MRS 033: Aurynn Shaw

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Aurynn Shaw

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Aurynn Shaw. Aurynn got into programming when she was helping clients at a contracting company deploy early web things using Perl. Programming really clicked for her when she was fascinated by how programs really work when she created her own language. Currently, she works with Python for Lambdas and is doing a lot of client work. This includes building deployment pipelines and helping them ask information security questions. She also discusses programming culture and her views on it.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

How did you first get introduced into programming?
GameDove
Matt’s Script Archive
Perl
What made programming click for you?
Writing her own language
Python, Java, and JavaScript
Do you work a lot with Ruby?
Writing software is less relevant to what she is doing now
What are you most proud of in your career?
Contempt culture
OpenStack Cloud in New Zealand
SaltStack
DevOps
StartUp Weekend
Her Blog Post
Changed perspective on coding
Hacker Culture
Her Ruby Rogues Episode 
What are you working on now?
Information security
Programming Culture
And much, much more!

Links: 

LootCrate
StartUp Weekend
Contempt Culture Blog Post
Ruby Rogues Episode 273
EIARA.nz
Linode
@Aurynn
Aurynn’s GitHub
Blog.Aurynn.com

Picks:

Charles

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Keep your mind open to what’s out there

Aurynn

Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King and James G. Skakoon
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu