Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
With Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Larry has 15 years' experience in the military under his belt, and is still training as a software d...
With Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tobi works at Shopify and is the author of benchee, an Elixir-language benchmarking suite. He runs R...
With Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oh man, my audio quality is AWFUL here. Luckily Ross's is better and he's great at carrying the conv...
With Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about how Craig got started, of course, and about buzzwords and how he did his early job hun...
With Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is with me, my wife Krissy and Akien McIain, a mutual friend who is also a very senior ...
With Andrew Owen: the Culture of Programming -- If You're Raised by Missionaries
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I barely know how to summarise this one. It's one of my favourites. Andrew is from dot-NET rather th...
With Andrew Mason: I Expected College to be Basically Boot Camp
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew is the founder of the Remote Ruby Podcast (now a lot more prominent than when we talked!), Ru...
With Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shai Schechter, co-founder of RightMessage, has been hustling since he was 11. He believes that what...
With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Caitlyn didn't want to go back and get a degree "at my age", but went to Thinkful to learn to be a f...
With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development with...
With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ernesto and I talk about how he learned software development, but also some business and management ...
With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I met John Pavan early in his career, after he'd just made the transition from nuclear physics to fu...
With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learn...
With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going For It!
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Dominick, of the Mike Dominick Show, talks to me about patterns in software, the Pokemon API...
With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George and I talk about how he learned to do what we do. He loved his classes on security, and I'm e...
With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jared and I talk about his journey through all sorts of programming platforms, from the Commodore 12...
With Chris Oliver: The Black Magic of Video Game Timing
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris and I talk about the black magic of video game timing, why you should build y...
With Drew Carpenter: Static or Dynamic Languages?
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Drew and I talk about job interviews, static and dynamic languages and a little of ...
With Hugo DiFrancesco: ...
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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With Swizec Teller: The Value of Theory and Why Not to Build an Analytics Service
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Swizec and I talk about his theory-heavy education in Slovenia and how extremely useful it's been to...
With Alain Mauri: to be a Great Developer, Learn Sport Instead of Computer Science
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alain and I talk about the old days; about jumping into a first job in PHP because Commodore 64 codi...
With Jake Yesbeck: On Getting Lucky, Mastery and the Fundamentals
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jake and I talk about basically just getting lucky... And also about mastery and understanding the f...
With Mike Perham: Sidekiq and Whitepapers, and What Success is For
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mike, of course, is most famous in the Ruby community for Sidekiq. Outside Ruby, you're more likely ...
With Tyler Williams: Hands-On Teaching Between Students; Formal and Informal Teaching
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Williams talks about what made his education good. He's actually going back after years of dev...
With Jason Swett: when data structures, big-O notation and algorithms were completely useless...
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Swett and I talk about his education as a programmer and the classes he took in university. I ...
BigCo New Employee Training - Inside Voice
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This isn't actually an episode. More of a test upload, and a vocal rendition of an old blog post. Fr...