Greater Than Code

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00:16 – Welcome to “Let’s Get this Ship on the Road!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:06 – Origin Story and Mentorship

Cheryl Gore Schaefer: Grow Your Team In 90 Days @ RubyConf 2016

Empowerment Through Mentorship

11:38 – Avoiding Burnout:

“How can I show up better as a Mentee? How can you keep yourself from giving up and washing out? When you find your skills have atrophied, how do you find the resolve to try again?” ~ Ariel Spear

Spot2Fish

23:41 – The Future of Tech Education

Sarah Mei Computer Science Education Tweetstorm

Sarah Mei People Who Apply for Opportunity Scholarships Tweetstorm

Reflections:

Cheryl: It’s valuable to have different viewpoints represented. Also, exposing people to fundamentals of tech is valuable as well.

Astrid: The RubyConf/RailsConf Opportunity Scholarships exist! Also, advice for mentees and mentors is the same.

Sam: Making a distinction between being a TA and being a mentor and giving the mentee ownership of their learning plan.

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Special Guest: Cheryl Shaefer.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:45 – Origin Stories

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective

André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe

11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits

501(C)(6)

22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby

27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff

RethinkDB: why we failed

39:46 – How Does Bundler Work, Anyway? [blog post]

Andre Arko: How does Bundler work, anyway? @ RubyConf 2015

44:16 – Sharing and Reusing Code

52:26 – gemstash vs geminabox

OpenSSL

Heartbleed

Reflections:

Sam: Be a member-friend of Ruby Together!

Jessica: Ruby Together is an advancement in the software industry as a whole to form a trade organization that is a business related to supporting all businesses and people and making our software infrastructure maintainable.

Carina: OpenSSL is back to being insufficiently funded. Support other projects like Ruby Together too. See: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.

André: Hope that devs and companies that listen to this show with join Ruby Together.

Jay: It’s smart business for businesses to support organizations like Ruby Together. Software companies have large profit margins. Monies that would be spent on taxes can be put back into our community to support key infrastructure & tooling. My call to action is that our listeners support Ruby Together and get their companies to support Ruby Together and similar organizations.

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Special Guests: André Arko and Carina C. Zona.

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Intro music by Rod Johnson: Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow.

01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.”

The Recurse Center

Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust

07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions

Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

The Google Effect

20:26 – Operations (Ops); Testing in Ops

"There's this exciting thing that happens when you run software, which is that stuff goes wrong in unexpected ways!" @b0rk @greaterthancode

Ryan Kennedy: Fear Driven Development @ OSB 2015

Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels

Continuous Integration

38:42 – Zines & Drawings

Reflections:

Sam: Having concrete strategies for asking question more effectively.

Julia: If something is painful, then do it more often.

Jessica: If asking questions is scary, put some work into the question and then you can ask it with confidence and know you’re not wasting someone’s time.

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Special Guest: Julia Evans.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Snowpocalypse!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:50 – Zuri’s Background and Origin Story

04:19 – Hackathons

Meet Zuri. The Queen of Hackathons.

Color Coded

16:37 – Overcoming Shyness

20:47 – Navigating the Channels of Your Career

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

27:07 – Developing Skills and Keeping up with New Technologies

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

33:31 – Hiring Practices; Culture Fit

Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume (“No Silver Bullet” for D&I)

Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce

An Imbalance; Casting a Wider Net to Attract Computing Women (“Dave-to-Girl Ratio”)

50:23 – Leading While Learning

Reflections:

Jessica: Helping others in small ways. #Micromentoring!

#micromentoring https://t.co/D51s0HoA8m

Coraline: Senior developers need to create opportunities for micromentorship.

Zuri: Periodically check in with new developers.

Astrid: Use hackathons as a way to try new things and to meet others who are already good at them.

Sam: Hang out at hackathons and the power of post-its!

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Special Guest: Zuri Hunter.

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00:16 – Welcome to “DevPunks!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

00:42 – Snuggs’ Background and Origin Story

NYC.rb

Ruby on Rails Link Slack Community

Ra’Shaun Stovall: Why Is Open Source So Closed? @ RubyConf 2016

04:41 – Getting Involved in Meetups and Building the Ruby Community

09:08 – Teaching/Mentoring New Developers

OH: In order to make Rails jobs be a thing in the future, you develop Rails people.

12:13 – Hurdling the Massive Casm that is Between “Junior” and “Senior” Developers

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33:09 – Teaching How to be a Developer: Are “seniors” really the “juniors”?

Id, Ego and Super-ego

Occam’s Razor

38:11 – The Best Ways for Juniors and Seniors to Work Together

C.A.N.: Cancel All Negativity

43:13 – What can hiring managers do?

48:34 – What can senior developers do?

Reflections:

Astrid: Being accountable is paying homage to those who helped you get where you are.

Jessica: Your students can make you a good teacher by showing you the solutions you never would have thought of.

Snuggs: Check out Ruby Together and grab yourself some Bitcoins!

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Special Guest: Ra’Shaun Stovall.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Lucky Episode 13!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:10 – Audrey’s Background and Origin Story

Stumptown Syndicate

Citizen Code of Conduct

Free Geek

10:37 – The Recompiler

The Responsible Communication Style Guide

16:24 – Community Organization; Tech Community Biases

Calagator

The Agile Manifesto

The Overton Window

25:55 – Accessibility in Community Spaces

Open Source Bridge

28:49 – Religion and Social Justice in Tech

Unitarianism

34:37 – Labor Organization

#talkpay by Lauren Voswinkel

Distributed Denial of Women

National General Strike

Fight for $15

Reflections:

Astrid: Making space for others.

Coraline: Tech workers face the same challenges that workers in other industries have.

Sam: Importance of spiritual awareness in communities.

Audrey: Go talk to a coworker. Ask a question about work environment and how things get done at your company.

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Special Guest: Audrey Eschright.

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00:16 – Welcome to “It’s Made of People!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

02:17 – Jerome’s Background and Origin Story

General Assembly

09:30 – Vets Who Code: Funding, Technology Stack, Curriculum, and Students

18:19 – Vets Who Code Student Experience

20:00 – Obstacles Veterans Face Getting Into Tech

“Your goal is to only get 1% better every day and the funny thing about 1% is that your 1% changes every day.” @JeromeHardaway

Jacob Oakley: Learning Code with Kids

29:04 – Making the Tech Community More Welcoming to Veterans

33:37 – What should people in the tech community NOT do?

36:55 – Getting Involved with Vets Who Code

38:09 – Evaluating Opportunities

Reflections:

Astrid: Addressing emotional intelligence and increasing 1% each day.

Jessica: Using Ruby on Rails is a valuable resource for teaching people how to code.

Coraline: Time is life and life is also time. Don’t be married to the tool, be married to the problem.

Jerome: Be “Greater Than Code” and ask questions about people.

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Special Guest: Jerome Hardaway.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Trapped in a BinarySort!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:21 – “STEAM” Education

02:36 – Getting Involved in Technology and Being a Maker

05:33 – Making a Zine and Making it (and other things) Inclusive

Books With Pictures

[Kickstarter] BubbleSort Zines 2.0: moar computer science zines!

14:03 – Passion for Sailor Moon and How it Relates to Teams and Friendship

18:21 – Introducing Art Into STEM

Amy Wibowo: Sweaters as a Service – Adventures in Machine Knitting @ Madison+ Ruby

This Long-Lost Nintendo Knitting Machine Would Have Let You Make Sweaters With Your NES

25:36 – Making Websites as a Full-time Career

28:22 – Human-computer Interaction (HCI) Research

Reflections:

Astrid: Pay more attention to the hobbies that you have. You might be able to build a career out of it!

Sam: Seeking inspiration in other forms of art.

Coraline: Art gives us empathy for other people’s experiences.

Jessica: Art is not an alternative to technology. It is an integral part to doing technology well.

Amy: Art as admitting you don’t know everything and wanting to create a little bit of alternate reality that other people can look into and understand.

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Special Guest: Amy Wibowo.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Who’s Line of Code is it Anywhere?…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:37 – Getting Started with Computer-ing & Security

PGP = Pretty Good Privacy

Filippo Valsorda: I’m giving up on PGP

09:28 – Clef and Two-factor Authentication (2FA)

12:33 – Citizen Cybersecurity Due to the Rise of Mass Surveillance

Quincy Larson: How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour

Signal by Whisper Systems

17:27 – Evaluating Service Providers

Tor

As devs, we have the opportunity to make software and tools more secure and more private or less secure and less private.” - @jessepollak

22:29 – Password Managers and Encrypting Data at Rest (Security by Default)

1Password

LastPass

Noah Zoschke: Encryption at Rest (Convox Article)

25:30 – Tools and Resources

NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library (“Salt”)

Bouncy Castle

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

28:20 – Two-factor Authentication, Yubico

32:58 – Putting Trust in Security and the Organizations That Provide It; Centralization

38:06 – Developer Unions

42:58 – “Citizens are buying a lot of IoT devices that are being used for DDoS attacks. As citizens, are we responsible to some extent for them occurring regardless of our technical ability at the time of purchase?” – Yiorgos (George) Adamopoulos; What about retailers?

47:56 – “What are your thoughts on “benevolent” malware that looks for vulnerable devices and patches them without asking for permission from the device’s owner?” – Wesley Ellis

Reflections:

Jesse: We as a society have a responsibility to look after the people on the edges, and look after the people who don’t have the tools or don’t have the resources to do security themselves.

Mandy: Learning about security is important, even for a newbie.

Jay: We can’t just build the thing, we have to make sure that it’s usable and we have to make sure that beyond the fact that it works, that it’s going to be adopted by people and that it’s meaningful and helpful.

Sam: “Stop calling me a consumer. I am neither a gaping a mouth nor an open wallet. I am a citizen interacting in a community.” – Jeme Brelin

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Special Guest: Jesse Pollak.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Software Eats Human…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:25 – Travis’ Superhero Origin Story

Retinitis Pigmentosa

Achondroplasia

09:00 – Explaining a Disability and Limitations to Others

The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino

14:25 – Supporting Someone with a Disability

19:56 – “Are you noticing your disabilities misrepresenting you in some ways?” – James Edward Gray II / Accessibility

re: Accessibility “We need to have diverse people working for us so we can bring up, ‘Hey! This thing is an issue!’” @travisbhartwell

Do they all look like me? Do they all think like me? If they do, you’re probably not getting the perspective that you need @travisbhartwell

30:29 – “I have a Buddhist friend with Marfan syndrome who has told me that the knowledge he could die at any time has been tremendously beneficial to his practice, and I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t be a shallow asshole if I didn’t have my own stuff I’m dealing with. On that note, I’d be curious if you have any thoughts on how your disability and health challenges have positively impacted your life?” – Ryder Timberlake

32:10 – Coping Mechanisms and Defining Yourself By Your Work (Question from Craig Buchek)

34:20 – “What’s a non-programming hobby you’re into?” – Ben Hamill

36:10 – “What’s one thing you wish unknown strangers you encounter in public knew about you?” – James Edward Gray II

Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much

Reflections:

Astrid: Being cognizant if there’s a way to make your own code and applications more accessible to others.

Coraline: Thinking about The Spoon Theory and how it’s been appropriated by the activist community.

Mandy: Have empathy for both yourself and others, find your community, and disability is different for everyone.

Travis: Gaining empathy for other people to help other people gain empathy for other people.

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Special Guest: Travis B. Hartwell.

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