Creating Zeal Podcast

On today's episode we discuss the topic of Imposter Syndrome. Impostor syndrome is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

"I've been doing software development for 20+ years, even now I'll compare myself to other people” -Kevin Craine, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal

Articles Featured:

• https://medium.com/learn-love-code/developers-how-to-overcome-imposter-syndrome-48edee803cf4
• https://startupbros.com/21-ways-overcome-impostor-syndrome/

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On today's episode we discuss the Global Day of Coderetreat. A day founded by Corey Haines with the intention of giving developers time to hone their craft and get better at what they do.

"If you think of musical performers, they practice a lot and then perform rarely. Where as developers we tend to perform all the time and never practice ” - Randy Coulman, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal

More Information:

• http://coderetreat.org/
• https://www.meetup.com/southern-oregon-software-craftsmanship/events/244285720/

Find a G.D.C.R Near You:

• http://coderetreat.org/events/

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On today's episode we discuss "We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made." An article from Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton. We also talk about a response article titled "You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy." from Tony Robinson.

"He was working a 12 hour day by 7 day a week schedule which is absurd, That's not sustainable for anyone.” - Emma Castor, Software Engineer at Zeal

Articles Featured:

• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde
• https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/you-fired-your-top-talent-i-hope-youre-happy-cf57c41183dd

Additional reading:

• https://www.sciencealert.com/study-suggests-working-more-than-39-hours-a-week-is-bad-for-you

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Kevin and Chris revisit Dave Thomas' Article 'Agile Is Dead' and how the world has reacted since 2014.

"In order to turn this into a much bigger movement, people came up with this "nounification" of a thing.” - Kevin Craine, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal

Articles Featured:

• https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html
• https://dzone.com/articles/agile-is-dead-long-live-continuous-delivery

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On today's episode we discuss facial recognition for phone authentication coming hot off the heels of Apple's iPhone X announcement. We also go into some recent history of facial recognition technology, the security and privacy questions this technology brings and how Apple has implemented the most secure version yet.

"If you are someone that is fearful of your phone being stolen, from what Troy Hunt is saying. Basically Face ID is your best shot at protecting yourself” - Frank West, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal

Article Featureds:

• https://www.troyhunt.com/face-id-touch-id-pins-no-id-and-pragmatic-security/
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108

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On today's episode we discuss Cult(ure). A talk given by Adam Cuppy from Zeal. We speak on some of the topics Adam addresses in his talk. We also talk about the difference between a cult and a culture within organizations.

"It's very important that you accept conflict and discontent as a great identifier that you're going to break through eventually” - Adam Cuppy, Co-Founder at Zeal

Additional listening:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVSV9vCs4Y

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On today's episode we discuss mentoring and what it means to be a mentor and student, also what expectations to set for yourself as a mentor and apprentice. We also discuss where to look for mentorship and how to approach a possible mentor.

"It's important not to expect this person to be the end all be all source of information” - Emma Castor, Software Engineer at Zeal

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On today's episode we discuss "The art of over engineering your side projects" An article from Liam Symonds. We also dive into our experiences with over engineering our side projects.

"It's really easy to not build what you're trying to build if you haven't set what your priorities are” - Trever Yarrish, Co-Founder at Zeal
Article Featured:

• https://elsyms.com/the-art-of-over-engineering-your-side-projects/

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On today's episode we have a conversation with Randy Coulman about his most recently launched open source project and his philosophies about maintaining open source projects.

"As people who use this software, if we see holes or gaps like that. We can come in and fill those gaps” - Randy Coulman, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal

Article Featured:

• https://github.com/CodingZeal/redux-persist-sensitive-storage

Additional reading:

• http://randycoulman.com/blog/2017/07/25/secure-storage-in-react-native/
• http://randycoulman.com/blog/2017/08/01/open-source-curation//
• Create React App
• ReactGen by Zeal

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