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
A flight simulator for developers to practice real world challenges and surprises
Freund reflects on his early days at Applied Materials, where he worked on a machine that inspected silicon wafers.It was in this early role that Freund gained an appreciation for rigorous software te...
25 Okt 202222min
He went from .NET and VS Code to working on Web3
John explains that Web3 is about the convergence of technology, economics, and social trends.He elaborates that foundations begin with service-based architecture (SOA), the notion of how to design loo...
21 Okt 202230min
Faster feedback loops make for faster developer velocity
Having trouble with understanding your team’s productivity outside of frameworks and tooling? Create a backlog and work through it: Instant Agile! How much of that backlog you work through is a good b...
19 Okt 202228min
Driverless cars give us the heebie jeebies
Before jumping into driverless car talk, Ben shares a heads up about fake jobs at credible companies that are actually phishing scams meant to steal your identity and hijack your bank accounts. Beware...
18 Okt 202233min
