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409: Support & Maintenance and Rotating Developers
Stephanie recommends "Blue Eye Samurai" and a new ceramic pot (donabe) for cooking. Joël talks about the joy of holding a warm beverage in a unique m…
2 years, 4 months ago
408: Work Device Management
Joël recaps his time at RubyConf! He shares insights from his talk about different aspects of time in software development, emphasizing the interacti…
2 years, 5 months ago
407: Tech Opinions Online with Edward Loveall
Stephanie interviews Edward Loveall, a former thoughtbotter, now software developer at Relevant Healthcare.
Part of their discussion centers around …
2 years, 5 months ago
406: Working Solo
Joël got to do some pretty fancy single sign-on work. And when it came time to commit, he documented the ridiculous number of redirects to give peopl…
2 years, 5 months ago
405: Retro: Sandi Metz Rules
Stephanie discovered a new book: The Staff Engineer's Path! Joël's got some D&D goodness.
Together, they revisit a decade-old blog post initially pu…
2 years, 5 months ago
404: Estimation
Joël was selected to speak at RubyConf in San Diego! After spending a month testing out living in Upstate New York, Stephanie is back in Chicago.
Ste…
2 years, 6 months ago
403: Productivity Tricks
Stephanie is engrossed in Kent Beck's Substack newsletter, which she appreciates for its "working thoughts" format. Unlike traditional media that und…
2 years, 7 months ago
402: Musings on Mentorship
Joël describes an old-school object orientation exercise that involves circling nouns in a business problem description. The purpose is determining w…
2 years, 7 months ago
401: Making the Right Thing Easy
Stephanie has another debugging mystery to share. Earlier this year, Joël mentioned that he was experimenting with a bookmark manager to keep track o…
2 years, 7 months ago
400: How To Search
Joël shares he has been getting more into long-form reading. Stephanie talks about the challenges she faced in a new project that required integratin…
2 years, 7 months ago