Healthy Hacker
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome to the Healthy Hacker where we talk about programming, puzzles, memory, fitness, diet, and everything else that you, a healthy hacker, find interesting.
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Episodes
23: Financial Planning
July 31, 2019 18:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBWhat is financial planning? This week Abraham Martinez, financial advisor and chief operating officer at Brio Financial, visits the show to explain his role as a financial advisor and some of the tools and strategies he uses to help clients reach their goals.
22: Ruby to Elixir
July 20, 2019 22:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBFunctions, processes, supervisors, pipelines, pattern matching, oh my! These are just a few of the cool things that you can play with in Elixir. This week I share my experience with Elixir so far and how it compares to Ruby.
21: More money please
July 13, 2019 21:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBSo you just nailed the interview and you're looking at a job offer. What's next? This week we talk about some tools and strategies to make that job offer even better.
20: Laptop in the cloud
July 09, 2019 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBWe put our music “in the cloud”, we put our documents “in the cloud”, we putour code “in the cloud”, but why don’t we put our development environment inthe cloud?
19: Photography exposed
December 08, 2014 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBThis week we learn enough about photography to pick up any camera in the world and bend it to our will.
18: Distributed teams
November 24, 2014 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThis week I share what’s great and not so great about working on a distributed team and the tricks I use to make the experience even better.
17: Grandmaster of memory
November 17, 2014 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThis week Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory and CEO of memrise.com, shares his thoughts on memory training, imagination, perception, and the future of learning.
16: Perfect pull request
November 10, 2014 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week I share how to get project maintainers and co-workers excited about the code you write by building the perfect pull request.
15: Walkabout
November 03, 2014 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBThis week Ben Orenstein stops in Portland, Oregon during his 3 month “walkabout” to teach me how to sing a barbershop tag and to share his thoughts on podcasting, conference talks, code review, and a few uncomfortable situations.
14: Never forget a name
October 27, 2014 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week I share a simple, but powerful, technique I learned from USA memory champion Ron White for quickly memorizing any person’s name.
13: Speaking at conferences
October 20, 2014 06:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week I talk about talking. I share the reasons I love speaking at conferences, why I think you’ll like it too, and how to make your conference talk more exciting and memorable than the rest.
12: Perfect cup of coffee
October 13, 2014 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week Matt Perger, a competitive barista and World Brewers Cup champion, comes on the show to talk about coffee culture, bean roasting, competitive brewing, and how to make the perfect cup of coffee at home.
11: Growing as a programmer
October 06, 2014 06:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis week we get a voicemail from Ben in New York and I share the strategies and resources I’ve used to grow as a professional programmer.
10: Codecation
September 29, 2014 06:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThis week I talk about taking an adventure with a stranger on the internet, what we learned, what we built, why we did it a second time, and why you might want to try it as well.
9: Forging elite fitness
September 22, 2014 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBThis week Jeff Duncan, owner and trainer at CrossFit Pearl District, comes on the show to talk about CrossFit, how he started his gym, and why the program is different than any other fitness regimen you’ve tried.
8: Rubik's Cube Champion
September 15, 2014 06:00 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week Feliks Zemdegs, the World Rubik’s Cube Champion, comes on the show to talk about the Rubik’s Cube, the method he uses to solve it, how he trains for a competition, and where we can go to get started with the cube today.
7: Repetitive strain injury
September 08, 2014 06:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week we get a voicemail from Jonathan in Portland and learn all about RSI, some common myths, who’s at risk, how to prevent it, and why exercise plays an important role in staying pain free.
6: An unforgettable story
September 01, 2014 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week we learn the exact same technique that memory athletes have mastered to memorize hundreds of random words, thousands of random numbers, and stacks of shuffled playing cards.
5: Open source checklist
August 25, 2014 06:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week I share all the things I think about before releasing (or using) an open source project.
4: Existential crisis
August 18, 2014 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBThis week we get another voicemail and my brother Nick comes on the show to talk about deterministic multi-core processing, the CFP process for academic papers, how he transitioned from computer scientist to mountain guide, and everything you need to know to summit Mount Rainier.
3: Forty-three quintillion
August 11, 2014 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week I get my first voicemail, explain why I do (and don’t) use a standing desk, and I brush up on my math skills to show why solving the Rubik’s Cube will never be boring.
2: Pineapple in your pocket
August 04, 2014 06:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBThis week I talk about something I’m super excited about: Memory. By the end of this episode, you will be able to quickly memorize a list of 10 things and understand how to take your memory even further.
1: Why I use Vim
July 29, 2014 06:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBThis week I’m going to answer a question that I get all the time: Why do I use Vim?