Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

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A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.... more

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September 21, 2015164: Transcribing at 260 wpm (Mirabai Knight)
Ben talks with Mirabai Knight about the technology and uses of modern stenography; including using steno with Vim, and her work on Plover, the open source Steno engine.
StenoKnight CART Services
Giant Robots 164 Transcript
White Coat Captioning
Stenotype
Steno Alphabet Chart
Drew Neil on Giant Robots
Plover: The Open Steno Project
How Stenography Works
Stenoboard- 3D Printed Kit
Stenosaurus
Success Stories from Steno Autodidacts
Using Plover with Vim for Captioning
Coding in Python with Plover
Mirabai On Twitter
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37min
September 14, 2015163: Play is the Best Way to Learn (Nadia Odunayo)
Ben talks with Nadia Odunayo about giving non-technical conference talks and full-time pairing.
Playing Games in the Clouds- Nadia's 2015 RailsConf Talk
Floobits
Makers Academy
RubyConf
Nadia On Twitter
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32min
September 08, 2015162: Literal Giant Robots (Brinkley Warren)
Ben is joined by Brinkley Warren of MegaBots Inc. to discuss the history, build, and strategy behind the MegaBot Mk II, USA's entrant in next years giant robot duel!
MegaBots Giant Robot Duel Kickstarter
MegaBots Inc. (with initial challenge videos)
Darpa Robotics Challenge
IHMC
Grant Imahara
MegaBots On Twitter
Brinkley On Twitter
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24min
August 31, 2015161: Listen to Your Users (Jules Coleman)
Ben and Jules Coleman, founder of Hassle, discuss staying close to the codebase while in a more managerial role, the challenges of rapid growth, and the value of internalizing feedback.
Hassle
Kaizen
The Shit That TechCrunch Doesn't Tell You
Jules On Twitter
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29min
August 26, 2015160: Unfollowing the Leader (Drew Neil)
Ben and Drew Neil discuss freeing up Vim's leader key, the value of visual learning, and using GitHub to crowd source closed captions.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Retronyms: Make music whenever, wherever. Tap your inspiration and remember to keep it fresh. Visit to get a free download of AudioCopy.
Links & Show Notes
Follow My Leader
speeddating.vim
rails.vim
unimpaired.vim
surround.vim
Vimcasts
Practical Vim
Peer to Peer
Vimcasts #12: Modal editing: undo, redo and repeat
Neovim
Drew On Twitter
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31min
August 17, 2015159: Falling Out of Love With Haskell (Mike Burns)
Ben and fellow thoughtbotter Mike Burns take time out of their Summer Summit schedule to chat about launching offices, the art of classical code, and why Mike no longer loves Haskell.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Links & Show Notes
The Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm
Hackers
OpenBSD
Mike On Twitter
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24min
August 10, 2015158: Producing...Stuff (Thom Obarski)
Ben is joined by trepidatious producer, Thom Obarski, to talk all things media at thoughtbot, compare working in tech to entertainment environments, and bestow some beginner advice on starting one's own podcast.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Links & Show Notes
Levelator
Ben, transcribed & annotated
Seth Godin Episode of Giant Robots
Original Producer Position Posting
Acitve thoughtbot Podcasts
Thom on IMDB
thoughtbot Youtube (Warning, a welcome video autoplays if you're not already a subscriber)
Ben's first blooper reel
Robots at Play Video Playlist
Thom's Investment Time
Wistia
Wista on Giant Robots
Mou
Podcasting for $0 Down- Submitted talk proposal
Podclear
Thom on Twitter
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32min
August 03, 2015157: Between Frustration and Enlightenment (Tom Stuart)
Ben is joined by Tom Stuart to talk about incorporating computer science topics into Ruby, his process of preparing talks, enriching your development career with a bit of computer science knowledge, and gushing about how amazing computers truly are.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Links & Show Notes
Refactoring Ruby With Monads
A Lever for the Mind
The Elements of Computing Systems (From NAND to Tetris)
OmniOutliner
"Doing the hard work to make it bearable"- Russell Davies
To the Moon!-Russ Olsen
Ben, transcribed & annotated
Understanding Computation- Tom Stuart
How to Write a Web Application in Ruby
London Ruby User Group
Tom on Twitter
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47min
July 27, 2015156: It Has to be Valuable (Steve Tooke)
Ben is joined by Steve Tooke to discuss the importance of communication, testing, and building Cucumber 2.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Links & Show Notes
Your Tests Want You to Change Your Design
The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design
subtweeting
How to Design Programs
Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer- Brian Marick
Cucumber
Taking Back BDD
SwanseaCon
Steve on Twitter
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34min
July 20, 2015155: CTO Duties (Joe Ferris)
Ben welcomes Joe Ferris, thoughtbot's CTO, to discuss design parity within the company, inversion of control, and solving all the world's problems with monads.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account.
Links & Show Notes
Bourbon
Inversion of Control
Upcase
Ruby Science
Maybe Haskell (50% off for our listeners!)
Agda
Idris
Docker
boot2docker
Upcase Newsletter
Joe on Twitter
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41min

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