Developer Tea
1,314 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 395 ratingsDeveloper Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.
With over 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: [email protected]
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Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)
August 24, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB🌎 Nicole One The Web La Vie en Code Twitter La Vie en Code Podcast Coding Problem Solving Courses 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Retool Build internal tools, remarkably fast. Connect to anything w/ an API. Drag-and-drop React components. Write JS anywhere. Check them out over at https://retool.com/devtea 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Rev...
4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer
August 19, 2020 09:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Retool Build internal tools, remarkably fast. Connect to anything w/ an API. Drag-and-drop React components. Write JS anywhere. Check them out over at https://retool.com/devtea 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It help...
Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects
August 17, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.86 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many paths to a coding career, where coders work, and what coders expect from each other...
The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner
August 13, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many paths to a coding career, where coders work, and what coders expect from each other...
Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests
August 10, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBFind. Cheap. Tests. When you face situation with infinite possibilities, it's important to break those options down into easy to digest components. How can you better validate your direction as early as possible and cheap? 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review!...
The Critical Importance of Labels
August 05, 2020 09:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many paths to a coding career, where coders work, and what coders expect from each other...
Using Your Brain Without Thinking
August 04, 2020 04:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBIn today's episode, we're talking about the limits of our brain and mind shifting strategies to solve problems faster. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)
July 29, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB🎧 Part 1 Interview w/ Aaron Upright Part 1 🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover...
Interview w/ Aaron Upright
July 28, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MB🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?
July 22, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.53 MBCan you operate under a different circumstance and best practice when your job changes? Where can you be flexible in your career and where are the exceptions? 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused ...
Future Focused Feedback
July 20, 2020 09:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many paths to a coding career, where coders work, and what coders expect from each other. H...
Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions
July 17, 2020 09:00 - 8 minutes - 7.71 MBIn today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the discomfort of silence and stillness, and how to face the quiet part of ourselves. Can you stay still without any distractions today for 1 minute and just listen to your own thoughts? 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTu...
Small Problems and Principled Engineering
July 14, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MB🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many paths to a coding career, where coders work, and what coders expect from each other. H...
The Stories Your Code Tells
July 08, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.55 MBWhat does your code explain both in the code and outside of it? In today's episode, we're talking about the reason for making the coding decisions that we choose to make. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show a...
Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies
July 06, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.38 MBIn code we are trying to construct, but we often leave out the consumers, machines and co-workers who are using the code we're writing. How can we think in terms of human realities in our code? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listener...
Your Present is Soon Your Past
July 01, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.94 MBIn today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the concept of time. We'll linger on the idea that moments have a timeline: future, present, and past. How do our moment timelines help us become better developers and coworkers? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity
June 29, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.67 MBJust like many of the other distortions that our brains trick us into believing, the idea that we have two selves, good and bad, hides away our complex ego. In today's episode, we're talking about ego and how to get outside of our self-perception when we make a mistake in order to grow and learn. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the...
Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher
June 26, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBIn today's episode, we're talking about an environment of learning that you can create on your own. How can we create an environment that puts us in a state of discomfort in order to keep us growing? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for l...
Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements
June 25, 2020 09:00 - 8 minutes - 8.1 MBIf you think about most achievements awarded, they are handed out over a period of time when the dues are paid and effort put in. In today's episode, we're talking about pictures of achievement and taking a moment to reflect on what it means to live a full and satisfying life as a developer. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matter...
Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career
June 22, 2020 09:00 - 8 minutes - 7.49 MBAside from the fact that we're making a living being engineers, what is it that keeps us coming back into work every day? At some point in your career, the initial things that brought you into engineering will shift, and when those things change, what is left? What keeps you going? Today, we talk about what motivations drive us and how to keep our motivations relevant when the career changes. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iT...
Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks
June 20, 2020 04:00 - 10 minutes - 9.3 MBWhat do you do when you hit a mental block and don't know how to solve a problem? Today we'll dig into what we can do about this blocked scenario and how can we better deal with negative emotions that follow. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 cr...
What Will You Say When You Don't know?
June 18, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBIn today's episode, we're talking to early engineers and challenging all new engineers to think about how they will handle the pressure of not knowing the answer to a question asked by a co-worker. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/
Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
June 15, 2020 09:00 - 7 minutes - 6.81 MBIn this short episode, we're digging into the relationship between our belief and knowledge and how we form our beliefs based on knowledge. 🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your hands on the hottest #JavaScript tech? Reserve a spot at #JSNationLive happening on June 18-19, and see speakers / instructors like Tobias Koppers (Webpack), Orta Therox (TypeScript), Minko Gechev (Angular), Matteo Collina (Node.js) and many others. Check them out and reserve your FREE spot at live.jsnation.com Vi...
Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?
June 12, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBIn today's episode, we dive into Saul's question by recounting past experience and providing tools to approach this situation at a human level and from your employers expectation. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop a message over at: developertea.com. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has ...
How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions
June 10, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes - 9.06 MBIn today's episode we're talking about problems and how we involve questions into our day-to-day tasks as developers. We'll cover question framing techniques and practices to boost collaboration with your co-workers on problem solving. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/ 🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your han...
4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers
June 08, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBAs someone who was a self-taught developer, I have an affinity for people eager to become a developer. In today's episode, we'll offer four different pain points that you're likely to experience in your career and give tips on how to use those moments to continue your growth and develop your skills. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product t...
What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?
June 03, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBChanging our minds on a belief or issue that we stand by is not easy and as humans but is required of us to grow as people and as professionals. In this episode of Developer Tea, we're walking through three different visualizations to help us better understand and become more comfortable with when and why we decide to change our minds. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to st...
Play, Stakes, and Learning
June 01, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.38 MB🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your hands on the hottest #JavaScript tech? Reserve a spot at #JSNationLive happening on June 18-19, and see speakers / instructors like Tobias Koppers (Webpack), Orta Therox (TypeScript), Minko Gechev (Angular), Matteo Collina (Node.js) and many others. Check them out and reserve your spot at live.jsnation.com 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications,...
Leveraging Our Emotional Goals
May 27, 2020 09:05 - 9 minutes - 9.15 MBIn today's episode, we're talking about goals and what we tend to give up in order to reach those goals. We'll cover how to define goals, and how to keep going toward your goals when motivations run thin. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/ 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the c...
Mental Models for Finding Balance
May 25, 2020 09:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIn today's episode, we're talking about balance as it relates to decision making. We'll dig into two models of thinking that can help us understand the nuance of balance as it relates to daily decisions. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head ov...
High Certainty, High Value Defaults
May 22, 2020 17:12 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBA useful default is an action you can take on a regular basis that you expect to provide some level of utility. In today's episode, we're talking about the fine line between useful default behaviors and when those behaviors can lead you astray and become more of a distraction from an overall goal. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to t...
3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author
May 20, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBHow can you write a pull request that's productive? in today's episode, we're talking about how to be a better PR author by offering three guidelines to writing productive pull requests so that PR reviews go quickly and smoothly. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand ZeBrand helps you launch a product with minimum visual brand design resources without internal designers, costly agencies, or questionable freelancers. This week, they're offering Developer Tea listeners 60% off all...
4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer
May 18, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBWhat does it mean to collaborate as an engineer with other engineers? In today's episode, we're talking about the pull request process and the lack of attention it seems to get from engineers. In this episode, we'll cover what a PR process is, the players in a PR review and offer four ways to be a better PR reviewer. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. ...
What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?
May 15, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBHow do our brains and our minds perceive code? In today's episode, we're talking about what code is to our mind vs. our brain? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Developer Tea. Visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo cod...
Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
May 13, 2020 09:01 - 7 minutes - 6.98 MBWhen you think correlation and causation you might think of graphs and research. As one data point changes another data point also changes. In today's episode, we're talking about controlling variables and how to avoid assuming that correlation is causation. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break...
Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models
May 12, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWhat effect does your value system have on your personal and professional growth? In today's episode, we're talking about context dependent decision making and how your current state of mind can influence decisions you make on a day-to-day basis and influence our happiness long term. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io 🧡 L...
Productive Self-Sabotage
May 08, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBWe often don't know about all of the failures that exist, but what causes failure? The path to success is filled with failures along the way. In today's episode, we're challenging you to take a step into an unknown situation with understanding that you will likely fail and what failure means to your personal and professional growth. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the prici...
Simple Prioritization Visualization
May 06, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.36 MBIn today's episode, we're doing a visualization exercise. Grab a piece of paper and pen or pencil and get ready to think about what you did today. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you c...
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
May 04, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.36 MBThe average engineer hears this over and over, "question your assumptions." In today's episode, we're identifying assumptions that make based on our behaviors in various situations. How can we avoid throw away responses like "it's the way we've always done things" when we or our teammates ask the question, "Why?" 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Che...
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
May 04, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.36 MBIn today's episode we're talking about the shape of our restrictions and what we take for granted in our current situations.
When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem
May 01, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBWhen do you walk away from a problem to find the solution? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're answering this question submitted from a listener. 📮Submit a Question Email: [email protected] Twitter: @DeveloperTea Leave a review: iTunes 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get starte...
Default Problem Solving Modes
April 29, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.31 MBWhat are your default problem solving strategies? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the things we do on a regular basis and how our default behaviors shape the way we approach problem solving strategies when faced with a new situation. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Educative.io Supercharge your career with interactive, text-based software courses. Visit Educative.io/DeveloperTea to get 10% off.
What Orders Have You Inherited?
April 27, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBThere is some level of order that we all inherit. In today, we're talking about the pre-determined systems and facts that we grow up to rely on and guide our decisions.
What Orders Have You Inherited?
April 27, 2020 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.58 MBWhat makes up the orders that we follow? In today's episode, we're talking about truths about the world based on our pre-determined perceptions. We dig into how our predispositions inform our decision making and shape the way we solve problems as developers. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Educative.io Supercharge your career with interactive, text-based software courses. Visit Educative.io/DeveloperTea to get 10% off. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to sup...
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)
April 24, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBIn today's episode, we conclude the conversation with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream. In this part 2 of the interview, Dan talks about quality of leadership and giving more praise to those leaders who solve for disaster before it happens and reduce the need of heroes to save the day when the system breaks. If you missed part 1 of the interview with Dan, be sure to go back and check that out. in which we kicked off the with Dan, discussing preventative work over reactive work am...
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)
April 22, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBIn today's episode, we sit down with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream. In this part 1 of the conversation with Dan, we discuss preventative work over reactive work among teams. 🌎Dan Heath On The Web Heath Brothers About Dan ✍️Mentions & Resources Anita Tucker Steven Spear 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Educative.io Supercharge your career with interactive, text-based software courses. Visit Educative.io/DeveloperTea to get 10% off.
Protecting Uncertainty
April 20, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MBIn today's episode we're talking about what we don't know as a healthy marker for successful teams.
Protecting Uncertainty
April 20, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MBAt some point our knowledge runs out, but even more perplexing is the ability to look forward in time. In today's episode, we're talking about uncertainty that teams experience and how that uncertainty within a team can be a healthy marker to successful workers. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Br...
Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off
April 17, 2020 09:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBIf you had to define learning to an engineer, you'd probably mention some type of fact memorization and functions to perform a task. In today's episode, we're talking about information gathering and better ways to learn a new skill. 🌪🤗 Tornado Relief Fund If you have the ability to help the Chattanooga communities hit by a tornado this week they are accepting donations here: https://cfgc.org/tornado-relief-fund/ 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content...
Consider Your Cues
April 13, 2020 09:00 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MBFor the sake of this episode we're calling habits the effort it takes to do something with intuition. In today's episode, we're talking about how to break out of old habits and learn new habits when asked to adapt to change. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge This is a daily challen...