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Water-cooler conversation about web-development. We want to entertain, inspire, and motivate you -- or to put it another way, make your coding career more enjoyable.
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239: Welcome to the Feature Factory
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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238: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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237: The Internet Is Eating Itself and We're Just Watching
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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236: Trunk or Treat
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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235: When Romance Becomes a Database Problem with Sean Corfield
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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234: The Multitasking Mind
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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233: Cheating on Work with Work
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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232: Are we Idiots or Maniacs?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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231: Good Friction
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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230: The Myth of Common Sense
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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229: Our Correct Opinions, Subjectivity in Coding
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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228: Soft Deletes and Other Crimes
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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227: Stop, Commensurate, and Listen
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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226: To Sync or Not To Sync?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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225: The Value of Open Source in the Age of AI
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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224: Skin in the Game
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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223: The Six Month Autonomy Rule
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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222: Gemini CLI Test Drive
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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221: Life in the Trenches of Replatforming
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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220: Embracing AI with Dan Wilson
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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219: Potluck: AI Ego, Feature Flags, Customer Feedback
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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218: Rethinking Values in the Age of AI
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May 29, 2025 |
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217: More Svelte Than You Can Shake a Stick At
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May 15, 2025 |
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216: Ben's New Job
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May 08, 2025 |
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215: New Endeavours, New Challenges
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May 01, 2025 |
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214: Is Tech the Bad Guy Now?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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213: Staying Motivated Through Long Projects
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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212: You Are Not a Coder
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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211: Roast My Desk, Rate My Clean-up
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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210: Free as in Speech, not as in Beer
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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209: MVP Therapy
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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208: Real or Fake? Esoteric Programming Languages
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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207: Potluck and Fun Facts
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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206: The Most Impactful Books
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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205: Lessons Learned Along the Way
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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204: Relaying Requirements
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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203: The Hard Problem of Naming Things
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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202: Um, Actually!
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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201: LLMs vs StackOverflow
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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200: The Power of Pause - We're Taking a Break
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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199: Is .io Out?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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198: Battling Build Complexity
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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197: AI, The Innovation Dilemma, Promotions and More
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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196: Building Better, Developer Experience
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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195: When the Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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194: Manifesting a New App
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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193: Bonds Built in the Foxholes
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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192: The Best of Code and The Worst of Code
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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191: Processing Processes
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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190: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves - Ben & Carol Edition
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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189: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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188: Yeeting Changes to Production - Code Reviews
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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187: Is it Possible to be a Solo Developer in 2024?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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186: Warm Blankies For Your Work Insecurities
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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185: Adam's A/B Testing MVP
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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184: Solving World Peace with Code Comments
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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183: Who's Got the Beans? Carol's New Project
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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182: Coffee Talk and Catching Up
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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181: More Laws of Software
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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180: The Laws of Software
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May 29, 2024 |
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179: AI Sells You on AI
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May 22, 2024 |
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178: Upgrading From Node 0.10
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May 15, 2024 |
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177: Infinite Invisibility Timeout
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May 08, 2024 |
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176: Triumph and Fail Safe Space
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May 01, 2024 |
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175: Build Times, Overcompensating, Mentoring and More
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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174: When Your Software Has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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173: Shopping for Solutions - Payments and Compliance Auditing
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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172: Building Your Own Standard Library
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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171: From Tactics to Strategy
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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170: Thinking in UX with Thelma Van
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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169: Buffer Overflow, Tabs vs Spaces
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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168: Memory Safety Mandate
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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167: Everyone Likes Their Own Brand
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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166: What's "Onboarded" to You?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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165: Agile Methodology with Brian Sadler
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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164: Solo Programming, Chrome Monoculture and More - Potluck
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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163: Exposing Yourself, to New Tech
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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162: A Question of Time
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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161: 2024 Goals
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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160: Design Systems and Coding Philosophy
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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159: No Effort December Returns
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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158: The Premortem Premortem
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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157: Dead Man's Snitch Deep Dive with Adam Cameron
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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156: JSON, StackOverflow, Testing - Hot Takes
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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155: Software We're Thankful For
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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154: What Could Go Wrong? Pre-Mortems and Log Levels
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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153: Our Biggest Failures
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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152: Cron Heatmaps, Harvard AI, and Ben's Book - What's On Your Workbench
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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151: Async Human Solutions
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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150: What's on Your Workbench #3
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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149: Margin For Error
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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148: The Day The Code Stood Still
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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147: Potluck #9
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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146: Resiliency is Hard
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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145: Shiny New Things - Bun, Svelte, Skeleton
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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144: The Power of One
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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143: Moving On, Rewriting, Replatforming
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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142: Tangents All the Way Down
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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141: Building Stuff So You Can Build Stuff
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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140: Fraud, What is it Good For?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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139: New Tables vs New Columns
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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138: Ben Goes Streaking
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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137: The Grug Brained Developer
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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136: Words, Do They Matter?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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135: Note To Self v0.3.0
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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134: Ben Goes to a Conference
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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133: The Final Stretch
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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132: Virtual Reality
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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131: Starting From Scratch
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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130: Book Club - The Phoenix Project
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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129: New Features vs Maintenance
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May 31, 2023 |
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128: Potluck #8
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May 24, 2023 |
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127: How Tech Interviewing is Broken with Sean Corfield
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May 17, 2023 |
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126: Documenting Decisions
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May 10, 2023 |
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125: What's on Your Workbench? #2
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May 03, 2023 |
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124: We Are Juniors For Life
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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123: Negative 10x Developers
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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122: Coding Hot Takes
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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121: Ben's Testing Tribulations
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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120: Freelancing with Nolan Erck
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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119: Potluck #7
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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118: Things We Should Be Doing But, You Know... Reasons
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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117: Champions of Truth
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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116: The State of Developer Conferences with Brian Rinaldi
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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115: Self-Care For Developers
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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114: Carol Got Laid-Off
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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113: Surviving A Layoff
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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112: Listener Questions
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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111: How To Learn Stuff Good
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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110: Measuring Impact At Work
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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109: Best of 2022
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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108: 2022 Year In Review
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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107: Through The Wormhole
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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106: A Cascading Cataclysmic Christmas
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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105: No Effort December
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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104: Alexa Make A Podcast About AI
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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103: Birdsite Go Boom
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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102: Upgrading MySQL For Poop Emojis
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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101: Error - Error Message Not Helpful!
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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100: The Spicetacular!
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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099: Technical Debt Isn’t Always A Choice. Or Is It?
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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098: In Defense Of Working On The Legacy Platform
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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097: Expectations Of Professional Software Engineers
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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096: Why Do You Write?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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095: Potluck #6 - Unpopular Opinions Edition
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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094: Disagree And Commit
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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093: Sounds Easy! Sure Isn't
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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092: The Power of No
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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091: Side Project Therapy
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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090: Passion Projects and Beer Money - Side Hustles
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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089: What Makes a Good Roadmap?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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088: //todo: documentation
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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087: Note To Self v0.2.0
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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086: The Working Code Test
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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085: Shipping Complexity
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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084: The Architectural Support Team with Jason Henriksen
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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083: Alternate Timelines
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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082: GitHub Copilot - Is It Worth It?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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081: Total Randos
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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080: Other Duties As Assigned
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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079: Potluck #5
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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078: UX - Pushing Users Into The Pit of Success
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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077: Mid-Manager Blues
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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076: Ben Needs A Minute
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May 25, 2022 |
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075: What Problem Does This Solve?
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May 18, 2022 |
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074: What's On Your Workbench?
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May 11, 2022 |
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073: Our Golden Parachute
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May 04, 2022 |
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072: Too Many Hats
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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071: Potluck #4
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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070: Self Reflections
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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069: Now I'm Catching Events
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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068: Hire Women, Inspire Women
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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067: We Have Feelings On Logging
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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066: Make Meetings Suck Less
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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065: TDD In the Trenches with Scott Stroz
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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064: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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063: Nobody Makes It Out Alive!
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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062: Note To Self
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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061: Software Is For People
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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060: Technical Debt
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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059: Everything Old Is New Again
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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058: Do 10x Developers Exist?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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057: Goals for 2022
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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056: Best of 2021
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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055: Sales Fails
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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054: We're So Quacked
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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053: Product Management with Adam Lehman
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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052: Starting Your Own Business, with Steve Rittler
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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051: You Are Replaceable
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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050: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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049: Revisiting Replatforming - There Is No Correct Answer
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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048: // TODO: Microwave ToDo List
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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047: Email Ruins Everything
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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046: Secrets Management vs. Premature Optimization
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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045B: The Aftershow
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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045: Join Our Discord
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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044: Facebook's No Good Very Bad Week
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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043: Relay Race Programming
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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042: Potluck #3
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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041: The Third Age of JavaScript, with Shawn @Swyx Wang
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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040: Automaticity Is a Weird Word
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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039: Ben's Future at InVision
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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038: Holding Developers Accountable
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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037: Brian Klaas Talks Cloud
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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036: Blogs and Digital Gardens
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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035: Being a Swamp Guide
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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034: Some of My Best Friends Are React Developers!
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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033: Software Patents
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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032: What Comes After Senior Developer?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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031: To The Cloud! But Why?
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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030: Carol's Consult Catch-Up Conversation
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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029: Potluck #2
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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028: Buy vs. DIY
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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027: Giving Technical Presentations
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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026: Passwords
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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025: Breaking Up With Your Stack
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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024: The Archetype of an Effective Developer
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May 26, 2021 |
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023: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt2)
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May 19, 2021 |
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022: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt1)
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May 12, 2021 |
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021: Listener Questions #2
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May 05, 2021 |
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020: Carol Needs a Consult
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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019: Makefiles
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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018: Feature Flags (Finally!)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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017: Premature Optimization
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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016: Interviewing
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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015: Potluck #1
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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014: Zen and the Art of Pull Requests
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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013: Do What You Love And You'll Never Work A Day In Your Life
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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012: Idiomatic Code
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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011: Listener Questions #1
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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010: Scaling
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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009: Testing
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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008: Origin Stories Pt 2
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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007: Origin Stories Pt 1
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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006: Hopes for 2021
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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005: Monolith vs. Microservices
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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004: Impostor Syndrome
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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003: Burnout, Mental Exhaustion, and Productivity
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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002: Working from home
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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001: Adam's Secret Shame
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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000: Hello, World!
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Dec 09, 2020 |