No Plans to Merge

By Daniel Coulbourne & Caleb PorzioBusiness Technology Careers

No Plans to Merge episodes

May 23, 2019 Calling Ourselves "Engineers"
This week we talk about the beauty of Twitter, whether or not it's ok to call ourselves "Engineers" and an interesting problem relating to Toilet design.
1 hr 24 min
May 17, 2019 The One Where We Don't Talk About Code
The first episode ever that we don't talk about code or programming at all. That doesn't mean the episode isn't chocked full of general geekery though. We talk electronics, soldering, spray-painting, blue's guitar playing. It's a good time.
58 min
May 10, 2019 Your Feature Branches Are Too Long And We Can Prove It!
This week, we talk about the similarities between dirty socks and merge conflicts, and end up with a tangible tool to prove that long-standing feature branches are bad news. It's a reaaaalllly good time.
1 hr 15 min
May 02, 2019 How To Write A Viral Tweet
Caleb wrote a tweet that went kinda-sorta-viral. Daniel & Caleb talk about it. That's all you need to know.
The Tweet: https://twitter.com/calebporzio/status/1121054728148926467
44 min
April 25, 2019 The Developer Condition
This week we talk about the dynamics that seem common amongst all developer-project relationships, and how it can feel like an almost impossible task to manage them well.
49 min
April 18, 2019 On Leaving Jobs and Being Employed
This week we talk about Caleb's experience leaving his day job and more generally, interesting ways to view employment in general. Of course, this conversation turns into hard code talk about JavaScript DOM nodes, Eager Loading data, and String.replace.
1 hr 17 min
April 12, 2019 Explaining React Hooks to a Vue Developer
Daniel teaches Caleb about React "hooks", and their use cases. Caleb only knows Vue.
1 hr 25 min
April 03, 2019 Open Source Drama
We start with a discussion about a recent argument amongst Laravel contributors, and it unfolds into a broader discussion about open source engagement: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
1 hr 3 min
March 28, 2019 User Testing, React Native, and The Laravel Game Show
Caleb is struck by the power of user-testing projects, Daniel talks about his new work in React Native, and both of us test our skills on a new game we just made up.
"Don't Make Me Think" (book): https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=241894971557&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9005489&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12435570088820794014&hvtargid=kwd-308506890665&keywords=dont+make+me+think+book&qid=1553782872&s=gateway&sr=8-1
The AirBnB blog post: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c
41 min
March 20, 2019 David Hemphill, Convince Us To WIP
David Hemphill joins us to talk about something controversial he's been trolling the Laravel community with recently. Daniel and I explore the concept with him to discover if he has struck gold, or if he's simply out of his mind.
David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidhemphill
WIP Hats: https://gum.co/wipcrack
Laravel Elite Tees: https://gum.co/laravelelite
Laravel Nova: https://nova.laravel.com
52 min