Arely joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she grew up in New Mexico and joined her science club to moving to New York City and joining Amazon as a Front-End Engineer. We discuss a Twitch community that her friend started during the pandemic, and the joy she gets watching people come together. We also discuss Techqueria, a community of Latinx in Tech. Discussed Links Mimosa Twitch Streamer's Website Techqueria...
Aug 04, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Dan Cole joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got started in product management by accident and how his passion for helping users find their joy has lead to 20 years in product management, where he is now the VP of Product Management at a Cyber Security software company. We discuss what it was like building a team during the early days of the pandemic in a fully remote environment and what tools and processes helped him to really connect with his team and compose a team with psy...
Aug 02, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Francesco Ciulla joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he went from being a sports coach to becoming a developer. From learning programming on difficult mode to championing Daily.Dev as a developer advocate, he's been a whirlwind journey. We discuss his joy for creating content in order to teach other developers. We talk about how and why developers should get out of their comfort zone and work on public speaking, and why we don't have to match the stereotype of a programmer in a da...
Jul 28, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Kathryn Grayson Nanz joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she got started in graphic design and after being pulled into the front-end developer life had a surprise turn and became a developer advocate. We discuss her joy for conferences, the differences between online and in-person conferences as well as what it's like to face rejection and some tips for getting out there and trying it out yourself!
Jul 27, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Miriam Isaac joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she got started studying fashion design but found her love for product design after moving from England to Israel, as well as her love for teaching others how learn UX. We discuss what it was like designing in photoshop with slices back in the day, how responsive design brought about the shift from skeuomorphic to flat designs and how Cleanshot X simplifies Miriam's workday. Discussed Links Cleanshot X Miriam's Twitter: @misaac85...
Jul 22, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Nick Taylor joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got started working with spreadsheets on a yellow monochrome computer and how his interest in web development and work in open source eventually lead to him working with Forem and the Dev Community. We discuss putting yourself out there, getting involved in open source, the fears you might run into and how just stepping into it will help let the fear slip away...as well as how horrible out first open source commits were! Discussed...
Jul 19, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Grace Ling joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she went from running and trying to biohack herself to run faster to working as a Product Designer at Electronic Arts, and everything in-between. We discuss how to design your life for yourself, juggling all kinds of different hobbies and passions, and how her side project during school became a 40,000 member community called Design Buddies, not to mention their cute mascot. Discussed Links Design Buddies Design Buddies' Twitter: @dsg...
Jul 15, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Emily Patterson joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she went from a business analyst to a product manager and has loved it so much she now leads a group of product managers! We discuss product management in general, how product platforms are helping with tech education. We venture into discussing how much easier it is to learn with all the different types of media available. 🔗 Discussed Links Miro Miro's Templates Library Mural FigJam - Figma's Whiteboarding Tool InTheLab's Twitt...
Jul 12, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Kelly Harrop joins the show to talk about her origin story, starting as a professional gamer turned video game model, turned product manager turned UX Engineer, where she has settled in to her passion. We discuss what UX Engineering is all about, and just how much she loves buttons. We talk about video games, including her current obsession, Elden Ring, before finding ourselves back in familiar territory discussing how video games relate to life. Discussed Links Elden Ring Code and Pixels Podcas...
Jul 06, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Michael Liendo joins the show to talk about his origin story, starting as a clothing model to attempting to learn iOS development, and shifting to web development before becoming a Developer Advocate. We discuss how we experience failure as a part of learning and how viewing life like a video game can help provide a bit of perspective for persevering through challenges when learning something new. Discussed Links AWS Amplify Focus Otter Michael's Twitter: @mtliendo Coding Crystals Previously on ...
Jun 27, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Shawn Wang joins the show to talk about his origin story, starting in the finance industry and how feeling like just a code monkey in a system drew him to learn front-end engineering and start working on product development and ultimately become a developer advocate. We discuss what the career path for a developer advocate might look like, as well as podcast listening tools Listen Notes and Listenbox and how they help allow people to look up and listen to podcasts on their own terms rather than ...
Jun 22, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Alex Karp joins the show to talk about his origin story, growing up being fascinated with tech, embracing the iOS development industry before moving into engineering management. We discuss his passion for helping new engineers break into the industry. We talk about some of the common challenges and fears that can hold people back from applying to and going for the jobs that interest and excite them. Twitter Engineering Apprenticeship Program About Wayfair Labs The Collab Lab Alex's Twitter: @Aut...
Jun 21, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Jessica Wilkins joins the show to talk about her origin story coming from being a musician to building a passion project to promote diversity in classical music and how she got pulled into the tech industry by warm, friendly communities. We discuss a fun, approachable way to learn technology as we discuss Exercism, an online platform built to teach the joy of programming to everyone. Black Excellence Music Project Exercism Learning Platform FreeCodeCamp Jessica's Twitter: @codergirl1991...
Jun 21, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Jason Lengstorf joins the show to talk about his origin story coming from a screamo band and learning design and development in order to help the band marketing. His somewhat accidental journey through internal developer experience into external developer experience at Netlify. We discuss his approach to continuous learning and how flow state and enjoying the experience help shape the way we focus and our ability to develop ourselves through learning new skills and abilities. Jason's Website: ht...
Jun 20, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 1
