March 11, 2022

ONE MORE thing every dev should know

1 hour 14 minutes

The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is “get that new project into production” and step two is observe it, her angst for the context switching around pull requests, some awesome book recommendations, how game theory and design can translate to how we skill up and level up our teams, and so much more.

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Featuring:

Jessica Kerr – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

The ONE thing every dev should know (and other words of wisdom) with Jessica Kerr

Graceful.Dev - the successor to Ruby Tapas

Games: Agency As Art

Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn

Shigeru Miyamoto on Wikipedia

Better coordination, or better software?

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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