Stephanie talks about hosting a Soup Group! Joël got nerd-sniped during the last episode and dove deeper into Maggie Appleton's "Tools for Thought."
Stephanie has been thinking a lot about Sustainable Web Development. What is sustainability? How does it relate to tech and what we do?
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Maggie Appleton's Tools for Thought (https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought)
Tangrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram)
Tessellation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation)
Hexagons are the Bestagons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY)
Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails (https://sustainable-rails.com/)
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JOËL: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Joël Quenneville.
STEPHANIE: And I'm Stephanie Minn. And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way.
JOËL: So, Stephanie, what's new in your world?
STEPHANIE: I'm excited to share a winter survival idea for folks out there who are, like me, in a very cold place where all your friends don't want to hang out [laughs] and bear the cold temperatures of deep winter in January. Because tonight, I'm hosting my first soup group where I'm basically just going to make a really big batch of soup and have my friends come over with bread, and we're going to eat soup and bread and be cozy.
And I'm really excited because I was trying to figure out a way to combat the winter blues a little bit. And, yeah, I think this time of year can be really tough after the holidays to get people together again. At least for me, I was feeling like I haven't seen my friends in so long. And I was like, well, I could just be the person to take the initiative [laughs] and be like, "Come over to our place."
And the goal is to eventually do this regularly and just have this low-stakes open invitation for anyone to come and show up however they want to. It doesn't have to be, like, big pressure or anything. And if they can't make it at any one time, then there will hopefully be one in the future where they can make it, so I'm excited. After this, I am going to make soup for ten people, and it's going to be great. [laughs]
JOËL: I love this idea. Soup on a cold day is just the coziest thing.
STEPHANIE: Yeah, exactly. I definitely wanted to just make people feel warm and cozy. And that's what I want, so I'm really doing this for myself. [laughs]
JOËL: And you know the advantage of hosting is you don't have to go outside.
STEPHANIE: Yeah, that's the real thing is I'm probably going to kick everyone out at like 11:00 p.m. and then go straight to bed, and it's going to be great. [laughs]
JOËL: Have you been experimenting with a particular kind of soup recently? Are you going to bring out an old favorite?
STEPHANIE: Yeah, I'm excited to make ribollita today, so kind of like a Tuscan style of veggie hearty soup. And I've just been bookmarking soup recipes left and right. [laughs] And I've outsourced the bread situation. So I'm excited to see what kind of bread people bring. And yeah, it'll be very fun and kind of surprising in a comforting way.
JOËL: I'm not familiar with this soup. It's ribollita you said?
STEPHANIE: Yeah, that's it.
JOËL: You said it's a vegetable soup.
STEPHANIE: Yeah, mostly veggies and beans. So I have this giant cabbage, a lo