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Story: Code, Kickflips and Crunch Time - Mick West's Neversoft Journey
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - April 02, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsMeet Mick West, whose career began in an unusual office setup — sandwiched between a kebab shop and a phone sex hotline. From there he worked all over Manchester, making computer games for Tiertex and Ocean. Career opportunies brought him to California and to his own game dev company, Never...
Story: Leaving LinkedIn - Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - March 04, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsWhat if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company’s fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question at LinkedIn. His journey was marked by challenges: from the nuances of remote work to the struggle of influencing company culture, and a critical incident that put his pri...
Story: Beautiful Code - Inside Greg Wilson's Vision for Software Design
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - February 02, 2024 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsGreg Wilson has been on a decades-long quest to transform how we teach and talk about software design. From getting rejections for using the term “beautiful code,” to empowering scientists through workshops on Python and Unix, Greg has pushed to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Join...
Story - Code as a Lifeline: Brain Injury Sparks Python Mastery
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsWhat if your dreams were suddenly ripped away? What if your talents vanished, your passions erased? That's what happened to Jason McDonald when a traumatic brain injury at 16 ravaged his planned destiny of becoming a doctor. Jason painfully rebuilt his ind and body from scratch - relearning to r...
Story - From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - December 04, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsFrom the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to developing one of today's most popular web frameworks, Evan You's journey is a tale of passion and innovation. Evan started Vue.js while working at Google, just wanting to scratch his own itch for ...
Story: Platform Takes The Pain
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - November 02, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHow did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming corporate? Facing an IPO deadline, Pia Nilsson worked with 300 teams to transform how Spotify built software. She spearheaded a movement that led them from working in silos to a unified develope...
Story: Sloot Digital Coding System
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - October 02, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsLost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos. Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full movie into a tiny smart card chip. Top executives and investors witnessed his demos and became true believers, ready to bankroll this company into...
Story: Configuring Identity: Adam Jacob and the Search for Self in Software
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - September 01, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsToday, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massively popular DevOps tool. But despite Chef's success, Adam constantly battled self-doubt and finding his footing as a leader. In this raw episode, Adam shar...
The Science of Learning to Code
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - August 02, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsLearning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But what if there was a path up the mountain? A trail blazed smooth by master coders who went before? In this episode, we'll follow that path. We'll hear the stories of legends like Seymour Papert,...
Story: A Dark Room
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - July 03, 2023 14:39 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHave you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You used to love what you did, and it felt so creative and empowering, but then it starts to feel a bit more cookie cutter. Have you ever been frustrated with your whole life? The daily grind has tak...
Story: Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - June 02, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsToday, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team. He was on the front lines as the platform transformed how programmers worked. And he embodies the spirit of Stack Overflow: Its transparency, playfulness, and even some of its struggles to be as wel...
Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - May 02, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHow do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exceptional software developers and it's something I always wonder about. Today, I might have an answer with the incredible story of Yann Collet. Yann was a project manager who went from being bu...
Story: JSON vs XML
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - April 03, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsToday's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This ...
Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - March 02, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsShai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else. Sun had deep expertise in mobile development, and amazing engineering driven culture and relationships with manufacturers and operators. And yet interal politics and the collapse of its ...
Story: Shipping Graphing Calculator
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - February 02, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsI've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project encounters reality, shifting priorities, or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere. It always feels tragic, but then I move on. But what ...
Story: The Unfulfilled Engineer
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - January 02, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsNothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's episode is about. That's what today's guest is here to discuss. It's a slow burn, but if you listen to the end, I think you will value yourself more professionally. My Guest is Don Mckay. Someo...
Story: DOOMed to Fail
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - December 02, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsToday Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record. We also learn about how game piracy led her to game develop...
Story: Software World Tour
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - November 02, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsToday story is from Son Luong Ngoc who shares what’s it was like for him to work and live in many different countries around the world, including working for AliBaba at the Xixi campus in Hangzhou, China. It’s a story of a software developer finding a place that fits them, a place that suits t...
Story: Android's Unlikely Success
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - October 03, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsWhat could you accomplish if your teammates were all excited and determined to hit some project timelines? What is it like for a group of people to give it all they have? That's what today is about. Chet Haase from the Android team is here to share the story of the early days of Android,...
From Prison To Programming
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - September 02, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsI believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed someb...
Story: From Prison To Programming
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - September 02, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsI believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed someb...
CPAN - This Day In History
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - August 01, 2022 10:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsCPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN was first announced to a private group of PERL users. If you are building things today by pulling in various packages from various open source places – and really, who isn’t – then the history of...
The History and Mystery Of Eliza
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - July 05, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsI recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code. Eliza, the chatbot, was built in 1964, and she didn't answer questions like Alexa or Siri. She asked questions. She was a therapist chatbot and quickly became famous after bein...
Story: The History and Mystery Of Eliza
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - July 05, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsI recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code. Eliza, the chatbot, was built in 1964, and she didn't answer questions like Alexa or Siri. She asked questions. She was a therapist chatbot and quickly became famous after bein...
Why still 80 columns?
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - June 01, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsOn June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news: "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for code width." You probably know what happens next. People started to post their opinions and the comments and other people started to disagree. The posts spread around the internet...
Chat: Why still 80 columns?
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - June 01, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsOn June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news: "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for code width." You probably know what happens next. People started to post their opinions and the comments and other people started to disagree. The posts spread around the internet...
LISP in Space
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - May 02, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHave you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you take someone who's passionate about LISP and put them in an organization where that's just not how they write software. Today's story is about...
Story: LISP in Space
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - May 02, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHave you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you take someone who's passionate about LISP and put them in an organization where that's just not how they write software. Today's story is about...
Chat: April Fools' Is Cancelled
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - April 01, 2022 10:09 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsOn this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news. Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share some of history not just of April Fools', but of tech pranks in general, all leading up to 2014. Why were pranks and April Fools' jokes traditionall...
April Fools' Is Cancelled
CoRecursive: Coding Stories - April 01, 2022 10:09 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsOn this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news. Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share some of history not just of April Fools', but of tech pranks in general, all leading up to 2014. Why were pranks and April Fools' jokes traditionall...
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