#140 Matt Biilmann discovered the JAMStack
Matt took us from his first lines of code and his musicology studies to his move to Spain to follow his heart and his first (unpaid) job. He then slowly but surely showed us how he worked with website...
2 Maalis 202156min
#139 Mark Rendle is a programmer turned comedian turned programmer
Mark took us from his first date with a ZX81 all the way to the stages he regularly speaks onto worldwide. We brushed over his childhood and bumpy teenage. We talked about his love for "chips," his in...
23 Helmi 202152min
#138 Kristy-Leigh Minehan almost burned seeking a crypto highscore
Kristy took us from her early ROM-hacking years, all the way to her crypto-mining rabbit hole. She described in detail how she optimized her machines to ever-better mine cryptocurrencies. We then bifu...
16 Helmi 202156min
#137 Nadia Zhuk from 0 to crossing the Rubycon
Nadia first told us how she discovered coding, at the age of 25, as a second career. She painted her expat's story, leaving Belarus to Poland to reboot her professional life. We talked about interview...
9 Helmi 202151min
#136 Dotan Nahum on building your own toolbox
Dotan first spoke about scarcity and satisfying his hungry curiosity. We then brushed over his hacking past and how he learned his way through computers. We talked about his military service and studi...
2 Helmi 202147min
#135 Emily Robinson making sense of data science for us
Emily took us from her custom studies to her Ph.D. studies, her DataScience Bootcamp, and her first job at Etsy. We classified DataScience and (finally) made sense of those weird titles. We talked abo...
26 Tammi 202153min
#134 Amiti Uttarwar is a hands-on Bitcoin-core tinkerer
Amiti took us from her first logic puzzles and first lines of code, all the way to her tenure as a Bitcoin core member. We also talked about Bitcoin itself, the project, its governance, processes, and...
19 Tammi 202148min
#133 Dennis Traub failed his way to success
Dennis took us from his first Commodore computer, all the way to his job at AWS. We talked about curiosity, finding your own way, taking a break, learning, searching, failure much more. Here are the ...
12 Tammi 20211h
