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Ep. 59 - The GitHub Nomad (John Britton) Oct 26, 2015

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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.

John Britton

John Britton is a nomadic software developer and Education Liaison at GitHub.

Ep. 58 - From Journalist to Developer (Amy Simmons) Oct 19, 2015

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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.

Amy Simmons

Amy Simmons is a full-stack web developer in Sydney, Australia. She recently changed careers after a six-year stint at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as an online journalist/digital producer.

Ep. 57 - Podcasting with Changelog (Adam Stacoviak, Jerod Santo) Oct 12, 2015

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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.

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Adam Stacoviak

Adam Stacoviak is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Changelog.

Jerod Santo

Bio: Jerod Santo owns and operates a tiny dev shop from his home in Omaha, Nebraska. He co-hosts The Changelog, co-founded a web school, and co-wrangles four kids alongside his wife, Rachel.

Ep. 56 - From Temp to Head of Design (Julie Ann Horvath) Oct 05, 2015

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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.

Julie Ann Horvath

Julie Ann Horvath is the Head of Design at Clef, where she marries her passion for design and coding, and the creator of Passion Projects, a talk series designed to highlight women in the tech industry.

Ep. 55 - Open Source Contributor (Steve Klabnik) Sep 28, 2015

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The first open source project Steve Klabnik got involved with was a pretty big one - he took on Hackety Hack, the beloved application that helped kids learn to code. He only meant to help out, but when no else joined, he ended up running the show, and diving headfirst into the open source world. Now, many years and pull requests later, Klabnik shares how he went from Hackety Hack to contributing to Rails to working full-time on the Rust language, and gives us a beginner-friendly overview of the open source world and many lessons he’s learned along the way.

Steve Klabnik

Prolific open source contributor, Rust core team, Author of "Rails 4 in Action," "Designing Hypermedia APIs", and "The Rust Programming Language".

Ep. 54 - The Hacker (Jonathan Barronville) Sep 21, 2015

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Jonathan hacks away on his search engine at Harvard’s Innovation Lab, fine tuning it for the fashion queries his startup handles. He doesn’t have a computer science degree. He doesn’t have a degree at all. But at 21, he’s been able to hack together a tech education that involves reading academic papers, implementing solutions he finds, and lots and lots of searching. He shares his process for hacking and what he’s learned along the way.

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Jonathan Barronville

Jonathan Barronville is a 21-year-old Haitian hacker. He enjoys learning new things and then teaching them to you. Although most of his experience is in web development, Jonathan enjoys low-level systems hacking, database theory, and distributed systems problems. He tweets about apple juice on Twitter at @jonathanmarvens.

Ep. 53 - Peruvian Developer (Andrea Del Rio) Sep 14, 2015

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Andrea Del Rio talks about her role as a Mozilla Open Web fellow, how she’s using her technical skills to help civil society organizations, and what it’s like to build products for the Association for Progressive Communications.

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Andrea Del Rio

Andrea Del Rio is a Peruvian developer who is passionate about helping women and minorities become producers of technology. She is also an Open Web advocate.

Ep. 52 - International Dev (Ayori Selassie) Sep 07, 2015

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Ayori Selassie talks to us about how she navigated her career at Salesforce, moving seamlessly across different roles developing her technical and management skills. She also tells us about her work and time spent in different countries working in the tech space, and how her participation in the State Department’s TechWomen Program helped her better understand the international tech landscape.

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Ayori Selassie

Ayori is the author the The Selfpreneur’s Field Guide (soon to be published), and creator of the Selassie 4D Method, a personal development framework powered by machine learning. She is a self taught software developer since age 11 and has worked in tech sector for the last 17 years.

Ep. 51 - The Pragmatic Programmer - Part II (Dave Thomas) Aug 31, 2015

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In part two of our interview with Dave Thomas, we dive into some of his other contributions to the community, including coining the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself), popularizing the code kata, and signing the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. We explore the impacts of these contributions, particularly to code newbie community.

Dave Thomas

Dave is a programmer and adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University

Ep. 50 - The Pragmatic Programmer Part I (Dave Thomas) Aug 24, 2015

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Dave Thomas has done a lot for the programming community. He coined the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself). He popularized the idea of code katas. He was one of the signers of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and he's the founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. But despite all that, he refers to himself as simply a programmer. In this episode, he shares his own coding journey, gives advice to new developers on how to navigate the mountain of information available, and how he ended up becoming a publisher.