Vince Eberle is a Full Stack Developer at 412 Food Rescue. Over the last decade, he has worked on app development on-and-off using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS. He and Brittany discuss coming back to Rails and how powerful Rails can make a developer in a non-profit.

Links for this episode:

• 412 Food Rescue
  
• Spiceworks: Software, Forums & Tools for IT Pros
  
• 412 Food Rescue (@412FoodRescue) · Twitter
  
• Ruby on Rails Link - A Slack Community
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Emily Giurleo works as a Software Engineer at MongoDB, where she helps maintain the MongoDB Ruby Driver and Mongoid Object-Document Mapper for Ruby on Rails. She brought advice on how to successfully onboard a junior engineer in three steps, with the goals of building their trust, instilling confidence in their technical abilities, and enabling them to be an autonomous contributor to your team.

Links for this episode:

• Codecademy: Learn to Code
  
• MongoDB
  
• RailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition
  
• FreeFrom
  
• Ragtag
  
• Emily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) · Twitter
  
• Emily Giurleo's Personal Site
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Hilary Stohs-Krause is a co-owner and full-stack software developer at Ten Forward Consulting. She joined Brittany to discuss her upcoming RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition session. Together, they explored the root causes of fear and anxiety and how we can start to deliberately rewrite our instincts.

Links for this episode:

• Ten Forward Consulting: Custom Software Development
  
• Madison Women in Tech
  
• RailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition
  
• Hilary's Personal Site
  
• Hilary Stohs-Krause (@hilarysk) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Mark is a lead engineer at Landing, a new platform for providing flexible living solutions for today’s renters. He is also the co-organizer of the Birmingham on Rails conference. He guested on the podcast to propose the simple question: can ActiveStorage be used for image serving in your modern web apps?

Links for this episode:

• Page Speed Insights | Google
  
• Lighthouse | Google
  
• Moving towards a faster web | Google
  
• See How Images Affect Your Page Speed | imgix
  
• Test a website's performance | Web Page Test
  
• GoogleChrome / lighthouse | Read the Docs!
  
• Birmingham on Rails 2020 - Validating and Processing the Content of a File with Active Storage by Claudio B.
  
• ActiveStorage Feature Request - Support for CDN (Cloudfront) #35926
  
• Mark's Personal Site
  
• Mark Hutter (@mrkhutter) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Adrianna Chang is a developer intern at Shopify and a member of the inaugural cohort for Shopify’s Dev Degree program, a 4-year work-integrated learning program. She joined Brittany to discuss her latest blog post, "Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern”.

Links for this episode:

• Dev Degree
  
• Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern
  
• Polly want a message | Sandi Metz
  
• seattlerb/flog | GitHub
  
• StranglerFigApplication - Martin Fowler
  
• Shopify Engineering (@ShopifyEng) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Nick Schwaderer popped on to the show to talk about his recent job search (Ruby & Rails are thriving!) and his recent commit to Rails core. Brittany discussed how she is taking the opportunity to work on her Googlepay gem and the recent conference cancellations.

Links for this episode:

• Railsconf Cancellation
  
• Nick's PR into Rails: WIP: Ensure rails new . --master builds a complete bleeding edge application (not just core gems)
  
• Google Pay API | Google Developers
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Philip Poots is the VP of Engineering at ClubCollect, a FinTech startup in Amsterdam. He is a Pareto product programmer, remote advocate and a self proclaimed dilettante. His recent talk, "Rediscovering Ruby" was a big point of discusssion between Brittany and him.

Links for this episode:

• ClubCollect - have a financially healthy organisation
  
• Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
  
• Deep Work - Cal Newport
  
• pootsbook (Philip Poots) · GitHub
  
• Phil's Blog | Crossing the Rubicon
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Andy Croll is CTO at CoverageBook & AnswerThePublic, Rubyist, conference organizer of Brighton Ruby, author, speaker, bootstrapper & twin dad. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Andy had to pivot this year's conference into a new experience. He and Brittany discuss the details and the potentially lasting effects on the community.

Links for this episode:

• Brighton Ruby Conference 2020
  
• Andy Croll's Personal Site
  
• One Ruby Thing
  
• Andy Croll (@andycroll) | Twitter
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company dedicated to building lean code and reducing tech debt. He and Brittany enthusiastically discuss blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto's future plans for his code scoring library, Skunk.

Links for this episode:

• Ombu Labs - The Lean Software Boutique
  
• Fast Ruby - Ruby on Rails Upgrades by Ombu Labs
  
• fastruby / skunk | A StinkScore Calculator for Ruby Code
  
• Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker) | Twitter
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. Brittany and he discuss the concept of important opinions and the steps he took to take over maintainership of the VCR gem.

Links for this episode:

• vcr/vcr: Record your test suite's HTTP interactions | GitHub
  
• The Hippocratic License 2.0: An Ethical License for Open Source Projects
  
• Open Collective - Make your community sustainable
  
• Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene's Web Log
  
• k. rainbolt-greene (@krainboltgreene) | Twitter
  
• Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer