Another hard week in tech
Episode notes:The team questions whether a print out of 60-90 days worth of code is the right benchmark for whether to lay someone off. Ben gives our podcast listeners a heads up to reports of repo j...
11 Nov 202219min
Hashgraph: The sustainable alternative to blockchain
When most people talk about Web3 or cryptocurrencies and related technologies, they usually mean blockchains. But blockchain is only the first generation of distributed ledger technology (DLT). As wit...
9 Nov 202220min
Fighting to balance identity and anonymity on the web(3)
Shoemaker spent his childhood in Silicon Valley and learned Assembly when he was just 16 years old.In his early 20s, he applied to work at Apple and was continually rejected. So he went to work for se...
8 Nov 202229min
Going from engineer to entrepreneur takes more than just good code
In today’s podcast, Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy reflect on Cara’s founder journey.Cara shares her experiences living in New York and San Francisco— and why she and her co-founder ultimately located Stash...
4 Nov 202228min
Making location easier for developers with new data primitives
When Foursquare launched in 2009, the app was consumer facing, letting you know where friends had checked in and what spots might appeal to you. People competed to be the “mayor” of certain locations ...
2 Nov 202223min
Homelabbing tricks to level up your WFH game
The group laughs about setting up JIRA workflows and Trello boards for our family lives—Matt says heck no.Ceora speaks to the power of homelabbing as a way to gain profitable skills. JJ talks about th...
1 Nov 202228min
How to get more engineers entangled with quantum computing
Katzgraber reflects on his time as a university professor up until 2020 and why he switched to working at Amazon.He walks us through a quantum computing challenge that he hosted with BMW, through his ...
28 Okt 202230min
Goodbye Webpack, Hello Turbopack! The big news from today’s Next.JS conference
We got the chance to sit down with Guillermo Ruach, Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel and co-creator of Next.JS, about the news coming out of today's conference. The most interesting was a new product ca...
25 Okt 202219min
