Developer Tea

Learning React - Part 1 (More than just tooling)

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Usually, on this show, we talk about ideas or research, but in today's episode, we're talking about my personal experience learning React and how we c...

How to Argue Better

22 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're going to talk about a couple of strategies to get your ego out of the way so you can argue better. Get in touch If you have ...

Three Perspective Shifts for Philosophical Engineering

19 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we'll talk about vantage points or thoughts to ponder or lenses that we can look through to view our careers and goals from time t...

Harmony Over Perfection

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You are not the only person who matters in your purpose-driven career. That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea. Finding ad...

Backwards Reasoning

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's important to view yourself as more than a part of a story. In today's episode, we're talking about the self-sabotage that comes with algorithms w...

Elected Distractions

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about ways that we intentionally give our attention to things that really don't matter, and how we can easily convin...

Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 2)

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe, and in part 2 of...

Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 1)

08 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe, and in part 1 of...

Exploring the Dreyfus Model

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want t...

How Code Evolves Through Human Influence

03 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about our humanity, combined with deadlines, revenue or other business goals get in the way of how we write our code...

Why Great Developer Still Google Their Errors

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about how we can still become great developers in craft and yet still find ourselves googling the things we've forgotten. We'll ta...

5 Learning Anti-Patterns

28 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're getting back to the bread and butter of learning and talking about the ways we learn and talk about five different anti-patt...

Three Co-Worker Anti-Patterns

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about three anti-partners that you are probably experiencing or creating with your co-workers that you have learned,...

When (Not) To Listen To Advice

24 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Think about a time when you got great advice. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're going to talk about the relevance of advice we receive and ho...

The Truth About Self-Consciousness & Likeability

21 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Doing good work breaks down when you can't realize your own self-worth. In today's episode, we're talking about decision making. accepting that we'll ...

Advice and Survivorship

19 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There are some huge glaring problems when we only look at successful people and try to emulate them. That's what we're going to talk about today, advi...

Evaluating the Downside of Shortcuts

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about the idea that shortcuts lead to a faster solution. Typically we make shortcuts in the name of getting a minimu...

Purposeful Mini-Rituals

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What are some key things that make up your days? In today's episode, we're talking about purposeful rituals to help us find our career purpose. Get in...

Change Yourself Instead of the World

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do you need to be happy? Today we're going to talk about finding the things that we need to make us happy in ourselves and where we can put our e...

Facing Fears Instead of Supporting Them

10 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering internal fears and how we can face them, instead of avoiding them. Today's Episode is Brought To yo...

The Advantage Inexperienced Developers Have

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're going to talk about how the experiences you have influence your behaviors and the pros and cons of being experiences vs. exp...

Magnitude of Our Beliefs

05 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about our development beliefs and how we can prepare ourselves if those development beliefs are challenged and chang...

What Exactly Is Bias, Anyway?

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about bias on this show quite a bit but haven't talked about what biases are. In today's episode, we're going to identify different types of b...

2 Ways to Use Explicit Systems

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about intentionally defined systems to help us do our jobs better, so we can do our work smarter in the long term. Today's Episod...

Suffering, Fear and Safety

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's the middle of the week and if you're like most people, you go into auto-pilot to get from the beginning of your day to the end of your day. In to...

3 Ways to Simplify and Avoid Ego Depletion

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're going to talk about different tactics and times of day to make tough vs. easy decisions during your day. Today's Episode is ...

Power of Expectations

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do you expect to happen today? Maybe it's in your career or if you're job searching, maybe it's an expectation in your email inbox, but what do y...

Interview with Daniel Pink (Part 2)

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are thrilled to have Daniel Pink on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience includin...

Interview w/ Daniel Pink (Part 1)

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are thrilled to have Daniel Pink on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience includin...

Accepting Change by Focusing on Continuity

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today I have some personal news to share, in addition to talking about life changes and accepting the fear that comes with change. Thanks to Breaker f...

Appreciating Jerry Weinberg

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The world of computer science lost a legend last week when Jerry Weinberg passed away on August 7th, 2018. Author of "The Psychology of Computer ...

Asymmetry and the Halo Effect

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Something that's interesting about instruments is the asymmetry of the job of each hand for skilled musicians. That's what we're going to be talking a...

Fixing Remote Work Communication

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As a developer, you've probably encountered an offer to pursue remote work. More and more people are working in a nomadic state as opposed to in an of...

Accepting Irrationality

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

##Thanks to Breaker for sponsoring today's episode! Breaker just came out with a new option to subscribe without sponsor messages to the developer tea...

Fluidity of Time

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of our most popular episodes on the show was on a subject that's tough to talk about. The subject was time and time management, and that's what we...

Primitive Obsessions

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we're talking about doing good work and writing better code, and this episode will ask you to question what good code is. We'll be exploring th...

Future Features (Are Futile)

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What code do you need today? Today's episode is all about business objectives that get translated into our code. ##Thanks to today's Sponsor: Reaktor ...

Evidence is Not Proof

30 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What was the last time you felt 100% certain about a conclusion you made? We're talking about conclusions and how we come to them, and in today's epis...

Fixing Overconfidence with Probabilities

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about how we view our co-workers around us and our perceptions of ourselves. Get in touch If you have questions abou...

Replacing Implicit Questions

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What questions are you answering right now? On today's episode we're talking about the power of questions, and more specifically the implicit question...

Underestimating the Effects of Gratitude

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about the people who you're thankful for or impressed by and letting others know that we appreciate them with zero e...

Smaller Purpose

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part of the point of Developer Tea is to help driven developers connect to their career purposes. In today's episode, we're going to talk about findin...

Problem Chains

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about problems we face every day as developers, and we face problems every day in a lifecycle -- meaning our problems are almost n...

Rollercoasters of Emotions

16 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's important that we remember ourselves as humans with emotions and recognize how our emotions affect our behavior and decisions. In this episode, w...

Astrology and The Barnum Effect

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we talk about astrology's methodology can be very persuasive and similarities in perceptions of code. Get in touch If you have que...

A Bug Story - How Narrative Bias Creates Blind Spots

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our brains are lazy, but if a story makes sense, that can be more persuasive than raw data and often picked up more readily than data. Get in touch If...

A Research-Backed Argument for Empathy

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about empathy and why everyone needs it. Thanks to today's Sponsor: Datadog Thousands of organizations rely on Datad...

A Problem Solving Paradox

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about the paradox that happens when we get caught up seeking the perfect code. How do we address this and get past ...

Attentional Bias & Cognitive Expectations aka "It Was Right In Front Of You The Whole Time"

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's important to understand yourself. Most importantly, it's important to understand how your brain works. What are the things that stick with you an...

No Good Options

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've been talking about choice on the past few episodes of Developer Tea and today we're going to continue down that road in today's episode. Today w...

Choice Frameworking

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about pros and cons lists based on what we're focusing on, either positive or negative and the weight of our overal...

Three Ways To Avoid Choice Paralysis

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Choices shape our careers, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about decision making and how we can evaluate decisions to move forward instead...

Internal Dialogues and Barriers to Change

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about changes that we want to make both for ourselves and in our careers. To help guide this conversation, we'll be looking at a f...

Coding In The Moment

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The way we develop is impacted by the way we view the world around us. In today's episode, we're talking about the concept of mindfulness and recogniz...

We Become What We Get Used To

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about how you get used to something over time. More specifically we talk about how our normalcies are created. Thank...

Breaking Out of Incremental Thinking

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about breaking the habit of incremental progress. How can we step away from solving the problems that are right in f...

Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 2)

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this show, we often talk about breaking a problem down into smaller tasks, and in today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Ofs...

Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 1)

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this show, we often talk about breaking a problem down into smaller tasks, and in today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Ofs...

Treating Time Seriously

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Take a moment to think about what time it is. In today's episode, we're going to talk about how time matters to the work you do. Thanks to today's Spo...

What You Get Wrong About Productivity - A Humanist Approach

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you set yourself up for a productive day? That's what we're going to be talking about in today's episode and how we can use our own motivations...

Debugging With Isolation & Modularity

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the skills that you'll always need to get better at is debugging. Today, we're getting extremely practical and talking about how debugging is a...

Future Thinking & Imagination Barriers

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When was the last time you slowed down your thinking to focus a little further out. Today, we're going to focus on our fears and anxieties about our f...

Interview w/ Jon Yablonski (Part 2)

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is sponsored by Linode. In 2018, Linode is joining forces with Developer Tea listeners by offering you $20 of credit - that's 4 months...

Interview w/ Jon Yablonski (Part 1)

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this show, you know we talk about psychology quite a bit and today we sat down with Jon Yobonski to talk about Laws of UX.com and other practical p...

Obligations and the Consequence of Assumptions

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever get the sense that your day is planned for you? In today's episode, we're talking about how much we believe our days are controlled by us ...

Motivation Batching

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Take a moment to take a few breaths. That's what we're talking about in today's episode, taking a moment to appreciate the time you live in and how fa...

3 Habits of Learning Developers

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming a great developer comes with practice and observation. Today, we're going to talk about developing long-term learning habits of developers an...

Write the Code You Wish You Had

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you write beautiful code? This is an age-old question for developers and in today's episode, we're going to talk about different techniques to ...

Problem Solving Series #4: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps you've faced the problem where something works perfecting fine on your device but broken for someone else. Today, we're talking about ways to ...

Problem Solving Series #3: Perspective Shifts

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever tried to understand what a 4th dimension would feel like? In today's episode, we're going to be talking about gaining new perspectives a...

Problem Solving Series #2: Reframing

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is your most memorable de-bugging session? Today, we're talking about fixing our losses by reframing the situation. Thanks to today's Sponsor: Bi...

Avoiding Dogmatic Protocol

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you've ever lived in a dorm room, then you've probably heard of the furniture company: IKEA. Its affordable furniture that comes unassembled and bu...

Problem Solving Series #1: Starting By Making It Worse

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's not an easy task to describe what you do as a software developer to a non-technical person. A blanket description is to tell non-technical peopl...

Secondary Tools

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Take a moment to think about the tools you use to do your development work? What text editor are you using? Which web browser are you defaulting to? I...

Randomizing live w/ Max Hawkins (Part 2)

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is your plan for today? Where are you going to go and what people are you going to interact with? A lot of the decisions we make become automatic...

Interview w/ Max Hawkins (Part 1)

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is your plan for today? Where are you going to go and what people are you going to interact with? A lot of the decisions we make become automatic...

Subtractive Thinking

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is on your mind? Today we are talking about ways we can inspect our default state of mind. Thanks to today's Sponsor: Bitrise If you're looking ...

Fear, Change & Instincts

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Think about the last 5....20 and 100 days. If you're like most people then most of those days had one thing in common that you can draw a line between...

Zero Dead Ends - Why Complaining Can Hold You Back

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you've ever known a small child, then you've probably noticed that when they get hurt, they react by running to an adult for consolation. We'd like...

2 Reasons Your Habits Aren't Sticking

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The episode wraps up our week of practical applications. In today's episode, we're talking about why we don't pick up a new tool, keep our documentati...

3 Ways to Better Cultivate Coworker Connections

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're talking about practical things and today we're talking about 3 psychological realities that can help you connect better with your cowo...

4 Code Smells (And How to Fix Them)

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're going to get very practical. Today we're talking about identifying code smells (very common ones) and a few ways to fix them. Today's ...

4 Principles of Great Learners

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do great learners have in common? In today's episode we're talking about are the common factors of successful people and what we can learn from t...

Slow Down on Your Quest for Happiness

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what makes you happy? In today's episode we're talking about what it means to be happy and how to connect to our happiness when it changes...

Fixing Fear: A Heuristic for Maintainable Code

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to write good code? In today's episode we're answering this question with the use of a heuristic: Today's episode is sponsored by Li...

Creating Consensus, Defeating Bias and Getting Better

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Biases are going to change the way you view statistics. In today's episode we're talking about different ways you can work around your biases. Today's...

Broken Brains Take On Statistics

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about ways that we exacerbate ways of seeing things clearly. More specifically we're determining how to uncover truth as it relate...

More Misunderstood Truths About Statistics

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've established that statistics are useful and more relevant in our day-to-day work life, but how do statistics effect our personal selves? In Today...

Misunderstood Truths About Statistics (Part 1)

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What makes discussions about statistics sound cold? In today's episode we're breaking down the etymology of statistics, how it's evolved over the year...

Why Most People Fail at Fixing Operations

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How is it that we know the right things to do but often don't do them? In today's episode we'll be discussing internal operations that are so clearly ...

2 Structured Thinking Methods For Problem Solving

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

No matter what problem you're trying to solve, if you can create a structure to approach the problem you'll be faster at solving it. Today, I'll be sh...

3x3: Three Habits for Mental Hygiene

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us grow up learning skills to help us take care of things. Unfortunately we are not often taught how to keep our minds clear. In today's episo...

3x3: Three Questions to Help You Uncover Your Short Term Purpose

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is all about the "now" that will lead you into the future. You may have grand visions of what happens in 10 years or even 20...

3X3: Three Questions To Get Unstuck On Big Problems

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is about big problems. The kind that aren't answered simply or in a few words, but rather with a cascade of actions. How can you get u...

Setting Better Problem Solving Parameters

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do grocery lists have in common with solving problems? As it turns out, quite a lot. In today's episode, we discuss solving problems by using par...

3 Problems Every Developer Will Face

14 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Every industry has its problems, and this is also true for developers and the people in that industry. In today's episode we're talking about three pr...

Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Learn More Intentionally

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How would you go about discovering if you actually learned something you wanted to learn? Today's episode is about evaluating whether or not you've le...

Better 1-on-1s With This Simple Question

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we're talking about leadership and having better 1-on-1s with our leaders. Today's Episode is Brought To You By: WooCommerce WooCom...

How Our Tools Shape Us

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Basically everything you interact with is a tool. How does this shape you? How does it shape your evolution and learning? We'll talk about how you can...

Delayed Pain

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You've probably heard of delayed gratification? In today's episode we're talking about what we're willing to pay for gratifications now vs in the futu...