Episodes
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Cassidy Williams first made waves as one of Glamour's 35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing Tech.... now she's making waves in roughly 100 different ways, including Twitter and TikTok. Join our chat with this very friendly meme-lady and dev advocate, who has a lot to say on everything from mechanical keyboards to how to stay active without getting exhausted.
Timestamps
1:48 Learning by teaching
4:00 What's a developer advocate?
12:00 What's her biggest TikTok flop?
15:00 - Trumpets and the all-electric guitar band
17:15 - How do you handle multitasking?
25:00 - "Get glamorous with Cassidy" AKA Glamour Magazine 35 under 35
27:30 - Everything about mechanical keyboards
35:45 - K-drama drama 41:30 - Remote life tips - the stretch & share!
43:00 - Best tracking apps (spoiler: it’s Obsidian)
Check out the home for untold developer stories around open source, careers and all the other cool stuff developers are doing at cult.honeypot.io. Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get developers great jobs.
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Website: https://cassidoo.co/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cassidoo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cassidoo
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Relevant links:
https://beat-pose.netlify.app/
https://obsidian.md/
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/01/06/developer-experience-at-netlify/ -
Catalin Pit is a technical writer, YouTuber and tweeter of knowledge. He's known for his writing and tutorials, but he also has a great ability to speak candidly about being a developer and what's happening in the community.
In this episode, we cover his experiences as a technical writer (including a lot of tips to help anyone else who wants to start making content) as well as his personal experiences and learnings. We also talk about construction work for a few minutes.
Timestamps6:00 How he got started technical writing & tips
13:05 Burnout & mental health
21:30 The importance of having a thick skin as a popular dev
24:15 What he learned most from social media
28:00 How he got started on YouTube
34:00 Content creation tips for newcomers
Follow Catalin:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/catalinmpit
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl1IRCSmm74qhcFNPTHcbMg
Website: https://catalins.tech/
Reading Corner
https://catalins.tech/how-to-start-your-blog-as-a-developer
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/best-blogging-platforms-for-developers/
Check out the home for untold developer stories around open source, careers and all the other cool stuff developers are doing at cult.honeypot.io. Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get developers great jobs.
Wanna see what we're all about? Visit honeypot.io to find a job you love.
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Tim Bourguignon is a Chief Learning Officer as well as a podcast host, which means he not only has plenty to say... he also says it in a radio voice.
Join us as we talk about what it means to be a mentor as well as some of the many tips and insights Tim has come across during his time as a mentor and podcast host. Also, brief mentions of D&D.
Learn more about Tim here:
https://twitter.com/timothep
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We're back with season 2 of Untold Developer Stories, the podcast where we talk with popular developers to uncover the stories and tips you never knew. This time we're here with Linda Liukas, the children's book author, mediocre programmer (her words!!) and winner of like 15 awards, including Technology Playmaker of the Year 2019 and Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech Europe 2018.
Timestamps
3:23 - Going back to school: What is Hive Helsinki?
6:55 - How do you teach children vs adults?
7:30 - Origin of Hello Ruby & importance of hands-on learning
21:24 - How has RailsGirls changed over the past 10 years?
25:20 - What are the problems in tech that need to be addressed?
29:00 - How has remote work changed the way that we connect?
31:20 - What can parents do to help kids get into tech?
35:50 - How did you find this ‘niche’ for yourself? How can others find their own niche?
Learn more about Linda here:
http://lindaliukas.com/
http://www.helloruby.com/loveletters
Support us by visiting honeypot.io to find your next tech job. 💕
Check out the home for untold developer stories around open source, careers and all the other cool stuff developers are doing at cult.honeypot.io. Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get developers great jobs.
Wanna see what we're all about? Visit honeypot.io to find a job you love.
To learn more about Honeypot: http://www.honeypot.io/?utm_source=youtube
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/honeypotio
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Honeypotio/
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Ali Spittel is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, co-host of the LadyBug podcast and blogger at We Learn Code.
In this episode of Untold Developer Stories, Ali shares her journey into tech, divulges her thoughts on the place of education in tech and her passion for teaching code.
Make yourself a cuppa, kick back and get ready to get inspired!
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Emma Bostian is a developer at Spotify (former IBM), podcaster, and dev influencer.
In this episode of Untold Developer Stories, Emma goes full-force, talking about everything she’s been up to from writing a book to being a dev influencer to collabing with Egghead, and finally to starring in Honeypot’s upcoming mini-documentary. Oh yeah — Emmas also got a great story about her WORST interview which is pretty damn relatable.
With her interesting background, honest take, and unique perspective there’s always a lot to learn from Emma. So kick back and listen to us rabble about dev life for a couple of mins ;)
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This week on Untold Developer Stories we talk to the creator of Laravel and space pilgrim, Taylor Otwell, about who and what inspires him, what stresses him out, and how he balances the wants of the Laravel community with his own.
Keep up with all the cool stuff he’s doing over at his Twitter and see more about Laravel on his website!
Here are some other things we’ve made with Taylor:
Advice to Tech Entrepreneurs
VueJS: The Documentary
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Ever wondered if imagining the audience naked while public speaking works to calm nerves? Tomasz Łakomy, senior frontend engineer and well-seasoned tech speaker, has tried it – and it really, really doesn’t.
In this episode of Untold Developer Stories, we chat to Tomasz about his experiences as a tech speaker and how anyone can do it, his thoughts on what makes a good software dev and how developers should be more consumer-focused (oof).
Check out more of Tomasz’s work over at his Twitter and website.
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Jason Lengstorf, principal developer experience engineer at Netlify, has been on quite the coding adventure. In this episode of Untold Developer Stories, we chat about his journey from music to code, his take on nailing a developer job interview, the struggles of working as a one-man team and why he lost parts of his beard working in a job he didn’t like.
Find out more about Jason over at his Twitter and his show LearnWithJason. -
Join Julian and Amsterdam-based, serial entrepreneur, developer and author, Roy Derks, as they discuss team leading, overcoming the fabled CS degree, and finding love in times of Corona… (I made that last one up because I'm lonely.)
Also, we're looking for some tunes for our next DevWave (VueJS edition), so if you have any original beats which you think would compliment these voice snippets send them through to [[email protected]]. For some inspiration, you can check out our previous DevWave (the GraphQL Wave) here. We'll be releasing the tracks on our Youtube Channel and using our favourite mix for the intro to this podcast.