Three podcasts I’m currently enjoying on development (I listen to more, but these are asap play when they arrive):

Dead Code

Dead code always ends with “and now delete some”, followed by a death metally grunt “DEAD CODE”. But while the show is death metal themed, don’t expect just bearded men with long hair mumbling. Jared Norman discusses a wide range of topics in depth. Often his shows are triggered by someone who wrote a blogpost about some niche programming related topic. From rescript (a typed language that compiles to Javascript), new style version management tools other than git, a discussion around why (the lucky stiff) who influenced the ruby culture to something much more quirkier than others, to discussions about the language we program in (english vs. non-english, ‘css’ vs assembly…).

• Deadcode Website

Maintainable - the art of improving existing software

In this podcast Robby Russel talks to experts in the field ab…

I’m still a big fan of Ruby on Rails. No other framework has ever made me as productive. And it is no a secret that it makes quite some other product companies very successful. Think of Shopify, Github, Basecamp, Hey, and others.

But if you’d look at at the list of most popular languages, the top 10 doesn’t feature ruby anymore.

In their 2020 survey on most popular technologies, StackOverflow writes:

Additionally, Ruby, once in the top 10 of this list as recently as 2017, has declined, being surpassed by newer, trendier technologies such as Go and Kotlin.

Also if you look at Google trends, ruby has always been negligible when compared to Python or PHP or Javascript, [the trend is downward for the ruby package manager](https://trends.google.nl/trends/explor…