Stories and interviews from people on their coding journey.
Similar Podcasts
The Cynical Developer
A UK based Technology and Software Developer Podcast that helps you to improve your development knowledge and career,
through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer.
Elixir Outlaws
Elixir Outlaws is an informal discussion about interesting things happening in Elixir. Our goal is to capture the spirit of a conference hallway discussion in a podcast.
ThunderCast
An inside look at the making of Mozilla Thunderbird, and community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source software space.
Ep. 70 - From Servers to Security (Christina Morillo)
Christina started as a server administrator. But over the years, she found her way into information security, now serving as VP of Technology and Information Risk at Morgan Stanley. She talks to us about the vast world of security, why CodeNewbies should care about security even as developers, and how she’s navigated her own coding journey. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Github Server Administration General Assembly Rebecca Garcia Interview ASP.NET Visual Basic Active Directory Annyce Davis Interview Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 69 - Manager Newbie (Selena Deckelmann)
Selena’s been in tech for twenty years. She got her first taste of open source software back in 1995, and since then, she’s been an open source contributor bringing more people into tech. She talks about her new role as manager of a dev team, how open source has changed over the years, and what she’s learned from working with beginners. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) PyLadies Mozilla What Beginners Teach Us Postgres BSD Licenses Lynn Root Jessica McKellar Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 68 - Too Late To Be Awesome (Chanelle Henry)
Chanelle Henry wanted to be awesome. She saw people selling companies and building inspiring products and wondered if it was too late for her to be that awesome. That question inspired a Medium blog post that ended up getting a lot of attention, and getting her invites to speak on that very topic. She tells us how that post helped her reach her awesome, and the changes she made in her life to get there. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) ELA Conf Tim Ferriss Kevin Rose Brené Brown The Tipping Point Julia Child Jerry Seinfeld and Wale Interview Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Fiverr Is It Too Late To Be Awesome? (blog post) Blink The Art of War Imaginary Audience People Per Hour Winnie Lim (woman taking a year off) If You Think You've Wasted Your Life Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 67 - Android Developer (Annyce Davis)
Annyce Davis became an Android developer by building an Android app. She took some time to hack away at a prototype, showed it to her boss, and was put in charge of building The Washington Posts’s first Android app. She talks about how she went from Java to Android, what she thinks of iOS, and how important community has been to helping her level up and become a senior software engineer at The Washington Post. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Annyce Davis Interview The Washington Post O'Reilly Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 66 - Laboratoria (Mariana Costa)
Mariana Costa started Laboratoria to help young women in Lima, Peru get coding skills and improve their lives. A year and a half in, she’s launched this five-month program serving low-income women in four cities, and she’s just getting started. She talks to us about the challenges of working with this demographic, how it feels to see them transform into developers, and how family support is a key part of their program’s success. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Teach For America Andrea Del Rio Episode Laboratoria Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 65 - Art and Code (Dan Shiffman)
Dan Shiffman doesn’t like titles. As an open source contributor, author, and professor, it might be because he has so many to pick from. In this conversation, we touch on all three, focusing on his work with Processing, a software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, why he loves working with beginners, and how code can be an expressive and powerful artistic medium. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Barbarian Group Processing P5.js ITP at NYU Dan O'Sullivan TechHire Initiative Google Summer of Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 64 - Write Speak Code (Rebecca Miller Webster)
Rebecca Miller Webster created Write Speak Code for herself. She wanted a space that would encourage her to write more, speak more, and contribute to open source more. And in the process of creating that space for others, she grew herself, both as a person and a developer. In this interview, she talks about her experience putting on this conference and how it’s helped many others take bigger steps in their coding journeys. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Write Speak Code RailsConf OpEd Project Vanessa Hurst on CodeNewbie Knight Lab Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 63 - Free Code Camp (Quincy Larson)
He’s only been coding for four years. But thirteen months ago, Quincy Larson launched one of the most beloved learn-to-code resources in the CodeNewbie community, Free Code Camp. We deep dive into his own learning journey, what he’s learned from helping hundreds of thousands of campers learn to code, and why Free Code Camp will forever be free. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) MOOC Project Euler Node NPM Odin Project Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 62 - Hello Ruby (Linda Liukas)
Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned about the coding journey as she helps kids start their own. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Rails Girls Codecademy Hello Ruby Hello Ruby Kickstarter Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 61 - Brianna and Brianna's Mother (Brianna Fugate)
When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Spelman College Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant Kaya Thomas The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Megan Smith Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 60 - Impostor Syndrome (Alicia Liu)
Software Engineer Alicia Liu has thought a lot about Impostor Syndrome. In fact, she’s written three blog posts, one each year for the past three years, that have illustrated her own relationship with the term and its relevance in the tech community. We dissect those three blog posts and discuss the role of Impostor Syndrome in different parts of a programmer’s journey. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Unlocking the Clubhouse A List Apart Vanessa Hurst Overcoming Impostor Syndrome Quirks Mode jQuery Coach.me Promocode CODEWEEK for first week free Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem You don’t have Impostor Syndrome Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 59 - The GitHub Nomad (John Britton)
For now, home is Lisbon, Portugal. But as a full-time nomad, who knows where developer John Britton will be a few months from now. John tell us what it’s like to work remotely from various countries while being GitHub’s Education Liaison, a fascinating role that involves coding, marketing, and lots of GitHub tutorials. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Angelfire Pro Git Google Summer of Code Tinkertoy Screenhero Gallery (PHP) Microsoft FrontPage Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 58 - From Journalist to Developer (Amy Simmons)
Amy Simmons spent six years working as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC of Australia. As an online journalism, she thought it was a good idea to learn how to code and use that to tell her stories in a new way. So with ABC’s support, she enrolled in a bootcamp, only to find out half way through that she no longer wanted to do journalism at all. Amy tells us how she made the leap into full-time developer and how she found her job as a .NET and C# programmer. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) ABC Rails Girls General Assembly SydJS SydCSS Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 57 - Podcasting with Changelog (Adam Stacoviak, Jerod Santo)
Developer Adam Stacoviak started Changelog seven years ago, and in that time has built a community and a media company, with the podcast taking center stage. He and his co-host Jerod Santo talk to us about what it's been like building the show over the years, how they escaped podfade, and how they moved from podcast into video. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Changelog Ep. 176: CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek Beyond Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 56 - From Temp to Head of Design (Julie Ann Horvath)
She got into tech by doing temporary data entry at the then little-known startup, Yammer. But she saw the opportunities available to those who could code, so she taught herself, taking on more responsibilities to finally become a designer and developer. Julie Ann Horvath opens up about her humble beginnings, what she learned from her controversial exit at Github last year, and the role she plays as an advocate for a more inclusive tech industry. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Dick Costollo Code Doc Geek Feminism Three Miles (This American Life) Yammer Lyft GitHub Julie Ann Horvath Exits Github Codeland Conf Codeland 2019