Greater Than Code

00:16 – Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Origin Story 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 06:12 – Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu/) GoldieBlox (https://www.goldieblox.com/) 12:26 – Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as software? Tooling Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/en-us/excel) Expector (http://www.felienne.com/Expector) 20:13 – Should everyone know programming? Why? What should they know/be able to do? (Digital Literacy) 28:27 – What is the programming equivalent of a library/librarian? 33:06 – Does STEM education make other forms of education obsolete? Why not? 35:15 – Things to Get Better at Programming Other Than Programming CodeKata (http://codekata.com/) 48:58 – Fighting Against “Real” Programming and Being Hesitant to

00:16 – Welcome to “Hey! I Made a Bong Out of This Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:26 – Origin Story Obama For America Campaign (http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html) 05:46 – Politics and Software; Data Collection Danah Boyd: Be Careful What You Code For (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBZNxPzoUY&feature=youtu.be) 16:43 – Working in Python for Data Collection Django Girls (https://djangogirls.org/) 19:46 – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) 23:55 – Communication and Organization Within Communities MINSWAN: Matz is Nice So We Are Nice (http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-so-we-are-nice) Social Encounter Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Encounter_Party) 33:49 – Power Structures and Forming Relationships 36:39 – PSF Funding Reflections: Jessica: Each of our languages has a metalanguage that people use to talk about the language. Sam: Needs more sleep Astrid: Code can and should touch everything: What is it not doing that it should be doing? Weapons of M

00:16 – Welcome to “Mob Programming” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:39 – Origin Stories From All! Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek (https://fourhourworkweek.com/) 12:37 – Work/Life Balance and Ideal Work Environments Stockholm Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome) 16:50 – Technical Interviews 20:41 – Computer Science Degrees: Are they worth it? 27:42 – Compulsions to Know: Contempt Culture Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) The Zens of Python and Ruby (http://automation-excellence.com/blog/zens-python-and-ruby) 34:12 – Gatekeeping in Tech 37:11 – Technical Interviews (Cont’d) Pair Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so th

00:28 – Welcome to Greater Than Code: The SJW Takeover 00:53 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Bike Messengering Build APIs You Won’t Hate (https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate) Instacart (https://www.instacart.com/) Had pesto chicken pasta for dinner, in honor of @philsturgeon’s interview on @greaterthancode today.

00:16 – Welcome to “Neon Abstract Podcast Erotica!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:15 – Origin Story Bocoup (https://bocoup.com/) 03:05 – Art (http://jennmoney.biz/art/) 06:37 – Viewing Source and Learning How to Code 11:02 – Getting a Computer Science Degree 13:56 – Pixel Art, Sexuality in Tech, and Online Presence @aphyr (https://twitter.com/aphyr) (Kyle Kingsbury) Ashley Madison Data Breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach) 26:54 – How do potential employers react to your satire? 28:41 – CSS Perverts (https://medium.com/cool-code-pal) 36:03 – Vetting Potential Employers and Company Culture; Dealing with Toxic People Takeaways: Jessica: Everyone has something that they keep quiet about because they aren’t sure of the consequences. Coraline: Being privileged enough to have the responsibility to be public and show people that it’s okay that they are who they are. Astrid: You don’t have to separate your passions. Jenn: We all need a space to feel uninhibited. This episode was brough

01:11 – What it means to be a Senior Engineer When You Don’t Want to Go Into Management 05:07 – Generativity: The difference between your team’s output with you on it and your team’s output without you. Gregor Hohpe: 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation (https://leanpub.com/37things) 13:46 – The Job of An Architect 22:09 – What are the managers doing? “It is too much to ask for your manager to be your career mentor?” Sam Gerstenzang: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer (https://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/) Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkCode=as2&tag=therubyrep-20&linkId=d08b37c3206978c7992ae8c263c1f1dd) Reflections: Astrid: From Jessica’s perspective, what a software architect actually is supposed to be doing. Sam: Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_

Posted another patrons-only outtake from today's precall with @CherylGSchaefer! https://t.co/g4GZA9LWle— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 1, 2017 00:16 – Welcome to “Let’s Get this Ship on the Road!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:06 – Origin Story and Mentorship Cheryl Gore Schaefer: Grow Your Team In 90 Days @ RubyConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-grow-your-team-in-90-days) Empowerment Through Mentorship (https://www.launchcode.org/blog/empowerment-through-mentorship/) 11:38 – Avoiding Burnout: “How can I show up better as a Mentee? How can you keep yourself from giving up and washing out? When you find your skills have atrophied, how do you find the resolve to try again?” ~ Ariel Spear Spot2Fish (http://www.spot2fish.com/) 23:41 – The Future of Tech Education Sarah Mei Computer Science Education Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/824831465745637376) Sarah Mei People Who Apply for Opportunity Scholarships Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/s

00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:45 – Origin Stories Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (https://qntm.org/gay) André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe (https://andre.arko.net/2013/03/24/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) 11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits 501(C)(6) (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick03.pdf) 22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby 27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff RethinkDB: why we failed (https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html) 39:46 – How Does Bundler Work, Anyway? [blog post] Andre Arko: How does Bundler work, anyway? @ RubyConf 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqzaqeeMgY) 44:16 – Sharing and Reusing Code 52:26 – gemstash vs geminabox OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/) Heartbleed (http://heartbleed.com/) Reflections: Sam: Be a member-friend of Ruby Together! Jessica: Ruby Together is an advancement in the software industry as a whole to form a trade organiza

Intro music by Rod Johnson (https://twitter.com/springrod): Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow. 01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.” The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust (https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/) 07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) The Google Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect) 20:26 – Operations (Ops); Testing in Ops "There's this exciting thing that happens when you run software, which is that stuff goes wrong in unexpected ways!" @b0rk @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) January 18, 2017 Ryan Kennedy: Fear Driven Development @ OSB 2015 Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Da

00:16 – Welcome to “Snowpocalypse!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:50 – Zuri’s Background and Origin Story 04:19 – Hackathons Meet Zuri. The Queen of Hackathons. (http://blog.codewithveni.com/meet-zuri-queen-hackathons/) Color Coded (https://www.voxmedia.com/a/go-deeper) 16:37 – Overcoming Shyness 20:47 – Navigating the Channels of Your Career Graphical User Interface (GUI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface) 27:07 – Developing Skills and Keeping up with New Technologies AWS Certified Solutions Architect (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/) 33:31 – Hiring Practices; Culture Fit Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume (https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-backfire-on-your-resume) (“No Silver Bullet” for D&I) Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/facebook-s-hiring-process-hinders-its-effort-to-create-a-diverse-workfo

00:16 – Welcome to “DevPunks!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:42 – Snuggs’ Background and Origin Story NYC.rb (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/) Ruby on Rails Link Slack Community (https://www.rubyonrails.link/) Ra’Shaun Stovall: Why Is Open Source So Closed? @ RubyConf 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ad52AogJ8) 04:41 – Getting Involved in Meetups and Building the Ruby Community 09:08 – Teaching/Mentoring New Developers OH: In order to make Rails jobs be a thing in the future, you develop Rails people.— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) January 4, 2017 12:13 – Hurdling the Massive Casm that is Between “Junior” and “Senior” Developers Google Image Result for https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53c6bc90e4b050924635d114/t/59d7def4f5e231512a015838/1507319545508/marketoonist-content.pngnull In-person Mentorship Teaching from Jr. Dev Mistakes Incentivize Hiring Jr. Devs Pair Programming Nights and on Open Source Pull Request Review — Closely Closer Connections Between Junior and Senior De

00:16 – Welcome to “Lucky Episode 13!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:10 – Audrey’s Background and Origin Story Stumptown Syndicate (http://stumptownsyndicate.org/) Citizen Code of Conduct (http://citizencodeofconduct.org/) Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) 10:37 – The Recompiler The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/961164339/the-responsible-communication-style-guide) 16:24 – Community Organization; Tech Community Biases Calagator (http://calagator.org/) The Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/) The Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) 25:55 – Accessibility in Community Spaces Open Source Bridge (http://opensourcebridge.org/) 28:49 – Religion and Social Justice in Tech Unitarianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism) 34:37 – Labor Organization #talkpay (https://twitter.com/hashtag/talkpay?lang=en) by Lauren Voswinkel (https://twitter.com/laurenvoswinkel) Distributed Denial of Women (http://distributed-denial-of-women.or

00:16 – Welcome to “It’s Made of People!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:17 – Jerome’s Background and Origin Story General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly/) 09:30 – Vets Who Code (https://vetswhocode.io/): Funding, Technology Stack, Curriculum, and Students 18:19 – Vets Who Code Student Experience 20:00 – Obstacles Veterans Face Getting Into Tech Location Network “Your goal is to only get 1% better every day and the funny thing about 1% is that your 1% changes every day.” @JeromeHardaway— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) December 21, 2016 Jacob Oakley: Learning Code with Kids (https://medium.com/vets-who-code/learning-code-with-kids-4ed8178f88c) 29:04 – Making the Tech Community More Welcoming to Veterans 33:37 – What should people in the tech community NOT do? Don’t Assume Recognize Women Veterans 36:55 – Getting Involved with Vets Who Code 38:09 – Evaluating Opportunities Reflections: Astrid: Addressing emotional intelligence and increasing 1% each day. Jessica: Using Ruby on Rails is a va

00:16 – Welcome to “Trapped in a BinarySort!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:21 – “STEAM” Education (http://stemtosteam.org/) 02:36 – Getting Involved in Technology and Being a Maker 05:33 – Making a Zine and Making it (and other things) Inclusive Books With Pictures (https://bookswithpictures.com/) [Kickstarter] BubbleSort Zines 2.0: moar computer science zines! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sailorhg/bubblesort-zines-20-moar-computer-science-zines) 14:03 – Passion for Sailor Moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon) and How it Relates to Teams and Friendship 18:21 – Introducing Art Into STEM Amy Wibowo: Sweaters as a Service – Adventures in Machine Knitting @ Madison+ Ruby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA&spfreload=5) This Long-Lost Nintendo Knitting Machine Would Have Let You Make Sweaters With Your NES (https://kotaku.com/this-long-lost-nintendo-knitting-machine-would-have-let-5939210) 25:36 – Making Websites as a Full-time Career 28:22 – Human-computer Interaction (HCI) Resea

00:16 – Welcome to “Who’s Line of Code is it Anywhere?…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:37 – Getting Started with Computer-ing & Security PGP = Pretty Good Privacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) Filippo Valsorda: I’m giving up on PGP (https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/) 09:28 – Clef (https://rublon.com/) and Two-factor Authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication) (2FA) 12:33 – Citizen Cybersecurity Due to the Rise of Mass Surveillance (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.w4mg6gqku) Quincy Larson: How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.w4mg6gqku) Signal by Whisper Systems (https://signal.org/) 17:27 – Evaluating Service Providers Tor (https://www.torproject.org/download/download) As devs, we have the opportunity to make software and tools more secur

00:16 – Welcome to “Software Eats Human…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:25 – Travis’ Superhero Origin Story Retinitis Pigmentosa (https://www.blindness.org/retinitis-pigmentosa) Achondroplasia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondroplasia) 09:00 – Explaining a Disability and Limitations to Others The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino (https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/) 14:25 – Supporting Someone with a Disability 19:56 – “Are you noticing your disabilities misrepresenting you in some ways?” – James Edward Gray II (https://twitter.com/jeg2) / Accessibility re: Accessibility “We need to have diverse people working for us so we can bring up, ‘Hey! This thing is an issue!’” @travisbhartwell— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) November 30, 2016 Do they all look like me? Do they all think like me? If they do, you’re probably not getting the perspective that you need @travisbhartwell— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) November 30, 2016 30:29 –

00:16 – Welcome to “99 Bottles of Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2016/11/21/008-sandi-metz-and-katrina-owen/) 01:31 – Collaboration on the Book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz (https://www.poodr.com/https://www.poodr.com/) People who like me call me disciplined & meticulousPeople who don't call me anal & pedanticIt's the same thing. @kytrinyx @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 14:56 – Audience: Who is this book for? 99 Bottles of Beer Exercise (https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/sample#appendix-exercise) 21:06 – The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself); Duplication and Replication DRYing too hard: "people encapsulate the pieces that are identical, though they don't represent a complete idea." @kytrinyx @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 29:21

00:16 – Welcome to Greater Than Code 02:02 – Neem Serra Introduction Neem Serra: “From Babies to Software Development” (http://neemserra.com/from-babies-to-software-development/) 03:23 – 2016 Election Thoughts, Fears, and Aspirations; Importance of Ally Support Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Other America” (http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/mlk-gp-speech.pdf) 14:51 – Overcoming Adversity and Getting Into Science Genomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics) 26:27 – Switching from Science to Programming and Getting a Job Software Carpentry (https://software-carpentry.org/) National Society of Black Engineers (https://www.nsbe.org/home.aspx) HandsUp United (http://www.handsupunited.org/) Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/) 33:53 – Volunteering and Being Empathetic and Inclusive "I feel like most of my job some days is helping people try to be empathetic. Nobody gives me a raise for that."@TeamNeem @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 9, 2016 47:36 – Battli

00:17 – Welcome to “PC Principal Shit!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:35 – David Bock Introduction and “Smoked Pork” Discussion 04:56 – Teaching Kids Computer Science Concepts Watch D.O.G.S. (https://dadsofgreatstudents.com//) Code.org (https://code.org/) Hour of Code (https://code.org/learn) Blockly (https://developers.google.com/blockly/) Karel the Robot (http://karel.sourceforge.net/) TEALS: Computer Science in Every High School (https://www.tealsk12.org/) 12:50 – Being Scientifically Literate Neil deGrasse Tyson YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLYe_YAQYQ) 14:13 – Gender and Peer Pressure Dynamics On @greaterthancode with @bokmann. He had a student who realized "Oh! Computers aren't smart! They're just dumb, really really fast!" :D— Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) November 2, 2016 22:13 – Curriculum and Good Teaching Languages C.A.M.S: Coding at Middle School (https://www.lcps.org/domain/17131) Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) 23:16 – Games as an Entry Point f

00:16 – Welcome to “PodcasTRON...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:00 – James Edward Gray II’s Introduction 02:03 – #CastleGraySkull (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CastleGraySkull?src=hash) “It’s hard to find a castle in a good school district.” ~ David Brady 07:59 – Interviewing James Edward Gray II: Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard @ RailsConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-implementing-the-lhc-on-a-whiteboard) (Slides) ^^ (https://speakerdeck.com/jeg2/implementing-the-lhc-on-a-whiteboard) Engineering Interviews: Grading Rubric (https://medium.engineering/engineering-interviews-grading-rubric-8b409bec021f?gi=bf8cc3917f0#.k3hy8btl4) 15:14 – Transparency; Giving Honest Feedback Joe Mastey: Hiring Developers, with Science! @ RailsConf 2016 (http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-hiring-developers-with-science) 20:08 – Working with Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/) James Edward Gray II: The Most Object-Oriented Language (https://blog.noredink.com/post/142689001488/the-most-object-oriented