Episode 035: Behind the Scenes at npm with Laurie Voss




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laurie Voss: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/seldo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@seldo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://seldo.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">seldo.com</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Yes, SJWs Do Actually Code” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:22</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Superpower Origin Story</span></p> <p><b>06:00 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– “Real Programming”</span></p> <p><b>08:45 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Being Gay in the Tech Industry; </span><a href="http://www.microactivist.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Micro Activism</span></a></p> <p><b>16:17 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Setting Workplace Culture</span></p> <p><b>21:20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Working in Open Source While Working in a Company like </span><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">npm</span></a></p> <p><b>25:50 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Monetizing npm</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/enterprise"><span style="font-weight: 400;">npm Enterprise</span></a></p> <p><b>32:55 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– npm@5</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Get instant access to our Slack Channel!</b><b><br> </b><b>Thank you to Linnea Kylén Rönnqvist!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Thank you to Jacob Stoebel for submitting our first guest blog post, </b><a href="https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/05/30/guest-post-honesty-kindness-and-inspiration-pick-three/"><b>“Honesty, Kindness and Inspiration: Pick Three”</b></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Submit your own guest blog post to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a></p> <p><b>42:00 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The 10x Engineer</span></p> <p><b>44:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Technical Hiring</span></p> <p><b>49:53 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Why Whiteboarding and Code Exercises Don’t Work</span></p> <p><b>51:51 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Organizing Engineers</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1591846404&amp;linkId=c494a8d5b6315f65af8e4f4a31c3f450"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Astrid: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Not being concerned with how other people view you as a programmer.</span></p> <p><b>Coraline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Remembering good hiring practices to influence others. </span></p> <p><b>Sam:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Making your interview process focus on having people talk to each other about software. </span></p> <p><b>Rein:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SCRVIK/ref=as_l"></a></p>