Utah Newman is a self taught Front end engineer with a passion for accessibility at Brightwheel. She and Brittany discuss the origin story behind her cat, border-radius: 50%, how important help is and how to navigate ADHD as a developer.

Links for this episode:

• Careers - brightwheel
  
• Utah Kate Newman (@TheUtahKate) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Mint Mobile

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Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm. He is back on the podcast to discuss the current boom in hiring, remote working, rusty decision making and the drive to love whom you are working with.

Links for this episode:

• Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Raygun

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Headspace

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A graduate of the Turing School, JF Lalonde is a senior software engineer at TextUs. JF is passionate about writing clean, well-tested and well-documented code, mentoring others and maximizing productivity with asynchronicity.

Links for this episode:

• HTML & JavaScript for Visual Learners
  
• Turing School
  
• TextUs
  
• Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way
  
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
  
• JF's Personal Site
  
• JF-Lalonde (JF Lalonde) · GitHub
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

ExpressVPN

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If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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Dan Moore currently leads developer advocacy at FusionAuth, a company focused on authentication and authorization for developers. A first-time author, Dan also created a blog-turned-book dubbed "Letters for a New Developer".

Links for this episode:

• FusionAuth: Authentication and Authorization built for devs
  
• Letters to a New Developer
  
• Letters To a New Developer: The Book
  
• Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | Meetup
  
• Dan Moore (@mooreds) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Linode

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Headspace

You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple.

That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.

Links for this episode:

• Plataformatec
  
• Simple Form: Forms made easy for Rails
  
• Rails Core Team
  
• Rails 6.1 Release Notes
  
• Hotwire
  
• rafaelfranca (Rafael França) · GitHub
  
• Rafael França (@rafaelfranca) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Linode

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Visit https://linode.com/rubyonrails and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.

Mint Mobile

As the first company to sell premium wireless service online-only, Mint Mobile lets you maximize your savings with plans starting at JUST $15 a month. To get your new unlimited wireless plan and get the plan shipped to your door for free, go to https://mintmobile.com/ruby.

Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. He guested on the show to discuss the eagerly anticipated Hanami 2.0 release, how dry-rb, rom-rb and Hanami partnered and how slices and containers work with one another.

Links for this episode:

• Hanami
  
• hanami/hanami: The web, with simplicity. - GitHub
  
• Hanami 2.0 - Trello
  
• Hanami Forum
  
• Tim's Open Source Status Updates
  
• Tim Riley (@timriley) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Linode

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Visit https://linode.com/rubyonrails and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.

Hampton Lintorn Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more. Hampton is Co-Founder and CEO of Veue, a live streaming video platform. If you love Haml, this episode is for you.

Links for this episode:

• Hampton Catlin | Wikipedia
  
• Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
  
• Veue Live Streaming
  
• Haml's Main Site
  
• haml / haml on Github
  
• haml | A Surprise Visit
  
• Natalie Weizenbaum | Github (@nex3)
  
• Hampton Catlin (@HamptonMakes) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit.

If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

Scout APM

Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

Nate Berkopec is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, the creator of the Rails Performance Workshop, and the maintainer of Puma. He and Brittany discuss his unique take on his workshop and his experiences maintaining Puma.

Links for this episode:

• Speedshop - the Ruby on Rails peformance company
  
• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
  
• The Rails Performance Workshop
  
• 5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast #260: Rails Performance with Nate Berkopec
  
• puma/puma: A Ruby/Rack web server built for concurrency - GitHub
  
• Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter
  
• Nate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Starr Horne is co-founder and one of the original developers of Honeybadger - an exception monitoring service with deep ties in the ruby community. Recently she has worked to bring a diverse array of new voices to Honeybadger's blog. She offers insightful advice on producing great content for developers.

Links for this episode:

• Honeybadger | Exception and Uptime Monitoring for Application Developers
  
• The Honeybadger Developer Blog
  
• Write For Us | Honeybadger Developer Blog
  
• Opening The Ruby Concurrency Toolbox - Honeybadger.io
  
• FounderQuest
  
• Starr (@StarrHorne) | Twitter
  
• Honeybadger.io (@honeybadgerapp) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Headspace

You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple.

That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

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Based in Portland, Oregon, John Cech is a Senior Ruby Developer working at Planet Argon. John works on a wide-range of client projects as a Tech Lead and provides mentorship to interns and junior developers having started out there as a junior, himself.

Links for this episode:

• Planet Argon: Software Development with Ruby on Rails
  
• Internship - Planet Argon
  
• Email John @ [email protected]
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Command Line Heroes

Command Line Heroes is a podcast that tells the epic true tales of developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels who are revolutionizing the technology landscape.

Listen to Season 6 here.

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