Appearing on Podcasts
Update 10/11/17: one more podcast on Ruby Rogues, titled “RR 331: 30 days to Elixir then Crystal and back again to Ruby with Fabio Akita”
By complete coincidence, this year I had the chance to appear on 3 podcast channels. I want to thank Paulo Silveira, Charles Max Wood, Lucas Caton, Fellipe Azambuja, and Ramon Sanches.
The first one actually came out late last year, in November, on Ruby Rogues with the topic “Ruby Conf Brazil and Building Communities” where Charles Wood and I talked a bit about the history of the Ruby community in Brazil — how I tried to get it started, what I attempted, the blog, talks, events. We also covered more specific points like a small overview of the Ruby language and my view on not limiting yourself to a single language or technology. If you’re new to the Ruby community, it might help give you an idea of how we got to where we are today.
The second one came out in February, on Paulo Silveira’s podcast Hipsters Ponto Tech, and the topic was “Carreira em Tecnologia”. The legendary Guilherme Silveira and Sérgio Lopes joined in, and in that conversation we touched on the main aspects for anyone starting a programming career. Take a look at the comments too, since several other points of view, opinions, and tips came in from listeners. Fun fact: this one was a bit of work because we recorded an earlier version, but since Paulo was still in the early days of the podcast, he refined the process and asked us to re-record the one that ended up being released. The format and topics changed a bit to be more focused, which made the conversation better. Some of the topics I covered in the first attempt I ended up revisiting in the podcasts later in this list.
The third came out in mid-May at the invitation of Lucas Caton, who introduced me to Montanha and Ramon from the podcast Dev na Estrada, and the topic was “Vale a pena? Ruby on Rails com Lucas Caton e Akita” where I again revisit some of the history of the international Ruby community and why Ruby on Rails is different from every other community, and why it’s still worth investing your time in this ecosystem.
The fourth came out at the end of May when Charles Wood invited me back to Ruby Rogues with the title “My Ruby Story”, but this time for me to tell a bit of my personal story. How I started my career. How I got into Ruby specifically. The historical context in the tech world over the past 20 years.
The fifth and most recent came out today, early June. I’m back again with Montanha from Dev na Estrada in an “Interview” to revisit some of the Ruby Rogues theme about the beginning of my career. But while on Ruby Rogues I move very quickly over the beginning and jump to the last 10 years where I focused more on Ruby, in this one with Montanha I focus much more on the very start of my career, particularly the 90s and a brush over 30 years ago up to 10 years ago. The earlier ones are long (about 1h each on average), but this one in particular is VERY long (almost 2h!) — apologies for the length. But Montanha started with “tell us from the beginning”… I tried to summarize and only mention a few points, but even so it ended up REALLY long!
Did anyone get to listen to any of the podcasts? What did you think? Leave your comments below.