Software Developers Journey

Crazy but true, it's show number 200! I invited Patrick Leblanc to come and ask me all the questions he wanted about the show to celebrate this milestone.

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Carl first told us about his father's role in introducing him to computers. He then spoke about how he used projects to learn new things and became a developer. He told us the story of his first job at Crescent Software and how he got the teaching bug. We then discussed teaching and how he got onto the .NET bandwagon. Carl told us how a Windows update ended up crashing one of his music shows. We brushed over the history of the dotnetrocks show and finished intense talking about flow and his MusicToCodeBy project.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/carlfranklin
• http://carlfranklin.net/

Podcasts

• https://www.dotnetrocks.com/
• https://thedotnetshow.com/
• https://blazortrain.com/
• https://securitythisweek.com/

Music

• MusicToCodeBy: http://mtcb.pwop.com/
• Carl's Music: https://carlfranklin.com/
• Franklin Brothers Music https://franklinbrothersband.com/

MISC

• Carl & Gary's VB Homepage https://web.archive.org/web/20011130013218/http://www.cgvb.com/
• Book: "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" https://amzn.to/3i9G3oT
• Code Palousa Conference https://www.codepalousa.com/

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Laura took us on a wild ride, made of starting and dropping, taking unexpected turns to follow creative endeavors, and finally reaching a great destination. We spoke about her dreams of studying tech, going to trade school instead, and joining a startup before the end. We talked about opportunities, moving out and back in and then abroad, applying, and finally meeting communities.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/freezydorito
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/walaura/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20051231185509/http://zonasim.net:80/

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Holden's tech story started at a very early age, and her tech-savviness grew very quickly. She told us how her parents and childhood neighbors helped her get on the right track. Going from one nostalgic memory to the next, Holden took us from her love for "Search" to Amazon through internships and moving to the West Coast. We talked about functional programming, Scala, and going to New York. We finally discussed interviewing, joining Google, and teaching.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/holdenkarau
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Karau
• https://tokentransit.com/
• https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/
• https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Water-Creek-Morgan-Mystery/dp/1550024523/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QPD3BKFLZUG0

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Aran started talking about Biotech and how he discovered that the slow feedback loop of biology didn't suit his needs. We then brushed over his career, from learning to code, going to Harvard, being a researcher, and finally, his startup Archera. We briefly talked about his privacy projects, including the so-called "Marauders Map," exposing Facebook's lack of privacy concerns. And then, we dug deeper into Archera, how it works, and the company's business model (building on top of the AWS Reserved Instance Marketplace).

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/arankhanna
• http://arankhanna.com
• https://archera.ai

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• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Dagna decided to study robotics to change the future. She told us how she hated programming at first until it clicked when she worked with a fantastic crew at Nokia. She spoke of her mentors and learning to value simplicity. We discussed moving abroad and the privilege of being developers. We talked about startups and sabbaticals. Finally, Dagna took us on her last adventure of becoming a career coach for devs and how she made her side gig and her dream a reality.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagnabieda/
• https://www.themindfuldev.com/
• https://www.themindfuldev.com/podcast

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Ségolène's story started in law school and with internships which left her puzzled about her career choice. She then studied for an MBA and finally joined a startup with an undefined role. She took over a product management position in this company and working with developers slowly piqued her interest. Later on, Ségolène decided to join a Bootcamp and later the 42 school, which we talked about. Finally, we talked about her joining Doctolib in France, right as the first COVID lockdown was happening and her life there since.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/SegoleneAlquier/
• http://www.segolenealquier.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/segolene-alquier/
• Talk 🇫🇷 "Dessiner en CSS" (Draw with CSS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUzEU37Vuk4
• Ségolène's CodePen CSS Gallery https://codepen.io/segolene-alquier/

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Nicolas started tweaking HTML pages on PHP-BB forums when he was in high school, but even though he liked coding, that didn't propel him toward a dev career... yet. He then studied physics and chemistry and joined a business school while still coding on the side. His interests were very eclectic, so he freelanced on web projects. After an exciting experience building a real-life connected wine farming simulator game, he discovered the Software Crafters community. He joined a company attracting many like-minded people: Octo in Paris. He went through a learning pressure cooker there until he left for Canada two years later. He now works for Centered, an app to enter FlowState faster.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/nicoespeon
• https://understandlegacycode.com
• https://www.softwarecrafters.org

Credits

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Julianna started by telling us about her love for maths and figure skating. She spoke about the hard choice she had to pursue sports toward a professional career or going to college. She chose the latter and went to a business school. There she discovered computer science and transferred to Stanford. We then talked about her studies there and how she entered the startup world. We discussed finding what you like and the challenges. We debated leaving Strava and pursuing dreams, and finally creating your own company and growing with it.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://twitter.com/juliannaelamb/
• https://stytch.com/
• https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch
• [email protected]

Credits

• Cover Heliotrope by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Carly took us from her CS and software engineering studies to her internships and later career at an investment bank. We spoke about moving internally, mentorship, learning, public speaking, management, and going back to individual contribution and trusting your guts.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/CarlyLRichmond
• https://carlylrichmond.medium.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carly-richmond-b4b03563/
• https://carlyrichmond.com/blog-home/

The three persons Carly mentioned:

• https://randsinrepose.com/
• https://twitter.com/burgessdryan/
• https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/

Credits

• Cover Heliotrope by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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