In this episode I talk with Casey Watts, author of Debugging Your Brain. We discuss modeling the brain, cognitive behavioral therapy, music, and bubbles.

Links:

• Debugging Your Brain
• CaseyWatts.com
• Casey Watts on Twitter
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• The Fearless Organization

In this episode I talk with Julian Fahrer, Engineer at Brightline, about complex scheduling challenges and service objects.

Links:

• Julian Fahrer on Twitter
• LearnDocker.online

In this episode I talk with John Athayde, VP of Design at PowerFleet. John and I discuss some design tips for developers who want to improve their design skills. We also talk about farming and presidents.

Links:

• John Athayde on Twitter
• Sfumato Farm

In this episode I talk with Joel Hawksley, Software Engineer at GitHub, about GitHub's ViewComponent library.

Links:

• ViewComponent.org
• Primer ViewComponents

In this episode I talk with Matt Swanson about the Shopify Upgrow guide (since taken offline), which recently made a small splash in the Rails community. Matt and I share our candid opinions regarding what in the Upgrow guide we agree with and what we disagree with.

Links:

• Boring Rails
• Matt Swanson on Twitter
• Upgrow mirror
• Matt's article, "All software advice is wrong"

In this episode I talk with Tom Rossi about how to keep Rails apps organized. Tom and I talk about POROs, "service objects", /lib vs. /app, the "slots" Rails gives you, and the limits of Rails' ability to help organize application code.

• Tom Rossi on Twitter
• Higher Pixels

In this episode I talk with Matt Swanson about how to debug systematically rather than haphazardly.

Links:

• A systematic methodology for solving any programming problem
• BoringRails.com
• Matt Swanson on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Noah Gibbs, author of Rebuilding Rails, about debugging techniques, the scientific method, a useful concept called "the presenting complaint", and more.

Links:

• Noah Gibbs on Twitter
• Rebuilding Rails

If you've ever experienced the pain of having woefully underestimated something, this episode is for you. In this one I talk with Matt Swanson about how to estimate accurately as well as why I'm not a big fan of story points.

Links:

• BoringRails.com
• Matt Swanson on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Ernesto Tagwerker, founder of FastRuby.io, about the topic of code quality. We discuss what code quality means as well as some tools that can assist with giving code quality proper attention.

Links:

• FastRuby.io
• Ernesto Tagwerker on Twitter
• RuboCop
• Reek
• Skunk