Selena’s been in tech for twenty years. She got her first taste of open source software back in 1995, and since then, she’s been an open source contributor bringing more people into tech. She talks about her new role as manager of a dev team, how open source has changed over the years, and what she’s learned from working with beginners. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) PyLadies Mozilla What Beginners Teach Us Postgres BSD Licenses Lynn Root Jessica McKellar Codeland Conf C...
Jan 04, 2016•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chanelle Henry wanted to be awesome. She saw people selling companies and building inspiring products and wondered if it was too late for her to be that awesome. That question inspired a Medium blog post that ended up getting a lot of attention, and getting her invites to speak on that very topic. She tells us how that post helped her reach her awesome, and the changes she made in her life to get there. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) ELA Conf Tim Ferriss Kevin Rose Brené...
Dec 28, 2015•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Annyce Davis became an Android developer by building an Android app. She took some time to hack away at a prototype, showed it to her boss, and was put in charge of building The Washington Posts’s first Android app. She talks about how she went from Java to Android, what she thinks of iOS, and how important community has been to helping her level up and become a senior software engineer at The Washington Post. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Annyce Davis Interview The Was...
Dec 21, 2015•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mariana Costa started Laboratoria to help young women in Lima, Peru get coding skills and improve their lives. A year and a half in, she’s launched this five-month program serving low-income women in four cities, and she’s just getting started. She talks to us about the challenges of working with this demographic, how it feels to see them transform into developers, and how family support is a key part of their program’s success. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Teach For A...
Dec 14, 2015•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Shiffman doesn’t like titles. As an open source contributor, author, and professor, it might be because he has so many to pick from. In this conversation, we touch on all three, focusing on his work with Processing, a software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, why he loves working with beginners, and how code can be an expressive and powerful artistic medium. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Barbarian Group Processi...
Dec 07, 2015•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rebecca Miller Webster created Write Speak Code for herself. She wanted a space that would encourage her to write more, speak more, and contribute to open source more. And in the process of creating that space for others, she grew herself, both as a person and a developer. In this interview, she talks about her experience putting on this conference and how it’s helped many others take bigger steps in their coding journeys. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Write Speak Code ...
Nov 30, 2015•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast He’s only been coding for four years. But thirteen months ago, Quincy Larson launched one of the most beloved learn-to-code resources in the CodeNewbie community, Free Code Camp. We deep dive into his own learning journey, what he’s learned from helping hundreds of thousands of campers learn to code, and why Free Code Camp will forever be free. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) MOOC Project Euler Node NPM Odin Project Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Nov 23, 2015•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned abo...
Nov 16, 2015•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before sh...
Nov 09, 2015•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Software Engineer Alicia Liu has thought a lot about Impostor Syndrome. In fact, she’s written three blog posts, one each year for the past three years, that have illustrated her own relationship with the term and its relevance in the tech community. We dissect those three blog posts and discuss the role of Impostor Syndrome in different parts of a programmer’s journey. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Unlocking the Clubhouse A List Apart Vanessa Hurst Overcoming Impostor ...
Nov 02, 2015•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast For now, home is Lisbon, Portugal. But as a full-time nomad, who knows where developer John Britton will be a few months from now. John tell us what it’s like to work remotely from various countries while being GitHub’s Education Liaison, a fascinating role that involves coding, marketing, and lots of GitHub tutorials. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Angelfire Pro Git Google Summer of Code Tinkertoy Screenhero Gallery (PHP) Microsoft FrontPage Codeland Conf Codeland 2019...
Oct 26, 2015•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amy Simmons spent six years working as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC of Australia. As an online journalism, she thought it was a good idea to learn how to code and use that to tell her stories in a new way. So with ABC’s support, she enrolled in a bootcamp, only to find out half way through that she no longer wanted to do journalism at all. Amy tells us how she made the leap into full-time developer and how she found her job as a .NET and C# programmer. Show Li...
Oct 19, 2015•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Developer Adam Stacoviak started Changelog seven years ago, and in that time has built a community and a media company, with the podcast taking center stage. He and his co-host Jerod Santo talk to us about what it's been like building the show over the years, how they escaped podfade, and how they moved from podcast into video. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Changelog Ep. 176: CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek Beyond Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Oct 12, 2015•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast She got into tech by doing temporary data entry at the then little-known startup, Yammer. But she saw the opportunities available to those who could code, so she taught herself, taking on more responsibilities to finally become a designer and developer. Julie Ann Horvath opens up about her humble beginnings, what she learned from her controversial exit at Github last year, and the role she plays as an advocate for a more inclusive tech industry. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (spo...
Oct 05, 2015•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first open source project Steve Klabnik got involved with was a pretty big one - he took on Hackety Hack, the beloved application that helped kids learn to code. He only meant to help out, but when no else joined, he ended up running the show, and diving headfirst into the open source world. Now, many years and pull requests later, Klabnik shares how he went from Hackety Hack to contributing to Rails to working full-time on the Rust language, and gives us a beginner-friendly overview of the ...
Sep 28, 2015•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jonathan hacks away on his search engine at Harvard’s Innovation Lab, fine tuning it for the fashion queries his startup handles. He doesn’t have a computer science degree. He doesn’t have a degree at all. But at 21, he’s been able to hack together a tech education that involves reading academic papers, implementing solutions he finds, and lots and lots of searching. He shares his process for hacking and what he’s learned along the way. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Sco...
Sep 21, 2015•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrea Del Rio talks about her role as a Mozilla Open Web fellow, how she’s using her technical skills to help civil society organizations, and what it’s like to build products for the Association for Progressive Communications. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) HackerYou Civil society organization APC (Association for Progressive Communications) Mozilla-Knight Open Web Fellows Laboratoria Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Sep 14, 2015•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Ayori Selassie talks to us about how she navigated her career at Salesforce, moving seamlessly across different roles developing her technical and management skills. She also tells us about her work and time spent in different countries working in the tech space, and how her participation in the State Department’s TechWomen Program helped her better understand the international tech landscape. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) TechWomen Program Sailor Moon GeoCities John He...
Sep 07, 2015•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part two of our interview with Dave Thomas, we dive into some of his other contributions to the community, including coining the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself), popularizing the code kata, and signing the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. We explore the impacts of these contributions, particularly to code newbie community. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Code Kata DRY SOLID Manifesto for Agile Software Development Agile Is Dead Codeland Conf Codeland 2019...
Aug 31, 2015•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Thomas has done a lot for the programming community. He coined the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself). He popularized the idea of code katas. He was one of the signers of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and he's the founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. But despite all that, he refers to himself as simply a programmer. In this episode, he shares his own coding journey, gives advice to new developers on how to navigate the mountain of information available, a...
Aug 24, 2015•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Suzan Bond calls herself a band manager, the title that captures the wide range of activities she does in her work helping developers grow their careers. Her marketing, negotiating, and career management advice is filled with solemn, reflective thoughts on how to think through your first programming job, and the steps you can take to better navigate your career. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Superhero Pose TED Talk Patreon : CodeNewbie Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Aug 17, 2015•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicole Dominguez taught herself to code at a pretty young age, and by the time she was in high school, she had paying freelance clients. At 21, she reflects on her freelance days, what she’s learned as a teacher helping others learn coding concepts, and how she was able to teach herself enough to get to her current role as product designer and front-end developer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) CSS testing snippet with * Muck Rack Sawhorse Media Startup Institute CodeNew...
Aug 10, 2015•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Una Kravets found her love of design at a young age, publishing homemade magazines complete with polls and special color editions and handing them out to her classmates. Now, she translates that love of design to code, building prototypes and design systems at IBM Design. She talks to us about her love of design and dev, how she open sourced her personal goals, and how CodeNewbies can better manage and achieve their coding goals. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Wacom tabl...
Aug 03, 2015•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Courteney Ervin taught herself to code. She did it in her spare time, finding hours late at night and on weekends to grow her skills. And in that time, she went to her first hackathon, made her first open source contribution, taught others to code, and finally found herself in a full-time role as a developer. She tells us about her journey, and the key moments that helped her advance her tech career, and shares advice on how others can make the most of their self-taught journey. Show Links Partn...
Jul 27, 2015•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you ask Kristy Tillman about design, she doesn’t just talk about designing for a screen. She touches on space, rooms, fliers, products, both physical and digital. Her fluid, all-encompassing concept of design might be new to our CodeNewbie community, but it’s crucial for her role as Design Director for the Society of Grownups. In this episode, we talk about her design process, how she hires for design roles, and what CodeNewbies can do when designing their own products. Show Links Partner w...
Jul 20, 2015•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast It took years for CSS Tricks to become the popular front-end and design resource it is today. Creator Chris Coyier talks about starting the website in 2007 and how it’s grown to be the incredible front end community it is now. He also talks about his other project, CodePen, and how building community has been an integral part of the tool. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) A List Apart Element Query CSS Tricks CodePen Container Query Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Jul 13, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Programmer Earl Bey has always been a hip hop fan. He’s been rapping since he was ten, and even had his own manager. When he was later introduced to tech, he dove into coding full time. Now, he blends his new passion for code with his love for hip hop. He talks about how he uses rap to retain new programming concepts, and gives us a taste of his lyrical skills in a performance of code-infused rhymes on FizzBuzz and Rails. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) ScriptEd FizzBuzz ...
Jul 06, 2015•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sandi Metz describes herself as an "accidental author." Accident or not, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) is beloved in the ruby community, and she's used her ability to break down complex coding topics to build the second phase of her programming career, one focused on teaching and speaking. In part II of this two-part interview, she talks to us about speaking, how she prepares for her talks and her plans for her upcoming book. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewb...
Jun 29, 2015•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sandi Metz describes herself as an "accidental author." Accident or not, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) is beloved in the ruby community, and she's used her ability to break down complex coding topics to build the second phase of her programming career, one focused on teaching and speaking. In part I of this two-part interview, she talks to us about life pre- and post-POODR, what makes her a great teacher, and why she it took her four years to write POODR. Show Links P...
Jun 21, 2015•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Angel Jose went from selling cars to a working as a developer in under eight months. He talks to us about making that transition, how he found his job, and how he deals with self doubt as a new programmer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) The Firehose Project Sensay Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
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