The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Episode 268: 268: Origins of Discourse & Changing Your Developer Mindset with Sam Saffron

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Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".

Links for this episode:

  • Sam's Blog
  • Discourse
  • mini_racer | Minimal embedded v8
  • Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
  • Sam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)
  • Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael Springer
  • Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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