
Episode 408: Functionally Fit with Mike Coutermarsh
03/09/22 • 34 min
Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.
Show Notes & Links:
- 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh
- PlanetScale - The Database for Developers
- GitHub - vitessio/vitess
- CrossFit Games: The Open
- Rogue Stock Bot - Real Time Restock Alerts - YouTube
- Brianna Lamb - Functional Bodybuilding
- TrueCoach: #1 Personal Trainer Software
- WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach
- ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool
- Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) · Twitter
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Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.
Show Notes & Links:
- 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh
- PlanetScale - The Database for Developers
- GitHub - vitessio/vitess
- CrossFit Games: The Open
- Rogue Stock Bot - Real Time Restock Alerts - YouTube
- Brianna Lamb - Functional Bodybuilding
- TrueCoach: #1 Personal Trainer Software
- WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach
- ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool
- Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) · Twitter
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.
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Episode 407: Get to Senior with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo (hexdevs)
Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo, the duo behind hevdevs, join Brittany to discuss their new course launch "Get to Senior", sharing your career goals with your manager and how to feel like a promotion was deserved.
Show Notes & Links:
- Get to Senior Crash Course
- Get to Senior
- hexdevs Interview with Brittany Martin
- Buy Get to Senior (10% off)
- Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter
- Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter
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Episode 409: Ruby on Trails with Jennifer Konikowski
Jennifer Konikowski had been doing mostly Rails since 2012, though is currently taking a detour and working in Go at Splice. She and Brittany talk about what lead her to Pittsburgh, her fitness journey and tips.
Show Notes & Links:
- Splice
- Jaybird
- PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells
- The Peloton App
- Strava
- TrainingPeaks | Reclaim Your Race Day
- Strong - Workout Tracker & Gym Log
- Workout of the Day | Concept2 Rowing Machines
- Jennifer Konikowski (@jenkoni) / Twitter
- Jennifer’s Website
Sponsored By:
Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them.
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.
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