Building Bridges (Interview)

Sarah Allen, cofounder of RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, joined the show to talk about the incredible ability to make something with software, leading and teaching a community, teaching programming to kids, programming is a life skill, and more.

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Featuring:

• Sarah Allen – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Beverly Nelson – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

In her day job, Sarah works with 18F to transform US Government digital services, and in her spare time works to diversify Ruby on Rails with RailsBridge, and Bridge Foundry.

We also have Beverly Nelson joining today’s show as a guest host.

• Sarah Allen (@ultrasaurus) on Twitter
• on being an ally - the evolving ultrasaurus
• the evolving ultrasaurus - Sarah Allen’s reflections on internet software and other topics
• The Changelog #146: Mind the Gender Parity Gap with Sarah Mei
• Git Resources for Visual Learners - The Changelog
• Photosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• ng-bridge/organizing
• Bridge Troll
• railsbridge/bridge_troll
• 18F/midas
• Midas
• ENIAC
• Kathleen “Kay” McNulty
• Betty Jean Jennings
• ENIAC Programmers Project

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