Code with Jason

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.

• Prarthana Shiva on LinkedIn

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.

• Mark Shead's YouTube Channel
• Mark Shead on Twitter
• Mark Shead.com 
• Starting Agile: Finding Your Path by Mark Shead

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.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Fearless Salary Negotiation.com
• Fearless Salary Negotiation by Josh Doody
• Josh Doody on Twitter

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.

• The Rails Foundation
• Rails World 2023
• The Rails Foundation on Twitter
• The Rails Foundation on LinkedIn
• This Week In Rails Newsletter
• Amanda Perino on Twitter
• Amanda Perino on LinkedIn
• Sin City Ruby

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. 

• 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandy Metz, Katrina Owen, and TJ Stankus
• Odd-e
• Yeong Sheng Tan on Twitter
• Yeong Sheng Tan at Odd-e
• Sin City Ruby

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. 

• Payload CMS
• Payload CMS on Twitter
• Payload CMS on Discord
• DanRibbens.com
• Dan Ribbens on Twitter
• Sin City Ruby

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." 

• High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails by Andrew Atkinson (coming August 2023)
• The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
• pgslice
• Partitioning Billions of Rows Without Downtime
• Andy Atkinson.com
• Andrew Atkinson on Twitter
• Andrew Atkinson on GitHub
• Sin City Ruby

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.

• Ernesto Tagwerker on Mastodon.social
• Fast Ruby.io
• Ruby.social
• Sin City Ruby

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.

• Irina Nazarova on Twitter
• Irina Nazarova on LinkedIn
• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
• Evil Martians.com
• Razom for Ukraine
• Nova Ukraine
• World Central Kitchen
• Sin City Ruby

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.

• The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
• Olympia.chat
• RCRDSHP
• MagmaChat
• Improv Effect
• Business Improv by Val Gee and Sarah Gee
• Obie Fernandez.com 
• The Rails 7 Way by Obie Fernandez, Lucas Dohmen, and Tom Henrik Aadland
• Obie Fernandez on Spotify
• Obie Fernandez on Twitter