Code with Jason

In this episode, Vignesh Rajendran and I discuss his beginnings as a programmer, TDD, structuring your tests, organizing your workflow via testing, managing developers for success, and giving yourself permission to do a bad job in order to progress as a developer.

• Vignesh Rajendran on Twitter
• Vignesh Rajendran on LinkedIn
• Vignesh Rajendran on GitHub
• TryPeach.io

On today's episode I'm joined by Stefanni Brasil to discuss her experience at Rubyconf in San Diego, what it's like being a maintainer on the open-source Faker-Ruby, her plans for her talk at the upcoming Sin City Ruby, her work with Thoughtbot, using templates to spin up new Rails applications, and we look ahead to 2024's packed conference slate.

• Testing JavaScript with Kent C. Dodds
• Jumpstart Pro
• Rails Bytes
• Instant_Rails
• RailsConf
• RubyConf
• Rails World
• Friendly.rb
• Southeast Ruby
• Tropical.rb
• Stefanni Brasil on Twitter
• Stefanni Brasil on LinkedIn
• StefanniBrasil.me
• Hex Devs
• Thoughtbot
• Faker-Ruby
• Sin City Ruby

In this episode, Mike Stone, co-founder of The Gnar Company and I talk about his journey to becoming a developer and founding a consultancy, finding clients via leveraging personal networks and beyond, marketing as hunting and farming, making sense of freelancing and utilization, using the correct value/pricing model, productized services, and what's next for The Gnar Company.

• Mike Stone on LinkedIn
• Mike Stone on Twitter
• The Gnar Company
• Sin City Ruby

On today's episode, Simmon Li and I discuss his beginnings as a developer, finding a job,  the benefits of attending local developer meetups, being a lifelong learner, and the upcoming Sin City Ruby conference.

• Toronto Ruby
• Toronto Ruby on Twitter
• The Odin Project
• Otta
• Sin City Ruby
• Simmon Li on Twitter
• Simmon Li on LinkedIn

In this episode, Naijeria Toweett and I chat about her talk at Friendly.rb 2023, her beginnings as a developer, attending a bootcamp as Covid began to spread, how Naijeria came to speak at Friendly.rb, organizing a conference, and her motivation to speak at conferences.

• RubyConferences.org
• Sin City Ruby
• Naijeria Toweett on LinkedIn
• Naijeria Toweett on Medium
• Naijeria Toweett on Twitter

This week, Jason Charnes and I got together to talk about my monthly newsletter, job hopping, taking time to sharpen the saw, fixing bugs, front end development, design, reusability, defining abstraction, and things to do and where to eat in Las Vegas while attending Sin City Ruby.

• Nonsense Monthly, my newsletter
• The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams
• Sin City Ruby
• Jason Charnes.com
• Remote Ruby Podcast
• Active Record Cookbook
• Jason Charnes on Twitter

For my 200th episode of Code with Jason, I spoke with Saron Yitbarek, Founder of CodeNewbie and RubyConf Keynote Speaker.  We talk about her beginnings in tech, the founding of CodeNewbie, the power of simply asking for things, how to go about asking for things, how being self-taught still relies upon materials made available by the work of other developers, possible topics for Saron's upcoming keynote at RubyConf, and how to get the most out of your in-person conference experience. 

• NotADesigner.io
• Saron.io
• Saron Yitbarek on Medium
• Saron Yitbarek on Twitter
• Saron Yitbarek on LinkedIn

This week, Samuel Giddins and I discuss life on call as a developer, the upcoming RubyConf,  the pitfalls of online communications, Sam's beginnings as a developer, software supply chain security, and the difference between "amicable" and "amiable."  Sam will be at the Ruby Gems and Bundler open space at RubyConf in San Diego on Monday, November 13th 2023.

• Samuel Giddins' Site
• Samuel Giddins on Hachyderm.io
• RubyGems Blog
• RubyConf

On this episode, Wisen Tanasa joins me to talk Test Driven Development.  We discuss why TDD is intuitive, translating specifications into tests, the balance between design and execution, developing a walking skeleton, the value of learning design principles and UX, minimizing the need to use willpower with positive feedback loops, and understanding what TDD is.

• Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce
• The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams
• Wisen Tanasa on Twitter
• Wisen Tanasa on LinkedIn
• Wisen Tanasa's Newsletter Quantum Steps

On this week's episode, Thiago Massa joins me for a conversation about international pizza styles, life in Berlin as compared to São Paulo, guitars and playing music, writing books, and reading well to write well.  

• Thiago Massa on LinkedIn
• Thiago Massa on Twitter
• The Complete Guide to Rails Testing by Jason Swett
• My snail mail newsletter