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  • 40: Tobias Pfeiffer

    Tobi is a developer, leader, benchmarker, Rubyist, Elixir fan, learner,

    teacher and agile crafter by passion. He loves collaboratively creating
    just about anything people enjoy - be it the Ruby User Group Berlin,
    SimpleCov, benchee, or other projects while thinking about new ideas to
    push boundaries. Currently he's helping companies onboard onto Elixir
    and creating wonderful web applications in his journey as a freelancer.

    Show Notes
    • Ruby User Group Berlin
    • rubycorns
    • SimpleCov
    • benchee
    • shopify
    • pivorak
    • Aaron Cruz
    • Shoes 4
    • why the lucky stiff
    • wroclove.rb
    • Arne Brasseur
    • Steve Klabnik
    • AlphaGo
    • 2 hard problems tweet
    • Theory X and Theory Y
    • Piotr Szotkowski
    • code curious
    • Ruby Monstas
    • metasploit
    • The Agile Samurai
    • Rework
    • A Guide to the Good Life
    • Tao Teh King
    • The Art Of War
    • The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life
    • RSA Animate: Drive
    • Punished by Rewards
    • Recommendations
      • Sophie's World
      • All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
      • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
      • Tobias Pfeiffer
        • Twitter
        • Personal Page
        • Parallel Passion
          • Patreon
          • Twitter
          • Instagram
          • Facebook
          • Credits
            • Headway for the header photo
            • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
            • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
            • Support Parallel Passion

              59 min
            • 39: Molly Struve

              Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer. During her time working in the software industry, she has had the opportunity to work on some challenging problems. When not making systems run faster, she can be found fulfilling her need for speed by riding and jumping her show horses.

              Show Notes
              • Molly's Tweet
              • dev.to
              • Elasticsearch 5 or and Bust @ RubyConf 2019
              • Amy Cuddy: Your body language may shape who you are (Power Posing)
              • Lead Dev New York
              • Show Jumping
              • Ian Millar
              • Lipizzan Horse
              • Pembroke Corgi
              • Cardigan Corgi
              • SpaceX
              • For All Mankind
              • Falcon Heavy simultaneous landing
              • YES! You Should Be A Mentor!
              • Acronyms Seriously Suck
              • Advice on Applying for a Job
              • Recommendations
                • Mother
                • MIT
                • Horses
                • Molly Struve
                  • Twitter
                  • Personal Page
                  • Parallel Passion
                    • Patreon
                    • Twitter
                    • Instagram
                    • Facebook
                    • Credits
                      • Gene Devine for the header photo
                      • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                      • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                      • Support Parallel Passion

                        1 hr 3 min
                      • 38: Tim McNamara

                        Tim is an open source developer from New Zealand. He is a member of the Juju project's core team at Canonical and enjoys sharing how to make developers' lives simpler. His professional passion is data science, especially natural language processing. His recent experience has involved leading big data software projects, running training and outreach programs, and promoting open data. He's founded multiple startups and has also had several years in the public sector.

                        Show Notes
                        • Canonical
                        • Ubuntu
                        • Juju
                        • Rust
                        • Rust in Action
                        • Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
                        • Programming Collective Intelligence
                        • Conway's Game of Life
                        • Perlin Noise
                        • Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
                        • OpenStreetMap
                        • TED Talk on streets vs blocks
                        • what3words
                        • iNaturalist
                        • Cult of the Party Parrot
                        • Adopt a Kākāpō parrot
                        • New Zealand fairy tern
                        • Godwit
                        • Recommendations
                          • Becoming a father
                          • Being made redundant
                          • Participating in open source
                          • Tim McNamara
                            • Twitter
                            • Instagram
                            • Personal Page
                            • Parallel Passion
                              • Patreon
                              • Twitter
                              • Instagram
                              • Facebook
                              • Credits
                                • Michael Shannon for the header photo
                                • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                • Support Parallel Passion

                                  1 hr 2 min
                                • 37: Steph Smith

                                  Steph has been working remotely for over three years, as a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She’s a big advocate for remote work and actively writes about it over at her blog, which has been read by over 350.000 people since launch earlier this year. She is also a self-taught developer and has built multiple projects, some of which have gone to #1 on Product Hunt, won awards for inclusion, and led her to be nominated for Maker of the Year in 2018.

                                  Show Notes
                                  • Remote Year
                                  • The Web Developer Bootcamp
                                  • nomad(hubb)
                                  • Women Make
                                  • Make Yourself Great Again
                                  • World Happiness Report 2019
                                  • Correlation between activities and general happiness
                                  • Digital Minimalism
                                  • Why We Sleep
                                  • Eunoia
                                  • FeMake
                                  • Lightroom
                                  • The Four Tendencies
                                  • Recommendations
                                    • Give and Take
                                    • Steve Jobs' Vision of the World
                                    • Man's Search for Meaning
                                    • Steph Smith
                                      • Twitter
                                      • Instagram
                                      • Unsplash
                                      • Steph's Blog
                                      • Personal Page
                                      • Parallel Passion
                                        • Patreon
                                        • Twitter
                                        • Instagram
                                        • Facebook
                                        • Credits
                                          • Cam DiCecca for the header photo
                                          • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                          • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                          • Support Parallel Passion

                                            1 hr 2 min
                                          • 36: John Crepezzi

                                            John is a Ruby developer at GitHub, based in New Jersey. He’s got a ton of

                                            other interests including wood & metal working, climbing, beer making, drumming, and his family.

                                            Show Notes
                                            • Phil Sturgeon
                                            • The other seejohnrun
                                            • GothamGo 2019: Interacting with Custom-Made Hardware in Go
                                            • Leaning Tower of Pisa
                                            • Aaron Patterson
                                            • Chevrolet C-10
                                            • Yak Shaving
                                            • Lathe
                                            • SawStop demonstration video
                                            • Alex Honnold
                                            • Mr. Beer
                                            • Recommendations
                                              • Jimmy DiResta
                                              • The Da Vinci Code
                                              • Grandfather and father
                                              • John Crepezzi
                                                • Twitter
                                                • Personal Page
                                                • Parallel Passion
                                                  • Patreon
                                                  • Twitter
                                                  • Instagram
                                                  • Facebook
                                                  • Credits
                                                    • Philip Swinburn for the header photo
                                                    • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                    • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                    • Support Parallel Passion

                                                      1 hr 2 min
                                                    • 35: Rodoljub Petrović

                                                      Rodoljub is head of Software at Turtl. He has spent the last two decades developing software and software development teams. He is a husband and a father, as well as a failed basketball player.

                                                      Show Notes
                                                      • Turtl
                                                      • Rod's iPhone
                                                      • Twitter's Facebookisation storm
                                                      • Tweetbot
                                                      • Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis
                                                      • Finance.si articles by Rod
                                                      • 1Password password manager
                                                      • This Video Will Make You Angry
                                                      • This Too Shall Pass
                                                      • Recommendations
                                                        • Serbia national basketball team
                                                        • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
                                                        • The Bridge on the Drina
                                                        • Rodoljub Petrović
                                                          • Twitter
                                                          • Personal Page
                                                          • Parallel Passion
                                                            • Patreon
                                                            • Twitter
                                                            • Instagram
                                                            • Facebook
                                                            • Credits
                                                              • Markus Spiske for the header photo
                                                              • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                              • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                              • Support Parallel Passion

                                                                1 hr 4 min
                                                              • 34: Phil Sturgeon

                                                                Phil builds API Design tools for Stoplight.io, writes articles and books about pragmatic API design and systems architecture, lives on a bike, and occasionally upsets hordes of mens rights activists on Reddit. 

                                                                Show Notes
                                                                • APIs You Won't Hate
                                                                • Surviving Other People's APIs
                                                                • WeWork
                                                                • Chaos Monkey
                                                                • Stoplight
                                                                • maps.me
                                                                • EuroVelo
                                                                • Joren De Groof
                                                                • Dubrovnik
                                                                • Offset Earth
                                                                • Awesome Earth
                                                                • AquaLoop
                                                                • Cyclocross
                                                                • Tough Mudder
                                                                • Photo from a cyclo cross event Phil was in
                                                                • Couchsurfing
                                                                • Warmshowers
                                                                • Recommendations
                                                                  • Blogging
                                                                  • Applying to speak at conferences
                                                                  • Explore the world
                                                                  • Phil Sturgeon
                                                                    • Twitter
                                                                    • Instagram
                                                                    • Phil.Bike
                                                                    • Phil.Tech
                                                                    • Parallel Passion
                                                                      • Patreon
                                                                      • Twitter
                                                                      • Instagram
                                                                      • Facebook
                                                                      • Credits
                                                                        • Shane Rounce for the header photo
                                                                        • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                                        • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                                        • Support Parallel Passion

                                                                          56 min
                                                                        • 33: Floor Drees

                                                                          Developer Avocado, serial conference organizer, Rails Girls veteran.

                                                                          Show Notes
                                                                          • Rails Girls
                                                                          • ROSS Conf
                                                                          • vienna.rb
                                                                          • Rayta van Rijswijk
                                                                          • Amsterdam.rb
                                                                          • EuRuKo 2019
                                                                          • EuRuKo 2019 has been shipped, sealed, delivered
                                                                          • White Coat Captioning
                                                                          • Stenotype keyboard
                                                                          • Rails Girls Summer of Code
                                                                          • Recommendations
                                                                            • Having a family
                                                                            • Rails Girls
                                                                            • Floor Drees
                                                                              • Twitter
                                                                              • Personal Page
                                                                              • Parallel Passion
                                                                                • Patreon
                                                                                • Twitter
                                                                                • Instagram
                                                                                • Facebook
                                                                                • Credits
                                                                                  • Edwin Andrade for the header photo
                                                                                  • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                                                  • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                                                  • Support Parallel Passion

                                                                                    59 min
                                                                                  • 32: Yannick Schutz

                                                                                    Yannick is a little adventures’ photographer. Micro activist loving the outdoor. For him sharing is caring. Dad of a climber/adventurer to be. He does his best to share his values and make this planet a better place.

                                                                                    Show Notes
                                                                                    • Heroku
                                                                                    • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
                                                                                    • Burgundy
                                                                                    • Brittany
                                                                                    • Couchsurfing
                                                                                    • Fujifilm X100T
                                                                                    • Fujifilm X-T20
                                                                                    • Leica Q2
                                                                                    • Leica M10-D
                                                                                    • Leica M Monochrom
                                                                                    • iPad Pro
                                                                                    • Lightroom
                                                                                    • Darkroom
                                                                                    • Yannick's Shortcuts
                                                                                    • Mac Pro
                                                                                    • LumaFusion
                                                                                    • Third wave of coffee
                                                                                    • AeroPress
                                                                                    • Kalita
                                                                                    • Baratza Virtuoso
                                                                                    • Recommendations
                                                                                      • Let My People Go Surfing
                                                                                      • Nature
                                                                                      • Kindness
                                                                                      • Yannick Schutz
                                                                                        • Twitter
                                                                                        • Instagram
                                                                                        • Personal Page
                                                                                        • Parallel Passion
                                                                                          • Patreon
                                                                                          • Twitter
                                                                                          • Instagram
                                                                                          • Facebook
                                                                                          • Credits
                                                                                            • Yannick Schutz for the header photo
                                                                                            • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                                                            • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                                                            • Support Parallel Passion

                                                                                              1 hr
                                                                                            • 31: Joanne Cheng

                                                                                              Joanne is a Clojure/ClojureScript developer working at Pitch. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany, after living in Colorado for nearly eight years. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, map-making, and thinking about mountains.

                                                                                              Show Notes
                                                                                              • Pitch
                                                                                              • Ben Orenstein
                                                                                              • Katherine Wu
                                                                                              • Sebastian Gräßl
                                                                                              • Clojure
                                                                                              • We Work Remotely
                                                                                              • Colorado Trail
                                                                                              • Continental Divide Trail
                                                                                              • Blender
                                                                                              • Topographic Maps in Blender
                                                                                              • QGIS
                                                                                              • Denver open data
                                                                                              • Denver Buildings
                                                                                              • Nice Trails - Strava to 3D prints
                                                                                              • Paper Trails - Strava to posters
                                                                                              • Loopie - Strava to art prints
                                                                                              • Morning Pages
                                                                                              • The Chris Gethard Show
                                                                                              • Recommendations
                                                                                                • Headspace
                                                                                                • The Ground Up Show
                                                                                                • Lose Well
                                                                                                • Joanne Cheng
                                                                                                  • Twitter
                                                                                                  • Instagram
                                                                                                  • Personal Page
                                                                                                  • Parallel Passion
                                                                                                    • Patreon
                                                                                                    • Twitter
                                                                                                    • Instagram
                                                                                                    • Facebook
                                                                                                    • Credits
                                                                                                      • Brandi Redd for the header photo
                                                                                                      • Tina Tavčar for Parallel Passion logo
                                                                                                      • Jan Jenko for intro/outro music
                                                                                                      • Support Parallel Passion

                                                                                                        1 hr 2 min

                                                                                                      About Parallel Passion

                                                                                                      From the publisher's feed

                                                                                                      There are a ton of engineering podcasts out there. But they focus on engineering. We strive to be different. Parallel Passion wants to be the podcast that delivers insight into vastly diverse lives of engineers.