Description
Learning from other developers is an important ingredient to your success. During this episode, Joël Quenneville is joined by Stefanni Brasil, Senior Developer at Thoughtbot, and core maintainer of faker-ruby. To open our conversation, she shares the details of her experience at the Rails World conference in Toronto and the projects she enjoyed seeing most. Next, we explore the challenge of Mac versus Windows and how these programs interact with Ruby on Rails and dive into Stefanni’s involvement in Open Source for Thoughtbot and beyond; what she loves about it, and how she is working to educate others and expand the current limitations that people experience. This episode is also dedicated to the upcoming Open Source Summit that Stefanni is planning on 25 October 2024, what to expect, and how you can get involved. Thanks for listening!
Key Points From This Episode:
Introducing and catching up with Thoughtbot Senior Developer and maintainer of faker-ruby, Stefanni Brasil.
Her experience at the Rails World conference in Toronto and the projects she found most inspiring.
Why accessibility remains a key topic.
How Ruby on Rails translates on Mac and Windows.
Stefanni’s involvement in Open Source and why she enjoys it.
Her experience as core maintainer at faker-ruby.
Ideas she is exploring around Jeremy Evans’ book Polished Ruby Programming and the direction of Faker.
Involvement in Thoughtbot’s Open Source and how it drew her in initially.
The coaching series on Open Source that she participated in earlier this year.
What motivated her to create a public Google doc on Open Source maintenance.
An upcoming event: the Open Source Summit.
The time commitment expected from attendees.
How Stefanni intends to interact with guests and the talk that she will give at the event.
Why everyone is welcome to engage at any level they are comfortable with.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Stefanni Brasil
Stefanni Brasil on X
Thoughtbot Open Summit
Open Source Issues doc
Open Source at Thoughtbot
Polished Ruby Programming
Faker Gem
Rails World
The Bike Shed
Joël Quenneville on LinkedIn
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