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  • Always Something, Never Nothing - Becky Searls
    2024/11/12

    In this episode, we're excited to introduce our guest, Becky Searls. We recently met Becky at Rails World and learned about her business, Better with Becky—a fitness training program focused on people with a growth mindset. Over the past year, she worked with her husband Justin to build her first product, Build with Becky, a personalized workout program and fitness app built in Rails, which launched publicly during the conference! We chat with Becky about her professional journey starting as a K-12 educator, becoming a fitness instructor, building her own business, and now moving into the product owner role to develop a custom app.

    More About Becky

    Becky Searls is definitely not another influencer, and she’s more than a personal trainer. Her experience in education, embrace of evidence-based research, and personable judgment-free approach sets her apart in an industry famous for baseless hype and scammy practices.


    Spending over a decade as an accomplished foreign language teacher, Becky truly has the heart of an educator. When she learns something important, her first thought is always how to best share it with others. She also knows life's greatest lessons are found outside of the classroom. So as she dives deeper into research papers spanning health, fitness, nutrition, and psychology, she can’t imagine keeping all the useful things she discovers to herself.


    That's what Better with Becky is: the place she translates cutting-edge science into practical tools and everyday advice for the rest of us.


    That may explain why, as her debut product, Build with Becky doesn't look like other exercise programs. Yes, it will give you a great workout. But you won't believe how much you'll learn along the way, without even realizing it. And yes, you'll probably see progress toward your fitness goals. But don't be surprised if you also gain deeper insights that connect with other parts of your life. That's just part of what you get with Becky!


    Training and certifications include:


    • Master of Arts, Education (The Ohio State University)
    • National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer (NSCA-CPT)
    • Mindfulness-Based Behavior Change Facilitator
    • Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified Coach (PN-L1)
    • USA Weightlifting Level 1 Certified Coach (USAW-L1)
    • Pain-free performance specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine)


    Relevant Links

    Better with Becky

    Beckygram (which syndicates her Instagram)
    Becky's YouTube
    The Empowered Programmer (Justin's Rails World talk, featuring Build with Becky)

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    56 分
  • "Just a bunch of guys"
    2024/10/29

    In this episode, Jess and Jeremy chat about leveling up professionally, the importance of community and personal growth, and the challenges of starting new things. Jess shares several things that have inspired him recently, and Jeremy gives an update on Liminal and shares some ideas he has around discoverability challenges in the Rails ecosystem.

    Referenced

    • Bunch of Guys video clip
    • Raise your standards video clip
    • “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.” - Jim Rohn
    • Liminal forum app
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    45 分
  • One Person Framework with Justin Searls
    2024/10/15

    In this episode, Justin Searls (open source author, speaker, and co-founder of Test Double) joins us in-person at Rails World to talk about his career, speaking, consulting, the One Person Framework, and building a web application for his wife's fitness business, Better with Becky.

    Follow Justin
    Website
    Twitter
    Mastodon
    LinkedIn

    Relevant Links
    The Empowered Programmer talk
    Test Double
    Breaking Change podcast
    Fred Brooks
    RubyKaigi
    The One Person Framework

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    42 分
  • Rails World 2024 Crossover
    2024/10/08

    On Day 2 of Rails World, Jess and Jeremy join with Drew Bragg of Code and the Coding Coders Who Code It and Adrian Marin and Yaro Shmarov of the Friendly Show to chat about the conference. Enjoy!

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    27 分
  • Hanging with Remote Ruby
    2024/10/04

    In this crossover episode, Jeremy and Jess join up with Chris & Jason from Remote Ruby podcast to discuss Ruby programming, indie development, and the challenges of building and maintaining software as solo developers. We dive into the origins of Indie Rails, share our individual career journeys, and explore Jeremy's project, Liminal, which aims to replace traditional forums and Slack with a more modern solution. The group reflects on the frustrations with current platforms, their experiences with indie development, and the importance of marketing alongside coding. They also compare Rails and Laravel, talk about the "one-person framework" concept, and the challenges in maintaining open-source libraries. Throughout the conversation, they emphasize the value of transparency in product development and the need for community support. They wrap up with thoughts on the importance of events like Rails Hackathons and the continued evolution of Rails for solo developers. Hit download now to hear more!

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    1 時間 19 分
  • Justin Duke - Building the Product You Want
    2024/10/01

    Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, an email platform with first-class Markdown support. Justin is also a partner at Third South Capital, where he and his partners buy and grow existing software products. We chat about his background in marketing and software development, bootstrapping Buttondown while working at Stripe, the Buttondown tech stack (Django, a cousin of Rails and Vue), and his latest endeavors with Third South.

    Justin
    Website
    Twitter

    Buttondown
    Website
    Twitter
    Changelog
    Stack
    Open Source

    Third South Capital
    Website
    Twitter

    Relevant Links
    Markdoc
    babelmark
    Curtailing the free plan
    Work on what matters

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    1 時間 8 分
  • Landon Gray - AI Consulting with Ruby
    2024/09/17

    Landon Gray is a Rubyist, speaker, strategic advisor, and AI engineer. In May, he left Test Double to found Identus Consulting, where he helps companies with generative AI and machine learning. We chat about his love for consulting, how he got into AI, and how he's working with clients these days, using a blend of technical and project management skills.

    Follow Landon
    Twitter
    LinkedIn
    Ruby AI Twitter
    Identus Consulting
    Curious Centroid
    Forecasting the future: Intro to Machine Learning for weather prediction in Native Ruby

    Relevant Links
    Test Double
    Great Learning
    Claude
    Jeremy Howard
    Torch.rb
    Transformers.rb
    Pandas
    Jupyter

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    53 分
  • Job Boarding with Jason Charnes
    2024/09/03

    Our guest will be no stranger to most of our listeners. He’s been around the Ruby community for many years. He’s spoken at conferences, hosted conferences, hosts a "pretty good" podcast, author of courses, a staff engineer at Podia and more recently the co-founder of a successful SaaS: Job Boardly. Enjoy the show with Jason Charnes!

    Related Links
    Personal Website

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    Job Boardly
    Podia
    Remote Ruby

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    59 分