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Tech Done Right
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Tech Done Right episodes
- Episode 42: Technical Speaking with Saron YitbarekTechnical Speaking With Saron Yitbarek
TableXI is offering training for developers and product teams! For more info, email [email protected].
SummaryPresenting a technical talk can be an important part of a developer's career.
In this episode, we're talking about how to perform a technical talk with Saron Yitbarek. Saron runs the CodeNewbie Podcast, and others, and organizes and coaches speakers for the Codeland Conference. Saron and I both have some thoughts and opinions about how to deliver a good technical talk. This episode has a lot of tips about how to prepare, what to do at the start of a talk, how to engage the audience, and why emoji are better for slides than videos? We'll give advice on how to give the talk that only you can give and how to get the best performance that you can.GuestSaron Yitbarek: Web, Podcaster: CodeNewbie, Base.cs Podcast, Command Line Heroes.
Notes01:46 - Saron’s Public Speaking Experience Prior to RailsConf 2014
- Reading Code Good by Saron Yitbarek
03:02 - The Performance of a Technical Talk
- Transitions: The easiest way to improve your tech talk
- OSCON Talk: Ask More Questions
06:50 - Should you memorize or wing your talk?
- Deckset
11:58 - Knowing Your Audience
- Jen Simmons: It's Never Been A Better Time to Learn Layout CSS
21:20 - Designing Slides
28:17 - Talk Beginnings and Endings
37:11 - Practicing and Delivering Your Talk
40:43 - Moving Physicality and Talking Speed
46:45 - Giving The Talk No One Else Can Give
Related Episodes- Organizing Technical Conferences
- Conference Speaking and Diverse Perspectives with Carina C. Zona and Mark Yoon
Special Guest: Saron Yitbarek.
50 min - Reading Code Good by Saron Yitbarek
- Episode 41: Apprenticeship with Megan Tiu, Kara Carrell, and Alyssa RamseyApprenticeship with Megan Tiu, Kara Carrell, and Alyssa Ramsey
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SummaryWhat is an apprenticeship program, how is it different from an internship, and how can your company benefit from having one? In this episode, we’re talking about technical apprenticeships with Megan Tiu of Women Who Code. Megan and I have both run apprenticeships at various companies. We’re also joined by Table XI’s current apprentice cohort, Kara Carrell and Alyssa Ramsey.
Guests- Megan Tiu: Engineering Manager with Women Who Code. megantiu.com.
- Alyssa Ramsey: Developer Apprentice at TableXI.
- Kara Carrell: Developer Apprentice at TableXI.
Notes02:18 - Apprenticeship: Defined
04:38 - Finding and Hiring People for Apprenticeships
05:21 - Interviewing For Apprenticeships
08:35 - Organizing Apprenticeships
14:13 - Making Use of Unstructured Time and Other Opportunities for Apprentices
17:39 - Career-Growth Support
- Apprenticeship Patterns by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
20:40 - Having a Sponsor and Getting Support
- Sticky Note Game
24:20 - Evaluating Apprentices
27:59 - Benefits For Companies That Have Apprenticeship Programs
- How to be a Better Junior Developer, by Katherine Wu
Related Episodes- Your First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee With Shay Howe and John Gore
- Developer Bootcamps and Computing Education with Jeff Casimir and Mark Guzdial
- Managing For Career Development with Claire Lew and Dan Hodos
- Career Development With Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks
Special Guests: Alyssa Ramsey, Kara Carrell, and Megan Tiu.
38 min - Episode 40: Diversity and Inclusion at Small Companies with Meara Charnetzki, Michael Donnelly, and Elena ValentineDiversity and Inclusion at Small Companies with Meara Charnetzki, Michael Donnelly, and Elena Valentine
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SummaryWhat can a small company do to improve its diversity and inclusion practices when your company just isn't changing personnel quickly enough to improve via hiring? Here to discuss this are Meara Charnetzki from Table XI, Michael Donnelly from the FWD Collective and Elena Valentine from Skill Scout. We'll all about company values, supporting a wider community, using internal feedback, and what to do to encourage improvement at your company.
Guests- Meara Charnetzki of Table XI
- Michael Donnelly of The FWD Collective
- Elena Valentine of Skill Scout
Notes02:56 - Advice For Small Companies Interested in Being More Diverse
09:08 - Vetting Companies for Diversity & Inclusion Values
13:59 - Having a Healthy Company Feedback System
- Know Your Company
- Managing for Career Development with Claire Lew
17:02 - Building Relationships as a Company Leader
20:09 - Diversity and Inclusion Benefits Everyone
23:31 - Encouraging Companies to Start D&I Initiatives as an Employee
30:45 - Company Exit Interviews
32:26 - Salary Transparency
35:51 - Flexible Working Structures
Related Episodes- Diverse Agile Teams with Marlena Compton, Betsy Haibel, and Jennifer Tu
- Your First 100 Days at a New Company with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos
- Managing for Career Development with Claire Lew
Special Guests: Elena Valentine, Meara Charnetzki, and Michael Donnelly.
39 min - Episode 39: Organizing Technical ConferencesOrganizing Technical Conferences
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SummaryI've been attending technical conferences for years, and I've always wondered about the hidden challenges involved in putting a conference together. In this show, four of the best conference organizers I know join me to share their secrets and stories. Marty Haught, organizer of many conferences including RubyConf and RailsConf, Jen Remsik and Jim Remsik, who organize the Madison+ family of conferences, and Leah Silber, who organizes EmberConf and RustConf. Learn about budgets, picking talks, and managing facilities and vendors.
Guests- Marty Haught: President at Haught Codeworks, Director at Ruby Central organizing RailsConf and RubyConf
- Jen Remsik: Director of People Operations at Adorable.io, Organizer of Madison Ruby
- Jim Remsik: President of Adorable.io, Organizer of Madison Ruby.
- Leah Silber: CEO at Tilde Inc.. EmberConf, RustConf, and RailsConf Organizer. Author of Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences.
Notes03:12 - Getting Things Right and Having Empathy for Attendees
11:16 - Budgetary Aspects
14:53 - Planning Conferences in Other Cities
18:22 - Putting the Program Together and Selection Processes
29:25 - Crafting a Conference Proposal
31:12 - Encouraging and Enabling Attendee Interaction
40:03 - Conference Mentorship
41:26 - Words of Advice
Special Guests: Jen Remsik, Jim Resmsik, Leah Silber, and Marty Haught.
50 min - Episode 38: Diverse Agile Teams with Marlena Compton, Betsy Haibel, and Jennifer TuDiverse Agile Teams with Marlena Compton, Betsy Haibel, and Jennifer Tu
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Guests- Marlena Compton: Organizer of PearConf.
- Betsy Haibel: CTO at Cohere.
- Jennifer Tu: Co-Founder at Cohere.
SummaryHow do common Agile practices like pair programming and retrospectives work when you have diverse teams? How can you make sure that underrepresented team members have their voices heard, and how does doing so improve the way that your team delivers software? Besty Haibel, Jennifer Tu, and Marlena Compton discuss ways in which Agile practices can better serve your team in the real world. For more discussion, be sure to check out PearConf.
Notes02:05 - Pairing and Agile Development on Diverse Teams
- Betsy on Twitter
04:31 - Implicit Agreement, Teaching Vs Exploring, and Power Differentials in Pairing
- Ruby DCamp
- Code Retreat
- Allison McMillan
08:52 - Understanding and Improving Team Dynamics: Building a Library of Smells
- Pairing With Privilege
- Ping Pong Pairing
- Troll Pairing
- Table XI Pair-A-Palooza Station
17:57 - Good Agile Pair Programming Techniques + Retrospective Roles
- Running your unconference discussions effectively: AdaCamp session role cards
22:14 - Making People Comfortable When Speaking Up and Making Agile Healthier
- Dot-Voting
32:30 - Agile As An Institution
- Agile Manifesto
38:34 - Backing Away From The Idea of Perfection
42:42 - PearConf Details
43:55 - Bonus Conversation: The Practices Not Being the Manifesto
- The Winter Getaway That Turned The Software World Upside down by
Caroline Mimbs NyceRelated Episodes- Nonviolent Conversation with Nadia Odunayo
- How Set Design Can Inform Software Architecture With Betsy Haibel
- Agile Teams and Escaping Velocity with Doc Norton and Claire Podulka
Special Guests: Betsy Haibel, Jennifer Tu, and Marlena Compton.
48 min - Episode 37: Your First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee With Shay Howe and John GoreYour First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee With Shay Howe and John Gore
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Guests- John Gore: Founder of CultureScape; Everyone Onboard.
- Shay Howe: ActiveCampaign Design Team Leader; Lead Honestly
SummaryTech Done Right is looking at onboarding from both sides. In this episode we talk with Shay Howe and John Gore about onboarding from the company side. We talk about what a new company can do to set a new employee up to be successful and how best to structure that support. How can you best give feedback? What are common onboarding mistakes?
See AlsoEpisode 36: Your First 100 Days At A New Company
Notes02:21 - Integrating a New Employee
04:36 - Balancing Technical and Cultural Needs
11:57 - Company Responsibility for Employee Integration: Feedback and Praise
15:34 - Sharing Expectations
18:15 - Soliciting Feedback and Making Connections
25:44 - Common Mistakes Made When Onboarding
27:24 - When It’s Not a Good Fit / Warning Signs
30:42 - Onboarding for Culture and Diversity
34:19 - Communicating Culture to New Employees
Special Guests: John Gore and Shay Howe.
44 min - Episode 36: Your First 100 Days at a New Company with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski HodosYour First 100 Days At A New Company with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos
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GuestsKatie Gore: Founder and President of speech IRL.
Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos: Founder of Elizabeth Hodos: Corporate Improv Training
SummaryTech Done Right is looking at onboarding from both sides. In this episode we talk with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos about onboarding from the employee side. What can you do as a new employee to navigate the culture and environment of a new workplace? What are useful strategies? And what are some problems to watch out for?
See AlsoEpisode 37: Your First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee
Notes02:27 - Group Integration: Observe First & Take Your Own Data
08:50 - Picking Up on Shared Context Between Coworkers
11:51 - Themes of Culture and Communication
16:43 - Presenting Yourself in a New Environment
24:11 - Building Credibility
30:49 - Red Flag Situations
Special Guests: Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos and Katie Gore.
43 min - Episode 35: AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach PousmanAI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman
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SummaryWhat does AI mean for the future of design, development? Can I be replaced by an AI algorithm? Today, we talk to Zach Pousman, from the consultancy Helpfully. Zach thinks a lot about artificial intelligence and how it might impact the future of different knowledge work. It's impossible to talk about AI without talking about the ethics of AI projects and how AI might affect the larger society. We'll talk about why AI started with chess and moved to facial recognition, what AI might and might not be able to do in the future, how we might deal with it, and how that will change the way you work.
GuestZach Pousman: Principal at Helpfully.
Notes02:28 - What is AI?
05:18 - AI Potentially Changing the Way Designers and Developers Work
11:40 - Development Biases and Algorithmic Failures
- Weapons of Math Destruction
- Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
16:12 - Taking Novice Performance to Expert Levels
- All Websites Look The Same
18:56 - Susceptible Knowledge Work at Risk Due to AI and Ethics; AI as “Parlor Tricks”
- Reddit Thread: Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I’ve automated my job?
- McKinsey Article: What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business
- I got the tic-tac-toe story from this tweet, which references this paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution" with more examples
- Loebner Prize
- The ELIZA Program
- The Stanford Question Answering Dataset
- tf-idf
33:06 - AI Vs. Humans and Legislation
Google Translate
When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible?
When Luddites Attack
43:09 - Human Skills That Aren’t Replaceable (4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity)
Special Guest: Zach Pousman.
47 min - Episode 34: Programming Languages and Communication With Kerri MillerProgramming Languages and Communication With Kerri Miller
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GuestKerri Miller: Senior Developer at TravisCI and Ruby Community Member. Co-Organizer of the Open Source and Feelings Conference. Blog.
SummaryWhy is Smalltalk the Elizabethan English of programming languages? Why has it been so influential, and how does the programming language you use affect the way you think about programming. On this episode, Kerri Miller and I talk about programming languages and communication, and what we've learned from our most recent programming language adventures.
Notes01:56 - Introduction
- Twitter Stream
- Creole Languages
- Pidgin
06:18 - SmallTalk is to Ruby as Elizabethan English is to Modern Day
08:11 - SmallTalk’s History
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Squeak
- By the way, I did get the Squeak history partially wrong. The original work was done at Apple, and when they went to Disney after that, they downloaded their Apple work as Open Source to continue. (It is possibly named Squeak because they were being wooed by Disney). The technical details are basically right, though.
17:55 - Thinking About Programming and Software Projects in a Flexible Way
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
22:01 - Object-Oriented Programming, Thinking, and Design
- The Overton Window
28:37 - Learning New Programming Languages, Concepts, and Techniques
- The Silmarillion by Tolkien
- Nothing is Something by Sandi Metz
- Much Ado About Naught by Avdi Grimm
Related Episodes- Back in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls
- Ruby Tapas and Avoiding Code with Avdi Grimm
- The Elm Programming Language With Corey Haines
Special Guest: Kerri Miller.
48 min - Episode 33: Back in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin SearlsBack in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls
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Guests- Sam Phippen: Tech Lead at DigitalOcean and member of the RSpec Core Team
- Justin Searls: Co-founder of Test Double
SummaryI'm back in the testing weeds with Sam Phippen, lead maintainer for RSpec-Rails, and Justin Searls, co-founder of Test Double and author of testdouble.js. We talk about long-running test suites: are they bad, or just misunderstood? Does parallel CI solve all testing speed problems, or just some of them? Then we move to a wider view, what does it mean to test your library as part of a larger ecosystem. And, how can we leverage coverage or CI information to make for more useful testing tools over the lifetime of a project.
Notes02:32 - Dealing with Longer and Longer Test Suites
- High Cost Tests and High Value Tests
09:43 - What causes people to get into this trouble?
- On Writing Software Well #5: Testing without test damage or excessive isolation
12:46 - If you had a fast test suite, would you still parallelize it in the CI?
15:12 - What does it mean for your library to still be functional?
- dont-break
21:35 - Bugs found via the dont-break style of testing
- GRPC
24:06 - Inferring which tests are run from a production code diff
29:31 - Coverage, what's it good for?
- RSpec
33:53 - What kind of features would you expect out of a CI-aware testing suite?
Related EpisodesPart I: Episode 004: In The Testing Weeds
Special Guests: Justin Searls and Penelope Phippen.
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About Tech Done Right
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The Tech Done Right podcast is a show by and for people who care about what they build. We don't just build software, we build teams, companies, careers, and communities.
Each episode features host Noel Rappin talking to interesting people in the tech community about building something the right way. We’re not just going to give you our thoughts on the topic, but tools, processes, or references that you can use immediately to build better software and communities.