Greater Than Code
288 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFor 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)
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Episodes
Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng
July 05, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction Books: How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465097677/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465097677&linkId=0d495c591e20d50802c3fa80ef30775d) Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094...
Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski
June 21, 2017 05:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Diamonds Are For Gender” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:56 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Data Science 04:20 – Diversity and Career Paths in Data Science 10:51 – Ethical Debates Within the Data Science Field Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418815/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553418815&linkId=0ed7c081ef...
Episode 036: Metaphors and Microservices with Matt Stine
June 08, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.9 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Chinchilla Chat: Where It’s All Chinchillas…All The Time…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 03:10 – Matt’s Origin Story in Software Development 09:04 – The Business of Consulting 16:24 – Empathy in Consulting 20:07 – Rigorous Communication and Shared Language; Microservices Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) Metaphors We Live By (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_sp...
Episode 035: Behind the Scenes at npm with Laurie Voss
June 01, 2017 02:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Yes, SJWs Do Actually Code” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:22 – Superpower Origin Story 06:00 – “Real Programming” 08:45 – Being Gay in the Tech Industry; Micro Activism (http://www.microactivist.com/) 16:17 – Setting Workplace Culture 21:20 – Working in Open Source While Working in a Company like npm (https://www.npmjs.com/) 25:50 – Monetizing npm npm Enterprise (https://www.npm-enterprise.com/) 32:55 – npm@5 42:00 – The 10x Engineer 44:19 – Technical Hiring 49:53 – Wh...
Episode 034: Systems Thinking in the Real World
May 25, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 56 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Missives from the Future of Tech: Ladies’ Night Edition” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:20 – Where the Lines Cross; Social Responsibility of Engineers Tragedy of the Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) 06:53 – Why We Do What We Do 09:03 – Surviving and Functioning For All Humans: Basic Social Support 16:20 – Preventing Infrastructure Decay and Advancing the Whole 19:54 – “The Cycle of Safety” The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Pri...
Episode 033: Mental Illness with Greg Baugues
May 17, 2017 22:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB00:16 – Welcome to “What is your favorite color?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” How to teach your dog to take selfies… and text them to you (https://mashable.com/2016/07/26/teach-dog-text-selfie/) 01:34 – Superpower Origin Story; Mental Illness in College Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GFII62/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B005GFII62&li...
Episode 032: Curation vs Algorithms: Who Is Writing Our History? with Amy Unger
May 11, 2017 00:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBAmy Unger: @cdwort | Heroku 00:16 – Welcome to “JIRA Card Catalogs and The People Who Love Them” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:05 – Superpower Origin Story, Growing Up with a Computer in the Family, and Being a Teenager Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494455362&sr=8-1&keywords=Unlocking+The+Clubhouse+Women+in+Computer+Science) 08:30 – Humani...
Episode 031: Retrospectives and Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen
May 03, 2017 22:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MB** This conversation stems from an earlier episode when Janelle joined the panel: Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats. 02:03 – Retrospectives ** “Software work is learning work.” @DianaOfPortland — Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) May 3, 2017 OODA Loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop) 11:07 – Documenting Feelings and Emotions 17:40 – Following Through With and Solving Action Plans 20:08 – Focusing, Lists of Action, and “Best Practices” 30:27 – What is valu...
Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart
April 28, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Cycles in Philosophy of Software, Common Principles with Different Names & Reference” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Superhero Origin Story BBC BASIC (http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html) 04:45 – Nomenclature: “Junior” and “Senior” Developers; Differences Between “Early Career” Developers and “Experienced” Developers 13:56 – Solving the Skill Assessment Problem; Learning Methodically 20:55 – Software Development Now vs Then 29:51 – Do Programming Languages Crea...
Episode 029: p=eMPathy with Ariel Waldman, Ashe Dryden, and Brad Grzesiak
April 19, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour - 37.3 MB00:16 – Welcome to “The Tale of Space Cat Burritos” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:26 – Space Technology and the Cultural Portrayal of Science NASA Explorers Program (https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/) 08:24 – The Influence of Science Fiction on the Current Developments in Science NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html) The Comet Hitchhiker (https://www.nasa.gov/content/comet-hitchhiker-harvesting-kinetic-energy-from-sma...
Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats with Janelle Klein
April 14, 2017 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Goats On Podcasts” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:19 – Origin Story 04:36 – The Development of Development 06:58 – Automated Tests and Mistake Detection 09:21 – Designing Releases and Best Practices 20:13 – “The Code is Better” There is no "the code is better." There is only "our experience is better." (users and developers)@greaterthancode with @janellekz — Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 15:08 – Measuring Effort, #CollaborativePain, and The Error Handling ...
Episode 027: Hackathons and Flirting with Failure with Rachel Katz
April 07, 2017 20:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Plotting the Rebellion” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:39 – Origin Story and Superpowers 03:05 – Getting Hooked on Hackathons 04:42 – Corporate Hackathons; Making Hackathons Accessible and Inclusive Greater Than Code Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons DataHack4FI (http://datahack4fi.org/) 09:38 – Organizing Hackathons 12:21 – Non-programmers and Hackathons; Bringing in Diverse Perspectives “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll us...
Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek
April 04, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Unrepentant Cyborgs” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Codeland Conference (http://codelandconf.com/) 02:02 – Making Conferences Accessible, Affordable, and Unintimidating for People 13:00 – Ticket Prices and Structure 15:01 – Creating an Immersive Experience and Community With and For People You Care About 25:11 – Leading by Example and Maintaining a Positive Persona 29:49 – The Importance of Money and Financial Freedom Tech Done Right Episode 002: Career Development...
Episode 025: MotherCoders with Tina Lee
March 29, 2017 21:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Not Your Mother’s Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:55 – Origin Story and Getting Involved in Coding 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 08:19 – Work/Life Balance 11:32 – Changing Culture Around Gender Roles and Caregiving “Culture is like water in that it flows from the top down.” Nev Schulman Wants to Erase Gender Stereotypes for Parents (http://www.mtv.com/news/2976598/nev-schulman-gender-stereotyp...
Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans
March 23, 2017 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB00:16 – Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Origin Story 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 06:12 – Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu/) GoldieBlox (https://www.goldieblox.com/) 12:26 – Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as softw...
Episode 023: Politics and Software with Lorena Mesa
March 15, 2017 23:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Hey! I Made a Bong Out of This Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:26 – Origin Story Obama For America Campaign (http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html) 05:46 – Politics and Software; Data Collection Danah Boyd: Be Careful What You Code For (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBZNxPzoUY&feature=youtu.be) 16:43 – Working in Python for Data Collection Django Girls (https://djangogirls.org/) 19:46 – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) 23:55 – Communication and O...
Episode 022: You Are An Asset
March 07, 2017 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Mob Programming” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:39 – Origin Stories From All! Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek (https://fourhourworkweek.com/) 12:37 – Work/Life Balance and Ideal Work Environments Stockholm Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome) 16:50 – Technical Interviews 20:41 – Computer Science Degrees: Are they worth it? 27:42 – Compulsions to Know: Contempt Culture Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-c...
Episode 021: Social Justice Warrioring and Codes of Conduct with Phil Sturgeon
February 23, 2017 21:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB00:28 – Welcome to Greater Than Code: The SJW Takeover 00:53 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Bike Messengering Build APIs You Won’t Hate (https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate) Instacart (https://www.instacart.com/) Had pesto chicken pasta for dinner, in honor of @philsturgeon’s interview on @greaterthancode today. 😋 — Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) February 23, 2017 07:59 – Long-form Blogging (aka Rants) 08:50 – Codes of Conduct: Adoption, Enforcing, Conspiracy Theories The Contrib...
Episode 020: Sexuality in Tech with Jenn Schiffer
February 17, 2017 02:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Neon Abstract Podcast Erotica!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:15 – Origin Story Bocoup (https://bocoup.com/) 03:05 – Art (http://jennmoney.biz/art/) 06:37 – Viewing Source and Learning How to Code 11:02 – Getting a Computer Science Degree 13:56 – Pixel Art, Sexuality in Tech, and Online Presence @aphyr (https://twitter.com/aphyr) (Kyle Kingsbury) Ashley Madison Data Breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach) 26:54 – How do potential employers rea...
Episode 019: It’s Made of People!
February 10, 2017 00:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MB01:11 – What it means to be a Senior Engineer When You Don’t Want to Go Into Management 05:07 – Generativity: The difference between your team’s output with you on it and your team’s output without you. Gregor Hohpe: 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation (https://leanpub.com/37things) 13:46 – The Job of An Architect 22:09 – What are the managers doing? “It is too much to ask for your manager to be your career mentor?” Sam Gerstenzang: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer (http...
Episode 018: Growing Your Team and Mentorship with Cheryl Schaefer
February 06, 2017 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBPosted another patrons-only outtake from today's precall with @CherylGSchaefer! https://t.co/g4GZA9LWle — Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 1, 2017 00:16 – Welcome to “Let’s Get this Ship on the Road!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:06 – Origin Story and Mentorship Cheryl Gore Schaefer: Grow Your Team In 90 Days @ RubyConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-grow-your-team-in-90-days) Empowerment Through Mentorship (https://www.launchcode.org/blog/empowerment-thro...
Episode 017: Ruby Together with André Arko and Carina C. Zona
January 31, 2017 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:45 – Origin Stories Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (https://qntm.org/gay) André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe (https://andre.arko.net/2013/03/24/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) 11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits 501(C)(6) (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick03.pdf) 22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby 27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff RethinkD...
Episode 016: Blogging is Shipping with Julia Evans
January 23, 2017 21:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBIntro music by Rod Johnson (https://twitter.com/springrod): Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow. 01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.” The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust (https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/) 07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions ...
Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons
January 11, 2017 23:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Snowpocalypse!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:50 – Zuri’s Background and Origin Story 04:19 – Hackathons Meet Zuri. The Queen of Hackathons. (http://blog.codewithveni.com/meet-zuri-queen-hackathons/) Color Coded (https://www.voxmedia.com/a/go-deeper) 16:37 – Overcoming Shyness 20:47 – Navigating the Channels of Your Career Graphical User Interface (GUI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface) 27:07 – Developing Skills and Keeping up with New Technologi...
Episode 014: Cancel All Negativity with Ra’Shaun Stovall (Snuggs)
January 04, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB00:16 – Welcome to “DevPunks!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:42 – Snuggs’ Background and Origin Story NYC.rb (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/) Ruby on Rails Link Slack Community (https://www.rubyonrails.link/) Ra’Shaun Stovall: Why Is Open Source So Closed? @ RubyConf 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ad52AogJ8) 04:41 – Getting Involved in Meetups and Building the Ruby Community 09:08 – Teaching/Mentoring New Developers OH: In order to make Rails jobs be a thing in the future, you...
Episode 013: Religion in Tech with Audrey Eschright of The Recompiler Mag
December 31, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Lucky Episode 13!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:10 – Audrey’s Background and Origin Story Stumptown Syndicate (http://stumptownsyndicate.org/) Citizen Code of Conduct (http://citizencodeofconduct.org/) Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) 10:37 – The Recompiler The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/961164339/the-responsible-communication-style-guide) 16:24 – Community Organization; Tech Community Biases Calagator (http://cala...
Episode 012: Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway
December 21, 2016 22:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB00:16 – Welcome to “It’s Made of People!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:17 – Jerome’s Background and Origin Story General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly/) 09:30 – Vets Who Code (https://vetswhocode.io/): Funding, Technology Stack, Curriculum, and Students 18:19 – Vets Who Code Student Experience 20:00 – Obstacles Veterans Face Getting Into Tech Location Network “Your goal is to only get 1% better every day and the funny thing about 1% is that your 1% changes every day.” @JeromeHardaw...
Episode 011: Introducing Art Into STEM Education with Amy Wibowo
December 14, 2016 22:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Trapped in a BinarySort!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:21 – “STEAM” Education (http://stemtosteam.org/) 02:36 – Getting Involved in Technology and Being a Maker 05:33 – Making a Zine and Making it (and other things) Inclusive Books With Pictures (https://bookswithpictures.com/) [Kickstarter] BubbleSort Zines 2.0: moar computer science zines! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sailorhg/bubblesort-zines-20-moar-computer-science-zines) 14:03 – Passion for Sailor Moon ...
Episode 010: Citizen Cybersecurity with Jesse Pollak
December 08, 2016 01:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Who’s Line of Code is it Anywhere?…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:37 – Getting Started with Computer-ing & Security PGP = Pretty Good Privacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) Filippo Valsorda: I’m giving up on PGP (https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/) 09:28 – Clef (https://rublon.com/) and Two-factor Authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication) (2FA) 12:33 – Citizen Cybersecurity Due to the Rise of Mass ...
Episode 009: Living with Disability with Travis B. Hartwell
December 01, 2016 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB00:16 – Welcome to “Software Eats Human…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:25 – Travis’ Superhero Origin Story Retinitis Pigmentosa (https://www.blindness.org/retinitis-pigmentosa) Achondroplasia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondroplasia) 09:00 – Explaining a Disability and Limitations to Others The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino (https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/) 14:25 – Supporting Someone with a Disability 19:56 – “Are you noticing y...
Episode 008: 99 Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
November 21, 2016 23:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB00:16 – Welcome to “99 Bottles of Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2016/11/21/008-sandi-metz-and-katrina-owen/) 01:31 – Collaboration on the Book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz (https://www.poodr.com/https://www.poodr.com/) People who like me call me disciplined & meticulous People who don't call me anal & pedantic It's the same thing. @kytrinyx @greaterthancode — Jessica Kerr (...
Episode 007: Overcoming Adversity and Battling Unconscious Bias with Neem Serra
November 10, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB00:16 – Welcome to Greater Than Code 02:02 – Neem Serra Introduction Neem Serra: “From Babies to Software Development” (http://neemserra.com/from-babies-to-software-development/) 03:23 – 2016 Election Thoughts, Fears, and Aspirations; Importance of Ally Support Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Other America” (http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/mlk-gp-speech.pdf) 14:51 – Overcoming Adversity and Getting Into Science Genomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics) 26:27 – Switching f...
Episode 006: Getting Technology Into the Hands of Children with David Bock
November 03, 2016 01:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MB00:17 – Welcome to “PC Principal Shit!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:35 – David Bock Introduction and “Smoked Pork” Discussion 04:56 – Teaching Kids Computer Science Concepts Watch D.O.G.S. (https://dadsofgreatstudents.com//) Code.org (https://code.org/) Hour of Code (https://code.org/learn) Blockly (https://developers.google.com/blockly/) Karel the Robot (http://karel.sourceforge.net/) TEALS: Computer Science in Every High School (https://www.tealsk12.org/) 12:50 – Being Scientifically ...
Episode 005: Learning New Languages with James Edward Gray II
October 28, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB00:16 – Welcome to “PodcasTRON...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:00 – James Edward Gray II’s Introduction 02:03 – #CastleGraySkull (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CastleGraySkull?src=hash) “It’s hard to find a castle in a good school district.” ~ David Brady 07:59 – Interviewing James Edward Gray II: Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard @ RailsConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-implementing-the-lhc-on-a-whiteboard) (Slides) ^^ (https://speakerdeck.com/jeg2/implementing-the-...
Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors
October 21, 2016 02:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB00:16 – 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 (https://twitter.com/dplummer) 02:54 – Operations and Creativity 06:37 – Hiring People for Operations Commandos, Infantry, and Police (https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/) 07:35 – Looking Back on Chaos 10:00 – “Problems of Success” Jessica Kerr: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say ...
Episode 003: Hiring People For Diversity with LaToya Allen of SheNomads
October 13, 2016 01:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB00:16 – 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 (https://www.wired.com/2016/09/dear-tech-companies-focus-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 s...
Episode 002: Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome with Avdi Grimm
October 06, 2016 13:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB00:16 – Welcome to “The Meta Four!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:30 – Chef Avdi Grimm’s Introduction 02:19 – RubyTapas (https://www.rubytapas.com/); Production, Typing, and Editing 10:52 – Real World Programming: Episode #346 (https://www.rubytapas.com/2015/10/01/episode-346-user-model/): User; LiveCoding.tv (https://www.education-ecosystem.com/) 12:24 – Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) 13:32 – Break time and getting to know our new panelis...
Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
September 28, 2016 23:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB00:18 - 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 (https://pragprog.com/book/nrwebpay/take-my-money) 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 Betw...