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Episode 268: 268: Origins of Discourse & Changing Your Developer Mindset with Sam Saffron
About this episode
Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".
Links for this episode:
- Sam's Blog
- Discourse
- mini_racer | Minimal embedded v8
- Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
- Sam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)
- Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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