DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus.

Links for this episode:

• RubyConf 2019 - How to Become an Encoding Champion by Deedee Lavinder
  
• ASCII | Wikipedia
  
• Endianness | Wikipedia
  
• DeeDee Lavinder (@ddlavinder) | Twitter
  
• Raleigh/Durham | Women Who Code
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

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