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.

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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