Working Code
Water-cooler conversation about web-development. We want to entertain, inspire, and motivate you -- or to put it another way, make your coding career more enjoyable.
Episodes
104: Alexa Make A Podcast About AI
Show Details37min 57s103: Birdsite Go Boom
Show Details40min 48s102: Upgrading MySQL For Poop Emojis
Show Details1hr 10min101: Error - Error Message Not Helpful!
Show Details47min 36s100: The Spicetacular!
Show Details1hr 22min099: Technical Debt Isn’t Always A Choice. Or Is It?
Show Details58min 42s098: In Defense Of Working On The Legacy Platform
Show Details48min 20s097: Expectations Of Professional Software Engineers
Show Details1hr 19min096: Why Do You Write?
Show Details58min 43s095: Potluck #6 - Unpopular Opinions Edition
Show Details1hr 3min094: Disagree And Commit
Show Details52min 18s093: Sounds Easy! Sure Isn't
Show Details50min 58s092: The Power of No
Show Details52min 24s091: Side Project Therapy
Show Details51min 41s090: Passion Projects and Beer Money - Side Hustles
Show Details1hr 4min089: What Makes a Good Roadmap?
Show Details1hr 2min088: //todo: documentation
Show Details58min 45s087: Note To Self v0.2.0
Show Details53min 1s086: The Working Code Test
Show Details1hr 21min085: Shipping Complexity
Show Details1hr 1min084: The Architectural Support Team with Jason Henriksen
Show Details48min 56s083: Alternate Timelines
Show Details39min 46s082: GitHub Copilot - Is It Worth It?
Show Details54min 37s081: Total Randos
Show Details47min 8s080: Other Duties As Assigned
Show Details48min 20s079: Potluck #5
Show Details59min 47s078: UX - Pushing Users Into The Pit of Success
Show Details59min 29s077: Mid-Manager Blues
Show Details44min 6s076: Ben Needs A Minute
Show Details57min 39s075: What Problem Does This Solve?
Show Details49min 27s074: What's On Your Workbench?
Show Details58min 19s073: Our Golden Parachute
Show Details37min 2s072: Too Many Hats
Show Details57min 31s071: Potluck #4
Show Details1hr070: Self Reflections
Show Details44min069: Now I'm Catching Events
Show Details38min 27s068: Hire Women, Inspire Women
Show Details1hr067: We Have Feelings On Logging
Show Details38min 41s066: Make Meetings Suck Less
Show Details46min 58s065: TDD In the Trenches with Scott Stroz
Show Details41min 47s064: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Show Details40min 9s063: Nobody Makes It Out Alive!
Show Details33min 20s062: Note To Self
Show Details1hr 8min061: Software Is For People
Show Details51min 11s060: Technical Debt
Show Details1hr059: Everything Old Is New Again
Show Details54min 45s058: Do 10x Developers Exist?
Show Details53min 27s057: Goals for 2022
Show Details54min 40s056: Best of 2021
Show Details1hr 8min055: Sales Fails
Show Details50min 25s054: We're So Quacked
Show Details41min 41s053: Product Management with Adam Lehman
Show Details39min 18s052: Starting Your Own Business, with Steve Rittler
Show Details1hr 15min051: You Are Replaceable
Show Details36min 31s050: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
Show Details52min 49s049: Revisiting Replatforming - There Is No Correct Answer
Show Details49min 31s048: // TODO: Microwave ToDo List
Show Details56min 17s047: Email Ruins Everything
Show Details56min 2s046: Secrets Management vs. Premature Optimization
Show Details44min 15s045B: The Aftershow
Show Details24min 43s045: Join Our Discord
Show Details10min 57s044: Facebook's No Good Very Bad Week
Show Details55min 5s043: Relay Race Programming
Show Details50min 8s042: Potluck #3
Show Details51min 53s041: The Third Age of JavaScript, with Shawn @Swyx Wang
Show Details1hr 9min040: Automaticity Is a Weird Word
Show Details41min 59s039: Ben's Future at InVision
Show Details51min 54s038: Holding Developers Accountable
Show Details57min 54s037: Brian Klaas Talks Cloud
Show Details1hr 17min036: Blogs and Digital Gardens
Show Details58min 32s035: Being a Swamp Guide
Show Details47min 39s034: Some of My Best Friends Are React Developers!
Show Details44min 18s033: Software Patents
Show Details42min 35s032: What Comes After Senior Developer?
Show Details49min 52s031: To The Cloud! But Why?
Show Details1hr 1min030: Carol's Consult Catch-Up Conversation
Show Details48min 34s029: Potluck #2
Show Details46min 8s028: Buy vs. DIY
Show Details47min 30s027: Giving Technical Presentations
Show Details34min 15s026: Passwords
Show Details59min 6s025: Breaking Up With Your Stack
Show Details1hr 1min024: The Archetype of an Effective Developer
Show Details1hr 25min023: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt2)
Hide Details1hr 6minThis week, the crew meets to finish their review of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (aka, "Uncle Bob"). This book is filled with so much thought-provoking information that it took us two episodes to get through it! And, while some of the practices in the book didn't quite connect with the programming languages that we use or the types of applications that we build, our general consensus is that most of the suggestions in this book are spot-on.
All-in-all, I'd say that our first attempt at a book review was a smashing success!
Triumphs & Failures
- Adam's Triumph - He took a SQL query that was running for over 3-minutes, refactored it, and brought the execution time down to 30 milliseconds. For those of you following along at home, that's a "4 orders of magnitude" improvement! There's nothing quite as thrilling as query optimization! But, anytime you get to describe an improvement in terms of "orders of magnitude", you are already winning!
- Ben's Triumph - After spending weeks of his personal time building a ColdFusion custom tag DSL (Domain Specific Language) for generating HTML emails; and, then using said DSL in a company Hackathon to rebuild a bevy of transactional emails; he finally starting applying the approach at work! And, it's all going very smoothly!
- Carol's Failure - She was so focused on putting together the mother's day plans (for her mothers) that she completely forgot that her son was coming home from his Freshman year of college. So, instead of going to get him, he had to rely on his friends (and their parents) to help him move back home. Of course, isn't a big part of going to college all about becoming more independent and self-reliant?
- Tim's Failure - He is terrible at negotiating. And, the very act of "countering" an offer makes him feel like a bad person. In a contentious situation, his primary goal is to figure out exactly what he can say to bring the situation to an end. This is something he always wishes he was better at.
Notes & Links
- Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict.
- Never Split the Difference - A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations.
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Published May 19, 2021 at 11:00am