Code with Jason

In this episode, Benjamin and I talk about transitioning from being an independent freelancer to running an agency, plus the challenges involved in hiring programmers. We also talk about recording music.

• Benjamin Wood on Twitter
• Benjamin Wood on GitHub
• Hint.io
• Careers at Hint.io

In this episode with Anurag Goel, CEO of Render, I probe Anurag to try to find out how he became employee #8 at Stripe and how he managed to successfully start a PaaS/hosting startup.

• Anurag Goel on Twitter
• Render
• Career opportunities at Render

In this episode, Kent C. Dodds and I talk about testing JavaScript. Among other things, Kent and I have a debate about whether it's possible to have good code without tests.

• Kent C Dodds.com
• Kent's Office Hours
• testingjavascript.com
• Kent C Dodds on Twitter
• Kent C Dodds on GitHub

In this episode, Tom Rossi and I talk about what types of challenges one might encounter when scaling a Rails application. We also talk about podcasting.

• Tom Rossi on Twitter
• Higher Pixels
• Buzzsprout

In this episode, Josef Strzibny and I talk about his book, Deployment from Scratch, and, naturally, deploying and running web applications.

• Deployment from Scratch
• nts.strzibny.name
• Josef Strzibny on Twitter

This multi-podcast crossover episode was recorded live at RubyConf 2021 in Denver. In this episode you'll hear Jemma Issroff, Emily Giurleo, Nick Schwaderer, Jason Charnes, Andrew Mason and Jason Swett.

In this episode, Damir and I take a deep dive on API design.

• Damir.Svrtan.me
• Damir Svrtan on Twitter
• Damir Svrtan on GitHub

In this episode I tell Nick Schwaderer about some soup I ate. We touch on ingredients, spice level, utensils and consumption logistics.

Links:

• Saigon Bowl

In this episode, Jono Stiansen and I discuss the philosophy of science as it applies to programming, debugging methodology, and functional programming.

• Jono Stiansen on Twitter
• The Three Virtues of a Great Programmer
• Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata
• An Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby
• Elixir's pin operator
• The Hangman Challenge

In this episode, Dana Kashubeck and I discuss working in a rapidly growing environment, deciding when to refactor, the benefits of organizational knowledge, and how to effectively share knowledge as opposed to simply giving answers.

• Within 3
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers