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298 - AI-Assisted Rails Upgrades with Ernesto Tagwerker
In this episode I talk with Ernesto Tagwerker about using AI for Rails upgrades, AI as an unblocking tool rather than just a speeder-upper, and the d…
7 months ago
299 - Eleni Konior, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
In this episode I talk with Eleni Konior about her path from economics to graphic design to programming, and how creative skills benefit technical wo…
7 months ago
291 - Joel Drapper
In this episode I talk with Joel Drapper about defect-free development—not just automated testing, but the full spectrum: linting, static typing, dat…
7 months ago
292 - Kendall Miller, CEO and Founder of Maybe Don't AI
In this episode I talk with Kendall Miller about MCP (Model Context Protocol) and why AI agents need third-party guardrails. His company Maybe Don't …
7 months ago
289 - Lio Lunesu, CTO at Defang
In this episode I talk with Lio Lunesu, CTO of Defang, about infrastructure as code, Docker, and Docker Compose. Defang compiles Docker Compose files…
7 months ago
290 - Dead Man's Snitch with Chris Gaffney
In this episode I talk with Chris Gaffney about Dead Man's Snitch, a cron job monitoring service he's run full-time for six years after Collective Id…
7 months ago
286 - Darwin, Science and Programming with Kate Holterhoff
In this episode I talk with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about her PhD research on Darwin's methods, speculation in science, and how 1…
7 months ago
287 - Jeff Casimir, Founder of Turing School
In this episode I talk with Jeff Casimir, founder of Turing School, about why AI is far down his list of reasons for the tech job market downturn—he …
7 months ago
288 - Ryan Frisch and Brendan Buckingham, Co-Hosts of the Rails Business Podcast
In this episode I talk with Ryan Frisch and Brendan Buckingham from the Rails Business Podcast about whether info products are viable in the Rails co…
7 months ago
282 - Jarrett Yew
In this episode I talk with Jarrett Yew about his 10-year programming journey, early freelancing failures, working with difficult clients, and we go …
7 months ago