Andrew Mason
Senior Product Developer at Podia, co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, and co-editor of the Ruby Radar newsletter
Appears in 41 Episodes
How We Use ChatGPT
Welcome to Ruby for All Season 2! This was the last episode we recorded before the break that we wanted to share.Today’s episode of Ruby for All is mix of personal exp...
Summer Vacation
Hey Everyone! Ruby for All is taking a summer vacation since it's been hard to juggle vacations, school being out, and other responsibilities we have going on right no...
Exploring UX Research with Megan Brown
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie are excited to have as their guest, Megan Brown, who’s a Product Manager, UX Researcher, and Julie’s mentee. In toda...
Leveling Up: What Does It Take to Be a Senior?
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie have a conversation about being a senior software engineer and mentoring. Since Andrew is a senior software engineer...
Establishing Trust and Improving Communication at Work with Josh Goldberg
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie are joined by guest, Josh Goldberg, who’s an Open Source Developer and former mentor of Julie. In today’s conversatio...
Ruby Interviews & Community Building with Adrian Valenzuela
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie are excited to have as their guest, Adrian Valenzuela, who’s a Ruby Developer, open source contributor, and maintains...
The Agency of Learning with Dave Paola
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie have joining them, Dave Paola, Founder of Sierra Rails, a Ruby on Rails Software Development Agency. Today, Dave t...
We Hired a Junior Dev with Mike Munroe
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie welcome Mike Munroe, Co-founder of OBLSK, a Rails consultancy, who’s here today to discuss their Junior Developer App...
Career and ADHD Management with Celso De Sá
On this episode of Ruby for All, ChatGPT was down for Julie today which left her frazzled, so she brings up making pancakes, and Andrew shares his love of cooking brea...
From Bootcamp to Community Advocate and Mentor
On this episode of Ruby for All, Julie recently decided to go back to the gym, and Andrew has been chilling and focusing on things in his life that he hasn’t taken car...
Development Gems
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew aka the “VS Code Whisperer “ and Julie are excited to start something new and fun! Join Andrew and Julie as they dive into the ...
Debugging Rails: Essential Tools and Where to Start
Ruby For All – Episode 32On this episode of Ruby for All, it’s raining a lot by Julie, chilly outside by Andrew, and Andrew’s birthday is this week! Happy Birthday, A...
Favorite Ruby Methods: Part 4 - Enumerables + Bonus Methods
On this episode of Ruby for All, Julie tells us she’s fostering a seven week old puppy and having lots of fun, and Andrew reveals he would love to get a dog in the fut...
Favorite Ruby Methods: Part 3 - Strings
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie are having an ADHD day since Andrew’s had a lot going on with work stuff and Julie’s been hyperfocused learning about...
Favorite Ruby Methods: Part 2 - The Hash
On this episode of Ruby for All, Julie tells us she’s working on a new app and she’s calling it “Today,” which is going to help her organize her day-to-day tasks. We’r...
Favorite Ruby Methods: Part 1
On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie discuss the cold temps where they live, their preferences for warmer temps, using layers to cope with the changing te...
Common Pitfalls for Junior Ruby on Rails Developers
On this episode of Ruby for All, there’s a spider on Julie’s monitor and Andrew and Julie couldn’t figure out a topic of what to talk about today. They decided to ask ...
The Database Wizard with Andrew Atkinson
Join us for this episode of Ruby for All to hear Andrew (Andy) Atkinson discuss all things databases. He talks about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL, tran...
Integrations with Brittany Martin
Brittany Martin, an engineering manager and co-host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast, joins the show to discuss her experience with integrations, the benefits of webhooks,...
What's Going on in 2023?
In this episode, Andrew and Julie discuss their experiences with New Year's resolutions and set some goals for 2023. Julie wants to be more proactive and improve her R...
Work Processes
In the final episode of 2022, Julie and Andrew discuss different aspects of project management, such as Agile vs. Waterfall methodology, the importance of standups and...
Reading Source Code with Daniel Colson
Daniel Colson joins Andrew and Julie to discuss getting better at reading source code. He explains why reading source code can be beneficial and encourages trusting yo...
The Holidays - Unleash Your Empathy and Spread Good Cheer
Julie and Andrew discuss ways to make the upcoming Holiday season enjoyable and manageable. They talk about the challenges of winter, and how companies can make this d...
GitHub Codespaces & Julie's RubyConf Mini Recap
After a brief side quest to discuss GitHub Codespaces, Julie shares her recap of RubyConf Mini with Andrew and all of you in this episode. Do you feel down after confe...
How to Open Source with Richard Schneeman
Getting your first contribution to an open source project is a lot harder than many make it seem, but fear not future contributors! Richard Schneeman joins the show to...
Screencasting Basics with Collin Jilbert
Andrew and Julie are joined today by Collin Jilbert, an engineer at GoRails, to talk all things screencasting. Have you ever been interested in creating screencasts ab...
Attending Conferences 101
Julie and Andrew share their conference survival guide including how to meet people, talk attendee do's and don'ts, the Hallway Track, and more! Want to get the most o...
Updating The PickAxe Book with Noel Rappin
Noel Rappin is here to announce the beta release of the 5th edition of Programming Ruby, commonly known as "The PickAxe Book". Noel shares the history of the book, why...
Writing Better Rails Tests with Jason Swett
Want to write better tests for your Rails app? Jason Swett is here to teach us more about testing terminology and patterns, tips for improving, and to share a discount...
Imposter Syndrome is Among Us
Worried you are going to get exposed as a fraud at work? Imposter syndrome can affect us regardless of skill or experience and we want you to be prepared the next time...