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Episode 289: 289: When You HTTParty, You Must Party Hard with John Nunemaker
Show notes
John Nunemaker, creator and maintainer of HTTParty and Flipper, regaled Brittany with tales of why he loves Ruby & Rails, his change of mindset on being an open source maintainer and how a post-install hook can inspire even the most grumpy of developers.
Links for this episode:
- Box Out Sports - The Best Sports Graphics Solution
- Fewer and Faster - Measure, Improve and Repeat
- Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
- jnunemaker/httparty: Makes http fun again!
- jnunemaker/flipper: feature flipping for ruby
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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