One of the most painful parts of getting started on a new development team is getting one’s environment set up.  Whether it’s undocumented steps, overly complex setups, or simply the challenges of understanding how the pieces fit together, getting a dev environment up often feels like a chore to be suffered through in order to

The notebook paradigm of coding is relatively new in comparison to REPLs and IDEs.  Notebooks run in your browser and give you discrete cells for running segments of code.  All the code in a single cell runs at once, but cells run independently.  Cells can be re-run, which is a blessing and a curse.  The

Virtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space that offers the ability to interact with other users as well as interact with the

Imagine a world where you own some sort of building whether that’s a grocery store, a restaurant, a factory… and you want to know how many people reside in each section of the store, or maybe how long did the average person wait to be seated or how long did it take the average factory

The gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee.  Some workers find the relationship between worker and platform to be adversarial in nature since the platform can establish and enforce rules

Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups.  No one builds technology from scratch.  There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly.  These layers of infrastructure are a key area for many investors. In this episode, I

Whether you love them or hate them, share them or ignore them, you encounter memes all over the internet.  Those that are popular can often take off and spawn a long history of remixes, variants, derivatives, and inspired works. In this episode, we interview Johan Unger, the founder of meme.com.  They’re creating a platform for

The last 15 years have seen the emergence of cloud-based developer APIs and services as dominant components of the developer toolchain. As a result, there has never been more power at developers’ fingertips. But making that power usable and accessible is a challenge that is shared between the providers and the consumers of these services.

The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well. In this episode, I interview business coach Jon

Infrastructure as Code is an approach to machine provisioning and setup in which a programmer describes the underlying services they need for their projects.  However, this infrastructure code doesn’t compile a binary artifact like traditional source code.  The successful completion of running the code signals that the servers and other components described in the configuration