Should Startups Avoid Hiring a CTO?
A recent blog post by Philip Thomas of Moonlight titled "Startups Should Not Hire a CTO" sparked a conversation about why blanket statements like "Startups Should Not Do X" that are clickbait and shou...
20 Aug 201933min
Developers, Ageing, Naps, and What Are We Talking About, Again?
Don and Randy discuss the changes that ageing has on their development skills and focus, how to combat it (or adapt to it), and stay somewhat off the "old person joke" train... sort of.
13 Aug 201934min
Authentication: Buy it or Build it?
With hacking stories dropping on a seemingly daily basis, the question keeps coming up about application security: Should you build your own user authentication or use an external service? This week, ...
6 Aug 201946min
Breaking down bootcamps
Randy reacts to a Tweetstorm about Lambda School using his former experiences as a bootcamp teacher to add some perspective
30 Jul 201944min
Getting going with Go!
Randy starts his new position and Go (or Golang) is one of the main languages used there. He reviews what he's learned so far and what's ahead.
23 Jul 201936min
2x CTOs talk about 10x developers
In reaction to a Twitterstorm about the concept of a 10x engineer being important for any startup, we discuss the downfalls of such a thing and what positives exist.
16 Jul 201949min
Post-mortem on Randy's Job Search
Randy is about to start a new job and has a number of opinions about the job search, hiring, negotiation process he recently went through. Don tries to play Devil's Advocate as the employer/hiring sid...
9 Jul 201954min
Using Cypress for Integration Testing
Randy and Megan recently worked on a Single Page App and Megan learned how to use Cypress for integration/acceptance testing. Don and Randy discuss how Cypress works vs the old stalwarts, like Seleniu...
25 Jun 201938min
