💎 Ruby Radar #59 - Hot Weather & Hot Podcasts

Making her podcast debut, Julie J is a junior engineer at Codecademy from Skillsoft. Julie answers Brittany’s questions about how she learned to code, her role at Codeacademy, and her involvement in the Neurodivergent ERG at Codecademy. Then, Julie reveals her plans for a new podcast in the Ruby community!

In today’s episode, our special guest from the Rails Core Team is Xavier Noria, who’s the author of Zeitwerk, author of Rails Contributors, and gave the keynote at RailsConf 2022. We’ll find out more about Xavier and how got his start in programming. He then takes us through the early days of Rails and how it’s changed, what led him into working on autoloading and Zeitwork, and what got him into open source.