Episode 356: RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 356: RR 349: The Overnight Failure with Sebastian Sogamoso
• Website: Ruby Rogues
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• Duration: 01:05:51
• Published: 2018-02-13 12:00

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.