What The Stack?

The Journey from Basic Rails to a Scalable Podcast Platform with Tom Rossi

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Curious how a simple tool for churches and nonprofits became one of the leading podcast hosting platforms? Tom from Buzzsprout (host, and Rails World sponsor of this very podcast) takes us through the platform’s journey from its Rails 2 roots to its current infrastructure — the critical decisions that helped Buzzsprout scale, why the team chose to stay close to vanilla Rails, and how advances in the framework delivered big benefits.

Maintaining Code Quality in Large Teams and Solo Projects with Miles Woodroffe

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

With Miles Woodroffe, CTO of Mindful Chef. He takes us through his journey from a hands-on coder to a managerial role, sharing his passion for Rails 7 and the Turbo Native framework along the way.

Talk about Talks

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Recorded in December 2022.

Why the hell do we do conference talks as a hobby… what is wrong with us?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

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Back into People Management

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Recorded in October 2022, and delayed in the publishing.

Vaidehi returns to a people management role after swearing off it, due to previous experience.

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Rituals

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Recorded in September 2022, and delayed in the publishing. Apologies for the audio quality.

How we use habits and rituals to determine our work and life.

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Conferences

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Meeting people. In real life. Who do what you do. Post-pandemic, what does that look like?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Ethics

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

How do you manage ethical concerns alongside your career?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Community

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

What is a technical community? Why do we need it?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Seniority

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

What are the traits of “senior” folks? What aren’t? Can our heroes boil it down to a sentence? (No.)

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll @vaidehijoshi

Career Planning

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Last episode of “Season One”

Andy talks about narrowing down his “work happy place” and Vaidehi & he meander around trying to work out what is “good advice” to early and later career developers. And even talking about retirement and the joy of putting forms on the Internet.

Penelope’s chats about the internals of Stripe on Art of Product #180 Unpacking Stripe #190 Unpacking Stripe: Continued

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

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Interviewing

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

What’s the worst interview Vaidehi has ever had? What processes have been good and what helps find the best match for companies and interviewees?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll • @vaidehijoshi

Changing Jobs

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

What has driven job changes in the careers of our chatting heroes? How to you decide to stay or go? And how is it possible for Andy to bounce off a job in a matter of weeks?

Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

@andycroll • @vaidehijoshi

Burnout

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

The first of our chats. Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.

Vaidehi wrote about her Reflections on Burnout

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