Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 092 | Eileen Uchitelle - Facing Fear
Guest:
Eileen Uchitelle talks with Dave Rael about working on performance and security, balance in life shared experiences, and facing fears
Eileen M. Uchitelle spends her days working on performance and security at Basecamp; or as you probably know it better, the place Ruby on Rails was born. She accidentally started contributing to open source after giving a talk on some problems with Active Record. Aaron Patterson was there and told her “fix it yourself” (not really). When she’s not making your life easier by improving Active Record, Eileen enjoys craft beer and hiking in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their dog.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Eileen Uchitelle
- - Security at Basecamp and the associated challenges
- - Performance and security
- - Eileen's definition of value
- - The things that "light Eileen up"
- - How Eileen got started in software
- - Being at Basecamp and "seeing Rails get informed by Basecamp"
- - David Heinemeier Hansson
- - Eileen's thoughts on failure - failing to speak up and lettings things go forward that are bad ideas
- - Eileen's story of success - overcoming extreme fear of public speaking
- - Public speaking vs. jumping out of an airplane and having a support system
- - How Eileen stays current with what she needs to know
- - Eileen's book recommendation and web history
- - The things that have Eileen most excited
- - Eileen's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Eileen geeks about apart from software
- - Eileen's prediction for the future of software
- - Eileen's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Eileen
Resources:
- Eileen's Blog
- Basecamp
- Signal v. Noise - The Basecamp Blog
- Arya Nymeria Uchitelle on Twitter - follow Eileen's Dog
- Big Nerd Ranch
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
- PhishMe
- Big Ruby (doesn't appear to be happening anymore)
- MountainWest RubyConf
- Aaron Patterson
- Coffitivity
- Medium and Authentication Without Passwords
- Eileen's blog posts on Rails 5
Eileen's book recommendation:
Eileen's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Listen more2. Find balance in your life - make sure to enjoy some time for yourself
3. Find something no one else wants to work on
