Software Developers Journey

Freya took us from the first levels she designed in Trackmania, all the way to her live coding Flowstorm on Twitch. She explained how her view on GameDev expanded over time. She told us the birth story of Shader Forge and the VR-Game Budget Cuts. She spoke of her burnout and how she finally felt back on her feet, streaming and freelancing in the gaming industry.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/FreyaHolmer
• https://twitch.tv/acegikmo
• https://youtube.com/acegikmo
• https://discord.gg/v5VWuga

Plugins

• Shapes https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/shapes-173167
• Shaderforge https://github.com/FreyaHolmer/ShaderForge

Twitter Threads

• Math Visualisation https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/timelines/1215413954505297922
• FlowStorm 1 https://twitter.com/freyaholmer/status/1187810005011050498
• FlowStorm 2 https://twitter.com/freyaholmer/status/1245111000271028225

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Matt took us from his first lines of code and his musicology studies to his move to Spain to follow his heart and his first (unpaid) job. He then slowly but surely showed us how he worked with websites for years, realizing what was missing. He coined this missing architecture JAMStack and told us its birth story and how he created Netlify to empower it.

Here are the links from the show:

• Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/biilmann
• Netlify on Twitter: https://twitter.com/netlify
• Netlify's Homepage https://www.netlify.com
• Netlify blog for the latest updates: https://www.netlify.com/blog
• Jamstack Explorers, a learning platform by Netlify to help developers get more expertise in the Jamstack: https://explorers.netlify.com
• Jamstack.org https://jamstack.org

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• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Mark took us from his first date with a ZX81 all the way to the stages he regularly speaks onto worldwide. We brushed over his childhood and bumpy teenage. We talked about his love for "chips," his informal apprenticeship, and why he wants to further this apprenticeship model in the future. We talked about his hiatus as a professional stand-up comedian and how he found his way back into programming. Mark told us about his burnout and how this lead to him joining the best company ever and pushing him to mix those two skills he loves: programming and stand-up comedy.

Here are the links from the show:

• Mark Rendle on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/markrendle
• Mark Rendle on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/markrendle
• Cocoon https://github.com/VisualReCode/Cocoon
• BSLang on Github https://github.com/BSLang/BS
• The Worst Programming Language Ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnYf7L7Amw

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Kristy took us from her early ROM-hacking years, all the way to her crypto-mining rabbit hole. She described in detail how she optimized her machines to ever-better mine cryptocurrencies. We then bifurcated toward the tale of how she almost changed the proof algorithm of Ethereum, became the center of a smear campaign, and earned a heavy burnout instead. We finally talked about helping developers as managers to not face those problems.

Here are the links from the show:

• Kristy's Twitter https://www.twitter.com/OhGodAGirl
• The Hackathon Kristy mentioned https://symbolplatform.com/hackathon

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Nadia first told us how she discovered coding, at the age of 25, as a second career. She painted her expat's story, leaving Belarus to Poland to reboot her professional life. We talked about interviewing. We talked about learning. And we talked about the book she wrote, "Crossing the Rubycon" (http://bit.ly/crossingrubycon), telling this exact story, plus many tips for fellow future second career devs.

Here are the links from the show:

• Nadia on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/beetlehope
• Nadia's Book "Crossing the Rubycon" http://bit.ly/crossingrubycon (affiliate-link)
• Book a career consultation with Nadia http://www.beetlehope.com
• Nadia's technical blog https://dev.to/beetlehope
• Nadia's Reading List newsletter https://beetlehope.substack.com
• Nadia on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/beetlehope

Two ressources Nadia spoke highly about:

• Michael Hartl's Tutorial https://www.michaelhartl.com
• Codecademy https://www.codecademy.com

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Dotan first spoke about scarcity and satisfying his hungry curiosity. We then brushed over his hacking past and how he learned his way through computers. We talked about his military service and studies. We finally spoke about his quest for growth, the plans, and the sacrifices he made. We talked about languages, how to learn them and how to become efficient.

Here are the links from the show:

• Dotan on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/jondot
• Developer experience manifesto https://dxmanifesto.dev
• Effective Work ebook (free) https://leanpub.com/effectivework
• Root Cause Podcast (in Hebrew): https://rtcz.io
• SpectralOps https://spectralops.io
• Learn Code the Hardway movement https://learncodethehardway.org/c
• Learn VIM while playing a game https://vim-adventures.com

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Emily took us from her custom studies to her Ph.D. studies, her DataScience Bootcamp, and her first job at Etsy. We classified DataScience and (finally) made sense of those weird titles. We talked about how working in the open, creating her community and writing opened doors for her. Finally, we spoke about the book she just wrote with Jacqueline Nolis.

Here are the links from the show:

• Emily's Twitter https://www.twitter.com/robinson_es
• Her book "Build a Career in Data Science" http://datascicareer.com
• The podcast accompanying the book https://podcast.bestbook.cool
• 40% off the book: mtpdata20
• Emily's Blog http://hookedondata.org
• Blog post about titles at Lyft: https://medium.com/@chamandy/whats-in-a-name-ce42f419d16c
• New York HackR Meetup where Emily first talked https://www.meetup.com/nyhackr
• The recording of her A/B Testing @Etsy Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF-ryGgLOgQ
• Will Larson's upcoming book about Staff Engineering: https://staffeng.com/book

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Amiti took us from her first logic puzzles and first lines of code, all the way to her tenure as a Bitcoin core member. We also talked about Bitcoin itself, the project, its governance, processes, and how one could participate and change the world.

Here are the links from the show:

• Amiti's Twitter https://www.twitter.com/amizi
• Amiti's Github https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
• Optech newsletter https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters
• Amiti's onboarding blog post https://medium.com/@amitiu/onboarding-to-bitcoin-core-7c1a83b20365
• Blog post about how governance works https://blog.okcoin.com/2020/09/15/developing-bitcoin

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Dennis took us from his first Commodore computer, all the way to his job at AWS. We talked about curiosity, finding your own way, taking a break, learning, searching, failure much more.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/dtraub
• The AWS-Podcast in German https://anchor.fm/dennis-traub
• https://www.dennistraub.com
• Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/dennis_at_work
• Commodore VIC-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
• Successful, Accomplished, Depressed – A Talk About Performance, Perfectionism, and Burnout in IT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84h5e9cOZY

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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Eva took us from tinkering with CSS on Blogspot to organizing CSSConf Argentina. She told us her story, and how she slowly but surely settled on Front-End development. She detailed how scary, but also life-changing it was to go to a conference in the USA. She finally told us all about the conference she organized and her vision to inspire developers in South-America.

Here are the links from the show:

• Eva's Twitter Profile: https://www.twitter.com/evaferreira92
• The NGO Eva spoke about: http://www.puerta18.org.ar
• The numbers behind CSSConf Argentina https://cssconfar.com/the-numbers
• Eva's Speaking Log: https://www.evaferreira.com.ar/en/education.html
• Nicole Sullivan: https://twitter.com/stubbornella

Credits

• Cover Campfire Rounds 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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