With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever
Caitlyn didn't want to go back and get a degree "at my age", but went to Thinkful to learn to be a full-stack software engineer, which is "like being paid to go to school and make cool things forever....
21 Apr 202147min
With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms
Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development without having experience before university, and what that meant about picking up the unspoken cultural ...
8 Apr 20211h 1min
With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management
Ernesto and I talk about how he learned software development, but also some business and management in his competitive public university in Argentina. We talk group projects, learning well and trying ...
8 Mar 202157min
With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics
I met John Pavan early in his career, after he'd just made the transition from nuclear physics to full-time computer programming. We caught up on how C++ is doing and how he's doing in it. We also tal...
1 Mar 202159min
With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships
Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learning compilers is necessarily like an old-style apprenticeship, and a near-the-metal view of complex ...
23 Feb 20211h 1min
With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going For It!
Michael Dominick, of the Mike Dominick Show, talks to me about patterns in software, the Pokemon API, what he looks for when hiring developers and how he's pretty sure the universe is POSIX compliant....
15 Feb 20211h 7min
With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money
George and I talk about how he learned to do what we do. He loved his classes on security, and I'm envious. He doesn't remember his classes on mathematics — I might envy that, too. We talk about...
10 Nov 20201h 5min
With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond
Jared and I talk about his journey through all sorts of programming platforms, from the Commodore 128, through PHP to Ruby and onward. He talks about Object Oriented programming, Rails service objects...
3 Nov 20201h 25min
