Read more about the climate debate surrounding NFTs here . We really enjoyed this piece: You either die an MVP, or live long enough to build content moderation. You can find Ben on Twitter here . You can send ideas for blog posts to Ryan Donovan at our pitch box . You can find Cassidy on Twitter here and read the newsletter she helps us curate here . You can find Ceora on Twitter here and check out more about Apollo GraphQL here ....
Oct 08, 2021•32 min•Ep. 386
You can learn more about Paul here . You can read more about Physna here . Paul is excited about the Metaverse. So are we !
Oct 05, 2021•24 min•Ep. 385
Check out more about Microsoft's efforts to ditch passwords here . When 2FA just won't do, 3FA to the rescue. Just pray we aren't headed towards five factors ....
Oct 01, 2021•20 min•Ep. 384
Right now, most development teams provide visibility into their overall process and lifecycle through standup meetings and spreadsheets. It can be a painfully manual process that uses up valuable engineering time. Value stream management aims to solve that by mapping out the entire software development life cycle and providing visibility into areas where things are breaking down or getting stuck. It borrows ideas from Agile and the automate-all-the-things attitude from DevOps to ensure engineeri...
Sep 29, 2021•28 min•Ep. 383
Go get your copy of They Key here . Our frequent collaborator, Cassidy Williams of Netlify, helped design the key and joined this episode to share her love for all things mechanical keyboard.
Sep 28, 2021•33 min•Ep. 382
We talked about obscuring DNS traffic based on this article . Cassidy and Ben are pretty excited about all the new Apple stuff announced recently . Ryan, the curmudgeon, does not. There are several theories as to where the word dongle came from. The Conductor framework makes building web apps simpler in a low-code/no-code style. Did the pandemic worsen everyone else's guilt and self-loathing over decreased productivity or was it just us? Our only point of contact during the height of the pandemi...
Sep 24, 2021•25 min•Ep. 381
Tarn and his brother Zach are the brains behind Dwarf Fortress and the community that rose around it. Dr . Tarn Adams received a math PhD, but left his post-doc because he was too busy making games. A bug created the statue Planepacked , a massive structure that contained the entire history of the world as well as 73 copies of the statue itself. Many people, including one of our hosts, found out about Dwarf Fortress through a Let's Play session in a fortress called Boatmurdered . If you want a m...
Sep 21, 2021•33 min•Ep. 380
Former co-host Sara Chipps now manages engineering teams at LinkedIn, but her best content is still on Twitter . Cassidy's former boss, Sarah Drasner , recently wrote a book to help engineers level up to management: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us . Cassidy's new favorite software tool is Astro , a single-site generator that looks to minimize the amount of client-side JavaScript in a site. The two books Ms. Chipps mention as the old standbys for new engineering managers are Peopleware ...
Sep 17, 2021•24 min•Ep. 379
While every developer loves a good story about discovering and fixing a gnarly bug, not everyone enjoys the work of finding those bugs. Most folks would prefer to be writing business logic and solving new problems. But those input validation errors and resource leaks won’t solve themselves. Or will they? AWS Bug Bust is a global competition launched with the goal of finding and fixing one million bugs in codebases around the world. It takes the traditional bug bash and turns it into a competitio...
Sep 15, 2021•19 min•Ep. 378
Weaveworks helps DevOps folks manage their Kubernetes settings entirely Paul's first computer was a Sinclair ZX-80 , which had a clock speed of 3.25 MHz, 1 KB of static RAM ,and 4 KB of read-only memory. Pretty good for 1980. Weaveworks based their project on Flux , an open source engine. If you're not a big corporation and you want to use it, it's free! Before there was Kubernetes, Google created Borg , an internal cluster manager. It has yet to be assimilated by Kubernetes. Ben thinks that, if...
Sep 14, 2021•28 min•Ep. 377
You can send ideas for blog posts to Ryan Donovan at our pitch box . You can find Cassidy on Twitter here and read the newsletter she helps us curate here . You can find Ceora on Twitter here and check out more about Apollo GraphQL here . Cassidy's piece on GraphQL, the first item she ever wrote for Stack Overflow, is here . Want to learn more about AVIF and how it compresses images so well? Check out good read from Netflix's tech blog here . Instead of a lifeboat badge we're highlighting an ama...
Sep 10, 2021•29 min•Ep. 376
You can learn more about Sam on his LinkedIn here . You can find him on Twitter here . Learn more about Oso, check out the code, and join their Slack community here . Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is Evgeny Lisin, who answered the question: How to find UIWebView in Project and replace it with WKWebView?...
Sep 08, 2021•23 min•Ep. 375
You can find Angie's blog here , catch her on Twitter here , and connect with her on LinkedIn here . You can check out Applitools and learn about the visual AI system it uses for testing here . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Alex Klyubin for explaining: What is the difference between Jar signer and Apk signer?...
Sep 03, 2021•22 min•Ep. 374
Nick is now Sourcery's CTO. You can find him on Twitter here . Brendan serves as Sourcery's CEO. You can find him on Twitter here . You can try out Sourcery for free here and check out the company's open positions here . Our lifeboat badge of the week, fittingly, goes to Martin Evans, for explaining how to parse an integer from a string in Python ....
Aug 31, 2021•27 min•Ep. 373
Paul is stepping away down as CEO of Postlight to focus more on understanding climate change and how we can address it. The science hurts his brain. Cassidy Williams, currently at Netlify , has published articles on our blog and provides links in our newsletter. We dig into some of the results of the dev survey , including how kids today are learning to code on the internet. There's so much to learn from now! Did everyone step back from working full time? Our survey data shows a decrease in full...
Aug 27, 2021•19 min•Ep. 372
Every password can be compromised. Stych helps companies build authentication flows that don't need user passwords. Julianna grew up in Idaho, where she didn't even know what computer science was. After stints as a software engineer and product manager, she found a role where could figure out what the organization should be building: CTO and founder. Their first product was email magic links, which is more complicated than you think. Most importantly, how do you always avoid the spam folder? Cop...
Aug 24, 2021•19 min•Ep. 371
In 1987, Anita Borg, AnitaB.org's namesake, saw how few women were at a "systems" conference. A few casual chats turned into the listserv, Systers, which continues to offer a place for women in engineering to meet and discuss. Grace Hopper—that's Navy Rear Admiral Hopper to you, civilian—was the first to devise a theory of programming languages that were machine-independent. She created the FLOW-MATIC programming language, which served as the basis for COBOL . Quincy started in electrical engine...
Aug 20, 2021•15 min•Ep. 370
We're officially part of the Prosus family now that the acquisition has closed. It’s a huge milestone and a big deal for our company and community. Prosus has a global reach and will help us meet the needs of developers and technologists everywhere. Have no fear: there will not be a paywall on the community sites. We have separate free and paid products for a reason. We combined our Ads and Talent businesses into Reach & Relevance, which gives companies the opportunity to showcase their prod...
Aug 17, 2021•24 min•Ep. 369
Ethan started his career when the marquee tag was king and is bullish on its comeback. His focus as an investor is on developer tools & infrastructure, open source software, space, and emerging compute. We talk about his time as a Product Group Leader at Facebook, and his strong feelings on the state of DevOps. You can find his investor profile here , his blog here , and on Twitter here . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Denys Vuika, who answered the question: How do I configure Yarn a...
Aug 13, 2021•26 min•Ep. 368
Mason began his career as a developer, went on to be a CEO, but also found time to produce 80s alt rock album full of advice on how to run your startup. Slack began life as a video game company, eventually pivoting to make an internal chat tool it had built into its main business. Descript had a similar journey, taking the editing software Mason and his team developed at Detour, and moving it to become the center of a new business after Detour was acquired by Bose . Headquartered in Montreal, Ly...
Aug 10, 2021•20 min•Ep. 367
Mark started out on a 4k TRS-80. He had to program it in assembly language, as there wasn't enough memory to use the local Basic copy. Throughout his career, he's oscillated between using databases and building databases. He started at Caltech and NASA, using databases to store and organize space data and chip data. Then he built databases at Oracle, including versions, 5 6, 7, and 8. After that it was back to using databases at NewsCorp for huge student data systems. He built databases at AWS w...
Aug 06, 2021•26 min•Ep. 366
This year over 80,000 respondents took the time to share their feedback on the tools and trends that are shaping software development. We learned a lot about the way developers learn. For the rising cohort of coders under the age of 18, online resources like videos and blogs are more popular than books and school combined, a statistic that doesn’t hold for any of our other age cohorts. Roughly a third of respondents responded to our question on mental health. This is twice the percentage that of...
Aug 03, 2021•18 min•Ep. 365
We chat discrete mathematics, differential privacy, and homomorphic encryption. But don't worry, we also break it down in laymen's terms. Interested in working in security? Mahmoud will personally extend an offer to anyone who solves this puzzle . Puzzles not your thing? You can still learn more about Very Good Security and its open positions here . Mahmoud is on Twitter here....
Jul 30, 2021•23 min•Ep. 364
You can read Max's full article on Kubernetes on our blog here . You can find Max on Twitter here and his personal website here . Our lifeboat badge winner of the week is Mantas, who answered the question: Determine if all the values in a PHP array are null...
Jul 27, 2021•23 min•Ep. 363
Beaudette cut his teeth in the days of AOL chat rooms, then became an early Wikipedian. More recently he worked at Reddit, where his team of ten professional community managers supported 300 million monthly unique visitors. Before his recent promotion to VP, Beaudette was on the Trust and Safety team at Stack Overflow. For more detail on his experience, check out his LinkedIn here . Our lifefboat badge of the week goes to Arty-chan for answering the question: What is gitlab instance url, and how...
Jul 23, 2021•22 min•Ep. 362
You can find Tara on Twitter here. Sam is on Twitter here . You can learn more about Loveshark's latest games and the roles they are hiring for here . Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Elliott Frisch, for answering the question: Convert list of integer into comma separated string?...
Jul 20, 2021•21 min•Ep. 361
You can find some fun video of Cassidy putting Copilot to the test here . If you want to take the Jamstack survey, check it out here . Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Andomar, who answered the question: Will multiple calls to `now()` in a single postgres query always give same result?...
Jul 16, 2021•27 min•Ep. 360
We discuss how Simões learned to code and the feature set that allowed Poker Now to differentiate itself in a crowded space. Simões shares the tech stack he used to craft the first version of Poker Now, and how he rebuilt the service after it crashed under the weight of a massive wave of new users. During the peak of lockdown, his site went from an average of 100 concurrent users to more than 10,000 at a time. Lastly, we chat about the allure of leaving a regular job behind to work on a passion ...
Jul 13, 2021•30 min•Ep. 359
If you want to catch up on the first half of the episode, you can find it here .
Jul 12, 2021•20 min•Ep. 358
The massive shift to remote work that so many companies undertook over the last year has pushed many to adopt an asynchronous, merge driven workflow that has been pioneered and perfected by software developers. With tools like Airtable , and Coda , the boundary between programming and other forms of media and knowledge work is beginning to blur. What happened to Google Wave ? Can products with passionate fans get pushed into the Commons after they are sunset? Peek under the hood, and it's spread...
Jul 09, 2021•27 min•Ep. 357
