Coffee & Code Cast

This week on the Coffee & Code Cast we discuss new gear bought for the shows... gear. Kyle's eye problems might finally be solved? We discuss what led to getting that issue corrected. Mike has a Spinn coffee update this week. We jump into a recent news story that brings into focus the legal use of meme images and wrap up with some disucssion about being managers and dealing with compensation.

This episode of the Coffee & Code Cast we are discussing a bunch of food related topics including risky McDonald's runs, more really strange food submissions and Mike's recent experience with Hello Fresh. We talk a little bit about Sonos's recent decision to end of life some older products and move onto discussing management experiences surrounding end of year reviews, learning new skills, dealing with stress and staying anchored.

This week we have a very special guest on the show. Kyle’s wife and Sr. Technical Recruiter at Big Fish Games joins us to discuss recruiting, agency vs. in house recruiting, interview processes, unintentional bias, project based interviewing, collecting feedback, building real relationships, analyzing market data and so much more.

This week we are live from Denver, Colorado with our friend and guest Zach Cervi. The first show after the holiday break we have a lot of catching up to do. We updated the website and we're asking for your help to give us a review or a referal. We have some Erotic Photo Hunt followup, a Spinn Coffee update and an update on the iKuddle cat box we have discussed. We check in on Mike's solo backpacking trip and new gear for the show. We round out the show with some tech news. Tesla news, Tesla Cybertruck, and a new app called Bod Genius.

This week it's a full house as we welcome Raine Lightner and Connor Peavey live on the show to talk about holiday plans, brewing projects and strange party and holiday food creations. We also dive into the Prusa Mini 3D Printer and Skydio 2 Drone.

This week on the show we are back after a couple weeks off. So we catch up on an epic troll that happened at work for Mike’s birthday. We follow up on Kyle’s eye issues that have gone on for months.

In the news we talk about Apple’s new Mac Pro configurations that allow you to customize a computer to $52,999. We also discuss the recent controversy around Away’s business practices and CEO as well as lessons we can learn from it.

We wrap up this episode talking about a new adventure Mike is taking with backpacking as Kyle and Mike nerd out on gear, weight and other things.

This week we are doing a double ender as Kyle is in Denver on business. We talk this week about a lot of news including Tesla news, Space X news, and a really cool new project our friend and coworker has been working on.

This week we didn't prepare well, so we are calling people live on air and chatting with them about all kinds of things. This episode is about twice as long as our usual ones but get ready for a fun and wild ride.

This week Kyle is on vacation so Mike talks with special guest Tim Wilfong about the recent Google Event as well as discussing what is and what is not DevOps.