Ladybug Podcast

Ladybug Podcast

By Emma Bostian, Sidney Buckner, Kelly Vaughn, and Ali SpittelBusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnologyCareers
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Ladybug Podcast episodes

  • Outliers

    For the month of May we read "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. "Outliers" examines the factors which contribute to high-levels of success and while we often attribute success to circumstance today we’ll discuss our thoughts to see if we agree.

    Show notes

    1:08 - What does it mean to be successful?

    6:12 - How does privilege play into success?
    22:12 - Practical intelligence versus analytical intelligence
    30:52 - Our thoughts on the book

    Resources
    • Outliers
    • Nader Dabit's tweet
    • Goodreads Group
    • The Culture Map
    • Open Book
    • Commerce Tea
    • Dave Ramsey
      • Transcript

      We provide transcripts for all of our episodes. You can find them here!

      39 min
    • Networking

      Today we're talking about routing and switching, starting with layer 1 of the OSI model. Let's dig in. JUST KIDDING I know nothing about that kind of networking, but we ARE talking about networking today!

      Networking is a great opportunity to meet new people in the same industry, learn new skills, and develop your career. This week we’re talking all things networking: why we network, how to network, and what to do if you’re really not that into networking. Let’s jump in!

      39 min
    • Building Developer Communities

      Developer community is centered around the idea of nurturing and amplifying community voices within a company and the head of developer community is responsible for leading this effort. Today we’re joined by Kim Maida, Head of Developer Relations and Community at Gatsby. We’ll discuss what her job entails, the ins and outs of developer advocacy, advice for someone looking to get into this field, and more.

      Show notes

      2:34 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

      3:27 - What does it mean to be the head of developer relations and community?
      6:38 - What is devrel/dev advocacy?
      10:45 - Do the skills vary between these 4 roles? What do you need to know?
      13:25 - How can you build empathy into your content?
      16:40 - Do you need to be a software engineer first?
      19:32 - What is your advice for someone looking to get into your field?
      24:55 - What’s your advice for becoming a better dev advocate?
      29:56 - Where do you see the field going in the near future? How does the current COVID situation impact your day to day?
      36:33 - Shoutouts

      Resources
      • Gatsby
      • Auth0
      • Kim’s twitter
      • Compassionate coding
      • April Wensel
      • technicalinterviews.dev
        • Transcript

        We provide transcripts for all of our episodes. You can find them here!

        41 min
      • Level up with JavaScript

        JavaScript is notorious for being one of the most popular, yet also one of the most despised programming languages to learn, so today we’re covering some of the intermediate and advanced JavaScript concepts! We’ll discuss convoluted topics like generators, prototypal inheritance, and the rendering engine.

        Knowing intermediate JavaScript concepts like the call stack, context, scope, the prototype chain, higher order functions, async programming, and the event loop is invaluable and will help with learning frameworks. The fundamentals won't change even if the ecosystem does.

        Show notes

        03:24 - Functional Programming vs OOP

        06:28 - Prototypal inheritance
        20:34 - Higher order functions
        25:54 - Callback functions
        27:10 - Closures
        27:46 - Scope + Context
        31:12 - Iterators & Generators
        34:26 - Rendering engine
        37:54 - Call Stack
        40:33 - Event loop
        43:39 - Throttle and debounce
        46:21 - Asynchronous programming
        52:09 - Hoisting
        54:44 - Primitive vs reference
        56:59 - Debugging
        58:48 - Shoutouts

        Resources
        • Functional Programming vs OOP
        • Lydia Halle’s blog post on the prototype chain
        • Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
        • Ali's What is Functional Programming?
        • What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators - Jenn Creighton
        • CodeNewbie: How do Browsers Work?
        • What the heck is the event loop anyway? - Philip Roberts
        • Throttling and debouncing
        • Debugging Episode
          • 1 hr 3 min
        • Advice to our Past Selves

          Welcome to season 3 of the LB podcast. This season we’ll cover topics ranging from advanced JavaScript to networking. We’ll chat about Git & GitHub, making money outside your 9-5 job, and many more topics.

          For our first episode of this new season, we’ll be reminiscing about our coding history and discussing some advice we wished we had when learning to code ranging from asking more questions to negotiating job offers.

          Show notes

          01:50 - Our stories

          09:29 - Find a community
          10:43 - Take breaks - you don’t have to code all the time
          13:36 - Ask questions
          16:50 - Overcome imposter syndrome
          18:09 - Sharing your learning journey can help not only yourself but others too
          20:24 - Surround yourself with people who support you
          21:33 - Don’t get stuck in the cycle of tutorials
          23:28 - Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
          25:02 - Ask for feedback early and often
          26:23 - Stop being such a perfectionist
          28:06 - Document your learning journey
          30:00 - Learn how to Google
          31:45 - Different ways to learn
          32:32 - Try to be honest w/ ur manager
          34:42 - Celebrate your small wins
          35:20 - Interview to challenge yourself
          36:54 - Talk to people who have your dream job
          38:04 - Negotiate offers
          40:20 - You can be a people person in tech
          41:40 - Don’t fall into shiny object syndrome
          42:21 - You belong in the industry

          Resources
          • Learning How to Learn episode
          • Byteconf React Keynote
          • FreeCodeCamp
          • Moving Past Tutorials
          • Cacher
          • Stay Home Take Care
            • Transcript

            We provide transcripts for all of our episodes. You can find them here!

            47 min
          • Web Developer Learning Path

            There are so many ways to learn to code, and so many things to know. Today we’ll give our perspectives on different paths you can take. Whether you’re looking for your first dev job or you’re looking to advance your web development knowledge, we’ll be covering a ton of different options for you.

            01:50 - What did we know before getting our first jobs?

            06:40 - T-shaped knowledge
            08:38 - HTML
            14:07 - CSS
            18:24 - JavaScript
            25:00 - Backend
            31:00- How the web works
            32:15 - Testing
            37:13 - Tooling
            43:46 - Git
            46:12 - Terminal
            47:12 - Design patterns
            48:26 - Data structures & algorithms
            49:07 - How to level up

            Read more on our site

            56 min
          • Learning How to Learn
            On our podcast, we talk a LOT about what to learn as a developer. But today we’re switching gears and talking about HOW to actually learn all this information. We’ll discuss the concept of metacognition, or how we learn and retain information as well as some strategies for making the process easier.
            48 min
          • Indie Hacking
            This week we have a super exciting episode, we’re chatting with Courtland Allen, the founder of Indie Hackers. We’re going to talk about what indie hacking is, how to get started with it, and his advice for gaining traction with indie products. Let’s get started!
            42 min
          • What's on Our Computers?
            This week we’re giving you all the details about our computer setups including our hardware preferences, browsers, desktop software, code editor and CLI settings, and top productivity tools. We’ll also tell you some of our miscellaneous preferences like most used emoji and current desktop photo.
            53 min
          • Behavioral Interviews
            Show notes

            1:43 - What is the flow of the technical interview process

            6:50 - The salary conversation

            15:25 - Behavioral questions

            27:32 - Interview prep strategies

            34:17 - Red flags

            45:17 - Shoutouts

            Resources
            • Star technique
            • Data structures & algorithms episode
            • Frontend interview episode
            • The Culture Map
            • Levels.fyi
            • Thread on Negotiating
            • Radical Candor
            • Adam Grant podcast
            • Andrew Certain
            • Brotopia
            • Bad Blood
            • Society 6

              • Transcript

              We provide transcripts for all of our episodes. You can find them here.

              50 min

            About Ladybug Podcast

            From the publisher's feed

            We're Emma Bostian, Sidney Buckner, Kelly Vaughn, and Ali Spittel - four seasoned software developers working in different sectors. Since there's a major lack of technical podcasts out there, we've decided to start one. Just kidding -- there's already a ton! But, we wanted to add our voices to the space and share our experiences and advice. We'll have great discussions around how to start coding, the hot technologies right now, how to get your first developer job, and more!

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