This episode is the first of a new WeAreDevelopers format where we take a closer look at the latest tech headlines, events, tools and more. Join us LIVE on YouTube every Wednesday lunchtime (12:30 CET), or listen in at a time that suits you. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest...
Dec 18, 2024•59 min
In this episode of Coffee with Developers, we sit down with Keith from GitHub to explore why some developers are moving away from frameworks like React and focusing on standards and browser-native solutions. From the evolution of JavaScript to the ongoing debate about web components and frameworks, this conversation dives deep into the future of web development and why understanding the platform matters more than ever. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 ...
Dec 13, 2024•50 min
For this episode, Chris met with Kyle Daigle - COO of GitHub - at the Merge Festival in Berlin to discuss what it’s like to run a remote-first company, the importance of letting people work from anywhere on earth, and the future of open source. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Dig...
Dec 09, 2024•42 min
Discover the inspiring journey of Matti Nant, co-founder of Formbricks, as he shares how he turned an open-source hobby project into a thriving business. Learn about the challenges and successes of building privacy-first, self-hostable survey software, securing support from the GitHub Accelerator, and navigating the world of open source licensing, monetization, and community contributions. Perfect for developers, entrepreneurs, and open-source enthusiasts! ---------------------------------------...
Dec 06, 2024•41 min
On this episode of Coffee with Developers Chris met with GitHub and GitButler co-founder Scott Chacon to talk all things open source, and to think about a new vision for version control. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter featuring the most recent ...
Dec 05, 2024•37 min
Jonathan Weiss, Managing Director Amazon Development Center in Germany, to discuss how Amazon Q could help companies understand AWS services better, speed up their workflows, and improve productivity. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter featuring th...
Dec 02, 2024•23 min
Paul Kinlan dives into web development's evolution, balancing frameworks vs. vanilla coding, the role of HTML/CSS, AI's impact, and the rise of disposable software. He also shares insights on team training and efficient workflows. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our ...
Nov 29, 2024•41 min
On this episode, recorded live at the Merge Festival in Berlin in June 2024, Chris sat down with Leah Culver, start-up founder, angel investor and former Twitter (now X) iOS Software Engineer to talk about the state of iOS, what happens when a billionaire buys a social media platform he doesn’t really understand, and a whole lot more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech i...
Nov 28, 2024•33 min
On this episode of Coffee with Developers, recorded live at the Merge festival in Berlin, I sat down with Robby Russell, creator of Oh My Zsh, to talk about what it’s like to see a project you create become popular, and just how hard it is to maintain software. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Sta...
Nov 25, 2024•26 min
On this episode I spoke with developer, entrepreneur, podcaster and public speaker, Saron Yitbarek, about why its important to be a multi-hyphenate. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter featuring the most recent tech trends, career guidance, and orig...
Nov 21, 2024•26 min
On this episode GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon and WeAreDevelopers CEO Sead Ahmetovic sat down with developer and tech entrepreneur Saron Yibarek to talk about growing developer communities and how they’ve changed over the years. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our w...
Nov 18, 2024•35 min
Nolan Royalty discusses his journey in game development, reflecting on the nostalgia of early internet games and the communities they fostered. He shares insights on unique game concepts like 1 million Check Boxes and Pack cam, and the creative process behind designing engaging games. Nolan highlights the challenges of monetization and the importance of experimentation for aspiring creators in today's landscape. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 develop...
Nov 15, 2024•42 min
In this episode Chris spoke with Michael Koitz, the Chief Product Owner for platform services at REWE Group about how they’re using hackathons to find innovative new ways of using technology in the retail sector. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter ...
Nov 14, 2024•23 min
On this episode, Chris spoke with Maria Apazoglou, Head of AI, BI & Data Platforms, Thomson Reuters about how they’ve integrated AI into their systems, and how they look to stay ahead of the pack using artificial intelligence. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our ...
Nov 11, 2024•35 min
In this episode of Coffee with Developers, we dive deep into the technical journey of optimizing one of Microsoft’s largest monorepos, reducing its size by 94%! Join us with Jonathan Creamer, Engineer at Microsoft, as he explains the challenges, breakthroughs, and surprising discoveries involved in managing a massive codebase with thousands of packages and millions of lines of TypeScript. If you’re interested in high-scale development, Git optimizations, and developer tools, this conversation is...
Nov 08, 2024•34 min
In this episode, Chris spoke with Ivan and Verdran, the co-founders of Daytona, shortly after deciding to take the company open source. We discussed what it was like to deal with the unexpected growth in popularity that Daytona has experienced since, and a lot more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career...
Nov 07, 2024•29 min
On this episode, Brian Morrison - Developer Educator at Clerk - explains how he got started with coding by experimenting in coffee shops, and how he now looks to give back to the community that helped shape him into the developer he is today by creating content and teaching others. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your ...
Nov 04, 2024•17 min
For this edition of Coffee with Developers, we met with Socket.dev CEO and security expert Feross Aboukhadijeh to discuss the XZ Utils Backdoor story, a critical SSH vulnerability in Linux that had been in the making of several years before the attacker hit. Feross has all the details, and some great top tips for making use of open source software while keeping yours secure. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your o...
Oct 31, 2024•43 min
In this episode, recorded live at the Merge Festival in Berlin, Chris sat down wioth Cassidy Williams, who shortly after this was recorded announced her new role as Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, to talk about growing and managing teams, the world of open source, and how you can trick AI into revealing its secrets. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech ins...
Oct 28, 2024•44 min
On this episode we met with Tim Ruscica - aka Tech with Tim on YouTube - to discuss his journey into becoming a full-time tech educator, and we discuss his partnership with BrightData at the World Congress 2024. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter f...
Oct 24, 2024•27 min
In this episode, WeAreDevelopers co-founder Tom sat down with the always interesting David Heinemeier Hansson (otherwise known as DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, Hey and co-owner and CTO of 37signals. No doubt you’ll have some strong opinions on the topics discussed in this episode, and DHH is never one to shy away from a couple of hot takes. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min
In this episode, recorded live at the Merge Festival in Berlin, Chris sat down with David Cramer, founder of Sentry, to understand his vision for the product - and the company - and exactly what led to its popularity in the development community. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev D...
Oct 17, 2024•29 min
In this episode Chris Heilmann talks with web standards and accessibility consultant Bruce Lawson and W3C-invited expert and author Ben Francis to talk about the ongoing dispute between Apple and EU regulators. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter fe...
Oct 14, 2024•40 min
In this episode, I spoke with Dan Mindru about life as an indie maker, building, launching and marketing products alone. We spoke about whether its better to build a solid product, or just be able to market it well. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newslett...
Oct 10, 2024•29 min
On this episode, we spoke with Adam Wiggins - co-founder of Heroku, to reflect on what it was like in the early days of the platform, and to consider what the future looks like, and technology is shaping it. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advice to elevate your developer career. Stay updated Dev Digest, with our weekly newsletter featu...
Oct 07, 2024•27 min
In this edition of Coffee With Developers Chris Heilmann sat down with @francescociulla to chat about getting started as an online creator. Amongst other things, we answered the following questions: 1. How did he get into development and what do you think is missing for new people to start? Is being "content creator" or "youtube star" the right goal? 2. How can you compete with social media optimisers and growth hackers. 3. What are some things that annoy you about code tutorials? 4. How do you ...
Jan 11, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In this interview, we chat with Eleftheria Batsou, a developer, content creator, and community manager at CrabNebula. She shares her journey from coding to developer relations (DevRel), discusses her passion for user experience (UX), and offers valuable insights for developers looking to engage more on social media platforms like Twitter. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest te...
Sep 13, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Join us for a captivating episode of "Coffee with Developers" as we chat with Angie Jones, the Global VP of Developer Relations at TBD. Discover her journey from C++ novice to tech influencer and inventor with 27 patents. Learn about the challenges of Developer Relations and how Angie stays ahead in the fast-paced tech world. Get inspired to innovate as she shares her parting wisdom. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This ...
Sep 06, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Join us for an enlightening interview with Luise Freese, a tech expert and advocate for Microsoft 365 and PowerPlatform. In this conversation, Luise shares her invaluable insights into the capabilities of Microsoft 365 and how PowerPlatform empowers developers and businesses alike. Dive into the world of DevRel as Luise discusses her journey and the exciting opportunities it presents. Discover how Luise's enthusiasm for these technologies fuels her anticipation for upcoming events like WorldCong...
Jul 14, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 33
🗺 Discover the fascinating journey of Daniel Cranney, a developer, designer, and teacher, as he shares valuable insights on the intersection of creativity and coding. 💻 From his involvement in the Supabase ambassador program to his upcoming role as a moderator at WeAreDevelopers World Congress, Daniel's experiences shed light on the art of coding for design-oriented individuals. 🔥 Join us for an inspiring conversation that will ignite your passion for programming and unleash your creative pot...
Jun 30, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 32