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Show Details1hr 1min084: The Architectural Support Team with Jason Henriksen
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Show Details1hr070: Self Reflections
Show Details44min069: Now I'm Catching Events
Show Details38min 27s068: Hire Women, Inspire Women
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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
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Show Details54min 45s058: Do 10x Developers Exist?
Show Details53min 27s057: Goals for 2022
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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
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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
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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)
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Show Details1hr 11min021: Listener Questions #2
Show Details1hr 21min020: Carol Needs a Consult
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Show Details1hr 15min018: Feature Flags (Finally!)
Show Details1hr 25min017: Premature Optimization
Show Details53min 47s016: Interviewing
Show Details1hr 16min015: Potluck #1
Show Details1hr 22min014: Zen and the Art of Pull Requests
Show Details1hr 12min013: Do What You Love And You'll Never Work A Day In Your Life
Show Details46min 51s012: Idiomatic Code
Show Details42min 3s011: Listener Questions #1
Show Details1hr 10min010: Scaling
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Show Details58min 13s008: Origin Stories Pt 2
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Show Details58min 5s006: Hopes for 2021
Hide Details57min 13sOxford Dictionary included "doomscrolling" in their "word of the year" report for 2020; we're all feeling pandemic fatigue; many people still believe in wide-spread election fraud; the Georgia senate race was a nail-biter; and - oh yeah - we recorded this show the day after the storming of the United States capitol building.
It's all been more-than-a-bit surreal.
But, in the face of such physically and emotionally trying times, we look forward to a new year of possibility. Whether it's taking control of our finances, finding ways to be more active, building up our personal brand, or becoming the blacksmiths that we always knew we could be, the crew shares their personal and professional / technical goals for this burgeoning new year. As the Phoenix rose from the ashes, so too - we hope - 2021 will rise from the smoldering dumpster fire of 2020.
We'd also like to give a huge shout-out and thank you to Monte Chan for being our first Patreon supporter! You are a beautiful, beautiful person; and we hope to make you proud!
Triumphs & Fails
- Adam's Triumph - With 2020 just behind us, the Georgia Senate run-off keeping us on the edge of our seats, the insurrection, and plenty of "doomscrolling", he managed to kick off 2021 with a somewhat productive week. He's reminded of a quote from Cory Doctorow's latest book: "I'm not OK, but I'm going to be OK. I'm coping, but I have a lot to cope with."
- Ben's Triumph - Coming off the two-week "deployment freeze" at work, he managed to rebase, merge, and deploy the 20-something small git branches that he had amassed over the holiday. It took a few days, but everything went swimmingly!
- Carol's Triumph - She accidentally discovered her son (16yo) and his best friend listening to our podcast; and, they loved it! Woot woot! We are totes connecting with the youths!
- Tim's Triumph - In the aftermath of the insurrection and storming of the US capitol building, he managed to not curl up in a ball and rock back-and-forth in the corner. Given the context, this was a pretty momentous effort.
Notes & Links
- Cory Doctorow - science fiction author, activist and journalist.
- You Need a Budget - award-winning software that teaches you how to manage your money.
- Mark Drew - a rather amazing chap from the CFML and web programming world.
- Devil Forge - full-service metal melting and blacksmithing tools supply company.
- Max Cunningham - YouTube channel, blacksmith and forge enthusiasm.
- Forged in Fire - reality show featuring world-class bladesmiths re-creating historical edged weapons in a cutthroat competition.
- Alec Steele - blacksmith and YouTube star.
- Primitive Technology: Forge Blower - awesome YouTube video in which a guy "invents" the force blower using primitive tooling.
- AlumnIQ - world-class software for alumni and donor engagement.
- Brad Frost: Atomic Design - book about building design systems.
- Material Design - design system and general design platform by Google.
- Angular.js - modern application framework for building Single Page Applications (SPA) from Google.
- Storybook - an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, Angular, and more.
- * Helios - design system used at InVision.
- async / await - modern JavaScript technique for making asynchronous code read like synchronous code.
- Snowpack - a lightning-fast front-end build tool, designed for the modern web, allowing you to load JavaScript modules from URLs.
- Promise - a proxy for a future, asynchronous value in JavaScript.
- Redis - an awesome open source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
- BitCoin - is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
- DogeCoin - an open source peer-to-peer digital currency, favored by Shiba Inus worldwide.
- Cryptocurrency - a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange.
- Blockchain - the world's most popular way to buy, hold, and use crypto currencies.
- A.I. - intelligence demonstrated by machines.
- AWS Machine Learning - a machine learning as a service platform.
- Machine Learning - the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience.
- Boston Dynamics: Do You Love Me? - absolutely mind-blowing video of robots getting their groove on!
- Dependabot - automatic dependency and security updates in your GitHub repositories.
- Kent C. Dodds: Testing JavaScript - online course for testing JavaScript applications.
- TypeScript - popular extension to JavaScript that adds types and other advanced features.
- Scala Play Framework - framework that makes it easy to build web applications with Java and Scala.
- JSON: JavaScript Object Notation - the de facto data exchange format for many networked applications.
- Let's not be monsters - adorable toddler telling us to be better!
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