All Episodes
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Rails World 2024 Crossover
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...
Hanging with Remote Ruby
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 bu...
Justin Duke - Building the Product You Want
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 partne...
Landon Gray - AI Consulting with Ruby
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 generativ...
Job Boarding with Jason Charnes
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 "pr...
Getting Performant with Nate Berkopec
In this episode, we are thrilled to host Nate Berkopec, a renowned author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. Nate runs Speedshop, his Rails performance consultancy, an...
A Fresh Take on Old-School Forums
In this episode, Jeremy shares his latest product idea (Liminal, a fresh take on old-school forums) with Jess and gets his raw, unfiltered feedback. At the end, Jeremy...
Back in the Saddle
Jess and Jeremy catch up in this one-on-one episode after a short summer break. We cover a number of topics, including our latest seasons of work, reading the book Mil...
Natalie Kaminski & Igor Alexandrov - JetRockets Origins
In this episode, Jeremy and Jess are joined by two of the cofounders of JetRockets, a custom software development agency with a specialty in Rails. Natalie Kaminski (C...
Andrew Atkinson - The Postgres Specialist
Andrew Atkinson is a Rails developer, turned Postgres specialist, turned author and consultant. He joins us to talk about his developer journey, how he found his niche...
Tom Rossi - Building Products with a Buzz
In this episode, Jeremy and Jess get a chance to connect with Tom Rossi, the cofounder of Higher Pixels. Tom's story is an inspiring one for developers wanting to buil...
The Surprising Benefits of Collaboration for Indie Devs
In this episode, Jeremy & Jess dive into the world of partnerships and collaboration, a terrain that's become familiar to indie developers seeking growth and innovatio...
Ben Wood & Nate Vick - Adapt and Evolve: Navigating Entrepreneurial Transitions
Today, we're joined by two remarkable individuals, Ben Wood and Nate Vick, seasoned entrepreneurs with over a decade of experience running a Rails consulting business ...
Cody Norman - Lucky Me
Cody Norman is a Rails consultant, fly fisherman, BBQ connoisseur, and big fan of the state of Colorado. He joins us to share about getting into software development, ...
Crafting Service Offerings
In this episode of IndieRails, we delve into the world of productized services in software development. Moving beyond the traditional model of bespoke or custom soluti...
Andy Croll - An Abundance of Work-Adjacent Hobbies
Andy Croll is a Rubyist, author, and speaker. He's the CTO of CoverageBook, creator of the First Ruby Friend mentoring program, organizer of Brighton Ruby, and this ye...
Ben Orenstein - The Developer-Turned-Founder
In this episode we get the chance to interview Ben Orenstein: A person who probably doesn't need much of an introduction to our listeners. This episode should be speci...
Matt D. Smith - Sharing the Good News of the Lasso Tool
In this episode, we chat with Jess's friend and fellow Georgian, Matt D. Smith. While developers may not be too familiar, Matt is widely known and well respected in th...
Allan Branch - Captain of His Own Pirate Ship
In this episode we catch up with an old friend, Allan Branch. Allan and his partner Steve were early adopters of rails and made a big splash in the tech community with...
Jason Swett - Nothing About Service Objects
Jason Swett is well-known in the Rails community for his podcast, Code with Jason, and his book, The Complete Guide to Rails Testing. Jason joins us to talk about his ...
Ayush Newatia Unplugged - Writing Code and Writing Prose
In this episode, we dive into the multifaceted world of technology, creativity, and storytelling. We have the honor of hosting Ayush Newatia, a seasoned Ruby developer...
Adrian Marin - Friendly Dev Building Avo
Get ready for an insightful conversation as we sit down with the dynamic Adrian Marin, who has had an extraordinary year making waves in the Ruby world. From taking Av...
What to Look For in a New Client
Jess and Jeremy discuss an excellent question posed by Nate Vick: What are you looking for in a new client? Whether you're looking for a new client, new target market ...
John Nunemaker - Rolling with Flipper
John Nunemaker is a long-time Rails developer known for his writing on the RailsTips blog, his open source gems like HTTParty and Flipper, and his work at Ordered List...
Bram Jetten - Building Spina & PlanGo
Bram Jetten joins us for a special episode, recorded on the second day of Rails World 2023. (BIG thanks to Buzz Sprout for sponsoring and making this happen!) Bram is ...
Greg Molnar - Security on Rails
Greg Molnar joins us for a special episode, recorded on the first day of Rails World 2023. Greg is an OSCP Certified Ethical Hacker and an independent Ruby developer. ...
Managing Yourself - Tips and advice for managing being indie longterm
Jeremy just recently gave a talk at friendly.rb titled "Making it as an Indie Developer". Part of the talk was about managing yourself and we wanted to do a deeper div...
Robby Russell - Maintaining Planet Argon
Robby Russell is founder and CEO of Planet Argon, one of the oldest Rails development agencies, now in it's 21st year. Robby shares how he got started in Rails and how...
Adam McCrea - Scaling Up an Autoscaling SaaS
In this episode, Adam McCrea joins us to talk about building and growing Judoscale (previously, Rails Autoscale) an autoscaler originally released in the Heroku Market...
Matt Gordon - Going from Consulting to Products
In 2007, young aspiring software engineers Matt & Jason set out to build the perfect startup: a SaaS product. They did everything right. They had plenty of runway, mov...
