Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. Brittany and he discuss the concept of important opinions and the steps he took to take over maintainership of the VCR gem.

Links for this episode:<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/vcr/vcr" class="link" target="_blank">vcr/vcr: Record your test suite&#x27;s HTTP interactions | GitHub</a> </li><li><a href="https://firstdonoharm.dev/" class="link" target="_blank">The Hippocratic License 2.0: An Ethical License for Open Source Projects</a> </li><li><a href="https://opencollective.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Open Collective - Make your community sustainable</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.kurtis.rainbolt-greene.online/" class="link" target="_blank">Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene&#x27;s Web Log</a> </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/krainboltgreene" class="link" target="_blank">k. rainbolt-greene (@krainboltgreene) | Twitter</a> </li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod</a> </li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a> </li></ul>

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The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Co-hosted by Elise Shaffer, Brian Mariani, Jemma Issroff and Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.