00:00 Intros

A conversation with fellow Dev/DevOps/SRE/tech person Matthew Sanabria, where we discuss the process of getting a software development job in the 2023-2024 job market. We also discuss using chat GPT and other LLMs as a software developer, and what it's like to start learning Elixir.

A quick solo episode where I cover the changes to infrastructure and architecture I've seen while working in the tech industry. I specifically focus on what my day-to-day work looked like at each phase, and which problems we faced that led to the next evolutionary step.

In this episode, I talk with Matthew and Justin about tech salaries and

0:00 Intro

Switching from VSCode to neovim: how it's going. Also, I'm learning Elixir, and I'll tell you why.

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Editor Wars

5:35 Kickstart.nvim and my nvim setup

10:40 Should you learn vim?

13:30 Elixir: What makes a language good?

17:15 My impression of Elixir (so far)

19:00 Erlang is cool

26:41 How I learn a new programming language

30:30 Learning Projects

An interview with Matthew Sanabria about his path through (and continued life in) the tech industry. Matthew and I met working at Hashicorp when it was a much smaller company than it is today. In this episode, we spend a lot of time discussing things we've learned and things we wish someone had told us when we got started in System Administration and Software Development.

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

3:00 Switching from Infrastructure to Development

5:00 Linux skills that many Developers are missing

8:00 shoring up your weaknesses

11:00 Agility

14:00 Memorization and Learning

16:30 Dave admits his mistakes

23:15 Steve Yegge callout

26:00 From IT to CS

28:00 Engineering

31:30 ...and overengineering (middle out)

36:00 Teams, Skill Gradients, Companies

39:00 How to grow senior engineers

42:00 How to grow junior engineers

44:45 Agile

49:00 Agile operations teams

51:30 we're taking questions

52:13 Final words from Matthew

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Some of Matthew's (awesome) YouTube videos: