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Can you tell if a Ruby gem is really thread-safe or not? And how do you fix a seemingly thread-safety issue that can be something else entirely?We had no idea. So we asked Nate Berkopec to help us. Nate is an expert in Ruby performance.The verdict: nuking all shared global mutable state in your Ruby code is a bad idea if you don't know what you're doing!Listen to this episode to le

Listen to and watch our conversation with M. Scott Ford and learn how to build technical wealth, enjoy working with legacy code, tools, and strategies to remove dead code, and how thrive in a world of makers as a mender.

What do lurking and flossing have to do with contributing to open source? It's all about sustaining tiny habits. Learn how to use tiny habits to go from coder to contributor.

Level up faster, be a great lead developer, and beat burnout as your grow in your career. Amor Muto joins us to give us tools to beat the Imposter Complex and the Fear of Success as Software Developers.

How do you code faster? How do you make sure you're practicing effectively? Listen to Stefanni and Thiago talk about Drill Exercises and Deliberate Practice as strategies to learn faster.

Are you an experienced software developer and don't know how to get promoted to Senior level? Have you been trying to master one technical skill after the other and still not sure how to make the jump to Senior? Listen to our conversation with Caroline Salib to learn how she is taking control of her career and being on the path to Senior level.

Have you ever reflected on your career goals as a Software Developer? How often do you talk with someone who’s doing the kind of work you want to be doing? Find out how Mina Slater created her own role by taking advantage of her theater management background and expanding the impact of her work.

Do you suffer from Slack anxiety? Are teammates nitpicking your Pull Requests during code review? On-call schedules and deadlines giving you nightmares? Instead of quitting your job, what if you knew how to have a great relationship with your work? Learn how to deal with imposter syndrome, unrealistic deadlines, and stop communicating passive-aggressively today!

Are you working on Ruby on Rails Applications that are constantly on fire, overwhelmed by technical debt? Instead of being a firefighter, what if you could be a happy programmer again? Listen and learn exactly how to measure tech debt and take the right steps to immediately improve code quality!

Are you feeling frustrated with everything you need to learn as a developer? Feeling like things will never 'click' for you? What if you could easily get unstuck? Try this surprisingly simple way to get unstuck as a developer.