Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Eric Berry

Dave Kimura

David Richards

Special Guests: Sebastian Sogamoso

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses failures with Sebastian Sogamoso. Sebastian is a software developer of 6 years, and working with Ruby for the last 5 years, and before worked with Java and PHP. He is currently living in Panama City, but grew up in Colombia. He now works for CookPad and organizes a Ruby conference in Colombia. Sebastian stresses the fact that everyone fails no matter what, and if you take responsibility and learn from your failures, you can more on to become a better programmer and developer because of it.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Ruby, Java, and PHP
Failure stories
Personal failure stories in software projects
Public failure stories in technology companies
Failure from a personal perspective
I am the worst developer ever?
Will I get fired?
Will this ever be over?
Getting peer support
Will I have to carry with the weight of this failure for my entire career?
Taking time off to decompress
Failure from a company perspective
The customer support side
The Public Relationships side
The engineering side
Blameless postmortems (don’t do guilt blame)
Root cause analysis
Fix the code, but most importantly the processes
Gaining confidence back
Mental health
Why sharing our failures can help
Impostor syndrome
And much, much more!


Links:  


Linode
CookPad
Interview Cake
FreshBooks
SebaSoga.com
@SebaSoga
Sebastian’s GitHub
SourceDiving.com
 


Picks:

Charles


Craigslist
eBay
Classified Sites for Non-Running Vehicles


Eric


Django
Cats


Dave


Costco Glasses


David


The Knowledge Worker by Peter Drucker
A Different View of Mindfulness by Zat Rana
 


Sebastian


Headspace App
You Need a Budget App
1Blocker App

Special Guest: Sebastian Sogamoso.