Episode 014: Cancel All Negativity with Ra’Shaun Stovall (Snuggs)




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/snuggsi"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ra’Shaun Stovall</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Welcome to “DevPunks!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>00:42</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Snuggs’ Background and Origin Story</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NYC.rb<br> </span></a><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.link/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruby on Rails Link Slack Community<br> </span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ad52AogJ8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ra’Shaun Stovall: Why Is Open Source So Closed? @ RubyConf 2016</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <p><b>04:41</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Getting Involved in Meetups and Building the Ruby Community</span></p> <p><b>09:08</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Teaching/Mentoring New Developers</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">OH: In order to make Rails jobs be a thing in the future, you develop Rails people.</p> <p>— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode/status/816728055670599680">January 4, 2017</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p><b>12:13</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Hurdling the Massive Casm that is Between “Junior” and “Senior” Developers</span></p> <p><img class="wp-image-320 aligncenter" src="http://www.greaterthancode.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1483556072.png" width="377" height="503"></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In-person Mentorship</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching from Jr. Dev Mistakes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incentivize Hiring Jr. Devs</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pair Programming Nights and on Open Source</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pull Request Review — Closely</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Closer Connections Between Junior and Senior Developers</span></li> </ol> <p><b>33:09</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Teaching How to be a Developer: Are “seniors” really the “juniors”?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Id, Ego and Super-ego<br> </span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Occam’s Razor</span></a></p> <p><b>38:11</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – The Best Ways for Juniors and Seniors to Work Together</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">C.A.N.: Cancel All Negativity</span></p> <p><b>43:13</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – What can hiring managers do?</span></p> <p><b>48:34</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – What can senior developers do?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Tak</b></p>