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Fito von Zastrow

@fito.codegardener.com

SF Bay Area transplant from Asunciรณn, Paraguay ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡พ. I enjoy hiking ๐Ÿฅพwatching soccer โšฝ๏ธ video games ๐ŸŽฎ drinking mate ๐Ÿง‰and pair-programming ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป

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Ryan Findley Podcast Episode ยท The Code Gardener ยท 08/18/2025 ยท 35m

@fito.codegardener.com & I welcomed our first ever guest, Ryan Findley, to The Code Gardener Podcast recently. Hope you enjoy!

20.08.2025 04:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Joining us from Philly.rb and host of Code and the Coding Coders Who Code it, is Drew Bragg (@drbragg), with the classic Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer?!

If you come to Rocky Mountain Ruby, all of you do, obviously.

18.08.2025 16:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is such a fun presentation! Rocky Mountain Ruby is lucky to have you, @drbragg.dev !

18.08.2025 17:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thought I'd swing by to visit @fito.codegardener.com and @alan.codegardener.com, but they weren't in the studio today.

14.08.2025 20:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Compliments are a reflection of the light you are putting out into the world.

Accept them graciously by recognizing that other people have a better view of your aura than your inner critic does.

07.08.2025 09:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RailsConf Reminiscing - The Code Gardener In this episode, we take a nostalgic look back at what RailsConf has meant to us over the years.

@fito.codegardener.com and I picked up our microphones again a couple of weeks ago! Here's a link in case it flew by in your feed before you could click on it...

29.07.2025 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@fito.codegardener.com and I are thrilled to be speaking at SF RubyConf this November! So many amazing speakers! Hope to see you there!

25.07.2025 02:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A magical moment from June with a live bridge between ChicagoRuby hosted at Chime Chicago and SF Ruby (lu.ma/sfruby) hosted at Chime SF ๐Ÿคฉ

The key people involved in this recording are: @noelrappin.com, @inazarova.bsky.socialโ€ฌ, @alan.codegardener.com, @fito.codegardener.comโ€ฌ, and Brandt Sheets

22.07.2025 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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RailsConf Reminiscing Podcast Episode ยท The Code Gardener ยท 07/17/2025 ยท 1h 11m

Itโ€™s been a minute, but attending the last RailsConf last week had @fito.codegardener.com and I feeling nostalgic and wanting to shareโ€ฆ

17.07.2025 13:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Also, @fito.codegardener.com and I will be speaking at SF Ruby Conf! We'll be talking about our approach to managing the scale of our codebase and our team at Cisco Meraki.

We're one of the oldest (2006) and largest (1000+ engineers) Rails shops on the planet. And, we have a unique approach...

03.07.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cisco Meraki is such an organization. We're old (2006). We're a large team (1000+ engineers). And, our codebase is huge (4.25+ million lined of Ruby).

You may not be that big yet. But, you may be one day!

Come listen to @fito.codegardener.com and I as we discuss how we manage all of that.

03.07.2025 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#RubyFriends

@fito.codegardener.com and I with @nodunayo.bsky.social (AKA The Talent) just after RailsConf 2025.

11.07.2025 10:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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San Francisco Is Calling ๐ŸŒโ˜Ž๏ธ Call for proposals closes this Sunday

San Francisco Ruby Conference is calling ๐ŸŒโ˜Ž๏ธ
sfruby.substack.com/p/san-franci...

12.07.2025 03:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Fito Von Zastrow and Alan Ridlehoover on stage at RailsConf

Fito Von Zastrow and Alan Ridlehoover on stage at RailsConf

Now @fito.codegardener.comโ€ฌ and @alan.codegardener.comโ€ฌ are going off the Rails, decoupling Cisco Meraki's code to scale their team and application. #RailsConf2025

08.07.2025 14:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Smaller things are less complex and easier to test." @alan.codegardener.com at #RailsConf2025

08.07.2025 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@alan.codegardener.com and @fito.codegardener.com talk about the tragedy of the successful software โ€” Meraki with over 4M LOC #Rails monolith, looking for new architecture to support maintainability at this scale: modularity and boundaries.

22.05.2025 01:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you ever been asked to cut down a tree but built a general solution that can cut down all the trees at once? Stop that! Just cut down the damn tree!

Even Einstein came up with specialized relativity before general relativity.

#softwareengineering

15.03.2025 18:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Screen shot of a slide entitled My Thoughts on Generative AI - Alan Ridlehoover. The slide includes a photo of Alan wearing brown glasses, and a denim coat, standing with his hands in his pants pockets. The slide contains text about Generative AI Today and Generative AI Tomorrow. (See thread for text.)

Screen shot of a slide entitled My Thoughts on Generative AI - Alan Ridlehoover. The slide includes a photo of Alan wearing brown glasses, and a denim coat, standing with his hands in his pants pockets. The slide contains text about Generative AI Today and Generative AI Tomorrow. (See thread for text.)

Here are my thoughts on Generative AI as it pertains to the software development industry.

(Sorry for the exclusivity of the text embedded in an image. I'll add the text in a ๐Ÿงต.)

25.02.2025 20:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sinful Sunday โ€” Sin City Ruby

@fito.codegardener.com and I will be talking about how to identify and remove complexity in your software at Sin City Ruby on April 10-11 in, where else but, sunny Las Vegas.

Want to hang out before then? Join us and all the Sin City speakers for Sinful Sunday!

www.sincityruby.com/sinful-sunda...

19.02.2025 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Staring at the creek, waiting to see some ducks ๐Ÿฆ† (or an otter! ๐Ÿฆฆ)

16.12.2024 19:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RubyConf 2024 (Chicago) RubyConf is the world's longest running conference for Ruby developers, brought together to further discussion and learning about building, managing, and tes...

EXCITING NEWS -- videos from #RubyConf2024 are now LIVE! ๐Ÿคฉ

Thank you again to all our speakers and everyone who joined us.

If you weren't able to make it to Chicago, we hope you can take some time to watch the talks over the holiday break! โœจ

13.12.2024 18:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Hexagonal Architecture + Rails - The Code Gardener In this episode of The Code Gardener, we discuss the Ports & Adapters pattern, also known as Hexagonal Architecture.STOP! Before listening to the episode, please take the time to go watch Alistair...

Have you had enough Hexagonal Architecture yet? No? Well, have I got a podcast for you! In this episode, me and @fito.codegardener.com talk about our early experiences using the Ports & Adapters pattern with Rails. Let us know your thoughts!

10.12.2024 06:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hexagonal Architecture + Rails When learning the Ports & Adapters pattern, I found it confusing. For some reason, it never clicked that the term adapter was a direct reference to the Gang of Four Adapter Pattern. Discovering that w...

When learning the Ports & Adapters pattern, I found it confusing. It never clicked that the adapter was a direct reference to the GoF Adapter Pattern. That was a real face-palm moment for me. And, it was the key to me understanding the pattern.

#hexagonal-architecture #ports-and-adapters #rails

07.12.2024 02:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice acronym! I might borrow that one ๐Ÿ˜€

01.12.2024 23:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Abstract vs. DRY DRY is the worst programming advice ever. It may seem easy. But, it makes changing or extending software harder. Abstraction, on the other hand, may seem difficult, but makes changing and extending so...

Would you prefer your code to be abstract or DRY?

01.12.2024 22:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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So DRY It Chafes Podcast Episode ยท The Code Gardener ยท 11/30/2024 ยท 30m

So DRY It Chafes - Episode 2 of The Code Gardener podcast is now up! In it we talk about what we're thankful for this year, then discus why DRY is the worst programming advice ever. Don't believe us? Give a listen...

30.11.2024 01:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And, now available on Spotify!

open.spotify.com/show/0izx3az...

27.11.2024 21:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey Vijay! Thanks! I think your name even came up during the story ๐Ÿ˜€

26.11.2024 00:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Code Gardener Technology Podcast ยท 1 Episodes

So, @drbragg.dev has been after @fito.codegardener.com and I to do a podcast of our own for a couple of years now. Well, wait no longer, Drew.

Announcing The Code Gardener Podcast!

Available on Apple Podcasts right now! More coming as we figure it out...

25.11.2024 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
The new logo for The Code Gardener is a simplified 3-d rendering of a keyboard in front of a potted plant.

The new logo for The Code Gardener is a simplified 3-d rendering of a keyboard in front of a potted plant.

Introducing the new logo for the.codegardener.com!

I'm leaning toward square stickers. @fito.codegardener.com thinks die cut. What do you think?

21.11.2024 18:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1