Artsy Engineering Radio

Kaja joins Matt Dole to talk about her experience at this year's EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference). What was her favorite talk? What did she learn that will change how she works? Tune in for the answers to those questions and more!

https://2022.euruko.org/

Jon Allured talks to Pavlos Vinieratos about Jon's worktime tracking app. It's Forty, and it's about helping you hit that 40 hours a week, while making sure you don't do over! Work/life balance is king.
We discuss how the idea came about, how the development went, how Jon uses it, and a bunch more.
Join us for the first episode of Whatchu working on (on the side), on Artsy Engineering Radio. More to come!

Tiny edit: Side-projects don't have to make money. Side-hustles are usually connected to making money out of them. Side-projects can be anything you want.

Links:
- Forty: https://www.fortyeven.com
- pear tool: https://github.com/jonallured/pear
- Artsy's pear-data: https://github.com/artsy/pear-data
- Jon's podcast: https://puddingtime.buzzsprout.com
- Pavlos' pear-with-fzf tweak: https://github.com/pvinis/chez/blob/e61286d8dd63d19befab1ffa8c219dfc8928b51d/dot_zshrc#L69-L77

Today on the podcast, Matt Dole is joined by former Artsyer Justin Bennett to talk about what he's up to these days. Turns out he's up to quite a lot! Tune in to hear about his podcast (devtools.fm), his time at Recurse Center, his current work at Oxide, and much more.

Justin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zephraph

We are getting to know a bit more about our engineering manager Pamela, how she got here and what she enjoys about her job but also her fun creative hobby and her experiences with leading teams when the leaders left. 

Motivation is one of the driving forces for accomplishments and achievements, but it's not always easy to stay motivated. In this episode, Mounir, Matt Dole, and Sultan are talking about how to motivate yourself and stay focused. They also discuss burnout, how to avoid it, and what to do when feeling unmotivated and burnt out.

Recommending artworks to collectors is tricky but having four different ways to do it… Listen as Sarah Haq and Jon Allured talk about how they are improving the artwork recommendations at Artsy by establishing a single source of truth and more!

At Artsy, we have a concept of a "practice": engineers across different teams who meet on a regular basis to discuss cross-system plans, problems, and systems. This week on the podcast, Matt & Kaja discuss how our practices work, what we like about them, and what could make them better.

Joining Matt Dole for a "Who Are You and How Did You Get Here" episode is George, a React Native specialist at Artsy. Tune in to learn how he went from waiting tables to waiting on CI!

Pavlos Vinieratos talks with Angela Patrinou (a fellow Greek), about Angela's mobile app. It's called Buddies, and it's about finding friends around the city you just moved into!
We discuss how the idea came about, how the development went, the launch, and a bunch more.
Join us for the first episode of Whatchu working on (on the side), on Artsy Engineering Radio. More to come!

On this week's episode, Matt, George, and Angela get together to discuss their experience teaching coding skills in a volunteer environment. Why did they get into teaching? What have they learned from teaching others?