What exactly does it mean to be a "senior" software engineer
Joocelyn hosts the Git Cute podcast, which you can find here.She's working on a book about seniority in the software industry, which you can pre-order here.You can follow her on Twitter at javavvitch....
19 Jan 202120min
Our stack is HTML and CSS
The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.You can f...
15 Jan 202128min
What would you pay for /dev/null as a service?
How could you not love a team with a bio like this: "We’re a young and dynamic team of messy data-scientists who have failed at being employed on the real market. Our experience in losing data and thr...
12 Jan 202127min
Programming in PowerPoint can teach you a few things
The starting point for today's conversation was an argument made by Guillermo Rauch in this blog post. "And each time, your frontend has an opportunity to impress, delight, perform, be accessible and ...
8 Jan 202120min
What can you program in just one tweet?
If you're interested in learning a bit of BBC Basic, there is a fun introduction here. You can tweet at this bot, and it will run the contents as code and reply with a video of the results.If you are ...
5 Jan 202124min
Welcome to 2021 with special guest Joel Spolsky
You can find the first episode of the SO podcast here. It was conducted over Asterix, open source telephony software that allowed for fancy operations like voice messaging and recording calls! What wo...
1 Jan 202137min
It's hard to get hacked worse than this
There is a nice breakdown of the Solarigate attack here, but the most important thing to know is that just seeing the words BusinessLayer.dll is enough to make our eyes glaze over and our defenses go ...
29 Dec 202024min
A Very Crypto Christmas
With Bitcoin hitting all time highs, there has been a lot of speculation about what will happen next in the market crypto market.Meanwhile, regulators are targeting Ripple with a lawsuit and arguing t...
25 Dec 202013min
