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  • Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business
    Sep 1 2019
    People have been asking me if Devtales is dead, to which I've been replying "yes, yes it is." But I was wrong! With the return of Ankit, we get some much needed closure from Episode 6 along with some much needed momentum. Tune in for another uncompromising hour and a half of invaluable career advice for developers who want to climb the management ziggurat the right way, by driving organizational change.
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  • Her Excel Macros Are Unstoppable

    Her Excel Macros Are Unstoppable
    Feb 1 2019
    Ashika got her start as a developer by learning all the keyboard shortcuts in Excel and just kept getting more and more efficient from there. Along the way she discovered the joys of automation and has continued to pursue that passion as a software developer at a high-end consultancy in Seattle. We talk cultural differences between finance and engineering, the things you can learn by sitting near devs, and some of the most common well-intentioned bad advice we heard as junior developers.
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  • Node Evangelist

    Node Evangelist
    Jan 15 2019
    Ankit is a senior manager at Amazon inside the advertising org and we had a really interesting, focused conversation about the early days of Node.js at Amazon and Ankit's role in promoting both Javascript and Node. Along the way we also cover a lot of lessons about how developers really make decisions, the work that has to be done be an effective manager, building a community around a technology, and common mistakes we've seen in enterprise front-end codebases. If none of that sounds compelling to you, you're about to listen to the *wrong* podcast.
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  • Aussie Rules Engineering

    Aussie Rules Engineering
    Jan 1 2019
    I promised Michael I wouldn't call this episode "Dev Down Under" but I really, really wanted to. Michael trained as an engineer in Australia before coming to Seattle to work at AWS and then switched another very large tech company in Seattle. We talked about his career and how he went from eating humble vegemite on toast to eating pretentious avocado on toast.
    Apparently there are these places outside of the United States called "other countries" and they do their CS undergrad programs quite differently there! Who knew? Well, I know, and now you do too. The other topic we drilled into was hiring. Michael's done quite a bit of it, so every piece of advice he dispensed could be the difference between travelling the world on a gleaming yacht made out of stock grants or scraping by in a fetid hut made out of pre-ipo shares.
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  • G-Manager

    G-Manager
    Dec 15 2018
    I think you should know that Tony has security clearance and spent many years working for the government as a software developer. What did he work on, you might ask? Well I asked, and the answer turned out to be "it's a secret." So the good news is that the glorious republic remains safe, ~~the bad news is we couldn't talk about Project Omega, the Blockchain ML War Elephant Program.~~ Fortunately, Tony was able to declassify some of his experiences with the different engineering cultures of government and enterprise.
    We also discussed his ongoing journey at Amazon from senior developer to manager, while I went on a journey of my own, from having _not nearly enough_ of Tony's Suntory Hibiki Whiskey in my bloodstream to _slightly more_ than the right amount.
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  • The First Nine Years Are The Hardest

    The First Nine Years Are The Hardest
    Dec 1 2018
    Have you ever worked on the same side project for almost a decade? Have you ever entirely rewritten a side project before you released it? Have you ever done that twice? All before your 26th birthday? Yeah, me neither. Zach has been writing and refactoring code on the same personal project for awhile and it's a very compelling, very ambitious project which is the kind thing that only someone equally passionate about gaming and coding would even try to attempt.
    We have a far-ranging conversation about many things, including what game development was like in the early days of Steam, Final Fantasy Tactics, abusing your parents' printer, the single most important thing you can do to succeed in college computer science classes, a rare shoutout to Darthlupi, and a ton of insight into both the technical aspects and personal realities of working on a side project for a really long time.
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  • Persuasion Pitfalls

    Persuasion Pitfalls
    Nov 15 2018
    Kaushik is a former teammate of mine and an Amazon veteran who's learned the secret of software development. Apparently a common attribute of successful technical leadership is a focus on listening to people, earning trust, and getting buy-in. In a word, persuasion. In addition to talking about the critical role of empathy in effective enterprise development, we get into some discussion of popular metaphors in software development, if it’s possible to ever feel truly good about your codebase, making value judgements about existing code, and how to remain calm when other developers are taking what seems to be an incorrect approach. At this point I was still convinced the phrase "Refactor In Blood" was the kind of name that projected a sense of both fun and professionalism.
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  • Consulting Chameleon

    Consulting Chameleon
    Nov 1 2018
    Zaal is a software developer with many years of experience across the stack from a primarily consulting background. I pick Zaal's brain for an hour about how he approaches integrating with client teams. We cover the first 24 hours of onboarding onto a codebase, dealing with tech debt, turning technical constraints into business decisions, protecting clients from themselves, RFPs, and lots more. Also apparently the original name of this podcast was going to be "Refactor in Blood." I'm not 100% sure what that was about but I still think its a great name for something.
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