The podcast primarily focuses on Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) while also touching on broader software development topics like web development, JavaScript, and sometimes mobile development. Conversations range from a discussion between the hosts, an interview with someone in the community, or event crazy adventures like Ruby Trivia.
Open Source Government Development in Rails with Charley Stran
In this episode, Jason and Chris chat with Charley Stran. Charley is an employee at Oddball where he does contract work for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The three discuss how Charley got started programming, found his job contracting for the VA, what it's like to work on open source government projects, and more!
Joined by Javan Makhmali and Sam Stephenson
Buckle up! In this episode, Javan Makhmali and Sam Stephenson join Jason and Chris. Sam and Javan are employees at Basecamp and also part of the mastermind behind many JavaScript libraries to come out of Basecamp: Turbolinks, Trix, and Stimulus. They each share how they got started programming, a brief insight into how they work at Basecamp, the transition from CoffeeScript to ES6, Typescript, as well as (wait for it...) upcoming features in Stimulus (🙌) and considerations for Turbolinks 6 (no feature promises made 😉). It was an absolute joy to chat with Javan and Sam. We very much enjoyed this episode and hope you will enjoy it, too.