It's Giving Tuesday and EFF is celebrating 30 years of defending privacy and free expression online. Join me in supporting EFF this week and your donation gets an automatic 2X match. eff.org/power-up

Emergent Works Emergent Works interrupts the prison cycle by creating pathways to tech jobs for formerly incarcerated people! I can confirm first-hand that it's a community of truly wonderful people. Consider donating this #GivingTuesday, and your donation will be matched!

factory_bot is simultaneously one of the most useful gems that is part of literally every rails app I work on, and also one of the more complex projects I’m familiar with. Thank you so much @dodecadaniel for your continued efforts on it!

🎉 New Episode! This is the sweeps week episode, the epic crossover episode, the MEGA episode! In this episode, you'll hear from the hosts of Remote Ruby, Jason Swett (the host of Rails with Jason) and @BrittJMartin (the host of the therubyonrailspodcast). bikeshed.fm/304

Hey all: thoughtbot is hiring! I've been here 4.5 years & love it for many reasons including our 20% working time set aside for improving ourselves, the company, and community by learning new tech, working on open source, blogging, volunteering & more💫 thoughtbot.com/jobs

We would like to recognize Christina Entcheva on her promotion to Development Director of thoughtbot Boost! 🎉 Christina also co-chairs our #DEI Council! We are so proud of you, Christina, and lucky to have you on our team. Keep moving mountains & paving the way for others.

Ruby’s safe navigation can hide some subtle edge cases. We explore approaches to think about conditional logic, alternatives to &. , and when &. is the best tool for the job. thoughtbot.com/blog/ruby-safe…

Headed to #RubyConf2021 next week! Excited to tech conf IRL again with friends old & new ✈️✨

What technologies do we recommend to early career web developers? thoughtbot.com/blog/what-tech…

I just opened a new role at thoughtbot for a Software Development Team Lead on my team, Boost! Team Leads at thoughtbot are senior product-focused software developers who work on client work, manage small teams, and help their team grow. 🚀 tbot.io/boost-developm… DMs open!

I gave an internal talk on flaky tests today. One part that I found particularly interesting was the reproducibility characteristics of various types of flaky tests.

This past weekend the Emergent Works team had the pleasure of attending the SCOUT Conference (Scout ) in Boston at Northeastern University. Check out E.W Associate Software Engineer Yusef Bolden and Product Design mentee Kry Jones speak on what we aimed to achieve on the panel.

Spent time this week validating it was safe to delete a bunch of reporting code that (1) worked, (2) was correct, (3) I spent a lot of time creating, and (4) I was personally proud of. Nobody was really using them. Why delete them? Because code is a liability and not an asset.

I'm excited to share that I've joined GitHub as a Staff Engineering Manager! I'm working with the amazing Communities team on Discussions ✨❤️🌱

Thrilled to say that 10:30am EST tomorrow, Christina Entcheva will help me set up @GitHub Discussions on the TypeScript-ESLint repo! ✨ I've been procrastinating setting it up - but we've had a few RFC convos recently & Discussions looks great for them. 🤝 🎥 Twitch: twitch.tv/joshuakgoldber…

.LeadDev NYC starts today + the dome is all set up. You can look forward to hearing from ⬇️🧵 🗣️Simone Casciaroli, Head Of Eng. at Onto 🗣️Francisco Trindade, Eng. Dir. at Braze 🗣️Plum Ertz, Dir. of Eng at @Ro 🗣️Christina Entcheva, Dir. of Eng. at @GitHub #LeadDevNYC

Yesterday was an incredible first day at LeadDev & StaffPlus NewYork! 🙌 We heard amazing speakers, learned new strategies, and connected with so many talented leaders. Thanks to everyone who joined us today—we're looking forward to another day of insights and inspiration this

✨ That's a wrap on #LeadDevNewYork and #StaffPlusNewYork 2024! 🎉 A huge thank you to our incredible speakers, sponsors, and attendees for making it an unforgettable event. 🙌 See you next year! 👋