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Hey, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast. This week on our panel, we have Dave Kimura. Hey, everyone. We also have Luke Stutters. Hello. And Charles Maxwood from DevChat.TV. And this week, we have a special guest, and that is Mason McLeod. Hey, everyone, and thanks for having me on. Yeah, now we've had you on a couple of other shows.
We've been talking about basically getting more done. I'm kind of curious as we dive in. First, do you want to just give a little bit more of an introduction? I kind of glossed over all the cool stuff you're doing at software.com and all the tools that you provide to people and things like that, as well as the research that you're doing on productivity.
But yeah, you want to just give us the quick elevator pitch and then we can dive in? Sure. Yeah.
So I'm Mason. I'm the CTO at Software.com. We make tools for developers and it's all around time tracking and efficiency and productivity. So the core thing that we do is track telemetry about how you code and give you that feedback and that observability about how the development process is working for your team and for you as an individual.
And we also got editor extensions across all the main editors. that give you access to that data right in line. And also we have a tool called Flow Mode, which connects to Slack and your calendar and starts to block out times whenever you're coding so that you don't get distracted.
Because I think everyone's had that feeling where you finally get into the zone, like you've got everything in your head, and then you get a bunch of Slack messages or meetings coming up. And then you lose it all. And that's really valuable time that's then lost. So we've got tools to help you do that.
And a lot of the research that we're doing is looking at the impact analysis of meeting time versus how people can get stuff done during the day. and which is also a leading cause of why developers work at night a lot of the times or on weekends. And then the impact of other distractions like Slack and meeting, sorry, working at the office versus working remote.
when that is an option, depending on what country you're in. And yeah, all sorts of other stuff going into that. So a lot of really interesting data that we can see and a lot of assumptions that people have that can be proven correct through the data or actually debunked, which is, I think, a really interesting part of it as well.
Right. And like I said, you know, we had you on Adventures in DevOps. We had you on, I can't remember which of the other shows we talked to you on, but most of those conversations kind of went the same kinds of ways. I'm a little curious as we dive into this with Ruby Rogues, are there things that we didn't get to in the other shows that we could talk about here?
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