Shopify Dot Dev Toronto Guide, One Mainframe Escape, and the DNA Dating App That Never Was

Episode five is part Toronto travel guide, part career origin story, part unhinged client request hall of fame. Trudy MacNabb walks us through the killer guide to Toronto (sdatoronto.dev) she built for dot.dev this July. We also cover more in this episode like Shopify Row on Ossington, bike rides along the lakeshore, hidden ravines, a speakeasy disguised as an apothecary, and the eternal debate over whether the CN Tower is actually worth it. Then Diana pulls out the Barbara Walters questions: Trudy opens up about leaving a stable mainframe programming career at a big Canadian bank, co-founding Design Packs with Anne Thomas, and why shipping something imperfect beats waiting forever. And yes, someone once asked her to build a dating app based on DNA. We have so many questions. Featuring: 
 Trudy MacNabb, Design Packs: https://design-packs.com/ Diana Birsan, Downpay: https://getdownpay.com/ Brenda Storer, Founder of Coquelicot, creator of Whisk Shopify Theme: https://coquelicot.io/Anne Thomas, Design Packs: https://design-packs.com/ 
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