Episode 465: Why Companies Don't Hire Juniors with Alex Ghiculescu
Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to...
12 Apr 202333min
Episode 464: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify with Rose Wiegley
Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at R...
5 Apr 202335min
Episode 463: The Tightly Coupled Book Club with Mina and Aji Slater
Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, t...
29 Mar 202336min
Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)
What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is...
22 Mar 202334min
Episode 461: ccyalater and Merge Conflict Hit the Track! with Colleen Leonard
Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical...
15 Mar 202333min
Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian)
In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his c...
8 Mar 202333min
Episode 459: Blue Ridge Ruby with Jeremy Smith and Mark Locklear
Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting...
1 Mar 202332min
Episode 458: LEARN Academy with Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman
Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. T...
22 Feb 202340min
