[The lost episode 259]  All Right, Rant Time - Debugging

[This episode from February 2024 was never published and recently discovered]

In today’s episode, Andrew kicks things off with a rant about tackling developer experience tasks at Podia, wrestling with GitHub actions, and Heroku deployment woes. Then the conversation takes a turn to the importance of debugging, the power of bash scripting, and the challenges of naming in programming, with Chris mentioning DHH’s insights from a live stream. They discuss Chris’s travel plans for RubyConf in Australia, other conferences coming up, and reminisce about their childhood love for trains and Thomas the Tank Engine.  The episode wraps up with Chris and Andrew sharing advice and tips on writing conference proposals (CFPs) and the value of diverse speaking styles and personalities for engaging an audience. Tune in now to hear more!

Links

• ONCE/Campfire
• debug.rb
• GitHub Copilot
• RubyConf Australia-April 11-12, 2024
• RailsConf 2024-May 7-9, 2024-Detroit, MI
• Sarah Mei-“What Your Conference Proposal is Missing”
• Ruby for All Podcast-Episode 50: The Art of Conference Speaking with Kevin Murphy
• [SFM] We like to party (YouTube)
• Ultimate Skyrim (YouTube)
• RailsConf 2023-Teaching Capybara Testing- An Illustrated Adventure by Brandon Weaver (YouTube)

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter