Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby programming language,
famously said: “I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the
world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.”
Honestly, not many programming languages were built with developer’s
happines in mind. And to be honest, Ruby is a joy to work with. It’s
fairly easy to learn, easy to read, yet, very powerful. Also, with the
appearance of Ruby on Rails, it became insanely productive. But first
things first.
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Podcast for developers, testers, SREs... and their managers. I explain complex and convoluted technologies in a clear way, avoiding buzzwords and hype. Never longer than 4 minutes and 16 seconds. Because software development does not require hours of lectures, dev advocates' slide decks and hand waving. For those of you, who want to combat FOMO, while brushing your teeth. 256 seconds is plenty of time. If I can't explain something within this time frame, it's either too complex, or I don't understand it myself. 

By Tomasz Nurkiewicz. Java Champion, CTO, trainer, O'Reilly author, blogger