The Frontside Podcast

Jamie White joins us this week to talk about preparing for a conference talks, organizing meetups, tips for starting conversations with strangers at meetups, how to design a community, and more.

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Robert Jackson works at Aptible and is a member of the Ember core team. In this episode, we discuss how he got into Ember, his past experience with running a business, how he manages his OSS workflow at Ember's scale, working remotely, work/life balance, and more.

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We're joined this week by special guest Trek Glowacki. Trek is a member of the Ember core team and maintains Pretender.js. We discuss how Trek got started with programming, Ember (of course), getting pigeonholed, how to get started contributing to open source projects, the curse of knowledge, and more.

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“The hard work is not writing the code; the hard work is figuring out what code to write.” - @trek

This week, Brandon and Charles sit down to talk about communication at work, the importance of being honest with your employees even when it's painful, how to build trust in work relationships, why checking in with employees regularly has become a core value at Frontside, and more.

What separates a senior developer from a junior developer?

With Charles back from sunny Finland, the guys are back to podcasting! This week, they're talking about what makes someone a senior developer, when to stop thinking like a developer, and why some problems require a different skillset and mindset.