187: Is it Possible to be a Solo Developer in 2024?

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Are we cooked? How social media shapes your language | Adam Aleksic 15:16

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Gen Z slang is rife with new words like "unalive," "skibidi" and "rizz." Where do these words come from — and how do they get popular so fast? Linguist Adam Aleksic explores how the forces of social media algorithms are reshaping the way people talk and view their very own identities. For a chance to give your own TED Talk, fill out the Idea Search Application: ted.com/ideasearch . Interested in learning more about upcoming TED events? Follow these links: TEDNext: ted.com/futureyou TEDSports: ted.com/sports TEDAI Vienna: ted.com/ai-vienna TEDAI San Francisco: ted.com/ai-sf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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187: Is it Possible to be a Solo Developer in 2024?

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227: Stop, Commensurate, and Listen 35:04

לפני 9 ימים35:04

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In this week's episode, Ben, Carol, and Tim are back to discuss picking the right tool for the right job. More specifically, the value of proportionality in effort and resource allocation, questioning when it's appropriate to cut corners versus maintaining high standards, when you should stick to what you know versus learning something new, and when you should pay more attention to context when making decisions. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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226: To Sync or Not To Sync? 59:44

לפני 23 ימים59:44

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In this week's episode, Adam asks the question: To sync or not to sync? Sparked by an exploration of a competitor's API approach, the team share their thoughts on handling long-running tasks efficiently. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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225: The Value of Open Source in the Age of AI 40:57

לפני 4 weeks40:57

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In this week's episode, the crew discuss the relevance and significance of open-source software in the age of AI. The open source community offers domain expertise, rigorous testing, responsive bug fixing, and community support. But when AI can generate code with proficiency, how does the value calculus change when deciding to install a new package, generate code with an AI, or simply do it yourself? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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224: Skin in the Game 50:05

לפני 5 weeks50:05

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To be a good producer you have to be a good consumer. In this week's podcast, the whole team is back to delve into the concept of 'skin in the game' in product development and how consuming your own product, known as “dogfooding”, and empathizing with users can influence the development process. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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223: The Six Month Autonomy Rule 57:02

לפני 6 weeks57:02

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In this week's episode, Adam and Ben discuss the notion of “If I'm still telling you what to do in six months, then something went wrong”, a take heard in a recent episode of Lenny's Podcast. How can a company orientate itself to encourage autonomy throughout the career of an engineer? What are reasonable expectations of a junior engineer? These questions and more are discussed in today's episode. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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222: Gemini CLI Test Drive 35:35

לפני 7 weeks35:35

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In this week's episode, Adam and Tim delve into Gemini CLI, a command line interface tool for AI by Google, test-driving it on real code to find its capabilities and limitations. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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221: Life in the Trenches of Replatforming 1:07:15

לפני 9 weeks1:07:15

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In this week's episode, the full crew is back to talk about practical replatforming. In past episodes we've discussed replatforming in a more abstract sense, but Adam has much to share about ongoing real-world replatforming at AlumniQ. When the rubber meets the road, certain realities and complexities, which may not be obvious, may affect decision-making and replatforming strategy. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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220: Embracing AI with Dan Wilson 1:14:13

לפני 10 weeks1:14:13

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In this week's episode, the team gets into it with special guest Dan Wilson, an AI & tech consultant that has recently created free and paid courses on using AI in daily workflows. They also dig into the ins and outs of creating Udemy courses and their viability in the tech space. Dan's courses: Master ChatGPT: Build AI Assistants That Know Your Business (FREE) Generative AI for Developers: How To Use AI In Your Workday (Use code quackquack for a special discount) Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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219: Potluck: AI Ego, Feature Flags, Customer Feedback 1:01:53

לפני 11 weeks1:01:53

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In this week's episode, the team dives into a potluck of topics including the effective usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) by feeding their ego, the excitement of implementing feature flags in development cycles, and further developments and opportunities with Adam's side hustle app "Jump Run" the journey of building a side hustle with 'Jump Run'. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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218: Rethinking Values in the Age of AI 1:04:30

לפני 12 weeks1:04:30

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In this week's episode, the crew is back to discuss and question quickly shifting values in the world and their implications for developers. Will AI erode the importance of code craftsmanship? When old values are quickly discarded, what does that say about the legitimacy of the new values? Is human coding obsolescence the elephant in the room? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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217: More Svelte Than You Can Shake a Stick At 1:01:15

לפני 14 weeks1:01:15

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In this week's episode, Adam puts the spotlight on Svelte, and takes us on a deep dive of Svelte features, latest developments and some of his own applications of Svelte in recent projects. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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216: Ben's New Job 56:32

לפני 15 weeks56:32

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In this week's episode, the team discusses Ben's new job in a radically different domain, the common difficulties when joining a new team with a new 'language', and the unique challenges of working at a manufacturing focused business as opposed to a start-up style tech business. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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215: New Endeavours, New Challenges 57:28

לפני 16 weeks57:28

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In this week's episode, the full crew is back to discuss the challenges and strategies of managing development teams. Tim shares his new role as Director of Development and his approach towards improving developer experience and scaling applications. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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214: Is Tech the Bad Guy Now? 1:06:25

לפני 18 weeks1:06:25

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In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim discuss the evolving perception of technology, shifting from an optimistic view in the 80s and 90s to a more critical stance today due to its potential negative impacts. They delve into the consolidation of tech power among major companies like Facebook and Amazon, contrasting it with ideas like Amazon's two pizza teams for maintaining team efficiency. Adam also has some authentication issues that Ben and Tim weigh in on. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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213: Staying Motivated Through Long Projects 50:42

לפני 19 weeks50:42

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In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim discuss strategies to stay motivated during long-term projects or repetitive tasks. If you've been at the same company or working on a project for a very long time, how do you stay motivated doing the same thing for a long time? Mentioned Links: Ze Frank - An Invocation for Beginnings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g Cat Purr Generator - https://purrli.com/ Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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212: You Are Not a Coder 59:20

לפני 20 weeks59:20

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In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim tackle the intriguing and timely topic of AI and its implications for the future of coding. They delve into how AI is currently being used, including the hype around LLMs, its perceived threat to coding jobs, and the limitations of AI in professional software development. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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211: Roast My Desk, Rate My Clean-up 1:00:20

לפני 21 weeks1:00:20

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In episode 211, Adam, Carol, and Tim play 'Roast My Desk, Rate My Clean-up.' Listeners submitted before and after photos of their desks, and the crew roast their setups and rate their clean-up effort. The photos and reactions can be viewed on our Discord, Instagram, and BlueSky accounts. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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210: Free as in Speech, not as in Beer 40:11

לפני 22 weeks40:11

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In week's this episode, the crew explores the often confusing phrase 'free as in speech, not as in beer.' They discuss the differences between software that's free in terms of cost (beer) and free in terms of user freedoms (speech). The conversation delves into open-source licensing, the implications for users and developers, and comparisons to various software models. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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209: MVP Therapy 57:53

לפני 23 weeks57:53

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In this week's episode, Adam seeks support from Ben and Tim as he ventures into creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a new app designed to digitize the operations of drop zones. The discussion centers on the importance of developing a solid hypothesis, engaging potential users early on, and navigating the emotional hurdles associated with bringing a side project to market. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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208: Real or Fake? Esoteric Programming Languages 52:07

לפני 24 weeks52:07

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In this week's episode, the crew play Real or Fake for esoteric programming languages. Are Whitespace, JSF***, Cow or DeadFish real or fake? Listen to find out. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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207: Potluck and Fun Facts 1:07:31

לפני 25 weeks1:07:31

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In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Carol discuss a variety of topics including "disagree and commit", responsive design, and feature flags. We take a trip through time with some fun facts from internet and web development history. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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206: The Most Impactful Books 1:02:15

לפני 26 weeks1:02:15

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In this week's episode of the podcast, Adam, Ben and Tim discuss various books that have significantly influenced their careers and coding philosophies. The conversation ranges from classics like 'Clean Code' and 'The Phoenix Project' to unexpected titles such as 'Fight Club' and 'The Four Agreements'. The discussion underscores the value of continuous learning and how different types of books can offer unique perspectives and practical wisdom. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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205: Lessons Learned Along the Way 1:05:58

לפני 27 weeks1:05:58

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In this week's episode, the team discusses various software development topics and how their opinions on these subjects have evolved over time. Key topics include the benefits and challenges of testing, the balance between microservices and monoliths, the role of static typing in code, and the practicality of semver versus other versioning strategies. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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204: Relaying Requirements 51:07

לפני 28 weeks51:07

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In this week's episode, the full crew is back to discuss the complexities translating user requirements to developers and the importance of clear communication to avoid wasted efforts. The conversation also touches upon the roles of project managers and developers, emphasizing the significance of a clearly defined problem statement and well-structured processes to ensure efficient project execution. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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203: The Hard Problem of Naming Things 1:00:49

לפני 29 weeks1:00:49

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There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. (Leon Bambrick) In this week's episode, the crew discuesses the complexities and nuances of naming conventions in software projects. The team reflects on their own practices, shared challenges, and the real-world impact of terminology and structure on software development and maintenance. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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202: Um, Actually! 47:48

לפני 30 weeks47:48

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In this week's episode, Tim and Ben go head-to-head in a trivia game inspired by Cunningham's Law, answering questions, with points awarded for correct 'um, actually' corrections. The game reveals lesser-known facts and recent updates in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser functionalities. Source material for all questions came from this article . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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201: LLMs vs StackOverflow 51:15

לפני 31 weeks51:15

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We're back! and in this episode of the Working Code Podcast, the crew returns to dive into a thought-provoking discussion on the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT on technical communities such as Stack Overflow. They explore how LLMs are changing workflows, the ethical considerations of using AI for coding assistance, and personal experiences with these tools. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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200: The Power of Pause - We're Taking a Break 1:03:40

לפני 42 weeks1:03:40

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In this special episode, we celebrate reaching our 200th show by discussing the critical importance of taking breaks and avoiding burnout. We share our thoughts on mini-retirements, the differences between sabbaticals and mini-retirements, and the surprising benefits of doing 'drudgery' work. We also delve into the upcoming hiatus for the podcast and what each of us plans to do with our extra free time. Join us for a candid and insightful discussion on how stepping away can actually help you come back stronger and more motivated. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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199: Is .io Out? 59:15

לפני 43 weeks59:15

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In this week's episode, the hosts discuss the potential discontinuation of .io domains, the historical and geopolitical nuances of TLDs like .tv and .io, and the complexities of managing and pricing domain names. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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198: Battling Build Complexity 53:21

לפני 46 weeks53:21

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Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. In this episode, the hosts discuss the complexities and frustrations of deployment automation and DevOps, particularly focusing on the challenges faced with makefiles, continuous integration (CI) processes, and build systems. They explore tools like ZX from Google and Oclif from Salesforce to find better solutions for running and organizing commands. The conversation also touches on the difficulties of maintaining older legacy systems like ColdFusion. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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197: AI, The Innovation Dilemma, Promotions and More 1:03:33

לפני 47 weeks1:03:33

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In this week's episode, the hosts discuss the value of focusing on a single top priority during challenging times and the implications of AI on the workplace, emphasizing the importance of maintaining human connections and individual reflection. They explore career progression, advocating for both skill quality improvements and the need for organizations to focus on their most critical tasks. Additionally, they touch on personal habits such as the impact of constant connectivity, the value of solitude, and the challenges of balancing productivity with personal well-being. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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196: Building Better, Developer Experience 56:55

לפני 48 weeks56:55

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In this week's episode, Adam, Carol and Tim discuss Developer Experience (DX) and its importance in creating a comfortable and efficient workflow for developers. The hosts highlight various elements that impact DX, such as the ergonomics of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), debuggers, and browser tools. They emphasize the need for faster build and deployment times to minimize context switching and improve productivity. Strategies for managing development, QA, and production environments, including the use of GitHub Actions, source-controlled database schemas, and automated deployments, are also explored. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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195: When the Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze 51:58

לפני 49 weeks51:58

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In this week's episode, the hosts discuss situations where the effort put in is not worth the results. They cover topics like the inefficiency of tracking every minute, the high cost of striving for 100% code coverage, and handling lengthy build times during deployments. The team debates the importance of releasing features incrementally versus deploying massive changes and highlights the inefficiencies in requiring extensive requirements documentation. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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194: Manifesting a New App 1:06:41

לפני 50 weeks1:06:41

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In this week's episode, Adam consults with Carol and Tim about various aspects and challenges involved in the development of an app intended to streamline and digitize the process of organizing skydiving jumps. They discuss overcoming technical difficulties, such as integrating drag-and-drop functionalities, managing data efficiently, and incorporating features like login systems, billing, and user authentication. They also explore potential UI/UX improvements, including touch interface adaptations and notifications for jumpers. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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193: Bonds Built in the Foxholes 37:40

לפני 51 weeks37:40

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In this episode, the hosts delve into the idea of whether bonds formed in moments of workplace trauma and high-stress situations are uniquely irreplaceable. The discussion also touches on how team-building activities can simulate the bonds formed under duress, the cultural differences in work stress, and challenges faced in the workplace. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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192: The Best of Code and The Worst of Code 58:48

לפני 1 year58:48

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In this episode, the hosts discuss their experiences with different codebases, from the best they've worked on to the worst. They explore the complexities of evolving and maintaining legacy code, the challenges of debugging, and the importance of clean architecture. Key points include the pain of working with ORMs, and the impact of early design decisions on long-term project health. They also touch on reactivity concerns in modern frameworks and share personal anecdotes of both successful and problematic coding practices. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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191: Processing Processes 57:31

לפני 1 year57:31

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In this week's episode, the crew discuss finding the right balance in implementing processes within software development teams. Processes often originate from reactive measures to past mistakes but it is crucial to emphasize the importance of periodically reassessing the necessity and efficiency of these processes. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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190: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves - Ben & Carol Edition 1:00:45

לפני 1 year1:00:45

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In this week's episode, Ben and Carol of the Working Code Podcast reflect on career advice they would give to their younger selves, touching on the importance of simplicity in coding, continuous learning, and maintaining work-life balance. They emphasize the significance of learning from mentors, leveraging database constraints, and avoiding premature optimization. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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189: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves 52:00

לפני 1 year52:00

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In this episode, Tim and Adam discuss career advice for their younger selves, including the importance of job changes for salary increases, focusing on programming tasks rather than managerial roles, and the hazards of tying one's identity to a specific programming language. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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188: Yeeting Changes to Production - Code Reviews 1:03:16

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In this week's episode, Tim returns to the podcast for a discussion on code reviews, touching on the importance of providing constructive feedback, tailoring reviews based on the developer's experience level, and discussing the merits and drawbacks of tools like GitHub. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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187: Is it Possible to be a Solo Developer in 2024? 56:13

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In this week's episode, Adam and Ben talk about the feasibility of being a solo developer in 2024, considering industry pressures, tools, and personal strategies for balancing simplicity and complexity in the development process. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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186: Warm Blankies For Your Work Insecurities 50:36

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In this week's episode Ben and Carol delve into their personal and professional insecurities. The discussion includes feeling the need to justify one's value at work, struggles with validations. They also talk about the emotional impact of customer interactions and the importance of human connections. The conversation highlights broader issues regarding job promotions, industry expectations, and the myth of constant innovation. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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185: Adam's A/B Testing MVP 1:03:32

לפני 1 year1:03:32

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On this week's show, Adam and Ben explore the complexities of implementing AB testing in email campaigns. The hosts tackle the challenge of integrating AB testing into existing systems without causing disruptions and examine methods for experimenting with various elements like subject lines, calls-to-action, and email contents. They also discuss strategies for automating the selection of winning variants based on metrics such as opens and clicks. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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184: Solving World Peace with Code Comments 53:03

לפני 1 year53:03

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On today's show, Adam and Ben talk about their respective strategies for leaving comments within code. Each of them inhabits a different end of the spectrum, with Ben erring on the side of viewing comments as an inherent value-add; and, Adam believing that the urge to add a comment is more akin to a "code smell", indicating a need to refactor the underlying code structure. They disagree on a lot in this conversation; but, it turns out, they actually agree on more than you might expect. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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183: Who's Got the Beans? Carol's New Project 54:12

לפני 1 year54:12

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In this episode, the team discusses various aspects of starting new projects, dealing with both personal and professional challenges, and the excitement and fears around initiating new work. Carol shares her idea for a new web application to help organize event contributions, and the group explores initial steps and considerations for starting such a project. They touch on security, data management, and different frameworks and platforms for development Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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182: Coffee Talk and Catching Up 21:56

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On today's show, Tim and Carol share personal updates while Adam and Ben are away. Carol discusses her challenging workday involving a difficult rebase and adjusting to a new routine after moving to Texas. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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181: More Laws of Software 58:26

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On today's show, we continue our discussion of the entries outlined on the website, the Laws of Software . Topics include McKinley's law on boring technologies, Doerr's law on aligning team vision, and Fitt's law on target touchability. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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180: The Laws of Software 1:00:41

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On today's show, we discuss a few of the entries outlined on the website, the Laws of Software . Topics include Atwood's Law on JavaScript, Cunningham's Law on getting answers, Parkinson's Law on getting things done, Goodhart's Law on taking measurements, Hofstadter's Law on inevitable failure, and the Peter Principle. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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179: AI Sells You on AI 48:50

לפני 1 year48:50

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On today's show, Tim gears-up for a farm insurance conference out in Nashville where he's hoping to educate farmers on the pros and cons of artificial intelligence (AI). But, ahead of his talk, he'll be using AI voice technology to call the conference attendees and convince them to attend his presentation. And then, hopefully, weave statistics and sentiment analysis insights—from these automated calls—back into his slide deck. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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178: Upgrading From Node 0.10 43:03

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This week on the podcast, we touch on a variety of topics. Ben has been incrementally building a data export feature for his customers; and, he's gotten to a point in which he can see a viable light at the end of the tunnel. Carol has discovered that if she doodles circles with her non-dominant hand, it occupies the ADHD portion of her brain and frees her up to focus on reading. Tim is continuing to improve his AI voice-agent, using a listener-suggested approach to loading Spanish language voice models on demand. And, Adam is battling some pretty steamy code rot; and is attempting to upgrade a series of interconnected Node.js Lambda functions from v0.10—released in 2013—to v20. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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177: Infinite Invisibility Timeout 1:01:50

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Adam uses the new CSS color functions for HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) in order to create a heatmap for the number of dollars raised by his platform. Ben dives into the Algolia search service as a way to provide a search feature on his blog. Carol is trying to alleviate performance concerns around an N+1 SQL problem using an ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) that has decided to use an N+1 selection strategy as "the way" with no escape hatch. And, Tim is getting some great feedback regarding his AI-powered call system that will alert customers to upcoming renewal dates. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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176: Triumph and Fail Safe Space 49:51

לפני 1 year49:51

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On today's show, we cover a variety of topics. Tim was suffering from a "carding" attack (aka, a "credit card stuffing" attack) and had to build an internal CAPTCHA system in order to protect his web-based payment forms from bad actors. Adam created an open-source JavaScript library for mocking ES modules (see Mockable ) that makes it possible to swap implementation details at runtime. And Ben falls back in love with ColdFusion—again—continuing to find that even the small language details bring him great joy. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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175: Build Times, Overcompensating, Mentoring and More 1:01:57

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On today's show, we cover a variety of topics. Ben talks about overcompensation at work; and, how we often swing way too hard in one direction as the first signs of a challenge. Carol talks about how her current task got away from her; and, how she suddenly founder herself creating a Pull Request with 84 files in it. Tim talks about the generation smoking ban going into effect in England. And Adam talks about the challenges of mentoring junior developers; and, how hard it is to have enough "right sized" tasks ready for them to work on. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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174: When Your Software Has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 48:34

לפני 1 year48:34

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On today's show, we talk about incidents and outages at work. Incidents are a fact of life. If you depend on a file system or a database or a third party vendor, at some point, something will break and your service will be degraded. Customers freak out (rightly so); and, it becomes a cross-team effort to try and find the problem, fix it, and effectively communicate updates back to your customers. There's no right way to do this. But, one could argue that there are definitely wrong ways to do this. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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173: Shopping for Solutions - Payments and Compliance Auditing 33:18

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Adam picks Tim's brain searching for the perfect solution for payments and compliance auditing. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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172: Building Your Own Standard Library 1:04:48

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In a world where many programmers instinctively reach for an existing solution in "user land", Ben poses the question: is there value in building out and maintaining your own standard library? This would be the collection of commonly-used functions and classes that you enjoy using; and, which are tailored to your use-cases and programming paradigms. Doing so would be a vibrant mixture of pragmatism, vanity, ego, efficiency, and compensation. But, would it ultimately be a net befit? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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171: From Tactics to Strategy 59:58

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Tim just completed his quarterly strategy review meeting at work. As such, he's in the perfect head space to teach Adam and Ben what strategy is; how strategy differs from tactics; and, how OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) can be used in order to ensure that the work to be done actually rolls-up to one of the company's core strategies. In the end, Ben still has no idea what's going on (as per usual); but, Adam is down to clown. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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170: Thinking in UX with Thelma Van 1:11:46

לפני 1 year1:11:46

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On today's show, we talk to Thelma Van about integrating design into the product development workflow. This includes User Experience (UX) design, User Interface (UI) design, scope negotiation, and user validation through interviews. It turns out, even if you can only talk to five of your customers , having this amount of feedback can have a massively out-sized impact on your overall design and development trajectory. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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169: Buffer Overflow, Tabs vs Spaces 1:00:52

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Several years ago, Stack Overflow noticed a small but surprising trend within their 2017 Developer Survey data . Even when attempting to adjust for several factors, it seems that the programmers who indent their code with spaces (as opposed to with tabs) have a higher earning potential. As an example of programmers who love using tabs, the hosts of the show offer up theories about this strange finding. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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168: Memory Safety Mandate 55:19

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On today's show, we talk about two major announcements relating to the technology world. First, the government released a report calling on programmers to start using memory safe languages (see: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe ). Second, Apple announced that it will halt work on Titan, its autonomous electric vehicle project. We also talk about the pros-and-cons of a Computer Science degree in relation to the web development industry. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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152: Cron Heatmaps, Harvard AI, and Ben's Book - What's On Your Workbench 1:00:16

לפני 2 years1:00:16

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This week on the show, the hosts talk about what they have going on. Adam is trying to better understand the cadence with which his scheduled tasks are executing; and, has built a visualization tool using Svelte and D3. Tim has signed up for CS50 at Harvard - an online course introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Python. And, Ben has a working draft for the first half of his Feature Flags book; and, is now considering some sort of pre-sale (if he can figure out how to turn his Markdown files into something consumable). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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151: Async Human Solutions 1:01:17

לפני 2 years1:01:17

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When you build a system that is wholly contained within a single process, life is quite clean and predictable. But, the moment you reach outside of your process in order to get work done, you realize how messy the world is. Communication between systems can breakdown for any number of reasons. Often times, we try to create resiliency within the chaos by apply technology. But, sometimes, it makes more sense—and is far less expensive—to fix these problems using a human-oriented solution. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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150: What's on Your Workbench #3 56:00

לפני 2 years56:00

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This week we go around the table and see what the hosts have going on. Carol got a promotion in her first week back at work, despite the fact that she's had to emotionally suppress everything she once knew about dotnet. Adam is now - finally - at 100% SOC compliance (and is awaiting a 3-month review period). Tim has been wrestling with APIs and bending them to his will (to receive JSON payloads). And, Ben is considering different ways in which to package his Feature Flags book. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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149: Margin For Error 28:35

לפני 2 years28:35

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In this episode, Adam and Tim talk about margin for error in various aspects of software development, business and our personal lives. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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148: The Day The Code Stood Still 50:02

לפני 2 years50:02

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In this episode, the crew speculate on what would happen if every coder just stopped coding. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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147: Potluck #9 1:09:42

לפני 2 years1:09:42

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This week, we go around the table and talk about a variety of topics. Ben talks about Transactive Memory Systems Theory and how it might be applied in an engineering context. Carol—having moved into a new home and a new job—talks about the joys of starting something new in her life. Tim talks about the short-comings of a ticketing system; and, Goodhart's Law (which states that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" ). And, Adam considers what his life would look like if he took on more of a leadership / force-multiplier role at work. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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146: Resiliency is Hard 1:09:22

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The products that we build can become quite complex and involve many interconnected parts. Due to this complexity, and to the properties of the natural world, these products will begin to fail in new and exciting ways. There's really no way to stop a system from failing; but, we can build systems that are more resilient to failure. That said, this is oftentimes much more challenging than we expect. On today's show, we talk about the complex systems that we've built personally; and, how we attempt to keep them online in the face of uncertainty. As a funny aside on the topic of complexity, checkout Tom Scott's video: The Problem with Time & Timezones . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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145: Shiny New Things - Bun, Svelte, Skeleton 44:29

לפני 2 years44:29

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Adam, our early-adopter in residence, talks to Carol about Bun , Skeleton , and Svelte . With a focus on introducing new tools to an existing team, the two mainly talk about Bun, a hot new all-in-one JavaScript toolkit that is simultaneously a runtime , a server , a package manager , and a test runner . Come find out why its feature-set and speed leave Adam singing, My application don't want none unless you got Bun, hun! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . Full show notes and transcript here . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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144: The Power of One 28:54

לפני 2 years28:54

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In a perfect world, we always do our best. But, our capacity for "best" changes on a day-to-day basis. On some days, doing our best means jumping out of bed and absolutely crushing the day ! On other days, doing our best means that we rallied just to get out of bed. And, that's OK. When we're in the slog - when our "best" is degraded - it can be helpful to identify a single, small challenge for the day; a challenge that can be accomplish and celebrated. This technique is what Carol calls the "Power of One". Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . Full show notes and transcript here . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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143: Moving On, Rewriting, Replatforming 1:08:15

לפני 2 years1:08:15

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While change is inevitable, managing and adapting to change is always a challenge. Change represents the end of something we knew and - at least for some period - loved; and, ushers in the start of something completely unknown. On today's show, we explore the difficulties in "moving on" using several different contexts: Jobs, tech stacks, video games, API implementations, front-end frameworks, and more. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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142: Tangents All the Way Down 53:00

לפני 2 years53:00

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When Carol's not here to keep us in line, the show quickly flys off the rails. So much so, in fact, that we never made it to the intended topic - it's just tangents upon tangents upon tangents. We touch upon "vendoring" of our external libraries, installing dependencies with apt-get , dictation app differences between macOS and iOS, the regret of not building features sooner, building the perfect demo for clients, and the "trap" of having to innovate. And that's not even everything! Carol - we need you! You're our only hope! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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141: Building Stuff So You Can Build Stuff 49:53

לפני 2 years49:53

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Inspired by an article from Dimitri Glazkov: Build a thing to build the thing , we talk about the importance of consuming of our own products. Often referred to as "Dog Fooding", this means that we must try and build something in the same way that our customers would be expected to build something. And, in doing so, better identify the feature gaps and the points-of-friction. In order to best meet our customers where they are , we have to - in a sense - become our customers. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript.…

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140: Fraud, What is it Good For? 49:56

לפני 2 years49:56

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If a property is exposed on the internet, people will try to take advantage of it. This might be in the form of sending spam through a communications portal, scamming cellular providers via SMS tolling, or using payment forms to validate stolen credit cards. And that's just to name a few possible attack vectors! It appears there's no hurdle too high nor process too tedious for the fraudsters to circumvent. On today's show, we share our own war stories about detecting, preventing, and dealing with the aftermath of fraud on our own web-facing applications. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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139: New Tables vs New Columns 59:53

לפני 2 years59:53

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Early on in his career, Ben's default behavior was to add new database columns to any existing table that felt "similar enough" in nature. After years of evolving an application, however, this has lead to relatively wide tables with only a loose sense of cohesion. More recently in his career, Ben has started to err on the side of creating new tables in order to house new columns . While this approach adds complexity in some ways, it also reduces complexity in other ways and creates a more clearly defined data model. Or, so he hopes. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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138: Ben Goes Streaking 59:04

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As Ben builds-out Dig Deep Fitness , he wants to include an "Activity Streak" indicator as a way for people to feel good about the consistent effort that they've been putting into their workouts. "Streaks", however, are bucketed by "day"; and, said "day" is specific to the user's current timezone experience. Historically, Ben has stored all of his application dates in UTC time; but, he senses that this won't be appropriate for "Activity Streak" tracking. As such, he turns to his brilliant Working Code co-hosts for their sagely advice. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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167: Everyone Likes Their Own Brand 54:20

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The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered. - Oscar Wilde You may never think about it or even be aware of it; but, you have a personal brand. A brand is not something you can opt into or out of. It simply exists. The only choice that you have is how you manage - or choose not to manage - your brand in relation to other people. On today's show, we talk about our own personal brands; how they can help us; how they sometimes hurt us; and, how the goals of brand-building can change over time. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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166: What's "Onboarded" to You? 58:27

לפני 2 years58:27

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On today's show, we respond to a listener question from Kamil Maraz: I have started a Developer experience initiative in our company. We started with a survey, which led to many 1-on-1 meetings; and, one thing that came up a few times was onboarding. Long story short: it's not ideal. I was wondering if this topic could be an inspiration for one of the episodes. For example what is an onboarded colleague to you?; do you care about time to first commit?; what does the onboarding process in your company look like? And so on. As I say often, in our company we love our users, and our developers should get the same treatment. Often the journey starts with onboarding. Thank you for hearing me out. We love the fact that Kamil is taking an iterative product mindset; and, is trying to apply those same principles to the company, treating engineers as the recipients of the product experience. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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165: Agile Methodology with Brian Sadler 1:06:40

לפני 2 years1:06:40

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For the most part, software engineers like the concept of Agile methodology; and, they have a sense that agile development practices are the best way of getting work done. But, that doesn't mean we know how to put these agile practices in place (especially at scale). Today, we talk to Brian Sadler ( @brian_sadler ) - a seasoned software developer and Agile coach - about what Agile is, what parts of it work the best, and where teams often go wrong in their interpretation of best practices. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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164: Solo Programming, Chrome Monoculture and More - Potluck 1:06:36

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On this week's show, we explore a variety of topics. Ben wants to perform a mini retrospective on his desire to support the legacy platform at work. Carol is feeling isolated as the only engineer on her team - her dog is a good listener, but isn't very helpful when it comes to brainstorming. And, Adam wants to talk about the browser landscape; and see which browser(s) everyone is currently using. Also, Ben offers up some high praise for Lenny's Podcast - a show in which Lenny Rachitsky interviews top Product and Marketing leaders in our industry. This show is absolutely dripping in value! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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163: Exposing Yourself, to New Tech 1:05:35

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In web development, we tend to hold learning as a virtuous activity that's worthy of our spare time. In fact, there can be a lot of pressure on us to always be learning; and, to some degree, those of us who don't ride the wave of cutting-edge tech are "othered". But, is dabbling in new technology really moving the needle? Does learning a little of this and little of that really make for a more robust engineer? Or, is there more value to be gained from depth of understanding? And, at the end of the day, does the biggest impact on what we know actually come from switching jobs and joining new teams? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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162: A Question of Time 43:01

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Ben never has enough time to accomplish everything that he wants to accomplish. On its own, this isn't necessarily a "bad thing". But, it can quickly lead to feelings of guilt: is he not good enough, is he not effective enough, is he letting everyone down? So much of this angst is emotional. And he knows this. But, he doesn't have the wherewithal that he needs to evolve his own perspective. The crew tries to help him out. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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161: 2024 Goals 1:01:20

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As we jump into the new year, the crew talks about their new year's goals—both for the podcast and for themselves. We strongly believe in the power of "learning in public". And, to that end, we've created a Google Form in which you can submit suggestions on how to improve the show: what do you like, what do you not like, what can we be doing better? No suggestion is off limits, so long as no people or animals are harmed! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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160: Design Systems and Coding Philosophy 1:03:00

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Happy New Year! This week, we ease into 2024 with a variety of topics. Adam is building a new design system at work using Svelte and Tailwind CSS. Ben wonders if there's any way to create an "Overview Effect" in the world of programming. And Tim discusses a few philosophical fallacies in a work context: planning fallacy, overconfidence effect, automation bias, and plan continuation bias (aka, the sunk cost fallacy). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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159: No Effort December Returns 58:10

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After a stressful year, we happily ease into another round of "No Effort December" in which the conversations flow without concern or constraint. Carol is excited to go ice skating for the first time in her life. Tim is trying to teach his kids about financial literacy. Ben shares his limited ability to fantasize. And Adam wonders why his computer gets so sticky. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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158: The Premortem Premortem 49:24

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In episode 154 , we discussed the concept of a project premortem. That discussion inspired Carol to schedule her own premortem for a new 2-year project that her company is about to undertake. Given the fact that her team's work won't be sharable for at least 18-months, she's wants to make sure that her premortem is as effective as it can be. As such, we're going to have ourselves a little premortem premortem discussion on the show. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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157: Dead Man's Snitch Deep Dive with Adam Cameron 1:01:39

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On this week's show, Adam Tuttle and friend-of-the-show, Adam Cameron , go in depth on Dead Man's Snitch - a software service that triggers an alarm if your application doesn't "check in" with high enough frequency. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here.…

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156: JSON, StackOverflow, Testing - Hot Takes 54:21

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On today's show, we cast off the social filters and lay down some hot takes! This journey of spice serves up the separation of concerns, the future of StackOverflow, the value of comments, the necessity of testing, the role of extracurricular coding, the beauty of clean code, the meh of JSON, and the challenge of building truly great products. Some of these hot takes are clearly wrong; but, I'll never tell ! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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155: Software We're Thankful For 54:05

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Coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday (and still recovering from our food comas), we wanted to have some fun today and talk about all of the software that we're thankful to have in our lives. These aren't sponsors of the show (yet); but, we love them so much that we wanted to share them with the rest of the world. Topics include Dead Man's Snitch , Overcast podcast player , git source control, GitHub , Snagit and Skitch screen capture tools, 1Password for password management, PlexTV for media management, video chat, IDEs and code editors, and basically everything that enhances the day-to-day lives of us developers. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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154: What Could Go Wrong? Pre-Mortems and Log Levels 1:06:15

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On today's show, we continue reflecting on the 4-part series on "Failure" produced by the Freakanomics radio podcast . This time, we talk about Premortems; and, about how important it is for a company to create a safe space in which people can talk about failure and about the reasons failure might occur. We also dig into Logging strategies, structured logging, and role of different log levels. And, how we can best consume logs in a way that makes them valuable without being too noisy. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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153: Our Biggest Failures 53:03

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Inspired by a 4-part series on "Failure" produced by the Freakanomics radio podcast , we went around the table and talked about our own failures. This helps to remove the social stigma associated with failure; and, helps other people process internal conflicts of emotion. Tim talks about failing to sell websites in the early dot-com boom; Adam talks about failing to create a ColdFusion package manager; and, Ben talks about the years he lost trying to learn Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .…

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137: The Grug Brained Developer 40:16

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This week on the show, we have Tim—our only host with screen acting experience—read from The Grug Brained Developer , "A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained". This guide uses fun, caveman'esque language to point out the challenges and missteps that we often take in software development. And, how keeping things simple - for easy smol brain consumption - will often lead to better software outcomes. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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136: Words, Do They Matter? 46:52

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Words aren't just the tools that we use to describe the world around us - they are rich layers of abstraction that carry our cultural histories, our education, and our social norms on their shoulders. When we have a shared understanding of a what a word or turn-of-phrase means, our ability to communicate with each other is robust and unparalleled. But, when our differences our great, we end up talking past each other and going around in circles. Words aren't just effective, they're magical. Take, for example, a simple analogy: "It's the movie JAWS, but with cats!" — this will immediately conjure up entire worlds within the mind of the listener. So, do words matter? You bet your donkey they do! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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135: Note To Self v0.3.0 51:49

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On today's episode, we invite you into another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Ben's mind. Ben's sick, twisted cavern of decay and depravity wherein we gain insight into what actually makes this man tick. Topics include the slippery slope of the "Shift Left" mentality; over-complicating life with JWTs (JSON Web Tokens); dangerous public-on-public method invocation; and, the inherent cost of everything . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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134: Ben Goes to a Conference 50:59

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After a multi-year global pandemic, preceded by a dearth of ColdFusion conferences in the U.S., Ben finally made it out to Munich, Germany for CFCamp 2023 - Europe's premier CFML-oriented conference. At 130 attendees, it was the perfect place to re-enter society and talk tech with like-minded engineers. Going into it, Ben was anxious. But, by the end of the 3-day event, he ended up having a great time and was privileged to hang out with some truly wonderful people! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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133: The Final Stretch 50:29

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Starting a new project is always exciting: there's so much potential, so many visions of grandeur. Completing a project , on the other hand, is always a challenge. In the engineering world, we often joke that the last 90% of a project takes just as much time as the first 90% of a project. Inspired by the GitHub Guide: Finish Your Projects , we wanted to talk about why finishing a project is always such a slog; and, how we can keep the momentum moving forward in order to get our projects over the finish-line. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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132: Virtual Reality 55:38

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After watching the release event for Apple's new Vision Pro headset, Tim wants to talk to us about both Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR); and, get our general take on where this all fits into the future of computing. We each have a different level of exposure to this kind of technology. But, certainly none of us is using any type of headset in an ongoing way. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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131: Starting From Scratch 57:32

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After years of wanting to build a fitness tracking application, Ben has finally started to write code for Dig Deep Fitness . But, starting a new project from scratch isn't something that we engineers do very often; and, all of the features that we take for granted - session manage, error logging, rate limiting, email delivery - those foundational aspects all need to be created when we start something new. On today's show, Ben walks us through the pragmatic choices that he's made in order to try and keep progress moving forward even if it comes at the cost of elegance. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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130: Book Club - The Phoenix Project 55:57

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On today's show, we have our first book club discussion about The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by authors Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. We review chapters 3-6 and talk about how Adam's recent compliance work has given him a fresh perspective on the 190-page spreadsheet of vulnerabilities portrayed in the book. It's interesting how a security team can have a deeply collaborative relationship with a company that feels, at least for some, to be purely adversarial. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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129: New Features vs Maintenance 31:14

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When Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) come together to create the first version of a given piece of software, it feels like everyone is on the same page and has the same priorities. But, once that initial implementation ships to users, the Product and Design departments tend to move on, leaving engineers to maintain the software. This creates an uncomfortable tension between the existing user experience (UX) and the underlying technical details. On today's show, we talk about that EPD tension and how we might work to mitigate it. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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128: Potluck #8 1:02:36

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This week on the show, we discuss a variety of web and web-adjacent topics. Adam is feeling dubious about recommending a career in web development to his children (is it still worth it)? Ben legitimately wants to understand why we - the web development community - don't approach Testing with a YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) mindset. And, Tim wants to consider different ways to handle errors in a RESTful API. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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127: How Tech Interviewing is Broken with Sean Corfield 1:05:08

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On today's show, we talk to Sean Corfield about his take on the "Tech Interview" process. With over 40 years of experience at companies like Macromedia, Adobe, and World Singles, Sean has been on both sides of the interview table; and, has been personally responsible for hiring countless engineers. His perspective that most tech interviews are "broken" might be taken with some apprehension if it weren't for the fact that, in 30-years of hiring, Sean has never once had to fire an engineer for lack of ability. So, he's clearly figured out how to hire the right people using a proven and repeatable process . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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126: Documenting Decisions 53:43

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This week on the show, we talk about documentation. And not just the "how" of software, but the "why" - the decisions that we've reached, as a team, regarding the technologies that we use and the architectures that glues everything together. Of course, writing the documentation is only part of the challenge; keeping the documentation up-to-date is a whole other source of friction for most teams. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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125: What's on Your Workbench? #2 1:01:58

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On today's show, the crew discusses a variety of topics. By which, I mean, Ben waxes philosophical on the subjective nature of everything ; and, how he wants to live in a world where those who choose to indent code with 2-spaces may peacefully coexist alongside those who choose to indent code with tabs. Also, Adam body-slams his younger brother into a concrete floor. And then, gets in trouble because he let blood get on the carpet. Be sure to listen for Adam's pro-tips for removing blood stains. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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124: We Are Juniors For Life 47:12

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On today's show, we reflect on the YouTube video, 15 Years of Dev in a Nutshell . A few years ago, people were complaining about "JavaScript Fatigue" - this sense that there was a new JavaScript library or framework coming out every day; and, that the race to stay up-to-date in the industry was simply overwhelming. Now, take that feeling, and expand it to include everything in a web development career, from front-end frameworks to databases to server-side rendering to edge-computing. It's a lot! And, it's easy to feel that we engineers are "Juniors for Life": always learning, always evolving, and — perhaps — never really mastering anything? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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123: Negative 10x Developers 42:37

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In episode 58, we weighed-in on whether or not 10x engineers actually exist . On today's episode, we go hard in the other direction, talking about the much less mythical -10x engineer : those engineers that seem to actively work in opposition to the greater good, holding unnecessary meetings and flooding the team with a massive amount of documentation. This discussion was directly inspired by the post, How to be a -10x engineer . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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122: Coding Hot Takes 51:14

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This week on the show, we talk about stuff we've been working on or thinking about lately. Adam dazzles us with his use of 1Password's Secrets Automation feature to drive key rotation in his production app. Ben misses the beautiful agony of having to support IE11 (and how it make the web more predictable). And, Carol shares her frustration with React and, especially, with JSX. It turns out, not everyone loves JSX or - clutches pearls - the idea of single-file components! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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121: Ben's Testing Tribulations 1:00:53

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Ben was recently tasked with removing an old feature from one of his services. As he did this, he kept breaking tests that were tightly coupled to the rendering of user interface (UI). In his mind, these tests were unnecessarily "brittle" and appeared to be testing the underlying front-end framework more so than the underlying business logic. When he brought this up in the podcast's Discord server , people disagreed. As such, we decided to dig into the topic of "what to test" more closely. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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120: Freelancing with Nolan Erck 1:02:30

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As Carol launches her Freelancing career, we thought it would be valuable to interview Nolan Erck , Owner and Director at South of Shasta. For the past 15-years, Nolan has been a Freelance web developer, a mobile developer, and a polyglot technology trainer. He knows the ins-and-outs of attracting clients, setting up a business, and sub-contracting work in order to keep the coffers flush. If there's anyone who can guide Carol into the pit of success, it will be Nolan. Links discussed on the show: Book : The Business Side of Creativity Video : Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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119: Potluck #7 1:10:05

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On today's show, we all bring something juicy to consider. Carol kicks things off with some trepidation about becoming an independent contractor; Tim shares an article on Technical Debt and digs into the subtle differences between tech debt and bad code ; Ben is befuddled by the fact that "common sense" is apparently wildly subjective; and, Admin introduces us to Bloom Filters . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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118: Things We Should Be Doing But, You Know... Reasons 1:00:04

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As web developers, we're all high-functioning, motivated people. And, we certainly have a good sense of what we should be doing with our time (both personally and professionally). But, theory rarely survives contact with reality. And, on today's show, we talk about all that sweet, sweet stuff we ought to be doing and why we can't quite motivate to get any of it done! Topics including backing up computers; creating reproducible systems; reading educational books; upgrading all the things; learning analytics; and, meeting other hoomans! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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117: Champions of Truth 44:22

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On episode 114 of the show, in effort to balance out the somber tone of Carol's unfortunate layoff, we decided to have a little fun and play Two Truths and a Lie . On today's episode we review the listener submissions and crown the one winner who correctly selected all of our lies. And the prize goes to.... listen to the show ! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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116: The State of Developer Conferences with Brian Rinaldi 59:56

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Brian Rinaldi , Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly and long time friend of the show, recently wrote a blog post that was picked up in the TL;DR newsletter . His post, titled The State of Developer Conferences , shares a theory as to why both online and IRL (In Real Life) conferences are struggling to reach pre-pandemic attendance. Brian, who's been running conferences for 15-years, has a keen understanding of who attends events; and, why the demographics of attendees might be shifting. Conference organizers around the world are reading Brian's post and are nodding in strong agreement. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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115: Self-Care For Developers 1:03:58

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After drinking close to 12 Mountain Dews in a single day, Adam started to wonder if — just maybe — he was using caffeine as a way to self-medicate. Upon discussing this with his doctor, Adam was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder) - a condition very common in the world of programming (a fact that we inspect on the show). In light of these findings, we thought it would be nice to reflect on how we've all changed during the pandemic; and, share the little things that we do in order to keep our wits about us. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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114: Carol Got Laid-Off 57:47

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Amid the frenzy of industry lay-offs, we here at the Working Code podcast were devastated to hear that our very own Carol Weiler has been affected by a down-turning real estate market. A few weeks ago, while attending a virtual All Hands meeting, her Slack account was suddenly locked, momentarily followed by her computer. It turns out that she, along with a majority of her engineers, were part of an unexpected reduction in force (RIF). On today's show, Carol graciously and courageously joins us to talk about her experience, the ensuing emotional roller coaster, and some of the fascinating steps that she's taken to help improve her outcome. We love you Carol! You continue to inspire us - and our listeners - every week! To help lighten the mood of the episode, we close out by playing Two Truths and a Lie . If you can guess who's lying about what, Tim might just send you some free podcast merch! Submit your guesses over on Google Forms . Also, Adam finally finds a ToDo list that he loves ; and - wait for it - it comes from Microsoft! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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113: Surviving A Layoff 57:59

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Lay-offs are trending in the technology world. And, it's not just the scrappy start-ups being hit - goliaths such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have all recently announced large reductions in force (RIF). Getting laid-off can pose a serious financial burden on an individual; but, there's also the psychological burden of self-doubt: Why did this happen to me? Did I deserve this? Will I ever find another tech job? On today's show, we talk about the state of the industry, share tips on becoming more resilient in uncertain time, and talk about what do if and when the pink slip commeth. ASIDE : In this episode, Adam makes a few comments about what it means to take responsibility as a leader ( See comic by Threddy ). And, accidentally misspoke about a few CEOs not taking a pay-cut (which apparently they did). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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112: Listener Questions 53:06

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This week, we reach into our bag of Listener Questions and pontificate on such curiosities as: Who would we want to be and what skills would we want to learn if we could step into an alternate reality? Would Danny DeVito make an intriguing Wolverine? Which are the best programming-related movies and shows? And, we all laugh a little nervously as Tim shares just how much time he's clearly spent figuring out how to get rid of a dead body. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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111: How To Learn Stuff Good 48:14

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Learning something new - whether it be a language, framework, or library - can be challenging. And, if you're already an expert in some ways, it can be both humbling and frustrating to suddenly feel like a novice in other ways. On top of that, our expectations are often distorted by time; and, we forget how long it took us to amass the understanding that we have today. This can lead to unrealistic expectations when it comes to learning something new. Not to mention that our strategies for learning might change in relation to our experience. On today's show, we share our respective approaches to learning from the ground up, including reading the manual, building applications from scratch, and everything in between. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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110: Measuring Impact At Work 50:58

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Not all days are created equal. Some days, you show up and just crush it non-stop. Other days, it can feel challenging to even type good. On today's show, we look at what goes into making those good days "good" and those bad days "bad". Getting into the zone, meetings, switching modes, interfacing with customers, responding to incidents (and other interruptions) - every little thing has the power to push the needle one way or the other. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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109: Best of 2022 1:03:51

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On today's show, Matt Cavender — the man who turns our incoherent babbling into meaningful thought — is gonna share a selection of his favorite clips from the past year (2022). Adam, Ben, Carol, and Tim are taking the week off to recover from our families and work off some of those food babies. But, fear not dear listeners, the team will be back next week to ring in 2023 - Working Code style. Here's hoping y'all had a lovely holiday and a happy new year! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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108: 2022 Year In Review 1:13:42

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Happy New Year! We did it! We survived 2022! This has been a rather hard year in many ways and a decent year in some ways. On this episode, the crew reflects on the past year in terms of fitness, technology, personal growth, and reading goals; and, celebrates some wins and laments some losses. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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107: Through The Wormhole 56:27

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Happy Festivus , dear listeners! Welcome to our last show of 2022! Closing out "No Effort December", we truly run the gamut this time: Ben talks about the crippling attachment he has to his own fingers (and why he won't work with wood); Adam talks about how excited he is for the v1.0 release of Svelte Kit ; and, Tim reflects on the blinding speed with which people seem to be to making science and technology breakthroughs - I mean, we're talking some serious Sci-Fi-level stuff here! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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106: A Cascading Cataclysmic Christmas 1:02:46

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This week, we continue to lean into "No Effort December", talking about a hodgepodge of both tech and non-tech topics. Since we're heading into Christmas, we start off talking about how challenging it is to buy gifts, especially for the grown-ass adults in our lives. We also share some of our favorite Christmas movies; and, the movies which have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, but which we love to watch in the winter anyway. We also dig into some modern CSS advances; including our fear that CSS selectors will quickly become more like Regular Expressions: fun to write but impossible to read! Links discussed in this episode: Super Useful CSS Resources Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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105: No Effort December 50:45

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Welcome to the start of No Effort December ! That's the time of the year in which we gather 'round the mics and talk about whatever the heck comes to mind. We just passed two years on the Working Code podcast, it's the holidays, we've been peopling super hard with our families, and we all need a little jolly relaxation. On today's show, Carol wonders if she can use Hackathons as a means to "improve community outreach" - one of her team's new OKR (Objectives and Key Results). And, Ben discusses the difference between deploying on Friday vs. deploying during the holiday (and why these are not the same thing). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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104: Alexa Make A Podcast About AI 37:57

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Tim recently read that, "1 in 10 AI (Artificial Intelligence) engineers think that AI will be the downfall of our civilization." But, it's not all doom-and-gloom; he's also been reading about some exciting advances in AI and Machine Learning (ML) such as Amazon Alexa being able to come up with novel bedtime stories for kids, Cosplay stars trying out new outfits using personalized "generative art", and complex software modules being created from simple prompts. It seems that AI/ML is advancing at a breakneck speed, leveraging a rich Venture Capital (VC) space driven by a "move fast and break things" mentality. This can be really effective at creating change; but, we're also seeing lots of AI models becoming so big and so complex that no one really understand how they work. Which is problematic when such models take on the inherently biased tendencies of their creators and moderators. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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103: Birdsite Go Boom 40:47

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Back in April, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 Billion. He then spent months talking about how terrible Twitter was before finally taking control in October. Everyone knew it was going to be a landmark moment; but, no one quite knew how things were going to play out. With mass lay-offs, a voluntary exodus of talent, threats of "extreme" work hours, and a series of fraudulent accounts that created a swing in the stock market, it's safe to say that it's been a poop show . It's also pulled-back the curtain, revealing Elon Musk to be more "toxic boss" and less "technology genius". Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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102: Upgrading MySQL For Poop Emojis 1:10:12

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Migrating data is always complicated. And, the more data that you have to migrate, the more complex your migration process becomes. This week on the show, Adam shares the lessons that he learned while performing a large, multi-client, multi-cluster, week-long database migration for AlumnIQ . This included moving roughly a dozen different databases from Amazon Aurora (MySQL 5) to Aurora 8. Late nights, indexes, and UTF-8 character encodings, oh my! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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101: Error - Error Message Not Helpful! 47:36

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Web application developers are notoriously bad about building resilient applications. All too often, we implement the "happy path" and then forget (or simply ignore) that many things can go wrong for any number of reasons. However, even if we do account for the "sad path", and we do catch and handle errors, it's not always clear how those errors should be presented to the user. Luckily, Tim has some very practical guidance on the matter that he shares with us on this week's show: Error messages sent to the end user need to have an appropriate tone, be free of tech jargon and shouldn't pass the blame. They say what happened and why, provide reassurance, be empathetic, tell them how to fix it (if possible) and give them a course for remediation (customer service, support ticket). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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100: The Spicetacular! 1:21:33

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View the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhX08w4yRI It's hard to believe that we made it to episode 100 ! When we, four, started out on this journey almost two years ago, we were convinced that we'd either get sick of each other or quickly run out of topics to discuss. But, here we are, still loving it and having a great time. And, to celebrate this milestone in the most masochistic way possible , we've decided to ignite our guts and destroy our butts with a Hot Ones -inspired Spicetacular! Come for the AMA (Ask Me Anything) and stay for the schadenfreude ! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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099: Technical Debt Isn’t Always A Choice. Or Is It? 58:41

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week, we're super excited to be getting the band back together! After several weeks of personal and professional obligations, Adam, Ben, Carol, and Tim are all back at it again. And today, we're talking about Technical debt . When engineers talk about technical debt in public, they often try to use financial metaphors; such as taking out a loan in order to buy a house. These financial metaphors romanticize the notion of technical debt, elevating it into the realm of calculated decision making . But, if we're being honest without ourselves, is any kind of calculation really taking place? Or, are we just trying to do the best that we can with the knowledge and experience that we have? In other words, isn't most technical debt really just the result of engineers writing janky code at the limit of our capabilities? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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098: In Defense Of Working On The Legacy Platform 48:19

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible If you've listened to the Working Code podcast for any period of time, you've no doubt heard Ben mention the fact that he works on maintaining a legacy platform at InVision . His role on the legacy team was originally focused on security, stability, and bug-related fixed. However, over the years, he's become increasingly aggressive about adding features and actively improving the legacy experience. This has caused no shortage of controversy both internally to the company, and more broadly within the Working Code community . In this episode, Adam plays Devil's advocate and gets Ben to justify a mode over operation that seems to be - at times - in opposition to his company's larger goals. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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097: Expectations Of Professional Software Engineers 1:19:03

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew reviews Mike Acton's talk, "Everyone Watching This Is Fired" , by way of Adam Johnson's article, Expectations of Professional Software Engineers . This talk outlines 50 characteristics - both technical and non-technical - that go into making you and your team fit for building products and dealing with customers. Some of these line-items makes us feel seen while others leave us feeling attacked. Listen to find out which ones are which! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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096: Why Do You Write? 58:43

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible A year ago, on Episode 36, we talked about blogs and digital gardens . Today, Adam and Ben, our resident authors, dive deeper into how they got started writing, what keeps them writing today, and how the act of - and the engagement with - writing has changed over the years. The advent of Social Media, along with the doubling of new programmers every 5-years, has certainly created a contentious relationship with long-form content. And, is at times, antithetical to our hope of bringing readers along for the journey. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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095: Potluck #6 - Unpopular Opinions Edition 1:02:32

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, we tip our hats to the Go Time podcast and have ourselves an Unpopular Opinion potluck. This means sharing ideas for which we feel strongly; but, which may not be so popular in the broader programming community. Topics include password rotation policies (which are dumb), relational databases (which are stupendous), the technical ability of an executive leadership team (which is important), the user experience (UX) of forms (which is often over-thought), automated deployments (which should be based on tags), and code duplication (which can certainly be the right approach). Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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094: Disagree And Commit 52:18

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible People don't burn out because they have too much work to do, they burn out because they feel powerless. And, for Ben, feeling powerless correlates strongly with doing work that he doesn't believe in. Which is why he's never understood the notion of, "Disagree and commit". After all, in order to quell the feelings of dissent, he has to numb a fundamental part of who he is; and, he's convinced that such a technique can't be good for the overall creative process. To quote Elie Wiesel: The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. So what is the opposite of disagreement? Is it agreement ? Or, is it indifference ? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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093: Sounds Easy! Sure Isn't 50:57

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible On Adam's team, whenever anyone uses the phrase "just" to describe a level-of-effort, everyone jumps in and echoes "just" using air-quotes. Because, as many of us have learned over the years, nothing is ever as simple as it seems, especially in the world of web development. On this week's show, we talk about some of those tasks that end up being way more complicated than they should have been . Topics include: vertically aligning content, using JavaScript in 2022, logging data with sufficient context, tracking who made changes to a database, and storing notification flags for users that may never come back to your application . Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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092: The Power of No 52:24

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew talks about the Power of No. For many of us, saying "No" is usually a challenge. Saying "Yes", on the other hand, is usually the path of lease resistance. Saying "Yes" also feels good. In fact, saying "Yes" has so much appeal that we often rush into saying "Yes" to work before we even understand what that work entails or how urgent that work actually is. And, in many cases, that eager "Yes" ends up leading to a future failure. Which is why getting to "No" - or "No, But" - can help us maintain both our sanity and our professional relationships. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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091: Side Project Therapy 51:40

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible On last week's show, we talked about "Side Hustles" - those extracurricular activities that we do in order to earn a little extra income. On this week's show, we want to talk about the flip-side to that coin: the coding that we do on the side because we freakin' love coding ! Carol celebrates the WordPress site that she's built and now maintains for her son's band, including the ability to accept payments and donations. And, Ben talks about trying to build a feature flag system using Lucee CFML and Angular. He also confesses that his blog has historically had a negative impact on his resolution to do more exploratory work. We also get to argue a bit about just how sexy TypeScript actually is. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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090: Passion Projects and Beer Money - Side Hustles 1:04:09

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew talks about side hustles: the very American desire to be making money on the side. While many people in this world need side hustles in order to make ends meet, those in our industry (technology) often incur side hustles as a voluntary affliction. Of course, there's a fixed number of hours in each day; so, you're either earning passive income; or, your taking time away from your other interests (and commitments). This isn't always healthy. Nor should it be seen as a rite of passage - we on the show have a lot of respect for people that are simply content and can live their lives without grinding themselves down to a nub. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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089: What Makes a Good Roadmap? 1:01:42

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Like Michelangelo with a block of marble, we engineers often like to dive right into the code and let the application reveal itself to us . And while this may work on a very small scale, this extreme bias-towards-action isn't prudent for larger teams or companies with a growing client-base. Mature companies have roadmaps. They weigh the benefits of building one feature against the opportunity cost of not building another feature. Mature companies get buy-in both internally and externally. They then evolve their vision based on that feedback when it make sense; or, they apply grit when it is required. Or, at least that's the hope. Because, in reality, building a roadmap isn't easy. There are so many competing interests and such a limited amount of time. And then, there are Black Swan events like Covid-19, that force us all to stop and completely re-evaluate everything . This week on the show, the crew talks about what goes into a good roadmap; how we can avoid certain pitfalls; and, we question how far into the future a company should be looking on their roadmap. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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088: //todo: documentation 58:44

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew talks about documentation. Yay! As developers, there's no doubt that we all love consuming great documentation - especially for APIs. But, nary a one of us enjoys the process of creating documentation. Except maybe Adam, who's oddly passionate about communication. For the rest of us, however, documenting our choices and our subsequent outcomes feels a bit of a slog. It's never clear when we should be writing documentation; it's never clear what we should be documenting; and, it's never clear just how much detail we need to include. Sometimes, ironically, it seems that the more thoroughly we document a topic, the more likely it is to be misunderstood. So, that's awesome! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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087: Note To Self v0.2.0 53:01

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible On today's episode, we get to pull up the floor boards and once again peer into the dark recesses of Ben's brain: all the random and, frankly, sometimes incoherent chit-cat that Ben has with himself. Listen to him call B.S. on flaky tests; shake his first at overly-specific CSS selectors; preen about GulpJS build scripts; pontificate on the ROI (return on investment) of personal growth; and, theorize that building - not buying - can sometimes be the smarter (and less bureaucratic) move to make. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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086: The Working Code Test 1:20:29

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Twenty-two years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote an article titled, The Joel Test , which outlines 12-steps for evaluating the quality of a software team. At the time, Joel was working with Microsoft, building products that were delivered on CD-ROM. As such, his day-to-day workflow was somewhat different than the kind of work many of us are used to doing today. That said, much of what he had in his 12-point litmus test still holds true! Which I believe is a testament to how fundamental his insights were. This week on the show, the crew reviews Joel's list, gives each item our personal Yay or Nay , and then adds a few requirements of our own. Also, if you want a quick run-down of what we discussed, Adam summarized much of what we talked about in The Working Code Test over on his blog. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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085: Shipping Complexity 1:00:52

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible The less code you write, the easier it is for people to review, the less likely it is to contain bugs, and the more likely it is to merge cleanly into your main integration branch. The converse of this tends to also be true: the more code you write - particularly within a long-lived feature branch - the harder it is to review and the more likely it is to contain bugs that cause production issues. We all basically hold this to be true; however, that doesn't mean that we can simply choose to do the former . Shipping less complexity is a byproduct of both team and technology constraints. This week on the show, the crew talks about how they try to reduce the complexity of their code shipping process. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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084: The Architectural Support Team with Jason Henriksen 48:56

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, we interview Jason Henriksen who works alongside Carol as a Software Architect at Clear Capital. According to Jason, every engineer does some degree of architecture , whether they know it or not. In fact, there's a lot of overlap between what Jason does and what your average web developer does. Which is why he calls his team the "Architecture Support" team. Their goal isn't to hand down edicts and pass out proclamations. Instead, Jason's goal is to build bridges between teams, help identify common pain points, propagate best practices, and lovingly guide the company in the right technical direction. Also, special thanks to Tim for only asking great questions ! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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083: Alternate Timelines 39:46

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible We all love writing code. Honestly, here on the show, it's hard for us to imagine doing anything other than building beautiful digital products for our beloved customers. But, as a thought experiment - in these post-pandemic times - the crew wanted to share some of the other professions that could have been . From ice cream truck driver to organic chef to movie theater entrepreneur, we dive into the untapped world of alternate realities. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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082: GitHub Copilot - Is It Worth It? 54:37

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew talks about GitHub Copilot . After being in private beta for several months, this "AI pair programmer" is now generally available as a paid product for $10/month or $100/year. But is this something people want to pay for? Will a price put the kibosh on grassroots adoption? Are there pros-and-cons to different pricing models? And, is there ever going to be a world in which Ben can get past his own fanatical formatting tendencies? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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081: Total Randos 47:07

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew shares some of the random stuff that they've been dealing with at work. Carol is about to submit a PR (Pull Request) that accounts for 8-weeks worth of commits; and, she's already warning her engineers that it's gonna be beefy! Ben wonders if he's been fooling himself into his love of Lucee CFML's "Tag Islands"; or, if there's something fundamentally more enjoyable about the developer ergonomics of the CFQuery tag. And, Tim's been working on remaining PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant by scrubbing credit card numbers out of his customer's "name" fields ; because, as it turns out, customers will jam a credit card number in just about any form field that they find! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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080: Other Duties As Assigned 48:19

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible In each role, there are the responsibilities that get listed on the job board; and then, there's all the random stuff that they ask you do to once you show up. On today's show, the crew discusses the latter: those strange and wondrous "extras" that sometimes get rolled-up into an honest day's work. Topics include: buying nipple cream, picking up cigarette butts, cleaning bathrooms, taking out trash, driving to remote server locations, restocking photocopiers, and - perhaps worst of all - getting pushed into Sales. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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079: Potluck #5 59:47

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, Adam and Ben examine a variety of random topics: Adam loves watching conference videos on YouTube; Ben is feeling terribly insecure about falling behind in the field of web development; neither of us can believe that Elon Musk is forcing his employees back into the office; and, how is it possible that some people seem have so much free time - what the heck is their secret?! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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078: UX - Pushing Users Into The Pit of Success 59:29

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, Adam and Ben talk about the "unhappy paths" in software design. An unhappy path - also known as a "sad path" - is anything that can go wrong during the consumption of a product. Some unhappy paths are nothing more than unanticipated edge-cases in the code while other unhappy paths are caused by poorly designed user interfaces (UI) that lack necessary constraints and affordances. But of course, it doesn't much matter why something is breaking, if our customers are unhappy, it is our job to fix it. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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077: Mid-Manager Blues 44:06

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week, on the show, we check-in with Carol to see how she's adjusting to her new role. Carol was recently promoted to a position in which she is a Manager some of the time and an individual contributor (IC) the rest of the time. This setup has a lot of advantages; but, it is not without its challenges. Just last week, she was deep in the coding zone, on the cusp of solving a hard problem, when she had to stop what she was doing and jump into a meeting. This left her with a residue of resentment (in the moment), especially when the first few minutes of the meeting were nothing more than water cooler banter. To be clear, Carol absolutely loves what she is doing; and, she loves being a force-multiplier for her company; but, she's still in the process of finding a comfortable equilibrium. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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076: Ben Needs A Minute 57:39

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible If Ben crushes it in the woods, and no one is there to see it, is he truly crushing it? Such are the philosophical questions that go through Ben's brain as he continues to pour his heart and soul into a legacy product that no one else at the company cares about. That is, except for the customers that still log into the legacy platform on a daily basis. Don't those customers deserve something? Ultimately, Ben just wants to hear that he's doing a good job. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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075: What Problem Does This Solve? 49:27

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Carol - who has recently stepped into a managerial role - is facing an interesting situation: her company wants to start implementing process changes across the board. However, Carol's own team is kicking ass and taking names ; and, she can't understand how any of the proposed changes will actually make her team more effective. In fact, she believes that some of the changes will be counterproductive for her team. So, the question becomes: how does she push-back against the proposed changes without looking like an antagonist or a contrarian? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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074: What's On Your Workbench? 58:19

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew talks about what they've been working on recently. Adam is exploring the use of AWS (Amazon Web Services) message queues and S3 in order to manage nightly data processing in a way that won't crush his application servers. Tim has been approved to use the national "Do Not Call" list and is now working to integrate this list into his communications workflow. Ben is dealing with post-deployment depression, which is often what happens when he's at the end of his R.O.P.E. And, Carol is de-scoping a massive project down into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that can be shipped within a single sprint in order to demonstrate the value-add of the concept! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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073: Our Golden Parachute 37:02

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible In the 20+ years of Ben's career, he can't remember ever seeing a person in a leadership position get fired. He's seen plenty of people leave a company to "explore other opportunities", typically accompanied by much praise and congratulations. He assumes that at least some of these people were actually fired ; but, were allowed to depart under friendly terms. He poses this question to the crew: assuming that his assumption is valid, is suppressing this information healthy for the company (perhaps an effort to keep morale high)? Or, is it a form of gaslighting that creates confusion and dissent within the organization? Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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072: Too Many Hats 57:30

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew discusses a topic submitted by Mingo Hagen : Do developers wear too many hats, do they spread themselves too thin, and does the work suffer because of it? There are clears benefits and drawbacks to wearing a lot of hats. Knowing a little bit about a lot of things can cut down on communication overhead and enable teams to move faster. But, without specialization, solutions will almost certainly be sub-optimal; and, "best practices" may not even be known to the engineer. Ideally, a team should consistent of both generalists and subject-matter experts . This kind of balance creates a "healthy tension" that tempers perfectionism with pragmatism and keeps everyone moving forward at the right pace. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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071: Potluck #4 1:00:10

לפני 3 years1:00:10

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew discusses a potluck of tasty topics. Ben is trying to figure out what project he wants to use as his vehicle for learning Docker and container-based deployments. Adam wants to completely overhaul his data synchronization workflow, but is having a lot of trouble getting excited about the work (despite all of the exciting ingredients). Carol is being worn-down by the analysis phase of a project and just wants to start doing the work and accruing some wins for her team! And, Tim just can't wrap his head around Functional Programming (FP) - I mean, how the heck can you possibly program anything without IF -statements?! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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070: Self Reflections 43:59

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew looks back on the first 70 episodes of Working Code and reflects on what's working, what's not working, and what we'd like to see in the future. I think we all agree that we've made it a lot farther than we thought we would. And, thanks to Matt at Z-Cross Media , we always end up sounding totes profesh' on tape even when we sounded like bunch of monkeys in the recording studio. We've also been super thrilled to see our Discord community become such a lively and diverse forum, even if half of it is just people mocking Ben for not having any tests. We're all excited to see how the show evolves; and, we hope you come on this adventure with us! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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069: Now I'm Catching Events 38:27

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week, Carol talks to us about how her Support team manages communication with their customers. And, how she'd love to find an easy way for one Support engineer to know that another Support engineer is currently working on a given ticket. She's been exploring the use of WebSockets and "presence channels" as a means to provide feedback within the Support platform. And, more generally, she's been looking into the concept of Publish and Subscribe (often referred to as Pub/Sub) as a means to push information from one service to another. We talk a lot about Pusher - a fully-managed WebSocket SaaS offering; and, consider other techniques that might be helpful. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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068: Hire Women, Inspire Women 1:00:19

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, Carol leads a discussion about communication styles, recruiting, and the power of seeing female role models at all levels of an organization. From the onset of her career, Carol has both been witness to and been taxed by a general lack of female leadership in the engineering world. From the college advisor who steered Carol away from computer science to the boss that sent her pictures of his genitalia, the last 12-years have made it abundantly clear to Carol just how important it is to hire women and cultivate a diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds. And, this isn't only for the sake of women - it's also a way to drive more successful outcomes for companies and the products that they build. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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067: We Have Feelings On Logging 38:41

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Under the right circumstances, application and error logs can be magical. They can shed light on how a system is behaving - or misbehaving; and, they can provide a path forward in an emergency situation. But, logs do come at a cost. Not only is there an actual dollars-and-cents cost to aggregating and storing logs, having too many logs can end-up reducing the signal-to-noise ratio which can make it harder to debug a running application. This week on the show, the crew talks about different categories of logging, why some logging is required for regulatory purposes, how you can replace certain logs with telemetry and metrics, and why you should absolutely never ever email yourself errors... except for when you should; because it's easy; and because we never learn from our mistakes. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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066: Make Meetings Suck Less 46:58

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible For many of us, meetings feel like a necessary evil. We love to complain that we have too many meetings; and, that most of them are useless. However, forgoing meetings and attempting to solve problems and reach consensus asynchronously can feel like even more of a drain on our time and effort. We all have some degree of meeting PTSD. But, none of us is really sure what to do about it. This week on the show, the crew talks about their love-hate relationship with meetings. And, demonstrates that we're all a little different when it comes to right-sizing our meeting agendas. Carol, with her team of 20, burns through her standup in under 30-minutes. Ben, with his team of 3, spends the first 20-minutes of each stand-up just talking about movies. And, both of them are happy with their stand-up experience. That's part of the problem - there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to good meetings. That said, we do all agree on a few things: silence can be golden; it's OK (but hard) to leave irrelevant meeting; and, no meeting attendee should ever have to prepare for a meeting a head of time - don't be giving people homework ! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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065: TDD In the Trenches with Scott Stroz 41:46

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Testing code is like taking out insurance: until you need it, it can be hard to understand why it's so important; it can be hard to understand what everyone is raving about. And so, you continue writing your code without tests. And, everything is fine, until one day it isn't. And in that moment, you finally see for yourself what value automated testing could have brought to the table. On today's show, the crew talks to Scott Stroz about his experience with Test Driven Development (TDD); and, about how he has come to understand that testing makes possible what would have otherwise been impossible. With solid testing practices in place, Scott was able to refactor an exceedingly convoluted intake form that rendered 25 buttons, 6 unique workflows, and took the user through up to 28 steps. Crunch those numbers and try telling me that the chance of making a mistake isn't absolute. And yet, thanks to a rigorous test-first coding methodology, Scott was able to completely refactor this workflow - from the ground-up - and delivery it on-time and without error! Notes & Links Sandi Metz: RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things Sandi Metz: No Private Methods Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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064: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? 40:09

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Gone is the era of the life-long employee. It's hard to even imagine rising up through the ranks, grinding out the decades, and then retiring - with a pension - all at a single company. Companies don't see their people that way anymore - a perspective that is, no doubt, shared in both directions. But, if you're not going to plant your flag and hunker down for the long-haul, how long should you stay at your job? This week on the show, the crew talks about the pros-and-cons of various employment tenures. Sure, you might get paid more by moving to a new job. But, is money everything? What about the relationships you build and the opportunity you have to really go deep on a given set of technologies? Of course, staying in one place too long may lead to stagnation in your skills and your ambition. If you say at one place for a decade, is that a decade of growth? Or, is that the same menial tasks executed year after year ad nauseam? There's no correct path. And, there's no reason that your personal journey has to be uniform. Sometimes, as Adam points out, it can be quite beneficial to have a few shorter jobs before settling in for a longer stint. Just about the only thing we all agree on is that you shouldn't hop from job to job to job. At some point, you have to demonstrate some grit. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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063: Nobody Makes It Out Alive! 33:19

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Van Wilder reminds us to enjoy the moment, warning us "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never make it out alive." And while this is a jocular take on our own mortality, the truth is such that the total cost of death isn't levied against the dead, it's wrought upon the living - the ones left behind. To ease their transition in the wake of loss, we can prepare for own departure; and, provide a plan for our own digital landscape and social networks. This week, inspired in part by a post-mortem checklist created by Chrissy LeMaire , the crew shares their thoughts and experiences with death. And what steps they've taken— or not yet taken —to ease the terrible, yet inevitable, burden on our loved ones. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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062: Note To Self 1:08:17

לפני 4 years1:08:17

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible This week on the show, the crew peers into the deep, dark recesses of Ben's mind and tries to understand what exactly makes him tick. Composed of equal parts rant and dialogue, the topics range from throwing errors on delete operations, handling bulk operations idempotently, feeling guilty about using backup cameras, keeping large task backlogs, reprioritizing tasks on-the-fly, transpiling JavaScript to ES5 for legacy browsers, the benefits and drawbacks of a robust QA (Quality Assurance) phase, and the cargo culting of let and const in the greater JavaScript community. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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061: Software Is For People 51:10

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Many companies are seeded from the same basic concept: customers have a problem to be solved and the people on the Product team know how to solve it. This customer-centric approach is what gives a product much-needed early traction, helps build a loyal community, and lets customer-and-company alike feel as though they're moving in the same direction. As a company matures, however, the distance between the Customers and the Product team can begin to grow: it's no longer engineers jumping on Zoom calls with customers, it's a Support Team translating issues into a ticketing system which the engineers will then consume weeks later in an adjacent vacuum. This gap - this layer of abstraction - can create a breakdown in customer empathy and can quickly lead Product teams astray. This week on the show, the crew talks about their own experience dealing with customers. And, how hard it can be to manage expectations in either direction, whether it be the little customer with the "high urgency" tickets; or, the lone engineer who's super excited to build a custom feature even if it's not on the roadmap. None of it is easy; and, the less communication we have with our customers, the harder it seems to become. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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060: Technical Debt 1:00:11

לפני 4 years1:00:11

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Every software application has "technical debt". Some of that debt is acquired through meaningful consideration: short-term value gained in lieu of longer-term ease-of-maintenance. And, some of that debt is obtained incidentally through a lack of experience and a dearth of business knowledge. This week, the crew discusses technical debt in their web applications. And goes so far as to say that taking on technical debt is a necessary negotiation within every successful product development life-cycle. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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059: Everything Old Is New Again 54:45

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible It's easy to be flippant about how often our industry seemingly "discovers" the programming practices and paradigms that experienced engineers have been talking about for decades . But, the truth is more complicated and nuanced. The landscape of the web is evolving at a breakneck speed; processing power and storage capacity are going up while costs are coming down; and, the needs of different applications are beginning to diverge massively. As an industry, we're not "rediscovering" , we're "Yes, and'ing" . We're constantly learning up on timeless techniques and then trying to apply them to the new constraints and pressures of the modern web. Some of these experiments are going to seem familiar; but, each step in this journey is an attempt to answer a new question or speak to a new problem. Everything old is new again because the context is always changing and is in need of new consideration. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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058: Do 10x Developers Exist? 53:27

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Sponsors Audible - get a free audiobook from Audible with no strings attached at https://workingcode.dev/audible Sometimes, people on the internet are wrong. And this week, that person is Tim, who said something inaccurate about the .net (dotnet) framework. Thankfully, our de facto .net ambassador, Nathan Strutz , sent us a recording that shed light on the current state of .net, its open source architecture, its ability to run on many platforms, and its sweet, sweet modern features. Thank you so much Nathan for keeping us honest! And, keep those recordings coming! For our main topic, we discuss the concept of the "10x Developer". This notion has its roots in bona fide research; however, much of the nuance has been lost in translation. When many people talk about the 10x Developer, what they imply is that there are great developers that are 10-times more productive than the average developer . This is where the reality parts way from the research. What the research found is that, in software engineering, the best engineers are 10-times more productive than the worst engineers . Which is, perhaps, a much more palatable and relatable comparison. Of course, few developers work in a vacuum. And, when you're part of a team that is part of a company that is driven by a given culture, there's so much more to being productive than one's ability to jam out code. If you're not working in an environment that actively caters to and encourages agile practices, no amount of coding velocity can escape the gravity of inaction . Also, is TJ Holowaychuk even a real person? Or, is he an artificial persona concocted by a consortium of elite programmers who were keen to show the world what a 10x Developer might look like? We may never know! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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057: Goals for 2022 54:40

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New Year's Resolutions may be considered a bit cliche by some; and even a bit silly by others; but, there's always value in any opportunity to pause and take stock of your own situation. On this week's show, we share both our tech and our non-tech goals for the new year. As it happens, we all want to be in better shape - shocking , I know. But, when it comes to technology - and tech-adjacent interests - we all have different areas in which we wish to increase our proficiency: build systems, continuous integration, photo editing, TypeScript, mentoring, and product management, just to name a few. Unfortunately, Tim couldn't be with us on this episode because he and his whole family came down with the Flu! But - spoiler alert - by the time this episode is published, he'll already be back to his wonderful, normal self. And, we sure can't wait to get the band back together! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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056: Best of 2021 1:08:07

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With a year of Working Code episodes behind us, our podcast has come a long way. But, we're still trying to figure things out: we are continuing to play with the show format, we are each growing into our own voice, and hopefully we're putting together some content that adds a little something, something to the boarder web-development conversation. If, in our ramblings, we ever sound like we know what we're talking about, it's due in large part to the skillful audio editing and engineering provided by Matt Cavender and ZCross Media . Each week, Matt manages to magically cut and splice our pontifications into meaningful, coherent thought. Working with Matt has been a true pleasure - one that we can only afford because of our very generous Patreons ! As a year-end wrap-up, Matt offered to gather up some of his favorite clips from the show and put together a retrospective on the last 30 episodes. Thank you Matt! And, thank you to all of our listeners! Let's make 2022 a fantastic year! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, record an audio message on your phone or computer and email it to workingcodepod@gmail.com . And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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055: Sales Fails 50:25

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When you consider the hourly-rate of everyone in the room, meetings can be shockingly expensive. And, if it's a sales meeting, both actual and opportunity costs are on the line. Which is why we practice our sales pitches and offer up a sacrifice to the Demo Gods. But sometimes, that's not enough. On today's show, Tim and Adam share their sad tales of sales fails ; and illustrate why it's so important to go into any meeting with a rock-solid plan-of-attack. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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054: We're So Quacked 41:40

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At 3:30 AM the day before Thanksgiving, Ben received an emergency page about a failing API end-point. Rushing to his desk, groggy-eyed and in various states of undress, he jumped into the #incident channel on Slack to see what was happening. What unfolded over the next 30-hours was the manifestation of Ben's worst nightmare. The moment he had been dreading for the last 4-years had finally come to pass: two of his database columns had run out of storage space ! Using feature flags, emergency hot-fixes, shadow tables, and a database migration being performed over a transient and unstable terminal session, he and his team somehow made it through to the other side just in time to enjoy Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie! "Hug your data engineers - they are amazing people!" — Ben Nadel Notes & Links Liquibase Percona Tooklit MySQL's Information Schema Datadog CFSearching: CFQueryparam Matrix for MySQL 5 Ben Nadel: CAUTION: Silent Value Truncation In CFQueryParam Tag In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47 Ben Nadel: Recording Datadog / StatsD Gauges For Database Key Utilization Ben Nadel: Inspecting Primary And Secondary Index Key Utilization For MySQL Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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053: Product Management with Adam Lehman 39:18

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On this week's show, Tim interviews Adam Lehman , the Director of Product for Marketplace Core at Spotify . Of course, many friends-of-the-show will know Adam more intimately as the former Director of Product and Engineering at Adobe where he helped drive the Adobe ColdFusion product and community forward. Or, as Tim puts it, where Adam "lead by throwing grenades" . Like most Product Managers (PMs), Adam never quite envisioned himself as a PM. He started out as an engineer who ended-up falling backwards into the PM role when he maxed-out his ability to exert change as an individual contributor (IC). Adam believes that engineers ultimately make the best Product Managers because of their ability to bring a holistic set of skills to the table. Which is why he's always on the look-out for engineers that gravitate towards a management mindset. Notes & Links Brackets IDE Spotify is hiring Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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052: Starting Your Own Business, with Steve Rittler 1:15:01

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On this week's show, Adam interviews his long-time friend and boss Steve Rittler , founder and CEO of AlumnIQ . Once a software engineer himself, Steve discusses his journey from individual contributor (IC) to business leader; and, how he sees his role as the boss from both a practical and a philosophical standpoint. For Steve, it's always been about changing the world using whichever tools he had at his disposal. And, when those tools were no longer effective, that's when he started to grow a team, a business, and a collection of trusted advisors - so that he could continue to take on and solve larger, more complex problems. "What starts us as software developers in the first place is wanting to fix the world with whatever lever we have that we can put our hands on." — Steve Rittler Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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051: You Are Replaceable 36:30

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Engineers like to believe that they are non-fungible. That is, that they are not replaceable - that they are special and bring a unique set of skills and perspectives to the table. And, for some engineers at early-stage companies, this may be true. However, as companies grow and evolve and become more sophisticated, the cold truth sets in: we are all replaceable. Even Apple - at this point in its trajectory - continues to innovate without the iconic Steve Jobs. This week on the show, the crew talks about their own relationship to the notion of being replaced. On one hand, it can be very humbling. But, on the other hand, it can be very freeing, allowing us to do crazy things like "take vacation" and not have to deal with every single emergency that crops up at work. Notes & Links The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data Soft Skills Engineering Podcast Amy Hoy Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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050: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years? 52:48

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This week on the show, the crew talks about where they each see themselves in 5 years. This is not an easy thought-experiment, especially in a technology landscape that changes so rapidly. Are we getting better at the things we do today? Or, are we changing our focus, our role, and maybe even our job? Do our personality traits of introversion and extroversion influence our career trajectory? Or, can we learn to lean into and enjoy any type of position? Should we be following our "passions"? Or, should we be focusing on our natural abilities and affinities? Is it even worth thinking this far into the future? Or, should we just concentrate on making the next few weeks as effective as possible? All of us (hosts) love what we do today. But, we each have different perspectives, passions, and insecurities that affect how we look forward into the future. Notes & Links Adam Tuttle: Challenge Breeds Stability Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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049: Revisiting Replatforming - There Is No Correct Answer 49:30

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One of our fans on Patreon is about to embark on a large "replatforming" endeavor. His team has decided to move away from their "traditionally coded" application (think hard to maintain, big ball of mud); and, will soon rebuild the server-side aspect of their application using a new language. The team isn't yet sure what language they'll use (this is how the topic came up in Discord ); but, they know that they want a statically typed language with a strong separation of concerns in the MVC (Model, View, Controller) layers. In episode 25, we talked about breaking up with your tech-stack . But, this discussion of replatforming has rekindled our interest in the topic. On today's show, we talk about the choices that we'd personally make if we had to rebuild our application using a new language. Based on historical trends, it feels like a gamble no matter what you do. As such, we also talk about how we might go about validating some of our choices. Notes & Links Rich Hickey: Simple-Made-Easy Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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048: // TODO: Microwave ToDo List 56:17

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Surgeons and pilots have known for years that checklists literally save lives . And, while programming is rarely a life-and-death stakes situation, the humble ToDo list continues to serve as a powerful tool in the developer toolbox. This week on the show, the crew talks about how they manage their ToDo lists using comments, software applications, and physical notebooks. And, while we each have our preferred methods of organization, it's clear that even in a predominantly digital world, there is something deeply satisfying about using pen-and-paper in our respective workflows. "Let chaos reign; and then rein in the chaos." — Rich Armstrong Note: We feel obliged to mention that NONE of the products mentioned in this episode in any way compensated us for discussing them. We mention products that we like only because we like them. Notes & Links RocketBook notebooks Field Notes notebooks ToDo Tree VSCode plug-in Better Comments VSCode plug-in Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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047: Email Ruins Everything 56:01

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With an increasing amount of work being performed within a distributed or hybrid team model, there's a push to move more and more communication into an asynchronous workflow. Whether through email or collaborative document editing, there's a growing perception that collaboration becomes more efficient when each person can participate in their own time. But, is this really true? Or, are we fooling ourselves into thinking that the cost of "homework", "email fatigue", and extended delivery timelines are outweighed by one's ability to go "heads down" at work? This week on the show, the crew talks about different communication styles, Inbox zero, email as a delivery mechanism, and the not-so-surprising surprising way that Zoom calls can supercharge our ability to get stuff done! Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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046: Secrets Management vs. Premature Optimization 44:14

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When two systems have to communicate with each other, the security of transmitted messages is typically enforced through the use of shared secrets. Whether with encryption or one-way hashing, the receiving system can use a shared secret to verify that a producer's message has not been tampered with or spoofed. Rotating these shared secrets can be complicated; and, may even have to take place over an extended period of time depending on what's considered to be an acceptable window of backwards compatibility. This week, the crew talks about how they manage secrets, mistakes they've made in the past, and what best practices they'd like to put in place going forward. Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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045B: The Aftershow 24:42

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Because this week's episode was short, and because we've wanted to give the public feed a taste of what's in the aftershow, here's a bonus episode. This is the aftershow from episode 43.

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045: Join Our Discord 10:57

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This week's episode is all about the podcast's Discord server going public. We're now inviting all listeners to join us and participate in the community chat. Why would we want to do that, and what's in it for you? Answers to these questions and more now available as sound waves for your ear holes. Join our Discord here: https://workingcode.dev/discord/ Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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044: Facebook's No Good Very Bad Week 55:04

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Between Frances Haugen's testimony, a meta outage of Facebook properties including Facebook.com , Instagram, and What's App, and a $7 billion drop in Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth in a matter of hours, it's safe to say that Facebook has been having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time of it. There have even been rumors that Facebook's "work from home" policy is being rescinded; though, such claims have been denied by the company. Today, the crew talks about everything that's going on in the Facebook universe. And, Tim shares his own harrowing experience with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) catastrophes and why Facebook's networking woes were a little too triggering for his own comfort. Notes & Links Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook Here are 4 key points from the Facebook whistleblower's testimony on Capitol Hill Zuckerberg loses $7 billion over Facebook outage; Telegram, Signal gain Facebook denies end to 'WFH forever' rule in wake of mega outage DNS - Domain Name System BGP - Border Gateway Protocol DynDNS Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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043: Relay Race Programming 50:07

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You might think that "programming" is a relatively straightforward concept: take abstract ideas and codify them into lines-of-code (LOC). But, within this broad abstraction, there are a multitude of implementation details. Some engineers love to hunker down and write code inside a metaphorical bubble; mob programmers love to dog-pile on the same machine, blitzing the problem until it's obliterated; and, pair programmers methodically alternate responsibilities between a "driver" and a "navigator" in cooperative pairing sessions. On today's episode, Carol shares her team's approach to product development which sounds more like "Relay Race Programming." First, her team does some up-front design and planning in order to orient the work. Then, her team divvies up the tasks, processes the work in parallel, and keeps a constant line-of-communication open such that they can unblock each other as soon as issues arise. While this approach takes some getting used to, Carol believes that it has increased her productivity, decreased her Pull-Request review latency, and opened the door to many more mentorship opportunities. Notes & Links Agile Alliance: Pair Programmging Agile Alliance: Mob Programming Ward Cunningham: Ping-Pong Programming Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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042: Potluck #3 51:52

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This week on the podcast, the crew discusses various topics: "Strong opinions, loosely held" - is this a statement with noble intent? Or, does it encourage people to dismiss past evidence and the experiences that have shaped their current view of the world? When is it time to upgrade old technology choices? When the time it takes to upgrade is time not spent on building features, at what point is that cost justified for the business? GitHub Copilot helps you write code, but who gets credit for that? Is it even legal? Have engineers demonstrated enough responsibility in the past to merit an even more powerful copy-paste programming paradigm? And finally, why don't we see more employee-owned software companies? If engineers had more material skin in the game, wouldn't they be more motivated to ship product? All that and more on this week's show! Notes & Links Jeff Atwood: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held GitHub Copilot The Changelog: We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot The Great Game of Business Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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041: The Third Age of JavaScript, with Shawn @Swyx Wang 1:08:42

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Shawn Wang - known as "swyx" online - is a financial investor turned software engineer and journalist. With a passion for history and a knack for "trend spotting", Shawn uses a keen analytical sense, honed through years of financial due diligence, in order to organize the world of web development into a series of epochs, each with its own theme. He's recently codified these observations in a blog post titled, The Third Age of JavaScript . Today, we're thrilled to have Shawn as a guest on our podcast to discuss the past, present, and future state of JavaScript as well as the world of developer ergonomics and the magical possibilities of effortless platform management. Notes & Links Shawn Wang: The Third Age of JavaScript Shawn Wang: The Self Provisioning Runtime Shawn Wang: Temporal.io John Resig: jQuery Douglas Crockford: JSON analytics.usa.gov JavaScript (ES) Modules Evan Wallace: esbuild SWC Parcel Benedict Evans: Platforms, bundling and kill zones Base Rate Fallacy Rogers Curve of Adoption: Diffusion of Innovations Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers Svelte Svelte Society Webpack Pulumi AWS Cloud Development Kit Serverless.com Begin.com Amazon DynamoDB Chris Richardson: Microservices.io The Burning Monk: Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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040: Automaticity Is a Weird Word 41:58

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The other day, Ben was listening to an episode of the MongoDB podcast in which Mat Keep shared a story about the adding of atomic transactions into the MongoDB product. Mat said that the engineer who spearheaded the effort used to joke about the fact that his team was spending a huge amount of time working on a feature that 90% of developers would never need . For Ben - who leans heavily on transactions for referential integrity - this sounded like an crazy statement. But is it? Are database transactions overrated? Or, is it more so that the type of use-cases that work best in a document database are also the type of uses-cases that don't really need transactions? On today's episode, the crew talks about how they use databases; the role of atomic transactions in the reduction of application complexity; and, whether or not they've ever felt "held back" by the limitations of a relational database management system. Full disclosure, all of the hosts have far more experience with traditional databases when compared to NoSQL databases. NOTE : In the show, Ben mentioned that a document database like MongoDB can't enforce schemas like a relational database. And while this was true in earlier versions of the MongoDB product, it is no longer true. In recent updates, MongoDB has added schema validation and enforcement . Notes & Links MongoDB Podcast: Episode 67 - MongoDB Evolved with Mat Keep Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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039: Ben's Future at InVision 51:53

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For last 8-years, Ben Nadel has poured his heart and soul into InVision , a product that drives design collaboration. During this period, his area of expertise has focused on the (now named) "legacy" platform - the ColdFusion and AngularJS monolith that has built the business into what it is today. Soon, however, the "legacy" platform will be wholly subsumed by the "modern" platform - a distributed, microservices architecture built on Go, Node.js, and React. In today's episode, Ben opens up about the emotional struggle that he's facing as his role on the legacy platform comes to a end. He wonders what it's going to be like to start over; to go from a big fish in a CFML pond to a novice in a Go ocean; and, to find a way to not feel like a complete failure when his productivity drops significantly. One of the scariest things for Ben is that he's not sure if he'll be able to trust his gut. While the fundamentals of programming will certainly transfer from the legacy platform over to the modern platform, it's hard to know if future "feelings" will be true indicators of potential problems. Or, if it's just a byproduct of his lack of familiarity with the new architecture and language constructs. Only time will tell. And, until then, he intends to grind hard and deliver as much value as he possibly can on the legacy platform while he still has time and the skills necessary to get the job done. ASIDE : While not mentioned by name in the show, Travis Heinström - the SVP of Engineering at InVision - is the person who wanted to make sure that Ben has all the room he needs to "feel his feelings" when the legacy platform is shut down. This is perhaps one of the most emotionally-intelligent things that Ben has ever heard a manager ask about. Notes & Links Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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038: Holding Developers Accountable 57:54

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Recently on Facebook, Hal Helms —highly respected author, speaker, and computer programmer— shared some of his views on the use of "Sprints" to drive engineering work on a product team. In short, he despises the idea of asking engineers to commit to achieving a goal within an estimated time frame . He likens this to asking prisons to build their own gallows. Everyone is terrible at estimating everything . So when companies start to use each "estimate" as a "contract" with which to punish engineers for under-delivering after over-promising, all it does is set the entire team up for a toxic cycle of disappointment. This is the full text of Hal's post: "We have to be able to hold developers accountable." A friend and I were discussing the idea of "sprints" — a system where developers commit to achieving certain results within a specified time frame — usually two weeks. I hate and detest sprints. I despise asking developers to "commit" to achieving a goal within an estimated time frame. My friend disagrees. He's wrong. The first flaw in this system is what Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman termed "The Estimation Fallacy". When people are asked how long a goal will take to achieve, they predictably and chronically underestimate the time. And this is true even when they have considerable experience in being wrong in their previous estimates. A good estimate is one that's over half the time and under half the time. So, estimates are not really what developers are asked for. They're asked to commit to a date after which they can be held to blame if they have not achieved the goal. Every such "estimate" holds an implied threat. ' Asking developers to provide their own deadlines is a bit too much like asking prisoners to build their own gallows. But let's say you have a taste for a bit of sadistic irony. It's still not a good idea — not if your goal is to actually increase the throughput of the system. Developers are not, by lot, stupid. So while inexperienced developers may believe their own deadlines are realistic, those of us with more road behind us are not so quick to be led to slaughter. If the boss demands a deadline that a more experienced developer thinks is probably five or six days, the deadline become two weeks — three if they can stretch it. And when they actually complete the work ahead of time — well, would you be quick to voluntarily re-enter the arena only to place yourself at risk again any earlier than you have to? It gets worse: you may know one part of the sprint goal while I know another, of which you're clueless. Can I help you? Sorry, I have my own deadline. How is this good for the developer, much less the organization? And so I circle back to my conversation with my friend. "We have to be able to hold developers accountable." One needs to hold people accountable for things they don't want to do. Developers, on the other hand, like to develop. Most of the ones I know do it in their spare time as well as their work hours. If I want you to do something you already want to do, what is the sense behind "holding you accountable"? Eat this ice cream — and I'll need to see status reports of how much you've eaten, accompanied by proof that you're actually eating it (to make sure you don't just dispose of the ice cream). I recently had a long discussion with a CEO who asked for what might be termed my "philosophy of management" when it comes to managing developers. I told him it was really quite simple: give developers what they need and protect them from upper management. CEOs don't produce software. CTOs don't. Product Managers don't. When upper management tries tricks like sprints to force their developers into deadlines — as if such a thing could be done by fiat — they effectively tell developers: we neither trust nor respect you. I'm not sure what genius management consultant had the flash of insight that disempowering workers and placing obstacles in their way was a surefire way to get the most out of them. Inspired by Hal's post, we wanted to talk about how we view—and experience—developer motivation; how we employ Sprints at our respective offices; and, what we think an organization should be doing to help drive a project to completion. There's the idealized approach that Hal puts forward: Give developers what they need and protect them from upper management. Amen! But, there's also the practicalities of running a business, building a road-map, organizing marketing campaigns, and keeping users interested and excited in your product. None of it is easy. But you can be sure that treating people with professional respect is certainly one of the necessary ingredients. Notes & Links Daniel Kahneman: The Planning Fallacy Follow the show! 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037: Brian Klaas Talks Cloud 1:17:28

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As we alluded to in Episode 20: Carol Needs a Consult , there are a lot of different products under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) umbrella. In fact, the number of products is somewhat mind-boggling. It can be overwhelming just figuring out where to start, let alone understanding which service is right for which job, how to configure that service, and how to get that service to integrate with all the other AWS services. Thankfully, we have Brian Klaas as a very special guest on today's episode. Brian Klaas ( @Brian_Klaas ) is a Senior Technology Officer and instructor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; he runs a team that builds a Learning Management System (LMS) running on a hybrid cloud; he's been using and extolling the value of Amazon Web Services since 2009; and, he's a well known and respected speaker and leader within the ColdFusion community. According to him, the overarching value that AWS provides is the outsourcing of "undifferentiated heavy lifting": AWS builds the infrastructure that you don't want to, allowing your team to focus on your own business-critical product-lines. Notes & Links ColdFusion Azure Cloud Services Google Cloud Services Alibaba Cloud Services Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Storage Classes AWS Glacier AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) AWS EventBridge AWS Fargate AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) AWS Athena AWS Kinesis AWS Step Functions AWS Glue AWS CloudFormation AWS Lambda Functions AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) AWS DynamoDB AWS X-Ray Principles of Chaos Engineering Strangler Pattern A Cloud Guru @killedbygoogle Certifications: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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036: Blogs and Digital Gardens 58:32

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Blogging is a win-win activity. Not only does the act of writing help burn knowledge into your long-term memory, it also acts as an easily searchable repository of your own thoughts. Furthermore, it helps other people solve similar problems when they stumble upon your blog in the future. The value-add of blogging is obvious; the way start blogging is less clear. This week, Adam, Ben, and Tim talk to Carol about her desire to start blogging. The discussion touches on tooling, platforms, hosting, content, and strategy which Adam sums up nicely as: Do whatever it takes to get started soon. Just get into the habit of writing. Notes & Links Blogger Medium GitHub Pages WordPress Trello Digital Gardening Awesome Socks Club Adam's first blog post Ben's first blog post Tim's blog Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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035: Being a Swamp Guide 47:39

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Software is never "done". And, as it continues to evolve over time, it often gathers a lot of accidental and essential complexity. This makes it harder to on-board new engineers into a legacy application (and a legacy organization). Enter swamp guides : the aged and battle-hardened staff who know where all the bodies are buried. These guides can hand-hold new team-members as they walk fresh-eyes through the fog of war, helping them to understand where everything lives and how everything works. And, hopefully, leave the swamp a little cleaner than they found it. Notes & Links Stack Overflow for Teams Big Ball of Mud Hanlon's razor : "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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034: Some of My Best Friends Are React Developers! 44:17

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This week, Adam talks about his "obnoxious optimism": his general tendency to believe that all problems can be solved and that everything will just sort of work itself out. This optimism allows him to take action and make decisions quickly. However, it also means that he may not be fully considering the future cost of his choices. This is not uncommon in the programming world. Engineers are often criticized for choosing technologies based solely on their merits and almost never on their drawbacks. Of course, we don't want to be so cautious that all productivity grinds to a halt. The best possible scenario is to have a team with diverse personalities that can all temper each other. Every team needs an Adam; but, every team also needs a few curmudgeons. Notes & Links Just command runner CockroachDB Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram . Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253- CODE ). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media .…

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003: Burnout, Mental Exhaustion, and Productivity 1:04:19

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Your hosts Adam Tuttle -- Twitter , Website Ben Nadel -- Twitter , Website Carol Hamilton -- Twitter Tim Cunningham -- Twitter Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter & Instagram . New episodes weekly on Wednesday. Triumphs & Fails Carol's Triumph: Her college freshman son, majoring in computer science, called mom to ask for comp-sci help! Ben's Fail: R&D effort exposed that he doesn't remember how to start a new project any more. Tim's Triumph: He turned in the paperwork to get his team their raises on time. Adam's Triumph: Testing on a new platform for his giant application has reached 100%, and a looming deadline may actually be met. Notes & Links We are not medical professionals! If you need help, talk to your primary care physician. Sisyphus Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Adam's waterproof Bluetooth shower speaker recommendation . This one isn't particularly special. There are dozens of different cheap Chinese speakers that look just like it. He's had three over the years, but they're all plenty decent. The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino TED Talk: Your elusive creative genius by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love . Chuck Close: Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea". And the belief that process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today, you know what you'll do, you could be doing what you were doing yesterday, and tomorrow you are gonna do what you did today, and at least for a certain period of time you can just work. If you hang in there, you will get somewhere. Black Lives Matter…

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Your hosts Adam Tuttle -- Twitter , Website Ben Nadel -- Twitter , Website Carol Hamilton -- Twitter Tim Cunningham -- Twitter Follow the show! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter & Instagram . New episodes weekly on Wednesday. Triumphs & Fails Adam's Triumph: His team realized that they could write a tool that would log, per controller method, how many times it had been run, whether or not it threw exceptions, and some performance stats, which is reducing the pain of transitioning app server platforms without a comprehensive test suite. They're currently at 90% tested! Carol's Fail: Having just started a new job, she thought she would make a good first impression by bringing down the production site! Tim's Triumph+Fail: A product he's been working on developing in secret for FOUR years is finally going to see the light of the day... just not through his years of persistence trying to push it past the finish line. Ben's Triumph+Fail: A R&D project failed to get any traction, but on the plus side he got to delete thousands of lines of code! Notes & Links The VS Code plugin that Adam couldn't think of is Git Lens Cargo Cult Programming CFML ("ColdFusion Markup Language") a.k.a. ColdFusion is a web-dev language and app server that the four of us have some shared history with. Lucee is its open source alternative engine. Spoiler alert: You can write awful code in every language! "Life with chapters" is a concept stolen from the No Dumb Questions podcast, which is fantastic, and a huge inspiration for Working Code. If you don't already listen, give them a shot! There are a variety of different ways people prefer to learn, but teaching a concept is the best way to help yourself find your weak spots. Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle! The Martian is a fantastic movie and a better book ; and yes, the audiobook was narrated by Wil Wheaton, of Star Trek fame. GraphQL is an interesting new(ish) idea in the world of web API's. "The right tool for the job"? NOPE. The right tool for the job, for the team, at that particular point in time. You heard it here second! Black Lives Matter…

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