For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code. Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript. We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
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Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart
00:16 – Welcome to “Cycles in Philosophy of Software, Common Principles with Different Names & Reference” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Superhero Origin Story BBC BASIC (http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html) 04:45 – Nomenclature: “Junior” and “Senior” Developers; Differences Between “Early Career” Developers and “Experienced” Developers 13:56 – Solving the Skill Assessment Problem; Learning Methodically 20:55 – Software Development Now vs Then 29:51 – Do Programming Languages Create Certain Biases? 44:16 – Good Mentorship and Telling People What’s Next to Level Up 55:58 – Cohorting/Teaching Classes with Sandi Metz; Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriented Programming Reflections: Janelle: Looking at things as multidimensional problems. Rein: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg Sam: The importance of the skill of metacognition. Tom: How the work as changed as being a developer. Nonviolent Communication: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Tom Stuart.
Episode 029: p=eMPathy with Ariel Waldman, Ashe Dryden, and Brad Grzesiak
00:16 – Welcome to “The Tale of Space Cat Burritos” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:26 – Space Technology and the Cultural Portrayal of Science NASA Explorers Program (https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/) 08:24 – The Influence of Science Fiction on the Current Developments in Science NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html) The Comet Hitchhiker (https://www.nasa.gov/content/comet-hitchhiker-harvesting-kinetic-energy-from-small-bodies-to-enable-fast-and-low-cost) Supernatural Horror in Literature By H. P. Lovecraft 14:47 – What is sci-fi telling us about the world we live in now? The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032) The Expanse Series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)) 18:34 – “Hard” vs “Soft” Science Fiction; “Hard” Conference Talks vs “Soft” Talks Coraline Ada Ehmke: Metaphors Are Similes. Similes Are Like Metaphors @ Rubyfuza 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvgHSYKkNU) 24:43 – Understanding How People Work to Build Better Technology; Fighting for Accessibility in Science Henrietta Lacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/) 33:11 – Machine Learning “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” – Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park 37:52 – Scarcity and Exploitation: Looking at Power Dynamics and Relationships Between Groups and People Conway’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law) 41:34 – Reasons We Prefer to Focus on Technology; Siloing and Specialization 50:16 – Control: Who is the manager? Treating People Equally 52:46 – Congruency and Being Congruent: It’s a People Problem! Gerald Weinberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg) [The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg]((https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully/dp/0932633013) “Emotions are valid inputs to every thought process.” – Coraline Ada Ehmke The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black (https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black) Ashe’s Tweets (https://twitter.com/ashedryden/status/854707674403012609) 01:01:44 – How do we know we are right? The Orange Juice Test (https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-orange-juice-test/) The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal by Seth Freeman (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Art-of-Negotiating-the-Best-Deal-Audiobook/B00JLJI8AK) Reflections: Rein: These issues go straight up to the top in terms of the philosophical ladder we’re trying to climb of what do we value? How do we get other people to share our values? It doesn’t get easier by ignoring that the problem is that difficult and pretending that it’s just technical. Coraline: It’s the responsibility of technologists to think about the social impact of the technical solutions they are making, whether that means by being better informed and striving to be generalists, or by making sure we are being inclusive and giving voice to people with different perspectives and levels of expertise on our teams to make sure we are addressing problems deeply and not just from one particular silo. Ashe: Understanding how we are looking at a problem ethically, how we’re looking at it technically, and how we’re looking at it from a human point of view? What are the potential effects? Brad: The laws of nature still exist in the absence of humans. Humans are the reason things are messy and complicated. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Ariel Waldman, Ashe Dryden, and Brad Grzesiak.
Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats with Janelle Klein
00:16 – Welcome to “Goats On Podcasts” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:19 – Origin Story 04:36 – The Development of Development 06:58 – Automated Tests and Mistake Detection 09:21 – Designing Releases and Best Practices 20:13 – “The Code is Better” There is no "the code is better."There is only "our experience is better." (users and developers)@greaterthancode with @janellekz— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 15:08 – Measuring Effort, #CollaborativePain, and The Error Handling Process abstraction: great when it works.when something breaks it's like an egg cracking and all its guts spill out.@janellekz @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 Why Software Gets In Trouble by Gerald M. Weinberg (https://leanpub.com/whysoftwaregetsintrouble) 33:24 – Discovery and Documentation 37:44 – Agile Fluency Agile Fluency Project: Chart Your Agile Pathway (https://www.agilefluency.org/) Quality Management Maturity Grid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Management_Maturity_Grid) 40:42 – Building a Conceptual Model of our Brains with Code Hindsight Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias) 51:56 – Identifying Project Pain: Slicing and Dicing 57:23 – Change Sizing Reflections: Rein: Gerald M. Weinberg’s Quality Software Management Series Janelle: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge (https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/dp/0385517254) Sam: The pain that we experience in software development is really cognitive dissonance. Jessica: Programming is like summoning a demon. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 027: Hackathons and Flirting with Failure with Rachel Katz
00:16 – Welcome to “Plotting the Rebellion” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:39 – Origin Story and Superpowers 03:05 – Getting Hooked on Hackathons 04:42 – Corporate Hackathons; Making Hackathons Accessible and Inclusive Greater Than Code Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons DataHack4FI (http://datahack4fi.org/) 09:38 – Organizing Hackathons 12:21 – Non-programmers and Hackathons; Bringing in Diverse Perspectives “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” ~Jamie Zawinski Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (https://www.codedoc.co/) 22:46 – Building Things for Others, Leadership Roles, Group Dynamics, and Men vs Women Ctrl Alt Delete Hate Hackathon (https://www.hackathon.com/event/ctrl-alt-delete-hate-hackathon-32802882304) Lady Problems Hackathon (http://ladyproblemshackathon.com/) 35:28 – Overnight Hackathons vs Non-Overnight Hackathons 36:38 – The Value of Celebrating Glorious Failure and Responding to Stress and Pressure Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music (https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion) [TED Talk] Reflections: Astrid: Talking about hackathons is talking about all kinds of other issues. Sam: Make room and seek out non-developers. Rein: Benjamen Zander: Leadership on Display (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJNw91QyyM) Rachel: Show up, contribute, and listen. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Rachel Katz.
Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek
00:16 – Welcome to “Unrepentant Cyborgs” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Codeland Conference (http://codelandconf.com/) 02:02 – Making Conferences Accessible, Affordable, and Unintimidating for People 13:00 – Ticket Prices and Structure 15:01 – Creating an Immersive Experience and Community With and For People You Care About 25:11 – Leading by Example and Maintaining a Positive Persona 29:49 – The Importance of Money and Financial Freedom Tech Done Right Episode 002: Career Development with Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks (https://www.techdoneright.io/002-career-development-with-brandon-hays) 39:52 – Ethics as Automatic Technology Scales and Capitalism Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant (https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986) 49:45 – In summary: Codeland Conference Reflections: Sam: Thank you for the book recommendation for Give and Take. Astrid: People first. Rein: Support worker-owned cooperative organizations. Leadership is doing things, not being given a title. Saron: The principles and values that led to what people will experience as a really great conference. CodeNewbie References: @CodeNewbies (https://twitter.com/codenewbies) Twitter Chat (https://www.codenewbie.org/chat) Slack Community (https://codenewbie.typeform.com/to/uwsWlZ) Podcast (https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast) Episode 118: Truck Driver with George Moore (https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/truck-driver) Codeland (http://codelandconf.com/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Saron Yitbarek.
Episode 025: MotherCoders with Tina Lee
00:16 – Welcome to “Not Your Mother’s Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:55 – Origin Story and Getting Involved in Coding 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 08:19 – Work/Life Balance 11:32 – Changing Culture Around Gender Roles and Caregiving “Culture is like water in that it flows from the top down.” Nev Schulman Wants to Erase Gender Stereotypes for Parents (http://www.mtv.com/news/2976598/nev-schulman-gender-stereotypes-parenting-catfish-laura-perlongo-cleo/) 18:18 – The MotherCoders Organization (http://www.mothercoders.org/) What to expect when you’re done expecting (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-to-expect-when-youre-done-expecting-25fb0c00393?gi=ac6aa83c6d74) 24:27 – Teaching Frontend Development and The Stereotype that Women are Better at Frontend than Backend Work We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs) 30:00 – Silicon Valley Elitism, Sexism, and Defining Cultural Norms; “The Ideal Worker” The Motherhood Penalty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ASw9OpvMg) 35:38 – Why do we not have many of women CEOs? 37:42 – Tactical Help for Cultural Changes Reflections: Mandy: Donate to MotherCoders and/or support them via AmazonSmile (https://smile.amazon.com/). Rein: The empowerment of women and the challenges they face are a global problem. @manwhohasitall (https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall) Coraline: Fostering entrepreneurship and empowering women worldwide. Also, thinking about role models and how to amplify voices. Tina: Including moms as a kind of marginalized group as well. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Tina Lee.
Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans
00:16 – Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Origin Story 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 06:12 – Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu/) GoldieBlox (https://www.goldieblox.com/) 12:26 – Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as software? Tooling Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/en-us/excel) Expector (http://www.felienne.com/Expector) 20:13 – Should everyone know programming? Why? What should they know/be able to do? (Digital Literacy) 28:27 – What is the programming equivalent of a library/librarian? 33:06 – Does STEM education make other forms of education obsolete? Why not? 35:15 – Things to Get Better at Programming Other Than Programming CodeKata (http://codekata.com/) 48:58 – Fighting Against “Real” Programming and Being Hesitant to Let in Newcomers 50:40 – What can we do to help spread the knowledge? Reflections: Felienne: If people say they are programming, they are. Limit belittling and surprise. Do not contaminate others with what your own idea of programming is. Jessica: Value on reading through code and forming a model of it. Astrid: Thinking about programming as in thinking about writing. Rein: Some programming does involved math, but it is not (for the most part) the math you hated in high school. A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart Sam: You can be fluent at a very low level of proficiency and still be fluent. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Felienne Hermans.
Episode 023: Politics and Software with Lorena Mesa
00:16 – Welcome to “Hey! I Made a Bong Out of This Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:26 – Origin Story Obama For America Campaign (http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html) 05:46 – Politics and Software; Data Collection Danah Boyd: Be Careful What You Code For (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBZNxPzoUY&feature=youtu.be) 16:43 – Working in Python for Data Collection Django Girls (https://djangogirls.org/) 19:46 – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) 23:55 – Communication and Organization Within Communities MINSWAN: Matz is Nice So We Are Nice (http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-so-we-are-nice) Social Encounter Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Encounter_Party) 33:49 – Power Structures and Forming Relationships 36:39 – PSF Funding Reflections: Jessica: Each of our languages has a metalanguage that people use to talk about the language. Sam: Needs more sleep Astrid: Code can and should touch everything: What is it not doing that it should be doing? Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Coraline: Software is not neutral. Rein: Software is inherently political. It is made for people by people. There’s no way it can’t be political. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 022: You Are An Asset
00:16 – Welcome to “Mob Programming” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:39 – Origin Stories From All! Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek (https://fourhourworkweek.com/) 12:37 – Work/Life Balance and Ideal Work Environments Stockholm Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome) 16:50 – Technical Interviews 20:41 – Computer Science Degrees: Are they worth it? 27:42 – Compulsions to Know: Contempt Culture Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) The Zens of Python and Ruby (http://automation-excellence.com/blog/zens-python-and-ruby) 34:12 – Gatekeeping in Tech 37:11 – Technical Interviews (Cont’d) Pair Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Jacob Stoebel and Ryder Timberlake.
Episode 021: Social Justice Warrioring and Codes of Conduct with Phil Sturgeon
00:28 – Welcome to Greater Than Code: The SJW Takeover 00:53 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Bike Messengering Build APIs You Won’t Hate (https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate) Instacart (https://www.instacart.com/) Had pesto chicken pasta for dinner, in honor of @philsturgeon’s interview on @greaterthancode today. 😋— Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) February 23, 2017 07:59 – Long-form Blogging (aka Rants) 08:50 – Codes of Conduct: Adoption, Enforcing, Conspiracy Theories The Contributor Covenant (https://www.contributor-covenant.org/) “Codes of Conducts are so full of slippery slope arguments, they could open a waterslide park.” @philsturgeon— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 17:40 – What it means to be a “Social Justice Warrior”, Tolerance, and “Being Nice” Tolerance is not a moral precept (https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376#.ty01vckbo) Coraline Ada Ehmke: On Opalgate (https://where.coraline.codes/blog/on-opalgate/) 27:46 – False Reports vs Genuine Issues; Dogmatic Logic vs Empathy Susan J. Fowler: Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber (https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber) Phil Sturgeon: Talking About Diversity: Marginalization (https://philsturgeon.uk/2016/07/23/talking-about-diversity-marginalization/) 39:40 – Transitioning From a Men’s Rights Activist and Being a Good Ally I Was a Men’s Rights Activist: One man’s journey from misogyny to feminism (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/i-was-a-mens-rights-activist#.fi15jf9tn) Sarah Sharp Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/833599571242545152) “Being an ally isn’t a badge that you earn. Being an ally is a process and you’re going to fuck it up.” @CoralineAda— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 47:56 – PHP vs Ruby Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) Greater Than Code Episode 002: Avdi Grimm Reflections: Jessica: Turning confusion into something that assuages everyone else’s. Also, failing upwards: When something doesn’t work out, something better will. “Being an ally isn’t a badge that you earn. Being an ally is a process and you’re going to fuck it up.” @CoralineAda— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 Sam: In tech we have tools for doing root cause analysis, and we’re really used to using those to figure out technical issues, but those very same tools can work for social issues as well. Try The 5 Whys on something that isn’t technical. Coraline: Thinking about how to get past people’s visceral reactions against social justice issues and think about how to create better allies. Phil: Start bookmarking things that are helpful. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Phil Sturgeon.
Episode 020: Sexuality in Tech with Jenn Schiffer
00:16 – Welcome to “Neon Abstract Podcast Erotica!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:15 – Origin Story Bocoup (https://bocoup.com/) 03:05 – Art (http://jennmoney.biz/art/) 06:37 – Viewing Source and Learning How to Code 11:02 – Getting a Computer Science Degree 13:56 – Pixel Art, Sexuality in Tech, and Online Presence @aphyr (https://twitter.com/aphyr) (Kyle Kingsbury) Ashley Madison Data Breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach) 26:54 – How do potential employers react to your satire? 28:41 – CSS Perverts (https://medium.com/cool-code-pal) 36:03 – Vetting Potential Employers and Company Culture; Dealing with Toxic People Takeaways: Jessica: Everyone has something that they keep quiet about because they aren’t sure of the consequences. Coraline: Being privileged enough to have the responsibility to be public and show people that it’s okay that they are who they are. Astrid: You don’t have to separate your passions. Jenn: We all need a space to feel uninhibited. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jenn Schiffer.
Episode 019: It’s Made of People!
01:11 – What it means to be a Senior Engineer When You Don’t Want to Go Into Management 05:07 – Generativity: The difference between your team’s output with you on it and your team’s output without you. Gregor Hohpe: 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation (https://leanpub.com/37things) 13:46 – The Job of An Architect 22:09 – What are the managers doing? “It is too much to ask for your manager to be your career mentor?” Sam Gerstenzang: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer (https://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/) Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkCode=as2&tag=therubyrep-20&linkId=d08b37c3206978c7992ae8c263c1f1dd) Reflections: Astrid: From Jessica’s perspective, what a software architect actually is supposed to be doing. Sam: Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkCode=as2&tag=therubyrep-20&linkId=d08b37c3206978c7992ae8c263c1f1dd) Coraline: I’m going to read ^ book. Jessica: More surprise episodes! Darin: Think less about me and more about the team around me. And I’m looking for a mentor! Cheryl: Greater Than Code > Mission Taco This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!_T Special Guests: Cheryl Shaefer and Darin Wilson.
Episode 018: Growing Your Team and Mentorship with Cheryl Schaefer
Posted another patrons-only outtake from today's precall with @CherylGSchaefer! https://t.co/g4GZA9LWle— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 1, 2017 00:16 – Welcome to “Let’s Get this Ship on the Road!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:06 – Origin Story and Mentorship Cheryl Gore Schaefer: Grow Your Team In 90 Days @ RubyConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-grow-your-team-in-90-days) Empowerment Through Mentorship (https://www.launchcode.org/blog/empowerment-through-mentorship/) 11:38 – Avoiding Burnout: “How can I show up better as a Mentee? How can you keep yourself from giving up and washing out? When you find your skills have atrophied, how do you find the resolve to try again?” ~ Ariel Spear Spot2Fish (http://www.spot2fish.com/) 23:41 – The Future of Tech Education Sarah Mei Computer Science Education Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/824831465745637376) Sarah Mei People Who Apply for Opportunity Scholarships Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/819575574129676288) Reflections: Cheryl: It’s valuable to have different viewpoints represented. Also, exposing people to fundamentals of tech is valuable as well. Astrid: The RubyConf/RailsConf Opportunity Scholarships exist! Also, advice for mentees and mentors is the same. Sam: Making a distinction between being a TA and being a mentor and giving the mentee ownership of their learning plan. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Cheryl Shaefer.
Episode 017: Ruby Together with André Arko and Carina C. Zona
00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:45 – Origin Stories Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (https://qntm.org/gay) André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe (https://andre.arko.net/2013/03/24/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) 11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits 501(C)(6) (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick03.pdf) 22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby 27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff RethinkDB: why we failed (https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html) 39:46 – How Does Bundler Work, Anyway? [blog post] Andre Arko: How does Bundler work, anyway? @ RubyConf 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqzaqeeMgY) 44:16 – Sharing and Reusing Code 52:26 – gemstash vs geminabox OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/) Heartbleed (http://heartbleed.com/) Reflections: Sam: Be a member-friend of Ruby Together! Jessica: Ruby Together is an advancement in the software industry as a whole to form a trade organization that is a business related to supporting all businesses and people and making our software infrastructure maintainable. Carina: OpenSSL is back to being insufficiently funded. Support other projects like Ruby Together too. See: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure. André: Hope that devs and companies that listen to this show with join Ruby Together. Jay: It’s smart business for businesses to support organizations like Ruby Together. Software companies have large profit margins. Monies that would be spent on taxes can be put back into our community to support key infrastructure & tooling. My call to action is that our listeners support Ruby Together and get their companies to support Ruby Together and similar organizations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: André Arko and Carina C. Zona.
Episode 016: Blogging is Shipping with Julia Evans
Intro music by Rod Johnson (https://twitter.com/springrod): Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow. 01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.” The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust (https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/) 07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) The Google Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect) 20:26 – Operations (Ops); Testing in Ops "There's this exciting thing that happens when you run software, which is that stuff goes wrong in unexpected ways!" @b0rk @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) January 18, 2017 Ryan Kennedy: Fear Driven Development @ OSB 2015 Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do) Continuous Integration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) 38:42 – Zines & Drawings (http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/11/14/why-cute-drawings/) Reflections: Sam: Having concrete strategies for asking question more effectively. Julia: If something is painful, then do it more often. Jessica: If asking questions is scary, put some work into the question and then you can ask it with confidence and know you’re not wasting someone’s time. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Julia Evans.