Today's guest is Jonathan Cutrell - Director of Engineering at PBS & host of the Developer Tea podcast.

In this episode we discuss:

• How and why he started Developer Tea
• The why behind things we do as developers
• What drives the actions we take
• The psychology of remote working
• Hierarchies of developer roles
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Jonathan
You can find Jonathan on Twitter @JCutrell & on his website.

🔎 Resources discussed in the show

• How Remote First Companies are Antifragile [Article]
• The Black Swan [Book]
• Antifragile [Book]
• Thinking, Fast & Slow [Book]
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst [Book]
• Accelerate: the Science of Lean Software & Devops [Book]
• Principles [Book]
• Hidden Brain [Podcast]

Today's guest is Andrew McAvinchey - Sales & Marketing Guru and CEO of MountArbor.io.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got into sales & marketing
• Why sales & marketing are not the same thing
• How to approach sales/marketing in 2020
• Small budget vs big budget marketing
• The pros and cons of taking investments as a startup
• Organic vs paid reach
• Why you shouldn't do everything yourself
• The journey from startup to viable business
• The sales flywheel (it's not a funnel anymore folks)
• and much more!

You can find the show notes for this episode @ CoffeeAndCodingPod.com/episode14

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🔗 Connect with Andrew

• LinkedIn
• MountArbor.io

👀 Things discussed in the show

• The Fly Wheel model
• Graph of startup time to profit
• Profit First (Book)
• Free consultation with Andrew

Today's guest is Vasiliy Zukanov - Freelance Android Veteran, Course Creator, Youtuber & Tech Blogger.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he became a freelancer
• Finding & pricing projects
• Self discipline
• Creating courses
• Tech blogging
• His new membership programme
• React Native vs Flutter
• How the Oracle vs Google lawsuit could spell the end for Android
• and much more!

You can find the show notes for this episode @ CoffeeAndCodingPod.com/episode13

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🔗 Connect with Vasiliy

• Twitter
• TechYourChance
• Youtube

👀 Things discussed in the show

• His membership program
• 10 Signs you will suck a programming
• Fuchsia
• His newest DI course

Today's guest is Brian Plummer - veteran mobile developer, speaker & developer at the New York Times, Nike, TouchLab & currently OKCupid.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got started in development
• What mobile development was like in 2010
• His experience working at the New York Times
• How he got into public speaking
• His philosophy on code reviews
• His thoughts on GraphQL
• Fakes vs Mocks when it comes to testing
• And more!

You can find the show notes for this episode @ CoffeeAndCodingPod.com/episode12

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🔗 Connect with Brian

• Twitter
• OkCupid Tech Blog
• A list of Brian's Talks

👀 Things discussed in the show

• Mockk
• GraphQL Apollo Client
• Brian's GraphQL talk at DroidCon
• New York Time's Android App
• Brian's Talk on Code Reviews
• TouchLab

Today's guest is Mitch Tabian - mobile developer, course creator, successful Youtuber & podcast host.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got started in development
• His journey to becoming a successful Youtuber & course creator
• His creation process
• Why he doesn't host his courses on Udemy
• His thoughts on Flutter vs Native
• Why he prefers course creation over freelance work
• And much much more!

You can find the show notes for this episode @ CoffeeAndCodingPod.com/episode11

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🔗 Connect with Mitch

• Website
• Twitter
• Youtube

👀 Things discussed in the show

• PluralSight
• Mitch's first course
• Flutter vs Native
• Squadcast

Today's guest is Noah Labhart.  Software engineer, Founder of mobile development agency Touch Tap, Co-Founder and CTO of startup Veryable, and Creator & Host of the awesome podcast Code Story.

In this episode we discuss:

• How he got started in software engineering
• How he founded his own a Mobile Development Studio
• Co-founding a successful startup
• The role networking has played in his success
• What makes a good technical test
• How to hire & manage a fully remote team
• What Being CTO actually involves
• What Code Story has taught him
• And much much more!

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🔗 Connect with Noah

• LinkedIn
• Website

👀 Things discussed in the show

• CodeStory
• Veryable
• TouchTap

Today's guest is the developer behind the number 1 top paid social app on the Play Store* (Talon), Owner of app studio Klinker Apps and long time independent developer - Luke Klinker.

In this episode we discuss:

• Klinker Apps rise to success as an independent app studio
• The Story Behind Pulse + Talon
• The Pro's of Freemium vs Paid apps
• Open Sourcing his most popular apps
• Supporting 100's of 1000's of users by himself
• The strategy he would use to launch a successful in 2020

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Connect with Luke

• Twitter
• Github
• Website

Things discussed in the show

• Talon
• Pulse SMS
• Klinker Apps Github

Today's guest is Yelp Android engineer, Sherry Yuan.

In this episode we discuss:

• Working with Internal Libraries + Why They're Useful
• Writing Open Source Software
• Dependency Injection
• Declarative UI Frameworks

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Connect with Sherry

• Linked - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-yuan-375291a2/
• Github - https://github.com/frostyshadows
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/frostyshadows

Resources discussed in the show

• Bento - https://github.com/Yelp/bento
• Koin - https://insert-koin.io/
• Dagger - https://github.com/google/dagger
• Hilt - https://developer.android.com/training/dependency-injection/hilt-android

Today's guest is Cyber Security Researcher and founder of the Cyber Security firm, Digital Interruption - Jahmel Harris.

In this episode we discuss:

• Mobile Cyber Secuirty
• The main 3 attack vectors on a mobile app
• Penetration testing mobile apps
• How to protect your apps from being hacked
• Android vs iOS Security
• Rex - an automated vulnerability scanner for CI

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Connect with Jahmel

• Linked - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahmelharris/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/JayHarris_Sec
• Email - [email protected] (he's a brave man!)

Resources discussed in the show

• Digital Interruption - https://www.digitalinterruption.com
• Rex @ https://www.digitalinterruption.com/tooling-2
• To try Rex email [email protected]

Manchester Grey Hats meetup group

• Website - http://manchestergreyhats.co.uk
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/mcrgreyhats.

Today's guest is iOS Developer Tim Mikelj - a professional cyclist turned software engineer.

In this episode we discuss:

• Building apps for the Apple Watch
• Working with Apple's Natural Language processing framework
• The importance of publishing your own apps

You can find Tim on Linked @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmikelj/ and his apps on the App Store @ https://apps.apple.com/ca/developer/tim-mikelj/id1298450749 .  You can also find out more about Apple's Natural Language processing framework @ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/naturallanguage .