Greater Than Code

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jay Bobo | Jessica Kerr | Astrid Countee Guest Starring: Neem Serra Blog The Women Techmakers group in St. Louis Asynchrony Labs Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to Greater Than Code 02:02 – Neem Serra Introduction Neem Serra: “From Babies to Software Development” 03:23 – 2016 Election Thoughts, Fears, and Aspirations; Importance of Ally Support Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Other America” 14:51 – Overcoming Adversity and Getting Into Science Genomics 26:27 – Switching from Science to Programming and Getting a Job Software Carpentry National Society of Black Engineers HandsUp United Project Euler We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! Thank you, Matt Hucke, for your support! 33:53 – Volunteering and Being Empathetic and Inclusive “I feel like most of my job some days is helping people try to be empathetic. Nobody gives me a raise for that.”@TeamNeem @greaterthancode — Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 9, 2016 47:36 – Battling Unconscious Bias 55:17 – Programming in Swift Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist Takeaways: Astrid

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Sam Livingston-Gray | Mandy Moore Guest Starring: David Bock Loudoun Computer Science Initiative LivingSocial Show Notes: 00:17 – Welcome to “PC Principal Shit!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:35 – David Bock Introduction and “Smoked Pork” Discussion Tweet @therubyrep with your best Austin, Texas “smoked pork” and/or barbecue recommendations!! 04:56 – Teaching Kids Computer Science Concepts Watch D.O.G.S.: National Center for Fathering Code.org Hour of Code Blockly Karel the Robot TEALS: Computer Science in Every High School 12:50 – Being Scientifically Literate Neil deGrasse Tyson YouTube Video 14:13 – Gender and Peer Pressure Dynamics On @greaterthancode with @bokmann. He had a student who realized “Oh! Computers aren’t smart! They’re just dumb, really really fast!”

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jay Bobo | Sam Livingston-Gray | David Brady Guest Starring: James Edward Gray II Ruby Quiz faster_csv Gray Soft Inc. No Red Ink (Psst! They’re hiring!) Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “PodcasTRON…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:00 – James Edward Gray II’s Introduction 02:03 – #CastleGraySkull We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! Thank you, Nate Vick, for your support! 07:59 – Interviewing James Edward Gray II: Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard @ RailsConf 2016 (Slides) Engineering Interviews: Grading Rubric (Medium.com) 15:14 – Transparency; Giving Honest Feedback Joe Mastey: Hiring Developers, with Science! @ RailsConf 2016 20:08 – Working with Elixir James Edward Gray II: The Most Object-Oriented Language 28:13 – Functional Programming vs Object-Oriented Programming

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | David Brady | Astrid Countee Guest Starring: Charity Majors charity.wtf Honeycomb.io Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “The Hot Mess Podcast…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:54 – Charity Majors’ Introduction / Listener Question: “What is your superhero origin story?” (~Donald Plummer) 02:54 – Operations and Creativity 06:37 – Hiring People for Operations Commandos, Infantry, and Police 07:35 – Looking Back on Chaos 10:00 – “Problems of Success” Jessica Kerr: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No (Spectrum of Risk Article) 11:32 – Bootcamp Graduates and Startup Culture 15:44 – “Cult-y Companies” Dunbar’s Number We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! Thank you, Thomas Peter Berntsen, for your support! Thanks, @marshian for playing the Van Halen brown M&M “Guess the Reference!” game! 19:19 – Microservices Conway’s Law 26:41 – “Serverless” We are offering sponsorship-per-episode opportunities for individuals, companies, and conferences! Whether you are hiring, selling conference tickets, or have a product or project that you want to share with the community, you can take a 30-60 second ad out at the beginning of the show and put an ad on the episode you sponsor! Get in touch with our show manager, Mandy at mandy@greaterthancode.com for more details.

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | David Brady | Astrid Countee Guest Starring: LaToya Allen SheNomads Big Cartel Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “Well, Technically…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:34 – SheNomads LaToya Allen’s Introduction 03:18 – Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball 08:14 – How does “the team photo” reflect on you and your company? 10:33 – Article Backlash; Interviewing/Hiring People for Diversity Mental health Bechdel test for women in male-dominated fields: Have *I* talked to another woman today about something related to my work? — amy nguyen (@amyngyn) October 10, 2016 15:11 – The Talking-Over-People Culture Ruby DCamp We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! Thank you, Ryder Timberlake, for your support! 17:37 – Improving Job Postings; How do you find a company to work for that’s good? “Save your ninja moves for the alley!” ~ Jessica Kerr 23:16 – What is something that your company or coworkers or someone at work did that made you feel included? 26:18 – “Signaling” 30:54 – The SheNomads Job Board and the Vetting Process Commitment to diversity inclusion Provide meaningful work Offer reasonable pay 33:33

Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | Jay Bobo | David Brady | Astrid Countee Guest Starring: Avdi Grimm Virtuous Code RubyTapas Show Notes: 00:16 – Welcome to “The Meta Four!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:30 – Chef Avdi Grimm’s Introduction 02:19 – RubyTapas; Production, Typing, and Editing 10:52 – Real World Programming: Episode #346: User; LiveCoding.tv We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! This week, thank you, Trevor Bramble, for your support! 12:24 – Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome 13:32 – Break time and getting to know our new panelist, Astrid Countee! “I’ve never met a junior who wasn’t extremely senior in some area of life I know nothing about” @dbrady @greaterthancode — Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) October 5, 2016 24:15 – Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome (Cont’d) 25:42 – Live Coding 28:29 – What non-Ruby technologies have you been exploring lately? (~ Darin Wilson) 29:05 – PHP 35:56 – Should a screencast series like RubyTapas also go beyond code? Talk about topics like dealing with frustration when programming

Panelists:  Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr | Sam Livingston-Gray | Jay Bobo | David Brady Guest Starring: Noel Rappin Noel Rappin Writes Here Table XI Show Notes: 00:18 – Welcome to “Dread Coder Roberts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:30 – Noel Rappin’s Introduction (Spoiler alert! He’s got a Ph.D.!) 04:31 – Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web 08:30 – Code Paths and Tracking Failures We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via Patreon! 10:59 – What is the quickest path to accepting payments online? Are there drawbacks to getting something up fast? (~ David Bock) 13:17 – Testing Payment Issues 14:29 – Design Patterns and Missing Layers Between Controllers and Models 17:49 – Business Logic and Database Constraints (aka, “Why did he write the book?!”) 20:14 – I Was A Developer Running HR For A Year: AMA by Noel Rappin at Madison+ Ruby: Epilogue 2016 24:02 – Practices, Problems, and Potential Solutions for Human Resources 29:34 – Team Diversity and Inclusion Listener Call to Action: Team retrospectives and demonstrating that it is safe to fail. Takeaways: Noel: The impact of our applications and how they work in real-world context. David: How can we help introverts feel comfortable? Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Coraline: Inspiration to look at teams, meetings, and discussions and see if they are leaving room for everyone to participate equally. Jessica: We started out talking about accepting payments on the web and we found something greater than code. Jay: If we want to try to work with the hard stuff, the hardest problems to solve are the things that are greater than code. Sam: Being, as Jay said, “not just allies, but accomplices.” Transcript: CORALINE:  Are we ready? [Intro music] CORALINE:  Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of Dread Coder Roberts! I am Coraline Ada Ehmke and I am so excited to be with you today.