. [00:11:16] We learn how the transition went for Taylor from working a...

[00:05:08] Jared tells us about himself, what he does, and how Bridgetown was born. [00:09:45] Andrew plugs going on GitHub and sponsoring Jared. [00:10:15] Bridgetown 1.0 is almost here, and Jared tells us more.   [00:15:47] We find out what else is new in Bridgetown since the guys last talked.  He tells us more about how he used Roda. [00:23:41] Chris asks Jared if he ever thought about using a...

[00:02:40] The first Tweet is: Haml? Jason does two live readings of a Haml file.  [00:05:24] Next question: Someone wants to know how to cope with the feeling of Rails moving too fast. Is it utopia? [00:09:18] Next question: How is YAML pronounced? [00:09:23] Next Tweet: You should talk about Andrew’s awesome buddy, Andrea!  [00:11:23] Next question: When is Rails 8 coming out?   [00:17:15] Next...

[00:03:25] We get to know more about John, what he does, what he’s built, and what he’s most famous for.  [00:08:52] John fills us in on what Flipper is. [00:13:04] Jason talks about how they’ve been using groups to do a stair-step rollout within the company, and John tells us about a new thing coming out that’s going to replace groups that will be easier.  [00:14:21] Andrew explains more about Tr...

[00:02:09] Ben takes us thorough his career journey starting off as a programmer. [00:05:45] Ben explains how things have changed since he became a CEO and about the transition with Tuple.  [00:06:35] Chris wonders if Ben’s had any struggles now that he’s interviewing and managing people, and he explains how he’s had to learn more in this process. [00:09:12] Ben tells us how hiring and figuring ou...

[00:01:52] Ben introduces himself and tells us about a configuration he did with Docker.  [00:09:24] Find out what GitHub Codespaces is all about.  [00:18:20] Ben explains the demo he did on how to create a new repository.  [00:22:56] Andrew tells Ben he feels like he might know how to set up a home network somehow, and what does Ben have to say about this? [00:26:01] Ben asks the guys if they’re...

[00:03:47] Andreas gives us a brief introduction of who he is, what he does, and how long he’s been writing Ruby code and Elixir code. [00:05:59] Find out what Phoenix LiveView is, and Jason wonders if it’s something that multiple processes could come in and reference or if it’s tied to one kind of connection. [00:08:55] Jason asks Andreas if he’s building a web app and someone tells him to use Li...

[00:01:10] Adam tells us a little bit about himself and how he got into this field.  [00:03:48] We learn more about Adam’s career path from edge case to Rails Autoscale.  [00:05:09] Adam gives us a rundown of what Rails Autoscale is and the problem it solves. [00:06:41] Andrew wonders if Rails Autoscale will help if you don’t have enough memory, and Adam tells us the solution for this. [00:09:39]...

[00:01:32] Emily and Jemma tell us their background stories of how they found their way into Ruby.  [00:03:26] Andrew asks Emily and Jemma if they ever wrote in BlueJ and he explains what it is. [00:04:19] We learn more about WNB.rb, how big the group is, and all the events they do.  Also, Jemma tells us about Emily’s talk she gave at RubyConf 2020 that’s worth checking out called, “The Bug that F...

[00:01:06] Paul tells us the story of how he got into audio editing and podcasting. [00:05:19] We learn how Paul got linked up with the Remote Ruby podcast, as well as Brittany’s Ruby on Rails podcast.  [00:09:01] Paul does True Crime podcasts and he tells us what he loves about them. [00:09:31] Since Paul has edited many, many episodes for both of the podcasts, Brittany wonders if there are certa...

[00:01:13] DHH tells us what Hotwire is and what’s new in Rails. [00:16:38] Jason brings up Hey being able to go full import map, and wonders if DHH sees being able to move to import maps only for Basecamp 4 eventually or will there be esbuild involved. [00:25:51] Hotwire Strada comes into the conversation and DHH fills us in on this. Chris talks about how the CSS and JS bundling turned out so cle...

[00:02:40] Jason gives us an explanation of what Kolide is, how they found Caitlin, and why they decided to hire her. [00:06:09] Andrew asks Jason when he was looking for someone for a mid to senior position, and what led him to believe that maybe that’s someone who doesn’t fit into a senior category but can still have the impact of someone with a senior paycheck. [00:08:42] Find out the most impa...