Parallel Passion

Tobi is a developer, leader, benchmarker, Rubyist, Elixir fan, learner, teacher and agile crafter by passion. He loves collaboratively creating just about anything people enjoy - be it the Ruby User Group Berlin, SimpleCov, benchee, or other projects while thinking about new ideas to push boundaries. Currently he's helping companies onboard onto Elixir and creating wonderful web applications in his journey as a freelancer. Show Notes Ruby User Group Berlin (https://www.rug-b.de/) rubycorns (http://rubycorns.club/) SimpleCov (https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov) benchee (https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee) shopify (https://www.shopify.com/) pivorak (https://pivorak.com/) Aaron Cruz (https://www.parallelpassion.com/13) Shoes 4 (https://github.com/shoes/shoes4) why the lucky stiff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff) wroclove.rb (https://wrocloverb.com/) Arne Brasseur (http://devblog.arnebrasseur.net/) Steve Klabnik (https://steveklabnik.com/) AlphaGo (https://en.wi

Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer. During her time working in the software industry, she has had the opportunity to work on some challenging problems. When not making systems run faster, she can be found fulfilling her need for speed by riding and jumping her show horses. Show Notes Molly's Tweet (https://twitter.com/molly_struve/status/1219346099959402498) dev.to (https://dev.to/) Elasticsearch 5 or and Bust @ RubyConf 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNPLJOZ0Kw) Amy Cuddy: Your body language may shape who you are (Power Posing) (https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are) Lead Dev New York (https://newyork2020.theleaddeveloper.com/talks#molly-struve) Show Jumping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_jumping) Ian Millar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Millar) Lipizzan Horse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipizzan) Pembroke Corgi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_Welsh_Corgi) Cardigan Corgi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardig

Tim is an open source developer from New Zealand. He is a member of the Juju project's core team at Canonical and enjoys sharing how to make developers' lives simpler. His professional passion is data science, especially natural language processing. His recent experience has involved leading big data software projects, running training and outreach programs, and promoting open data. He's founded multiple startups and has also had several years in the public sector. Show Notes Canonical (https://canonical.com/) Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/) Juju (https://jaas.ai/) Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/) Rust in Action (https://www.manning.com/books/rust-in-action) Data Analysis with Open Source Tools (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0596802358/parpaspod-20) Programming Collective Intelligence (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0596529325/parpaspod-20) Conway's Game of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life) Perlin Noise (https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/96687595307) Humanitarian OpenStree

Steph has been working remotely for over three years, as a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She’s a big advocate for remote work and actively writes about it over at her blog, which has been read by over 350.000 people since launch earlier this year. She is also a self-taught developer and has built multiple projects, some of which have gone to #1 on Product Hunt, won awards for inclusion, and led her to be nominated for Maker of the Year in 2018. Show Notes Trends, by The Hustle (https://trends.co/) Remote Year (https://remoteyear.com/) The Web Developer Bootcamp (https://www.udemy.com/course/the-web-developer-bootcamp/) nomad(hubb) (https://www.nomadhubb.com/) Women Make (https://womenmake.com/) Make Yourself Great Again (https://begreat.me/) World Happiness Report 2019 (https://worldhappiness.report/) Correlation between activities and general happiness (https://worldhappiness.report/assets/images/5-5.png) Digital Minimalism (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525536515/parpaspod-20)

John is a Ruby developer at GitHub, based in New Jersey. He’s got a ton of other interests including wood & metal working, climbing, beer making, drumming, and his family. Show Notes Phil Sturgeon (https://www.parallelpassion.com/34) The other seejohnrun (https://www.seejohnrun.com/) GothamGo 2019: Interacting with Custom-Made Hardware in Go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BXNoy2dwA) Leaning Tower of Pisa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa) Aaron Patterson (https://www.parallelpassion.com/30) Chevrolet C-10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_C/K#First_generation_1960%E2%80%931966) Yak Shaving (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving) Lathe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe) SawStop demonstration video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYoBbEZwlk) Alex Honnold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold) Mr. Beer (https://www.mrbeer.com/) Recommendations Jimmy DiResta (http://www.jimmydiresta.com/) The Da Vinci Code (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/03074

Rodoljub is head of Software at Turtl. He has spent the last two decades developing software and software development teams. He is a husband and a father, as well as a failed basketball player. Show Notes Turtl (https://turtl.co/) Rod's iPhone (https://twitter.com/rodpetrovic/status/1172419741450829825) Twitter's Facebookisation storm (https://twitter.com/rodpetrovic/status/1171705281975336961) Tweetbot (https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/) Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614535810) Finance.si articles by Rod (https://www.finance.si/author?id=RoPe) 1Password password manager (https://1password.com/) This Video Will Make You Angry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc) This Too Shall Pass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w) Recommendations Serbia national basketball team (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia_national_basketball_team) Peopleware: Producti

Show Notes APIs You Won't Hate (https://apisyouwonthate.com/books/build-apis-you-wont-hate) Surviving Other People's APIs (https://apisyouwonthate.com/books/surviving-other-peoples-apis) WeWork (https://www.wework.com/) Chaos Monkey (https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/) Stoplight (https://stoplight.io/) maps.me (https://maps.me/) EuroVelo (http://www.eurovelo.org/) Joren De Groof (https://www.parallelpassion.com/21) Dubrovnik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik) Offset Earth (https://offset.earth/philsturgeon) Awesome Earth (https://github.com/philsturgeon/awesome-earth) AquaLoop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihw3OZWxp9g) Cyclocross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclo-cross) Tough Mudder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough_Mudder) Photo from a cyclo cross event Phil was in (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo5TSVZh2HB/) Couchsurfing (https://www.couchsurfing.com/) Warmshowers (https://www.warmshowers.org/) Recommendations Blogging Applying to speak at conferences

Developer Avocado, serial conference organizer, Rails Girls veteran. Show Notes Rails Girls (http://railsgirls.com/) ROSS Conf (https://www.rossconf.io/) vienna.rb (https://www.meetup.com/vienna-rb/) Rayta van Rijswijk (https://www.parallelpassion.com/9) Amsterdam.rb (https://amsrb.org/) EuRuKo 2019 (https://euruko2019.org/) EuRuKo 2019 has been shipped, sealed, delivered (https://medium.com/@euruko/euruko-2019-has-been-shipped-sealed-delivered-74f7c72baa08) White Coat Captioning (https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/) Stenotype keyboard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype) Rails Girls Summer of Code (https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/) Recommendations Having a family Rails Girls Floor Drees Twitter (https://twitter.com/floordrees) Personal Page (https://floor.dev/) Parallel Passion Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parpaspod) Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/parpaspod) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/parpaspod) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/parpaspod) Credits E

Yannick is a little adventures’ photographer. Micro activist loving the outdoor. For him sharing is caring. Dad of a climber/adventurer to be. He does his best to share his values and make this planet a better place. Show Notes Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/) Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0767907698/parpaspod-20) Burgundy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy) Brittany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany) Couchsurfing (https://www.couchsurfing.com/) Fujifilm X100T (https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x100t) Fujifilm X-T20 (https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t20-review) Leica Q2 (https://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-Q/Leica-Q2) Leica M10-D (https://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M10-D) Leica M Monochrom (https://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/LEICA-M-MONOCHROM) iPad Pro (https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/) Lightroom (https://lightroom.adobe.com/) Darkroom (http:

Joanne is a Clojure/ClojureScript developer working at Pitch. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany, after living in Colorado for nearly eight years. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, map-making, and thinking about mountains. Show Notes Pitch (https://pitch.com/) Ben Orenstein (https://www.parallelpassion.com/19) Katherine Wu (https://www.parallelpassion.com/11) Sebastian Gräßl (https://www.parallelpassion.com/23) Clojure (https://clojure.org/) We Work Remotely (https://weworkremotely.com/) Colorado Trail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Trail) Continental Divide Trail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_Trail) Blender (https://www.blender.org/) Topographic Maps in Blender (https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/blender-tutorial/) QGIS (https://qgis.org/) Denver open data (https://www.denvergov.org/opendata) Denver Buildings (https://datacolorado.org/denver_buildings/) Nice Trails - Strava to 3D prints (https://www.nicetrails.com/) Paper Tra

Aaron is on the Ruby core team, the Rails core team, and the team that takes care of his cat, Gorby puff.  During the day he works for a small technology company called GitHub.  Someday he will find the perfect safety gear to wear while extreme programming. Show Notes Aaron at RailsConf 2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgUL_FfUZY) Ruby (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/) RubyKaigi (https://rubykaigi.org/) Andouillette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouillette) ErgoDox (https://www.ergodox.io/) Cherry MX Switches (https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/) ErgoDox EZ (https://ergodox-ez.com/) Planck (https://olkb.com/planck) Planck Light (https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-olkb-planck-light-mechanical-keyboard/talk) Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/) Gorby Thunderhorse (https://twitter.com/gorbypuff) Recommendations Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/) Working Effectively with Legacy Code (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/01

Show Notes Slovenia Ruby User Group (http://www.rug.si/) Carving skis history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_turn#History) History of carving skis told by inventor (Slovene) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjnn0wU0jg&feature=youtu.be&t=640) Ergochord standing desks (https://ergochord.com/) Nejc Zupan (https://www.parallelpassion.com/27) Miriam Tocino (https://www.parallelpassion.com/26) MasterChef: The Professionals (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mx9xb) No Knead Bread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-nZfm5C7g) Dutch Oven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven) Jure Čuhalev (https://www.parallelpassion.com/12) Formula 1: Drive to Survive (https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890) Jure Žove (https://www.parallelpassion.com/3) Chimpanzee browsing Instagram (https://twitter.com/YS/status/1121343683880681472) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525512179/parpaspod-20) Debt: The First 5,000 Years (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1612191290/p

Show Notes dojo4 (https://dojo4.com/) Boulder Tech Podcast (http://bouldertechpodcast.com/) RubyC 2015 (https://rubyc.eu/archives/5) Erik Berlin (https://www.parallelpassion.com/16) Linda Liukas (https://www.parallelpassion.com/15) Buddhism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism) Kurt Gödel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del) Minimalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism) Yvon Chouinard - Let My People Go Surfing (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0143109677/parpaspod-20) Hedonic treadmill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill) Recommendations Experience nature All Creatures Great and Small (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1250057833/parpaspod-20) What Makes You Not a Buddhist (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1590304063/parpaspod-20) Ara Howard Twitter (https://twitter.com/drawohara) Instagram (https://instagram.com/drawohara) Parallel Passion Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parpaspod) Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/parpaspod) Instagram (https://ww

Show Notes Niteo (https://niteo.co/) Lanzarote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote) Domen Kožar (https://www.parallelpassion.com/20) EESTEC (https://eestec.net/) Windsurfing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing) windsurfer.si (https://www.windsurfer.si/) Mladi Podjetnik (https://mladipodjetnik.si/) Plone CMS (https://plone.org/) Easy Blog Networks (https://www.easyblognetworks.com/) Earnest Capital (https://earnestcapital.com/) FIRE movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement) Index fund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund) Tony Robbins - Money (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1476757860/parpaspod-20) YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com/) Toshl (https://toshl.com/) Budgetwise (https://www.budgetwise.io/) The High Probability of Low Probability Events (https://www.thesimpledollar.com/the-high-probability-of-low-probability-events/) Miriam Tocino (https://www.parallelpassion.com/26) How Miha journals (https://mr.si/posts/2018/09/02/journaling/) H

Show Notes Codaisseur (https://codaisseur.com/) Ben Orenstein (https://www.parallelpassion.com/19) Wacom Cintiq (https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays) iPad Pro (https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/) Procreate (https://procreate.art/) Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ipad/) How Miha journals (https://mr.si/posts/2018/09/02/journaling/) The Artist's Way (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0143129252/parpaspod-20) 5 Minute Journal (https://www.intelligentchange.com/products/the-five-minute-journal) Bullet Journal (https://bulletjournal.com/) Zerus & Ona Mailing List (http://www.zerusandona.com/newsletter/) Elon's reply to Miha (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1101373962716495872) Elon Musk's $40 Million Tweet (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dantedisparte/2018/09/29/elon-musk-versus-the-sec-when-a-tweet-costs-40-million/#5fbde3411556) Recommendations Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1594634726/parpaspod-20) Computer Science

Show Notes Kamino (http://kamino.si/) Dan Cederholm (https://twitter.com/simplebits) Lavaredo Ultra Trail (https://ultratrail.it/) Joren De Groof (https://www.parallelpassion.com/21) Z Wallet (http://zanilic.com/slim-wooden-wallet) CNC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control) Simon Belak (https://www.parallelpassion.com/22) Stoicism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism) Gary Vaynerchuk (https://twitter.com/garyvee) Hustle Porn (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hustle%20porn) Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc) Common sense is not common (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_sense_is_not_common) Recommendations Physical movement (running, moving around) Alan Watts - Out of Your Mind (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0285644084/parpaspod-20) The Internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet) Žan Ilić Twitter (https://twitter.com/zanilic) Dribble (https://dribbble.com/zanilic) Persona

Show Notes ConvertKit (https://convertkit.com/) The App Design Handbook (https://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/) Designing Web Applications (https://nathanbarry.com/webapps/) Authority (https://nathanbarry.com/authority/) NB 001 - On Productivity (https://nathanbarry.com/session1/) Atomic Habits (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0735211299/parpaspod-20) Forest (https://www.forestapp.cc) I Am a Blogger (https://iamablogger.convertkit.com/) Tiny house movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_house_movement) ConvertKit Revenue Dashboard (https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/) 2018 in review (https://nathanbarry.com/2018-review/) Cerro Gordo (https://nathanbarry.com/cerro-gordo/) Recommendations Jason Fried: Making money takes practice like playing the piano takes practice (https://m.signalvnoise.com/making-money-takes-practice-like-playing-the-piano-takes-practice/) Learn New Things Derek Sivers: Anything You Want (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1591848261/parpaspod-20) Nathan B

Show Notes Springfestival (https://springfestival.at/) Rails Girls (http://railsgirls.com) Dom im Berg (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/worlds-coolest-underground-attractions/dom-im-berg--graz--austria/) Moderat (https://moderat.fm/) Deadmau5 Studio Tour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBiqFNNfudA) Kraftwerk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk) Floor Drees (https://twitter.com/FloorDrees) ROSS conf (https://www.rossconf.io/) Rayta van Rijswijk (https://www.parallelpassion.com/9) Piotr Szotkowski (https://www.parallelpassion.com/14) EuRuKo 2019 (https://euruko2019.org/) Rails Girls Summer of Code (https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/) Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/) Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html) Spotify to acquire Gimlet and Anchor (https://investors.

Show Notes Metabase (https://www.metabase.com/) Matic Jurglič (https://www.parallelpassion.com/18) Tribuna (https://tribuna.si/) Everything is a Remix (https://www.everythingisaremix.info/) Dunbar's number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) Decision fatigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue) Wikiloc (https://www.wikiloc.com/) Lego Technic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Technic) Recommendations Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/) Learnable programming (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) The Future of Programming (http://worrydream.com/dbx/) A Conversation with Alan Kay (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/AlanKay.html) Interview with Alan Kay (http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442) Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel (https://www.infoq.com/interviews/ingalls-smalltalk) IT’s Dirty

Show Notes ArrrrCamp (http://arrrrcamp.be) Miha's Lightning Talk (https://youtu.be/RPMX_o5Y1tg?t=2186) Nordic Ruby (http://www.nordicruby.org/) Ruby Belgium (http://rubybelgium.be/) Negative split (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_split) Peter's (Race) Pacer (https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/23ea0301-30c6-4c33-b4ef-63e2b5394e76) Adventure Cycling Association (https://www.adventurecycling.org/) Joren's Sierra Cascades on Polarsteps (https://www.polarsteps.com/JorenDG/649767-sierra-cascades) Recommendations Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0393609391/parpaspod-20) Binging with Babish (https://www.youtube.com/user/bgfilms) It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work (https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0062874780/parpaspod-20) Joren De Groof Twitter (https://twitter.com/joren) Strava (https://www.strava.com/athletes/202982) Polarsteps (https://www.polarsteps.com/JorenDG) Personal Page (http://jorendegroof.be/) Parallel Passion Patreon (https://www.patreo