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Greater Than Code

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)

Latest Episodes:

Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors Oct 20, 2016

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “The Hot Mess Podcast...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

00:54 – Charity Majors’ Introduction / Listener Question: “What is your superhero origin story?” ~Donald Plummer

02:54 – Operations and Creativity

06:37 – Hiring People for Operations

Commandos, Infantry, and Police

07:35 – Looking Back on Chaos

10:00 – “Problems of Success”

Jessica Kerr: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No (Spectrum of Risk Article)

11:32 – Bootcamp Graduates and Startup Culture

15:44 – “Cult-y Companies”

Dunbar's Number

19:19 – Microservices

26:41 – “Serverless"

29:55 – What should software engineers should be doing to learn more about operations?

“Put yourself in rotation...Expose yourself to the consequences!” ~ Charity Majors

39:01 – Misogyny in Tech

Reflections:

Astrid: It’s really important to understand operations.

Sam: Actually understanding your dependencies still applies in a serverless architecture.

Coraline: We are all trying to work to make tech better in our own ways.

Dave: The system is the source of the power that we have to use to break the system because the system is broken.

Charity: The intersection of tech and human issues.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. 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: Charity Majors.

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Episode 003: Hiring People For Diversity with LaToya Allen of SheNomads Oct 12, 2016

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “Well, Technically...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:34 – LaToya Allen’s Introduction

03:18 – Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball

08:14 – How does “the team photo” reflect on you and your company?

10:33 – Article Backlash; Interviewing/Hiring People for Diversity

Mental health Bechdel test for women in male-dominated fields: Have *I* talked to another woman today about something related to my work?
— amy nguyen (@amyngyn) October 10, 2016

15:11 – The Talking-Over-People Culture

17:37 – Improving Job Postings; How do you find a company to work for that’s good?

“Save your ninja moves for the alley!” ~ Jessica Kerr

23:16 – What is something that your company or coworkers or someone at work did that made you feel included?

26:18 – “Signaling”

30:54 – The SheNomads Job Board and the Vetting Process

Commitment to diversity inclusion
Provide meaningful work
Offer reasonable pay

33:33 – #talkpay

Salary Negotiation with Ashley Powell

Use Google / Indeed.com
Talk to recruiters
Talk to your peers

35:56 – SheNomads and Remote Work
Reflections:

Dave: Thinking more about signaling.

Astrid: I’m not the only person turned off by ninja-stuff.

Coraline: Bringing marketing personas into the recruiting process.

Sam: Recognizing the impulse to interrupt and taking a step back.

LaToya: Thank you for Greater Than Code!

Jessica: Gratitude for remote work and diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Listener Call to Action:

If you are not a remote worker, talk to management and see if you can work from home one day per week to introduce the idea of remote work and prove that you are effective and efficient even if you are not present in the office.

If you are in a management position, go work from home yourself at least one day per week, so you can build some empathy for what it’s like to be on the other side of those tools and that divide, so you can more effectively incorporate your more distributed teammates.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. 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: LaToya Allen.

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Episode 002: Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome with Avdi Grimm Oct 06, 2016

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “The Meta Four!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:30 – Chef Avdi Grimm’s Introduction

02:19 – RubyTapas; Production, Typing, and Editing

10:52 – Real World Programming: Episode #346: User; LiveCoding.tv

12:24 – Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome

13:32 – Break time and getting to know our new panelist, Astrid Countee!

"I've never met a junior who wasn't extremely senior in some area of life I know nothing about" @dbrady @greaterthancode
— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) October 5, 2016

24:15 – Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome (Cont’d)

25:42 – Live Coding

28:29 – What non-Ruby technologies have you been exploring lately? ~ Darin Wilson

29:05 – PHP

35:56 – Should a screencast series like RubyTapas also go beyond code? Talk about topics like dealing with frustration when programming, for example?
~Lucas Dohman

“Programming can be an incredibly judgmental culture and environments can be really poisonous.” ~ Avdi Grimm

Reflections:

Sam: You can use your ego and your attachment to the code, but make it not about yourself. Instead, try to focus on what your code is bringing to other people and maybe that can help you try to figure out how to make it better without getting stuck.

Coraline: We got to see a glimpse into the whole person behind a persona. Even heroes are people with vulnerability, human flaws, anxieties, and weaknesses.

Astrid: Bring your whole self to everything.

Jessica: What we show matters.

Jay: Don’t be too quick to compare yourself to others.

David: Put your ideas out there and get them in front of other people. That is how you manufacture authority.

Avdi: Hidden Figures

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. 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!

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Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin Sep 28, 2016

Show notes

00:18 - Welcome to "Dread Coder Roberts!" ...we mean, "Greater Than Code!"

01:30 - Noel Rappin's Introduction (Spoiler alert! He's got a Ph.D.!)

04:31 - Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web

08:30 - Code Paths and Tracking Failures

10:59 - What is the quickest path to accepting payments online? Are there drawbacks to getting something up fast? (~ David Bock)

13:17 - Testing Payment Issues

14:29 - Design Patterns and Missing Layers Between Controllers and Models

17:49 - Business Logic and Database Constraints (aka, "Why did he write the book?!")

20:14 - I Was A Developer Running HR For A Year: AMA by Noel Rappin at Madison+ Ruby: Epilogue 2016

24:02 - Practices, Problems, and Potential Solutions for Human Resources

29:34 - Team Diversity and Inclusion

*Listener Call to Action: *

Team retrospectives and demonstrating that it is safe to fail.

Noel: The impact of our applications and how they work in real-world context.

David: How can we help introverts feel comfortable?

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Coraline: Inspiration to look at teams, meetings, and discussions and see if they are leaving room for everyone to participate equally.

Jessica: We started out talking about accepting payments on the web and we found something greater than code.

Jay: If we want to try to work with the hard stuff, the hardest problems to solve are the things that are greater than code.

Sam: Being, as Jay said, "not just allies, but accomplices."

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. 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: Noel Rappin.

Support Greater Than Code

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