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    Software How-To

    Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

    A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.

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    169: Purpose Driven Development (Sara Chipps) Nov 05, 2015
    Show notes

    Brenda talks with Sara Chipps on the desire to educate in code, her inspiration to work on hardware, and the troubles of manufacturing.

    • Upcase: 50% Off Your First Month For Giant Robots Listeners!
    • Jewelbots
    • CSS Dev Conf
    • Girl Develop It
    • Mesh Networking
    • FIRST Robotics Programs
    • Web Summit
    • Barbie, You Can Be Anything Campaign
    • NodeBots
    • Highway1
    • Sara on Twitter
    • Sara on Medium

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    168: 'Unpronounceable' (Star Simpson) Oct 27, 2015
    Show notes

    Chad Pytel and Laila Winner welcome Star Simpson to discuss PLIBMTTBHGATY (Programming Languages I’ve Been Meaning To Try But Haven’t Gotten Around To Yet), fostering community through meet-ups, and the finer points of taco delivery via drone.

    • Upcase: 50% Off Your First Month For Giant Robots Listeners!
    • Makani
    • TacoCopter
    • CloudApp
    • PLIBMTTBHGATY
    • Laila on Bike Shed
    • Brain𝑓*ⓒ#
    • plibmttbhgaty.com
    • MIT / BU Legal Clinic
    • Freedom to Innovate Summit
    • Star's Projects
    • Star on Twitter
    • Laila on Twitter
    • Chad on Twitter

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    167: A Place For Both (Brenda Storer) Oct 12, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben talks with thoughtbot designer Brenda Storer on fitting both development and design in her job title, tips for public speaking, and introduces a new change to the show.

    • Upcase: 50% Off Your First Month For Giant Robots Listeners!
    • Girl Develop It
    • CSS Dev Conf
    • The Tim Ferriss Show
    • Startups for the Rest of Us
    • Comedy Bang Bang
    • The Bike Shed
    • Savage Lovecast

    Get to know your new sometimes-host better!

    • Brenda on Twitter
    • Brenda on Reboot Podcast
    • Brenda on Tentative Podcast

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    166: Refactoring Health Care (John Norman) Oct 05, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben talks with John Norman about his process and modified approach to the delivery, payment, and tech of modern managed health care. They also touch on age bias in the programming world, living a purpose-driven life, and dealing with startup growth.

    • Iora Health
    • "The Hot Spotters"- Atul Gawande
    • The Healing of America- T.R. Reid
    • WellnessFX
    • Agile Manifesto
    • HIPAA
    • Being Mortal- Atul Gawande
    • "How to Scale a Development Team"- Adam Wiggins
    • "The Double Diamond Model of Product Definition and Design"- Peter Merholz
    • John on Twitter

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    165: Everyone's Welcome Here (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo) Sep 28, 2015
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    Ben talks with Adam & Jerod of The Changelog Podcast to discuss their personal interviewing modalities, doing full-time media creation, and a new video project aimed to explore the actual people behind your programming heroes.

    • The Changelog
    • Beyond Code
    • Keep Ruby Weird
    • The Moth
    • Semisonic- "Closing Time"
    • Wistia
    • Wistia on Giant Robots
    • thoughtbot's Podcasts (just in case you didn't already know about our other great shows)
    • Ping The Changelog
    • Changelog Weekly
    • Adam On Twitter
    • Jerod on Twitter

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    164: Transcribing at 260 wpm (Mirabai Knight) Sep 21, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben talks with Mirabai Knight about the technology and uses of modern stenography; including using steno with Vim, and her work on Plover, the open source Steno engine.

    • StenoKnight CART Services
    • Giant Robots 164 Transcript
    • White Coat Captioning
    • Stenotype
    • Steno Alphabet Chart
    • Drew Neil on Giant Robots
    • Plover: The Open Steno Project
    • How Stenography Works
    • Stenoboard- 3D Printed Kit
    • Stenosaurus
    • Success Stories from Steno Autodidacts
    • Using Plover with Vim for Captioning
    • Coding in Python with Plover
    • Mirabai On Twitter

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    163: Play is the Best Way to Learn (Nadia Odunayo) Sep 14, 2015
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    Ben talks with Nadia Odunayo about giving non-technical conference talks and full-time pairing.

    • Playing Games in the Clouds- Nadia's 2015 RailsConf Talk
    • Floobits
    • Makers Academy
    • RubyConf
    • Nadia On Twitter

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    162: Literal Giant Robots (Brinkley Warren) Sep 08, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben is joined by Brinkley Warren of MegaBots Inc. to discuss the history, build, and strategy behind the MegaBot Mk II, USA's entrant in next years giant robot duel!

    • MegaBots Giant Robot Duel Kickstarter
    • MegaBots Inc. (with initial challenge videos)
    • Darpa Robotics Challenge
    • IHMC
    • Grant Imahara
    • MegaBots On Twitter
    • Brinkley On Twitter

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    161: Listen to Your Users (Jules Coleman) Aug 31, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben and Jules Coleman, founder of Hassle, discuss staying close to the codebase while in a more managerial role, the challenges of rapid growth, and the value of internalizing feedback.

    • Hassle
    • Kaizen
    • The Shit That TechCrunch Doesn't Tell You
    • Jules On Twitter

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    160: Unfollowing the Leader (Drew Neil) Aug 26, 2015
    Show notes

    Ben and Drew Neil discuss freeing up Vim's leader key, the value of visual learning, and using GitHub to crowd source closed captions.

    This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:

    • Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
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    Links & Show Notes

    • Follow My Leader
    • speeddating.vim
    • rails.vim
    • unimpaired.vim
    • surround.vim
    • Vimcasts
    • Practical Vim
    • Peer to Peer
    • Vimcasts #12: Modal editing: undo, redo and repeat
    • Neovim
    • Drew On Twitter

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