Parent Driven Development
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTurns out children arrive with no manual. There's no coherent online tutorial.
Between staying up to date with emerging technologies and balancing work and home life in an industry that often requires un-timeable bug fixes, on call schedules, and more, working parents are balancing a lot.
Parents are also exploring additional technical issues like "screen time" or internet privacy, coming at these issues from a different perspective as technologists ourselves.
We cover all of these topics and more using a panel of parents coming from diverse perspectives and a variety of technological backgrounds. We'll shine light onto these issues and provide a valuable food for thought for these folks.
Want to ask a question that the panelists can discuss in an episode? Email us at [email protected].
And if you're loving the podcast and want to support us, please visit our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev)!
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Episodes
067: Goodbye, for now
March 31, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 24.4 MBParent Driven Development Episode 067: Goodbye, for now. 1:00 Parent Driven Development reflects on what it’s like being a panelist on the podcast Imposter syndrome Multiple purposes to be an effective parent Expanding perspectives, ideas, and parenting techniques Ability to relate with one another 8:40 What we hope to our listeners take away from the podcast There is no one way to parent You’ll continue to grow as a parent You are not alone - every parent, kid, family, circumstances are di...
066: Finding a new job during the pandemic
March 17, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 22.1 MBParent Driven Development 66: Finding a new job during the pandemic. Welcome, Jean Hsu! Jean Hsu (https://twitter.com/jyhsu) is a writer, coach, and software engineer turned leadership coach after working for a decade in Silicon Valley. She is the VP of engineering at Range Labs (https://www.range.co/) and Co-founder of Co Leadership (https://coleadership.com/), which focuses on filling the gaps in leadership development in the tech industry. Jean doesn’t miss writing code, but she does miss ...
065: Teaching Programming to Kids
March 03, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 20.2 MBParent Driven Development Episode 065: Teaching Programming to Kids with Felienne Welcome, Felienne! Felienne (https://twitter.com/Felienne) is the creator of the Hedy programming language, and was one of the founders of the Joy of Coding conference. Since 2016, she has been a host at SE radio, one of the most popular software engineering podcasts on the web. Felienne is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain (https://www.felienne.com/book)” a book that helps programmers understand how their b...
064: Moving and Renovating
February 17, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 16.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 064: Moving and Renovating 0:30 Moving and renting realities KWu moves Allison’s home renovations Preparation before the kids 4:30 Toys Ethical parenting of getting rid of toys Hiding and cleaning out old toys from the kids (out of sight out of mind) 10:05 Establishing new house rules Setting realistic expectations on new floors, new rooms, new finishes Furniture socks (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SD38SGV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&ps...
063: Fear in Parenting
February 03, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19 MBParent Driven Development Episode 063: Fear in Parenting 0:40 Fear and stress of parenting From independent… to having dependents Trends of becoming more conservative once a parent 2:50 Decision making process High alert, more burden than non-parents Different decisions and problems at different stages of the kids Background buzz of constant anxiety 6:40 Different stresses Physical dangers for smaller kids, choking hazards Trying to avoid helicopter parenting Screen interest, programming,...
062: 3-Year Anniversary - Episode Highlights
January 20, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 28.7 MBParent Driven Development 062: Celebrating Our Favorite Episodes from the past 3 Years! Episode Highlights KWu, Chris, Josh, and Allison reflect on the past 3-years of podcasting. They touch on their favorite episodes and guests over the years, as well as some favorite parenting genius and fail moments! 1:30 Episode 43 - Managing parents on your team with Nick Means 3:10 Episode 19 - Being Adults, Live from Ruby Conf with Jonan Scheffler 7:25 Episode 11 - Being a Trans-Parent with Jess Szmaj...
061: DHH - Internet Famous with Kids
January 06, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 39.7 MBEp 61 : DHH on being Internet Famous with Kids 1:48 Welcome, DHH (https://twitter.com/dhh) David (https://dhh.dk/) is the creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder & CTO at Basecamp, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, frequent podcast guest, and family man. 2:50 Security concerns Social Media COVID times Parenting boundaries 13:45 Privacy Picture surplus Authenticity 16:45 Engagement with parenting on the web The highlight parenting reel Avoid the humble brag as a parent In...
60: Must Haves
December 23, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 16.2 MBEp 60 : Must Haves for Parents Facebook Rabbit Holes for Parents + Kid Toys Subculture for wooden toys The Nugget couch (https://nuggetcomfort.com/products/the-nugget) Parents become hyper focused on specific products Careful what your Google How to choose your Facebook groups The Social Dilemma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0) Social media groups are "bad"/addicting, but also useful.. Geo-fencing - creating fairer ways for international purchases The lottery Lucie's List (http...
059: Hiring and Interviewing
December 09, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 27.1 MBParent Driven Development 059: Hiring and Interviewing Jess, Chris S, and Allison discuss the hiring and interviewing process in tech. They share their experience as the interviewee, as well as the interviewer. The team identifies the underlying bias in the process, good signs and bad signs, and why it's important to set up a potential interviewee in the best environment possible. 01:45 Hiring and Interviewing in tech Jess writes a book and gets a new job How to reduce bias in interviewing p...
058: Covid and Co-Parenting
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 22.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 058: Covid and co-parenting with Brandon Hays Welcome Brandon! Brandon Hays (https://twitter.com/tehviking) is a dad and engineering leader based in Austin, TX. His professional mission is to help the tech industry improve by organizing people to accomplish things together in environments that recognize and support their "human-ness". His personal mission is to survive parenthood until the kids are in college. 02:40 Brandon's co-parenting Starting with tradit...
Covid and Co-Parenting
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 22.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 058: Covid and co-parenting with Brandon Hays Welcome Brandon! Brandon Hays (https://twitter.com/tehviking) is a dad and engineering leader based in Austin, TX. His professional mission is to help the tech industry improve by organizing people to accomplish things together in environments that recognize and support their "human-ness". His personal mission is to survive parenthood until the kids are in college. 02:40 Brandon's co-parenting Starting with tradit...
058: Co-Parenting
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 22.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 058: Co-parenting with Brandon Hays Welcome Brandon! Brandon Hays (https://twitter.com/tehviking) is a dad and engineering leader based in Austin, TX. His professional mission is to help the tech industry improve by organizing people to accomplish things together in environments that recognize and support their "human-ness". His personal mission is to survive parenthood until the kids are in college. 02:40 Brandon's co-parenting Starting with traditional gend...
057: Virtual School
November 11, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 21.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 057: Virtual School 03:04 Welcome to Parent Driven Development (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) 03:30 Virtual school with school age children Kindergarten, middle school, high school Missing out on the life experiences Pros and cons 05:25 Exposure to other students Not enough time to build up relationships within the zoom chats Teachers stepping up to engage the kids with each other and in class Tough in kindergarten because the kids can’t break off wi...
056: Child Care Educators with Jessica Sager
October 29, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 20.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 056: Child Care Educators with Jessica Sager of All Our Kin (http://www.allourkin.org/). All Our Kin is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators—transforming opportunities by ensuring that children and families have the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life. Jessica Sager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of All Our Kin. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law...
056: All Our Kin with Jessica Sager
October 29, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 20.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 056: All Our Kin (http://www.allourkin.org/) with Jessica Sager All Our Kin is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators—transforming opportunities by ensuring that children and families have the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life. Jessica Sager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of All Our Kin. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, Jessica co-teach...
055: Jambo Books with Mijha Godfrey
October 14, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 21.1 MBParent Driven Development Episode 055: Jambo Books (https://jambobooks.com/) 02:22 Welcome, Mijha Godfrey! Mijha Godfrey is the founder of Jambo Books (https://twitter.com/jambobooks). Jambo, which means both “hello” and “welcome” in Swahili, is a book subscription service for children aged 0 – 13 where all the books feature lead characters who are children of color. The stories in Jambo Books (https://jambobooks.com/) focus on the beauty of childhood, the joys of friendship and family, the t...
054: How to Manage Your Tech Career With Kids
September 30, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 25.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 054: How to Manage Your Tech Career With Kids 01:17 How do personal priorities and desired job circumstances change? Flexibility + time off Managing parents during emergencies Building resilience within a company 08:18 Chaos monkey Applying the method to people Setting quality expectations that everyone agrees on 10:45 Benefits are important Healthcare, dental care, infertility, adoption, etc… 12:46 Perceiving direct reports from a manager perspective about ...
053: The Parenting Playbook with Anna Mackenzie
September 16, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 21.3 MBParent Driven Development Episode 053: The Parenting Playbook (http://v.fastcdn.co/u/418c7173/35282756-0-The-Parenting-Playbo.pdf) with Anna Mackenzie Sponsor: Nurture Life (https://www.nurturelife.com/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_paid&utm_campaign=conversion&utm_content=influencer_parentdrivendevelopment-20200326&pc=PARENTDRIVEN) Welcome, Anna Mackenzie (https://twitter.com/whatsupanna) Anna Mackenzie is a Software Engineer who is dedicated to improving parental leave policies in ...
052: Taking Breaks
September 02, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 21.8 MBParent Driven Development Episode 052: Taking Breaks 02:16 Taking breaks as a parent, how have you been coping? Is everyone taking breaks? Chris breaks with home projects Allison opts for a few full days off, rather than breaking during her day KWu dives into Downton Abbey (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KAQQ5E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004KAQQ5E&linkCode=as2&tag=parentdrivend-20&linkId=b55bfd713a79c6abf4f9c6ea8e4c60c6) 07:32 Productive breaks Increasin...
051: Allowances for parents with Scott Hanselman
August 19, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 26.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 051: Allowances for Parents with Scott Hanselman (https://www.hanselman.com/) Welcome, Scott Hanselman (https://twitter.com/shanselman) Scott is a programmer, teacher, and speaker. He works out of his home office in Portland, Oregon for the Web Platform Team at Microsoft. Scott has been blogging for 10 years and enjoys blogging about technology, culture, gadgets, diversity, code, and the web. Scott is excited about community, social equity, media, entrepreneu...
050: Agile Household with Yvonne Marcus
August 05, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 20.1 MBParent Driven Development Episode 050: Agile Household (https://yvonnemarcus.kartra.com/page/xt271) with Yvonne Marcus (http://www.yvonnemarcus.com/) Yvonne is a home system strategist, mom of two, lover of Girl Scout cookies, cake, craving song parodies and getting outdoors with the family. She is on a mission to revolutionize everyones view of #MomLife. She is the creator of your Agile Home, a four-week course that looks to get your family together, feel like a valued member of the team, in...
049: Arit Amana
July 22, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 21.9 MBParent Driven Development Episode 049: Arit Amana (https://twitter.com/AritAmana) 01:50 Welcome, Arit! Software engineer Mother of two, 8 and 3 years-old Background in public health 02:50 Panel check-in Pandemic times Adjustment for the kids, work and home life Stress level through the roof 06:20 Childcare Responder Duty while WFH The younger the child, the more work required for the parent Calendar essential (https://amzn.to/30V9sKz) for parent and kids Animal crossing (https://amzn.to/3hE5...
048: Darcy Lockman - All The Rage
July 08, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 24.8 MBParent Driven Development Episode 048: Darcy Lockman - All The Rage: Mothers, Fathers and The Myth of Equal Partnership (https://amzn.to/2EuvzQz) 00:23 Welcome, Darcy (https://twitter.com/Darcy_Lockman)! Darcy Lockman is a former journalist turned clinical psychologist and the author of All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership (https://amzn.to/2EuvzQz). Her first book, Brooklyn Zoo, chronicled the year she spent working on the psychiatric ward of a city hospital. She ...
047: Black Lives Matter
June 24, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 25.2 MBParent Driven Development Episode 047: Black Lives Matter, How to be Anti-Racist (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcnX07hc%2APm8gUUGqTq4TxCwAWKNadg&fbclid=IwAR0y2_zK_2nsTviltzZr9ILXJRHa2xxj4xO0zALLye3pAB7HmOOoyfNQ1S8), How to Talk to Your Kids about BLM 00:20 Black Lives Matter Movement 02:00 How NOT to raise racist kids Allison and Kwu both have young kids, so conversations are slightly different Gender inequality talks Explainin...
046: Paternity Leave + Dad Talk
June 10, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBParent Driven Development Episode 046: Mike McQuaid on paternity leave, Balancing Dad Podcast, and raising kids in different countries. 03:08 Welcome Mike McQuaid (https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid)! Mike McQuaid is a father of two and lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a senior engineer at Github where he’s worked for the last six years. In his free time, Mike is the package leader for the Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) package manager. He also likes going to the gym, walking his dog a...
045: Miriam Tocino: Zerus and Ona
May 27, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 25.9 MBParent Driven Development Episode 045: Miriam Tocino - Zerus and Ona (https://amzn.to/32YJZma) 01:56 Welcome Miriam (https://twitter.com/miriamtocino)! Zerus & Ona (https://amzn.to/32YJZma) were born from Miriam's own circumstances as a mom. By the time she had her baby, Miriam was the coordinator and teacher of a Development Bootcamp in Amsterdam. So, when the time came to go back to work (her son was 3 months old), she jumped back. After some weeks in the job, Miriam realised she couldn't d...
044: Recipe Swap
May 13, 2020 09:00 - 52 minutes - 31.7 MBParent Driven Development Episode 043: Recipe Swap 01:15 Welcome! 02:04 Feeding kids is a full time job What are your meal time rules? Home delivery meal service Personal chef for the kids?? No… Meal time is meal time, and if the kids don’t eat, tough nuggets. 08:59 Dinner table time Phone vs no phone? Are you a fast eater or slow eater? Time to share conversations with the family Limiting or monitoring the amount of food for kids, do you do this? Sometimes the doctors have given us parents t...
Managing Parents on Your Team
April 29, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 31.3 MBParent Driven Development Episode 043: Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons. Welcome, Nick Means (https://twitter.com/nmeans)! Nickolas Means loves nothing more than a story of engineering triumph (except maybe a story of engineering disaster). When he's not stuck in a Wikipedia loop reading about plane crashes, he spends his days as a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub working on Security and Compliance tooling for our users. He's also a co-host of the Manag...
043: Managing Parents on Your Team
April 29, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 31.3 MBParent Driven Development Episode 043: Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons. Welcome, Nick Means (https://twitter.com/nmeans)! Nickolas Means loves nothing more than a story of engineering triumph (except maybe a story of engineering disaster). When he's not stuck in a Wikipedia loop reading about plane crashes, he spends his days as a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub working on Security and Compliance tooling for our users. He's also a co-host of the Manag...
Career Switching
April 15, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 27.6 MBSponsored by https://uc50fbf19597d42113767a8bc82b.previews.dropboxusercontent.com/p/pdf_img/AAz5-8IL8tZy7lJuT-DIYe9gqNe0AIwUs7iE9wHjSl3R3qYhPkHngmjavbJK9ocPQpVXsoOpSZdTdkjQEoai6fjyM0nlqFFpRjsxLpv-dsyNIuIiWNfi0gSwWYq3JA8IFykn5Y8Mnfwd5wq5CHHv0x-S9oXzWqpYC-JcEJi3eRDiSWQdrYhk7SxNdA2p5QGOFRq1n8Cx5BjgPz2QEbo8N8MvjLcTw64GfnNUSix_6o9ialxuJL2xS7RW9emkBsmkpmO-2QMqUowblOJegjQFPSNNZGgpiXpbAUnu5G_C6xEKJR6CVWwtjDriNvGHCr3fqbn6Z3BfS6RhKRrHJhg2mVvP/p.png?page=0&scale_percent=0 Parent Driven Development Episo...
042: Career Switching
April 15, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 27.6 MBParent Driven Development Episode 042: Career Switching and Learning to Code After Babies. Welcome, Bekah (https://twitter.com/BekahHW)! A content-creator by nature. Bekah is working on websites, coding-related projects, and her blog, but she has also written three screenplays, three pilots, and is finishing up a memoir. Bekah is all about getting creative! A mom to four young kids (3-10), Bekah has spent the last ten years of her life adjuncting in various university English departments. She...
041: COVID-19
March 25, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 27.9 MBParent Driven Development Episode 041 : COVID-19 In today's episode we discuss what everyone is talking about, COVID-19. Yes, we talk about it. We're talking about the new normal, full time remote work, childcare - or the lack there of, how to communicate the situation to our children, and what this means for our world moving forward. Tune in! 00:55 COVID-19 check in On a scale of freaking out vs totally chill… How many tweets are you reading? Self quarantine pre plan Chris has a dry run whe...
COVID-19
March 25, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 27.9 MBParent Driven Development Episode 041 : COVID-19 In today's episode we discuss what everyone is talking about, COVID-19. Yes, we talk about it. We're talking about the new normal, full time remote work, childcare - or the lack there of, how to communicate the situation to our children, and what this means for our world moving forward. Tune in! 00:55 COVID-19 check in On a scale of freaking out vs totally chill… How many tweets are you reading? Self quarantine pre plan Chris has a dry run whe...
Ethics and Leaving a Job
March 04, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 23.8 MBParent Driven Development Episode 040 Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons. 00:20 Welcome We discuss what it's like to work for a company that you may not agree with their ethics The difficult decisions and thoughts when you have a family and dependents counting on you 00:55 Examples of companies dealing with ethical controversy Companies working with ICE, kickstarter Ethical clients, customers, organizers, labor oriented - who’s responsible? 02:34 Technology, ...
040: Ethics and Leaving a Job
March 04, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 23.8 MBParent Driven Development Episode 040 Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons. 00:20 Welcome We discuss what it's like to work for a company that you may not agree with their ethics The difficult decisions and thoughts when you have a family and dependents counting on you 00:55 Examples of companies dealing with ethical controversy Companies working with ICE, kickstarter Ethical clients, customers, organizers, labor oriented - who’s responsible? 02:34 Technology, ...
039: Parenting Roles and Gender Equality
February 12, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 27.4 MBParent Driven Development Episode 039: Parenting Roles and Gender Equality with Richard Schneeman Welcome Richard Schneeman (https://www.schneems.com/)! Schneems (https://twitter.com/schneems) writes Ruby at Heroku, and maintains CodeTriage.com, a tool for helping people contribute to Open Source. He is in the top 50 Rails contributors and is an accidental maintainer of Sprockets and Puma. When he isn't obsessively compulsively refactoring code for performance, he writes such gems as Wicked, ...
Parenting Roles and Gender Equality
February 12, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 27.4 MBParent Driven Development Episode 039: Parenting Roles and Gender Equality with Richard Schneeman Welcome Richard Schneeman (https://www.schneems.com/)! Schneems (https://twitter.com/schneems) writes Ruby at Heroku, and maintains CodeTriage.com, a tool for helping people contribute to Open Source. He is in the top 50 Rails contributors and is an accidental maintainer of Sprockets and Puma. When he isn't obsessively compulsively refactoring code for performance, he writes such gems as Wicked, ...
038: Women Mentorship with Kari Clark
January 22, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes - 27.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 038: Women Mentorship with Kari Clark from Uplift Parents Welcome, Kari Clark! Kari is the founder Uplift Parents (https://www.upliftparents.com/), a coaching service for working moms. She previously worked at Google for 8 years, invented their live case product, and co-created many other products. Kari has two kids and believes that they both made her a better at her job! Interviewing over 100 women, all at the top of their field, Kari breaks down the common...
037: New Panel Intro - Welcome Chris and Adarsh
January 02, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBParent Driven Development Episode 037: New Panel Intro - Welcome Chris and Adarsh! This episode we feature two new panelists on Parent Driven Development, Chris Arcand and Adarsh Pandit! Chris is a Minnesota native holding two bachelor degrees in musical performance and computer science. After some years spent in Washington DC, Chris and his wife decided to return to their home in Minneapolis to start their family. They have a 2-year-old son and one more on the way! Chris currently works as a...
New Panel Intro - Welcome Chris and Adarsh
January 02, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBParent Driven Development Episode 037: New Panel Intro - Welcome Chris and Adarsh! This episode we feature two new panelists on Parent Driven Development, Chris Arcand and Adarsh Pandit! Chris is a Minnesota native holding two bachelor degrees in musical performance and computer science. After some years spent in Washington DC, Chris and his wife decided to return to their home in Minneapolis to start their family. They have a 2-year-old son and one more on the way! Chris currently works as a...
036: The Process for International Adoption
December 11, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 27.1 MBParent Driven Development Episode 036: Adoption This episode will discuss the process of international adoption, the major changes that hit home, and future challenges adopting parents and children face 00:28 Welcome, Kalimar How long does it take to adopt a child internationally? It took Kalimar 2 ½-3 years! Kalimar and his wife have had their baby girl for 6 months, she is now 21 month old Huge learning curve welcoming a child that already has mobility 01:12 Why choose adoption? Kalimar and...
035: Summer Vacation
November 20, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 35.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 035: Summer Vacations Welcome! 00:35 Summer vacationing as a kid vs. adult The hosts reflect back on their experience of summer vacation as a child vs. what their kids experience now. How much do kids actually remember on these family vacations? Loads and loads of driving!! 06:52 Flying vs. driving The views! You can either see more of the places in between or more of the place you’re going to What does your family value more? Is the classic road trip only...
Summer Vacation
November 20, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 35.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 035: Summer Vacations Welcome! 00:35 Summer vacationing as a kid vs. adult The hosts reflect back on their experience of summer vacation as a child vs. what their kids experience now. How much do kids actually remember on these family vacations? Loads and loads of driving!! 06:52 Flying vs. driving The views! You can either see more of the places in between or more of the place you’re going to What does your family value more? Is the classic road trip only...
034: Extracurricular Activities
October 30, 2019 09:00 - 56 minutes - 37.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 034: Back to School and Extracurricular Activities for Kids 00:59 Welcome, Barrett Clark Barrett Clark is a data programmer, speaker and author of Data Visualization ToolKit. He is a longtime member of the Ruby community and a co-organizer of RailCamp South. Married for 22 years, Barrett and his wife have two teenage boys and a new dog. Ruby community Family: 2 highschool teenage sons (senior / sophomore) both in band. Parent advisors and past president to ...
033: Raising Children Away From Family
October 13, 2019 16:45 - 50 minutes - 41.3 MBParent Driven Development Episode 033: Raising Children Away From Family 00:28 Welcome, Adarsh Pandit Adarsh is a self taught coder, scientist and consultant. He is the founder of Cylinder Digital, a software design and development studio, and is on the board of Ruby Together. This episode we discuss what it’s like to raise a family, while living away from your parents and other family members. 03:00 The difficulties of raising a family away from family Lack of support Career trade offs Fin...
032: Tackling More
September 11, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes - 26.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 032: Tackling More 00:45 Welcome, Dana Jones Our guest, Dana Jones (https://twitter.com/danabrit), Engineering Manager at Abstract (https://www.abstract.com/). Dana has 4 children. Came in to software development from an untraditional path. 2:00 Dana goes back to school Dana has also recently gone back to school to get her college degree and talks about her experience 5:15 talking about the people side of our work and people management 8:40 how do you organi...
031: Negotiating A Shorter Workweek
June 12, 2019 09:00 - 37 minutes - 36.8 MBParent Driven Development Episode 031: Negotiating A Shorter Workweek 00:16 Welcome, Itamar Turner-Trauring Itamar Turner-Trauring started his software career in the cutting-edge field of multimedia CD-ROMs. He currently works as a consultant helping speed up Python code and deployments (https://pythonspeed.com), and shares his software and career mistakes every week with 3700 programmers on his Software Clown (https://softwareclown.com) newsletter. His crowning achievement as a parent was wh...
030: Moving and Traveling Internationally
May 29, 2019 09:00 - 49 minutes - 37.7 MBParent Driven Development Episode 030: Moving and Traveling Internationally 00:11 Welcome, Annyce Davis! Annyce spends her day-to-day working as a Software Developer and Leader. She has specifically been focused on Android applications for the past several years. She's also an Android Google Developer Expert (https://developers.google.com/programs/experts/). This means that she spends a lot of time developing videos, blog posts, and conference talks for the Developer Community. Annyce is curr...
029: Organizing Conferences
May 15, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 36.5 MBParent Driven Development Episode 029: Organizing Conferences 00:57 Balancing Conferencing with Parenting Andy has organized RedDotRubyConf (https://www.reddotrubyconf.com/), still organizes Brighton Ruby (https://brightonruby.com/), and has spoken the past few years at RubyConf (https://rubyconf.org/). Andy also puts out an email newsletter, with one Ruby/Rails technique delivered with a ‘why?’ and a ‘how?’ every two weeks. It’s deliberately brief, focussed & opinionated, and called One Ruby...
028: Primary Caregiving
May 01, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes - 32.1 MBParent Driven Development Episode 028: Primary Caregiving 00:17 Introducing Guest, Nick Gauthier! Becoming a Full-time Parent Nick is currently the CTO and Co-founder at Nomics (https://nomics.com/). Before co-founding Nomics, Nick created MeetSpace (https://www.meetspaceapp.com/), a video conferencing application for distributed teams. Before that, Nick worked at Codeship (http://codeship.com/) on the Codeship Pro Continuous Delivery platform, as well as various other web application consult...