Creating Zeal Podcast

In the latest episode of the Creating Zeal Podcast, Adam Cuppy chats with Sparkbox co-founder Rob Harr about his workshop "Awesome Discovery Projects," and why at the end of the day, projects are really people experiences.

Listen in as Rob goes through the process of discovery, from setting expectations and problem-solving, to goal setting and project timelines, and discover how tech really takes a back seat to people.

Featured Links:

Find Rob on Twitter at: @robertHarr

Check out Sparkbox at: https://seesparkbox.com/

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

What makes a good engineering manager? Join us for the latest Creating Zeal podcast episode where Host Adam Cuppy discusses becoming comfortable with discomfort and the noble pursuit of being a leader with Tramale Turner, Engineering Manager at Stripe in Seattle.

With a background in marketing at Volkswagen and Nissan that transitioned into software engineering at Nintendo, Tramale moved into a management role that eventually led him to realize that being the really smart person doesn’t necessarily mean being a good leader.

Featured Links:

• Twitter: @shidoshi
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tramale-turner-31b24a/

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy explores overcoming social anxiety with web developer and programmer Liz Crane.

Liz opens up about her social anxiety and how a personal tragedy pushed her to develop courageous habits that eventually led her to start a meetup group in L.A., Learn Teach Code, which encourages people to create value for others regardless of their level of expertise.

Featured Links & Mentions:

• Learn Teach Code
• Liz Crane on Twitter
• YouTube
• Fuzzels
• Kelsey Hightower

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In our latest episode, Adam has a conversation with Karen Sandler, an engineer-turned-attorney who now serves as the Executive Director with the Software Freedom Conservancy. 

Listen in as Karen tells the story of how a heart condition led to her mission for software freedom. Passionate about ethics in tech, Karen works to avoid using closed proprietary software where possible. Learn how this impacts the devices we use, such as heart defibrillators, and their security.

Featured Links:

• Software Freedom Conservancy website: https://sfconservancy.org/
• Karen's Podcast "Free as in Freedom": http://faif.us/
• Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/o0karen0o

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy has a great conversation with code blogger Ali Spittel. 

Ali discusses how developers often find themselves in a teaching role— whether that be mentoring a colleague, writing blog posts, speaking at meetups, or even teaching more formally at a college or bootcamp. If you are wondering how you can teach code more effectively, tune in to this conversation!

Featured Links:

• Those Who Can Do Should Also Teach (same talk, different conference): https://youtu.be/O5NGIQ2Qdpk
• Ali's Website: https://www.alispit.tel/
• We Learn Code (Ali's Blog): https://welearncode.com/

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In this episode, Adam has the pleasure of interviewing Anna Rankin, a Senior Software Engineer at General Assembly. Anna talks about her path into the industry, from graphic design to attending General Assembly as a code school student, where she became an instructor and eventually "snuck" onto the dev team.

Featured Links:

• Anna Rankin at General Assembly: https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/anna-rankin/5799

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy has a great conversation with Jon Yablonski. Jon is a designer, speaker, writer, and digital creator based in Detroit, currently working on the next generation of in-vehicle interactive experiences as a senior product designer at General Motors. Learn how Jon crafted his personal brand in order to get a job and escalate his career... and why Humane Design Patterns are important in creating products.

Featured Links:

• Jon Yablonski’s personal website: https://jonyablonski.com
• Jon’s talk from Abstractions on Humane Design Patterns: https://youtu.be/paers6VQVE4
• Humane By Design: https://humanebydesign.com/

Other opportunities to connect:

• Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
• Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
• Reach out at Our Website

In this episode, Adam and Trever interview Chris Coyier. Chris is the founder of CSS-Tricks.com, and co-founder of Codepen.io, and the podcast Shoptalk. In our conversation find out why Chris doesn't like doing side-projects and hear his take on where he thinks web development is heading.

Featured Links:

• Chris' recap of his talk Ooooops I guess we’re full-stack developers now
• CSS-Tricks.com
• Codepen.io
• Chris' podcast - Shoptalk

Other opportunities to connect:
Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch Stream
Weekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube Channel
Reach out at Our Website

Kevin and Chris join forces to promote Zeal's new code deletion service and Kevin's promotion to Chief Deletion Officer (CDO). Read more about this new service: https://codingzeal.com/code-deletion-service

Or watch on YouTube.com: https://youtu.be/d7-rQSSLJ-U

Happy beginning of April!

Trever and Marcus dive into the purpose and use of having playbooks for teams. They discuss how playbooks benefit not only large teams but also can be impactful for individual contractors.

Featured Links:

• Zeal Project Foundations Playbook: https://codingzeal.lpages.co/zeal-project-foundations-playbook/