Code with Jason

In this episode, Julian Fahrer returns to discuss feature flags and duplication.

• CodeTales.io
• Julian Fahrer on GitHub
• Julian Fahrer on Twitter
• LearnDocker.Online

This week Ernesto Tagwerker returns for a discussion of his work upgrading Rails apps with FastRuby, the benefits of exercise and getting outside, and the ins and outs of productized services. 

• Ernesto Tagwerker on Twitter
• OmbuLabs Blog
• Jobs at OmbuLabs
• FastRuby.io
• 30 x 500 Academy
• Upgradejs.com

Code with Jason is back! On this episode, TJ Stankus returns for a discussion of Object Oriented Programming and his book 99 Bottles of OOP.  We also discuss managing large applications with Rails, models, organizing by domain concept, and microservices.

• 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz, Katrina Owen, and TJ Stankus
• Responsibility-Driven Design by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
• Design Stamina Hypothesis by Martin Fowler
• The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
• Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
• Why I Organize my Tests by Domain Concept, not by Test Type by Jason Swett
• TJ.Stank.us
• TJ Stankus on Twitter
• [email protected]

Nick Schwaderer returns for the final episode before the show goes on hiatus.  In this episode, recorded live on Twitter, we discuss a cornucopia of topics, including running a live event on Twitter, the vegetable drink V8, multi-level marketing, conference organizing, air quality, structuring large applications, and soup.

• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter
• Schwad.github.io
• Pastrubies.live
• Jaques Pepin's black bean soup

In this episode, I'm joined by Alex Evanczuk for a conversation about large Rails applications, how they grow, and how to keep things under control as they grow.

• Alex Evanczuk's Email
• Laying the Cultural and Technical Foundation for Big Rails (blog post)
• Laying the Cultural and Technical Foundation for Big Rails (talk)
• Ruby/Rails Modularity Slack
• Ruby At Scale on GitHub
• Alex Evanczuk on Twitter
• Alex Evanczuk on LinkedIn
• Alex Evanczuk on GitHub
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell

In this episode, I talk with Adrian Marin about Avo Admin and how it compares to Jumpstart and Bullet Train, the origins of Avo Admin, the early struggles of developing Avo Admin, making the leap to working on Avo full time, the size of the Rails community,  achieving profitability and the price of ramen.

• Adrian Marin on Twitter
• Avo Admin
• Adrianthedev.com

In this episode I talk with Andrew Atkinson about PostgreSQL and databases. We talk about check constraints, foreign keys, and other PostgreSQL/database concepts.

• Andy Atkinson.com
• Andrew Atkinson on Twitter
• Andrew Atkinson on GitHub
• Puny to Powerful PostgreSQL Rails Apps (RailsConf 2022 talk)
• Creating a constraint that is initially "not valid"
• Slides 16 & 17 of this presentation also deal with "not valid" constraints
• The Strong Migrations gem at Github
• Lukas Fittl's pganalyze
• Haki Benita's post on adding constraints without validating immediately

In this episode, I'm joined by Brian Hogan for a conversation about the state of hiring in tech, the problems surrounding the need to generate new senior developers, and developing your personal network with an eye towards career advancement. 

• Brian P. Hogan's website
• Brian P. Hogan on Twitter

This week, I'm joined by Andrew Mason, Senior Product Engineer at Podia and co-host of Remote Ruby and Ruby for All for a discussion about tailoring content for an audience of junior developers, Andrew's newsletter Ruby Radar, SIM swapping, and dealing with internet problems.

• Andrew Mason on Twitter
• AndrewM.codes
• Remote Ruby
• Ruby for All
• Ruby Radar

In this episode, Seth Tucker returns to discuss the Crystal programming language, developing a contextually-aware chatbot, developing for SEO, page loading time and ad spending. 

• Seth Tucker on DEV.to
• Seth Tucker on Twitter
• Seth Tucker on GitHub