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Greater Than Code episodes

November 04, 2020207: Investigation and Influence with Chelsea Troy
03:36 - Chelsea’s Superpower: Software Detective Work
Grant-funded Organizations
Context Loss
Forensic Software Analysis
Software (Initially) Never Works ‼️
08:27 - Coding in Investigation Mode
Lucifer (TV Series)
Setting Up a Debugging Environment (Includes a Velociraptor Example!)
15:05 - Chelsea’s Techtivism Blog Series: Engineers Considering the Actions and Impact of Their Work Systematically
Techtivism 1: Eyes on the Mountain
Techtivism 2: The Four Levers
Techtivism 3: Biding Time, Boycotts, and Beyond
20:20 - The Power of Influence (See Techtivism 2)
Patronage: buying from or donating to an organization
Patronage Advocacy: convincing others to buy from/donate to an organization
Talent: devoting time and energy to an organization
Talent Advocacy: convincing others to devote their time and energy to an organization
26:57 - Making a Connection Between Values and Your Work as an Engineer
Privilege
The Status Quo
Incumbency
37:08 - Individual vs Collective Action
”A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”
Confrontation
Avoidance
Reflections:
Amy: The ways people can be both confrontational and avoidant at the same time.
Damien: How what we do impacts larger systems and how we can move entire societies.
Chelsea: The degree to which our fallibility creates the positions we get to occupy and what that means about the grace that we need to have about the fallibility of other people.
Jessica: Chelsea is awesome!
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Chelsea Troy.
Sponsored By:
Virtual Genius: Explore DDD is offering hands-on and highly interactive workshops this year. Workshops will take place over the course of the last two weeks in October and the first three weeks in November.
Instructors include industry leaders such as Scott Wlaschin, Kacper Gunia, Marijn Huizendveld, Jessica Kerr, Kent Beck, Alberto Brandolini, and Paul Rayner.
Why should you attend? No travel! No flight delays, passport control, or security checks. Worried about losing your luggage? Forget about it!
Challenge your thinking in an open, sharing, and collaborative environment while accessing the workshops from the comfort of your own home or office. Take breaks as needed. These are strange times we are living in.
Use the time you would be traveling to report to colleagues on the key lessons and takeaways. Help them to expand the skills you’ve learned from these innovative, remote sessions, and then incorporate them into your organization.
Talk to your boss and tell them how you would benefit from attending online workshops from Explore DDD. Relay the cost savings you will benefit from by not traveling this year. Visit http://exploreddd.com/workshops/ and register today. Use the Code EDDDGTC to get 10% off the price of any of the workshop tickets! Promo Code: EDDDGTC
Support Greater Than Code
56 min
October 28, 2020206: Conscious Teaching and Learning with Brian Hogan
02:11 - Brian’s Superpower: Being Able to Teach People Stuff
Guiding Learners Towards Outcomes and Success
Connecting with Students on a Deeper Level
Active Learning
13:15 - Building Relationships
Adults vs Kids
Tapping Into Individual Motivation
18:34 - Learning Useful, Real-World Material
Exercises For Programmers
Systems Thinking Speech by Dr. Russell Ackoff
Working Backwards: Identify Outcomes/Goals => Write/Build Content/Material
Docs Are (can be) Wrong!
31:39 - Constructive and Interactive Learning
Learning Happens Through Feedback and Practice
The Shannon Communication Model
Experiencing Joint Activity
37:12 - Conversation Theory
43:27 - Teaching Vs Mentoring
Mentoring is a Deeper/Closer Relationship
Being Open to and Honoring Feedback
Teaching and Learning Are Activities, Not Roles
Reflections:
Jacob: There isn’t enough content that is in the category of, “Here’s a problem for you, go solve it,” to learn.
Jamey: Identifying things (i.e. hobbies) that get other people excited and motivated to learn.
Rein: Often the best way to learn something is to teach it, and often the best thing for a teacher to do is get out of the way and find ways to support the learners.
Brian: The need for more complex problems to learn things.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Brian Hogan.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
Virtual Genius: Explore DDD is offering hands-on and highly interactive workshops this year. Workshops will take place over the course of the last two weeks in October and the first three weeks in November.
Instructors include industry leaders such as Scott Wlaschin, Kacper Gunia, Marijn Huizendveld, Jessica Kerr, Kent Beck, Alberto Brandolini, and Paul Rayner.
Why should you attend? No travel! No flight delays, passport control, or security checks. Worried about losing your luggage? Forget about it!
Challenge your thinking in an open, sharing, and collaborative environment while accessing the workshops from the comfort of your own home or office. Take breaks as needed. These are strange times we are living in.
Use the time you would be traveling to report to colleagues on the key lessons and takeaways. Help them to expand the skills you’ve learned from these innovative, remote sessions, and then incorporate them into your organization.
Talk to your boss and tell them how you would benefit from attending online workshops from Explore DDD. Relay the cost savings you will benefit from by not traveling this year. Visit http://exploreddd.com/workshops/ and register today. Use the Code EDDDGTC to get 10% off the price of any of the workshop tickets! Promo Code: EDDDGTC
Support Greater Than Code
1 hr
October 21, 2020205: Breaking Silos and Creating Opportunity Via Remote Work with Amir Salihefendić
02:16 - Amir’s Superpower: Learning
The Value of Knowledge Work
05:42 - Growing Up As a Refugee
Maintaining Focus During Change
11:04 - A Founder’s Mindset
Trauma: Makes You Stronger
Shadow-Side Psyche
Reboot by Jerry Colonna (Book)
Reboot.io (CEO Coaching)
19:06 - Remote Work
Opportunities and Implications
Handling Skepticism
Impact on Local Community
Remote-First Companies
Salary Transparency
Hiring Based on Mission
More Resources on Remote Work From Amir:
What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
Why We Don’t Have an Exit Strategy
Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive
Reflections:
John: The impact of having a globally high salary and what that positively enables.
Astrid: Negative events can help to shape you into the person that you want to be.
Amir: Using trauma to drive positivity.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Amir Salihefendić.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
Virtual Genius: Explore DDD is offering hands-on and highly interactive workshops this year. Workshops will take place over the course of the last two weeks in October and the first three weeks in November.
Instructors include industry leaders such as Scott Wlaschin, Kacper Gunia, Marijn Huizendveld, Jessica Kerr, Kent Beck, Alberto Brandolini, and Paul Rayner.
Why should you attend? No travel! No flight delays, passport control, or security checks. Worried about losing your luggage? Forget about it!
Challenge your thinking in an open, sharing, and collaborative environment while accessing the workshops from the comfort of your own home or office. Take breaks as needed. These are strange times we are living in.
Use the time you would be traveling to report to colleagues on the key lessons and takeaways. Help them to expand the skills you’ve learned from these innovative, remote sessions, and then incorporate them into your organization.
Talk to your boss and tell them how you would benefit from attending online workshops from Explore DDD. Relay the cost savings you will benefit from by not traveling this year. Visit http://exploreddd.com/workshops/ and register today. Use the Code EDDDGTC to get 10% off the price of any of the workshop tickets! Promo Code: EDDDGTC
An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, be inspired by world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Fall Summit, a three-day web design conference coming to a device near you, October 26th through 28th. The Fall Summit features 18 in-depth sessions, each followed by a live, moderated Q&A session with the speaker, plus unique one-on-one conversations with some special guests.
You’ll learn about advanced CSS from Miriam Suzanne and Una Kravets, design systems and patterns from Mina Markham and Jason Grigsby, design engineering from Adekunle Oduye, inclusive design from Sara Soueidan and David Dylan Thomas, and much more.
Attending An Event Apart boosts your brain, inspires your creativity, and increases your value to your teammates, employers, clients, and most of all yourself.
And you can boost it even further. Purchase a Three-Day Pass and receive six months of on-demand access to their first three Online Together events. That’s six full days of jam-packed content for the price of three.
Greater Than Code listeners can get $100 off any multi-day pass with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join An Event Apart’s Online Together: Fall Summit, October 26th through 28th. See the full three-day schedule and register today at AnEventApart.com. Promo Code: AEAGTC
Support Greater Than Code
49 min
October 14, 2020204: Creating Community Spaces in The Age of COVID with Nicole Archambault
02:04 - Nicole’s Superpower: Empathy and Community Building
“The After-Hours Vibe” Zoom Parties (DM Nicole on Twitter for an invite!)
Discord Servers
freeCodeCamp
15:06 - Overcoming Isolation and Forming Connections in the Age of COVID-19
Masking
Vulnerability and Transparency
20:42 - Creating a Techincal Community
Human Resource Machine
#CodersTeach Twitter Chats
25:54 - Radiating Love and Compassion and Learning How-To Human
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Making Meaningful Connections
Authenticity and Embracing Yourself Independently
Epigenetics
39:45 - Educational Tech Entrepreneurship (EdTech)
Non-Verbal Learning Disorders
Test-Driven Learning
Programmatic Problem-Solving
Front End Happy Hour: Patron, Palomas, and Programmatic Problem Solving (featuring Nicole)
Deliberate Learning
Exercism
Reflections:
Jacob: Meeting and socializing with other people outside of a professional sphere remotely since COVID.
Arty: Leaning into being yourself.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
_To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Nicole Archambault.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, be inspired by world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Fall Summit, a three-day web design conference coming to a device near you, October 26th through 28th. The Fall Summit features 18 in-depth sessions, each followed by a live, moderated Q&A session with the speaker, plus unique one-on-one conversations with some special guests.
You’ll learn about advanced CSS from Miriam Suzanne and Una Kravets, design systems and patterns from Mina Markham and Jason Grigsby, design engineering from Adekunle Oduye, inclusive design from Sara Soueidan and David Dylan Thomas, and much more.
Attending An Event Apart boosts your brain, inspires your creativity, and increases your value to your teammates, employers, clients, and most of all yourself.
And you can boost it even further. Purchase a Three-Day Pass and receive six months of on-demand access to their first three Online Together events. That’s six full days of jam-packed content for the price of three.
Greater Than Code listeners can get $100 off any multi-day pass with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join An Event Apart’s Online Together: Fall Summit, October 26th through 28th. See the full three-day schedule and register today at AnEventApart.com. Promo Code: AEAGTC
Virtual Genius: Explore DDD is offering hands-on and highly interactive workshops this year. Workshops will take place over the course of the last two weeks in October and the first three weeks in November.
Instructors include industry leaders such as Scott Wlaschin, Kacper Gunia, Marijn Huizendveld, Jessica Kerr, Kent Beck, Alberto Brandolini, and Paul Rayner.
Why should you attend? No travel! No flight delays, passport control, or security checks. Worried about losing your luggage? Forget about it!
Challenge your thinking in an open, sharing, and collaborative environment while accessing the workshops from the comfort of your own home or office. Take breaks as needed. These are strange times we are living in.
Use the time you would be traveling to report to colleagues on the key lessons and takeaways. Help them to expand the skills you’ve learned from these innovative, remote sessions, and then incorporate them into your organization.
Talk to your boss and tell them how you would benefit from attending online workshops from Explore DDD. Relay the cost savings you will benefit from by not traveling this year. Visit http://exploreddd.com/workshops/ and register today. Use the Code EDDDGTC to get 10% off the price of any of the workshop tickets! Promo Code: EDDDGTC
Support Greater Than Code
1 hr 13 min
October 07, 2020203: Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability with Matthew Zhou
01:54 - Matt’s Superpower: Letting Things Go Easily
Nonattachment and Immigration
08:35 - Matt’s Journey From Anthropology to Tech
The Intersection of Technology and Social Science
13:42 - Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability
Internal vs External Audits
Identifying Affected Parties
Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?
Participation in Machine Learning
People as Constituents – Not Resources
29:38 - Data Surveillance: Gathering Enough Data vs Gathering Too Much Data (and particularly the effect on Black and Brown people)
Data & Society – Ruha Benjamin presents Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
The Invisible Institute
36:57 - Speaking Out Regarding Racial Equity/Inequity and Social Justice in the Workplace
42:26 - Getting Involved in Politics on a Personal Level in 2020
48:12 - Medical/Healthcare Informatics & Thinking About Health Disparities
Reflections:
Jacob: Who unintended, affected by our technologies communities and people are.
Chanté: Diving deeper into algorithmic auditing as it pertains to ethics and what that means for organizations and leaders who hold power and influence.
Matthew: Technology platforms are far-reaching and engineers and technologists are going to have to become more fluent social scientists.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Matthew Zhou.
Sponsored By:
Twilio: Businesses all over the world right now are trying to reinvent how they connect with the world. Whether a business is delivering packages, treating patients, or running a global customer support center, their customers need them to invent new ways to stay connected. Twilio is the platform that Fortune 500 companies and startups alike trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Really, the only limit becomes your developer’s imaginations. It’s time to build. Visit twilio.com to learn more.
An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, be inspired by world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Fall Summit, a three-day web design conference coming to a device near you, October 26th through 28th. The Fall Summit features 18 in-depth sessions, each followed by a live, moderated Q&A session with the speaker, plus unique one-on-one conversations with some special guests.
You’ll learn about advanced CSS from Miriam Suzanne and Una Kravets, design systems and patterns from Mina Markham and Jason Grigsby, design engineering from Adekunle Oduye, inclusive design from Sara Soueidan and David Dylan Thomas, and much more.
Attending An Event Apart boosts your brain, inspires your creativity, and increases your value to your teammates, employers, clients, and most of all yourself.
And you can boost it even further. Purchase a Three-Day Pass and receive six months of on-demand access to their first three Online Together events. That’s six full days of jam-packed content for the price of three.
Greater Than Code listeners can get $100 off any multi-day pass with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join An Event Apart’s Online Together: Fall Summit, October 26th through 28th. See the full three-day schedule and register today at AnEventApart.com. Promo Code: AEAGTC
live@Manning conference: When the girls get coding! Join us on your screens, October 13th, for the live@Manning “Women in Tech” conference to celebrate the rising movement of women in technology.
We still have a long way to go to achieve diversity, inclusion, and equality in technology. Our contribution is the live@Manning “Women in Tech” online conference, October 13th, starring the women rocking the tech boat.
Cloud navigators and serverless gurus; algorithm sorceresses and community advocates; we proudly bring you the women creating the tech world we live in. October 13th, live@manning “Women in Tech” Twitch conference!
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1 hr 3 min
September 30, 2020202: The Art of Storytelling in Technology with Asra Nadeem
00:42 - Asra’s Superpower: Unrelenting Love For Herself
02:32 - Storytelling
Storytelling is Important for Change
Taking Action with Stories
09:35 - Finding Passionate Builders
No Freedom Without Financial Freedom
Human Creativity vs Technology Automation
You Can Be Who You Want to Be
18:32 - The Responsibility of Creators and Consumers in Tech
Personal Responsibility vs Systemic Issues
Balancing Individual Responsibility with Power Dynamics and Influence
Manipulation, Fear, and Control
42:12 - Telling and Monetizing Stories Globally with Opus AI
Storyboarding
Democratizing Access to Technology
Oral Storytelling
48:30 - The Role of Individual Responsibility
Reflections:
Arty: Creating your own power.
Asra: What an individual is and what they are responsible for.
Rein: A system is a product of its’ interactions.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Asra Nadeem.
Sponsored By:
An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, be inspired by world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Fall Summit, a three-day web design conference coming to a device near you, October 26th through 28th. The Fall Summit features 18 in-depth sessions, each followed by a live, moderated Q&A session with the speaker, plus unique one-on-one conversations with some special guests.
You’ll learn about advanced CSS from Miriam Suzanne and Una Kravets, design systems and patterns from Mina Markham and Jason Grigsby, design engineering from Adekunle Oduye, inclusive design from Sara Soueidan and David Dylan Thomas, and much more.
Attending An Event Apart boosts your brain, inspires your creativity, and increases your value to your teammates, employers, clients, and most of all yourself.
And you can boost it even further. Purchase a Three-Day Pass and receive six months of on-demand access to their first three Online Together events. That’s six full days of jam-packed content for the price of three.
Greater Than Code listeners can get $100 off any multi-day pass with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join An Event Apart’s Online Together: Fall Summit, October 26th through 28th. See the full three-day schedule and register today at AnEventApart.com. Promo Code: AEAGTC
Twilio: Businesses all over the world right now are trying to reinvent how they connect with the world. Whether a business is delivering packages, treating patients, or running a global customer support center, their customers need them to invent new ways to stay connected. Twilio is the platform that Fortune 500 companies and startups alike trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Really, the only limit becomes your developer’s imaginations. It’s time to build. Visit twilio.com to learn more.
Support Greater Than Code
1 hr 14 min
September 23, 2020201: Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes with Nils Norman Haukås
02:58 - Nils’ Superpower: Storytelling
Practicing Presentation
Company/Employer-Sponsored Skill Training (such as storytelling/public speaking)
Taking Courses Unrelated to Your Own Skillset
09:39 - Deleting Code
Tension Around Deleting or Refactoring Others’ Code
Etiquette Around ^
Sharing Codebases
20:17 - Is it ethical to invest time in learning and using technologies from companies that pay little or no taxes?
Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes
Value of Everything | Mariana Mazzucato
The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019
The Entropic Package Manager
29:14 - What Can We Do About the Centralization of Power in Large Corporations?
Wanting an Alternative
Developer Purchasing Power
Nix VC Funding
Move Away From Framework-Thinking
Web Components
Libraries
Less Competition Between Competitors
Learning the Basics
53:18 - Using Tools for Free as Forms of Support
Alternative Cost
Reflections:
John: Treating tax avoidance as a social negative.
Jacob: Not feeling pressure to use the next new, hot thing.
Nils: Practice arguing this problem. Software development is still an incredibly young field.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Nils Norman Haukås.
Sponsored By:
Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?
Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.
This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.
In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.
Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTC
An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, be inspired by world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Fall Summit, a three-day web design conference coming to a device near you, October 26th through 28th. The Fall Summit features 18 in-depth sessions, each followed by a live, moderated Q&A session with the speaker, plus unique one-on-one conversations with some special guests.
You’ll learn about advanced CSS from Miriam Suzanne and Una Kravets, design systems and patterns from Mina Markham and Jason Grigsby, design engineering from Adekunle Oduye, inclusive design from Sara Soueidan and David Dylan Thomas, and much more.
Attending An Event Apart boosts your brain, inspires your creativity, and increases your value to your teammates, employers, clients, and most of all yourself.
And you can boost it even further. Purchase a Three-Day Pass and receive six months of on-demand access to their first three Online Together events. That’s six full days of jam-packed content for the price of three.
Greater Than Code listeners can get $100 off any multi-day pass with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join An Event Apart’s Online Together: Fall Summit, October 26th through 28th. See the full three-day schedule and register today at AnEventApart.com. Promo Code: AEAGTC
Twilio: Businesses all over the world right now are trying to reinvent how they connect with the world. Whether a business is delivering packages, treating patients, or running a global customer support center, their customers need them to invent new ways to stay connected. Twilio is the platform that Fortune 500 companies and startups alike trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Really, the only limit becomes your developer’s imaginations. It’s time to build. Visit twilio.com to learn more.
Support Greater Than Code
1 hr 5 min
September 16, 2020200: "Bad Code" with Damien Burke
02:58 - Damien’s Superpower: Being able to hold contradictory beliefs at the same time.
Working in VERY Local Government (for the City of Los Angeles)
07:05 - What is “Bad Code”?
Episode 188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke (Damien’s Previous GTC Episode)
Objectivity vs Subjectivity: Why does code lie on that spectrum?
Metrics to Measure Beautiful Code:
Does it make the world a better place?
Is it clear?
16:38 - What should you do with “Bad Code”?
Nothing? (I know it’s bad but it’s okay!)
Do it later? (If you can put it off and make it better later, put it off!)
19:12 - Working With Others: Agreeing on “Good Code”
Go-to Values
Can we understand this? Does it convey the meaning we want it to convey?
What is most communicative?
24:34 - Damien’s Background in Hypnosis
Speaking to the Subconscious
Prescriptivity: Judgement & Punishment
34:14 - Doing Things The Easy Way
Easy Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Fast
41:07 - Distinctions Between Teaching and Learning
Learning is Goal-Driven
Perfection
Numbers tell a story. Numbers can’t give you wisdom.
54:02 - Creating Shared Understanding (in code)
Reflections:
Jamey: 1) Doing things yourself. 2) I want code to be beautiful because I like things that are beautiful.
Rein: The importance of small changes.
Damien: The power of language and story and its’ application in the engineering world in a team and in the code you write.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
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September 09, 2020199: Toxicity in Tech with Amy Newell
04:31 - Amy’s Superpower: Search Algorithms and Finding Things
Finding Things in Code
Visual vs Spacial Awareness
08:39 - Toxic Masculinity and Hierarchies in Engineering Roles
I’m not in security but whenever I hear people taking about who is more technical all I see is folks jockeying for status.(not blaming, that’s the culture we have made in software generally). But from outside whatever y’all mean when you say technical is completely opaque.
“Soft Skills” vs “Technical”
14:22 - Measuring Skill Advancement
The Individual Contributor (IC) vs Manager Track
Management vs Mentorship
21:02 - Congressive vs Ingressive
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng
22:43 - Ways Toxicity Shows Up in The Workplace
Doing/Recognizing “Real Work”
Letting Go of Past Baggage
Amy Newell - Lessons from Bipolar Disorder (The first time Amy said the word “Patriarchy”)
Microaggressions
29:07 - Unlearning and Psychological Safety
37:07 - The Word “Nontechnical”
Respecting Expertise
Skilled/Unskilled Labor: All Labor is Skilled Labor!
40:41 - Recognizing and Feeling Value
Being Your Authentic Self
Making Culture Better for Everyone; Supporting People & Making Space
Counting Emotional Energy
Enough Leaning In. Let’s Tell Men to Lean Out.
Yes, and-ing
Reflections:
Jessica: Every person has a unique set of ways they can have an impact and best contribute.
Jamey: Feeling like you belong and realizing that others might not. Being aware of both mindsets.
Amy: The onus really should be on people who have power and privilege in any conversation to be doing most of the work to be aware of what I see vs what they see.
Special Guest: Amy Newell.
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Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?
Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.
This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.
In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.
Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTC
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September 02, 2020198: Learning From Failure with Ravs Kaur
02:30 - Rav’s Superpower: Learning to Learn
Success and Failure
Creating Environments Where It’s Safe to Fail
Exploring Ideas and Collecting Datapoints
Celebrating Feedback Cycles and Experiments
07:12 - Failing Fast – Getting Early Feedback Along the Way
Getting Over the “Being Polished” Hump
Learning for Self-Fulfilment
17:02 - Empathy as a Life Skill
Simulation
Empathy is Necessary to Learn Through Failure
26:40 - Uplevel: Empowering Engineers to do Their Best Work
31:49 - Productivity and Judgement Value
The Effect the Pandemic Has Had ^
Capturing Interruptions and Mitigating Responses
The “is work happening?” panic and fear and the worry “is innovation at the same level?”
The Ecology of Human Performance: A Framework for Considering the Effect of Context
41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement
Process Tracing
Why use ambient data?
Reflections:
Rein: 1) We need to take human performance necessary. 2) Steven Shorrock’s Model of Change.
Jacob: Thinking more about ambient data.
Jamey: Failing fast.
Ravs: How do you know if you’ve built a great product if you don’t have a way to measure what people are clicking on and/or trying to find?
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
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Special Guest: Ravs Kaur.
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Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?
Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.
This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.
In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.
Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTC
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strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
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For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.

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