The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Episode 355: Asynchronous Adaptability with JF Lalonde
Show notes
A graduate of the Turing School, JF Lalonde is a senior software engineer at TextUs. JF is passionate about writing clean, well-tested and well-documented code, mentoring others and maximizing productivity with asynchronicity.
Links for this episode:
- HTML & JavaScript for Visual Learners
- Turing School
- TextUs
- Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- JF's Personal Site
- JF-Lalonde (JF Lalonde) · GitHub
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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