Launchies is for early-career developers, or soon-to-be devs, offering advice on navigating career progression. Each season @lolocoding & @muydanny will dive into a specific topic and currently, it’s all about the technical interview.
Aisha Blake is the Director of Developer Relations at Pluralsight and often a professional rubber duck. A theater kid turned tech community leader, Aisha has co-organized a number of meetups and events over the years, including Self.conference and
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
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What are your top three must-haves you want in your next job? Is it respect? Is it mentorship? Are you looking for really good benefits? Do you want them to be fun? Sit down and think about what would make you happy at your day-to-day.
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Ceora Ford is a Developer Advocate based in Philadelphia. Her career thus far has centered around creating educational content focused on making the tech industry more accessible to everyone. She's been able to work with amazing companies like CodeSandbox, DigitalOcean, Egghead.io, and Apollo GraphQL and has recently joined The Stack Overflow Podcast as a host.
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts each week will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
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What are your non-negotiables when it comes to a company and finding a place to apply?
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Spence Taylor is an Engineering Manager at New Relic who runs the Central Hiring Program.
Born in Compton, California, he had a very unorthodox journey to tech. Trying to find the right fit for his career, Spence has worked in the military, event management, hospitality, and finally found his place in tech. Working as an engineer, he experienced many issues with current hiring practices and has always been passionate about improving the hiring process.
Now with the Central Hiring Program at New Relic, he hopes to find ways to improve the hiring process for both interviewers and interviewees and implement effective diverse hiring practices.
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
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In whatever language you prefer, write a function/method that accepts an object. The function should return a new object with the same data but with the keys and values swapped. Since the returned object might have multiple values for the same key, it should put the values in an array.
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Ian Douglas is a Senior Developer Advocate at Postman and is live-streaming his learning in public on Twitch. He loves developer education in all forms and is a strong proponent of accessible content and diversity in tech. He has about 26 years of professional experience in the industry as a developer, manager, director, DevOps engineer, business owner, freelance developer.
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
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Build your board of people. Find three people in your network, friends that are also interested in tech, or people who are in tech now, and have them give you feedback or schedule one or two mock interviews. Tell us how it went!
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Rynn Mancuso is a Developer Community Manager. They began their career as an Accessibility Engineer working on Women Who Code and building a WordPress community locally at Tech Liminal, and have built developer communities at Mozilla, Wikimedia, Tidelift, and New Relic.
Show Notes:
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
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Topics Covered On This Episode:
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List what are key things you're looking for in a community that you want to join. Share them! What you do want? What don't you want?
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Chloe Condon is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer, previously working at Microsoft, Sentry.io, and Codefresh.
Before entering tech, she got a degree in Drama from San Francisco State University and worked in the Bay Area as a musical theatre actress, while working 9-5 in various admin roles. She's worked in tech in roles ranging from video game customer support, virtual assistant, office manager, executive assistant, and recruiting. A Hackbright graduate and mentor to many non-traditional background folks in tech, she's passionate about bringing more artists into tech and more tech into the arts.
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This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
👉 Give us a follow: @LaunchiesShow
Topics Covered On This Episode:
Links:
CTA (Call To Action):
👉 Follow Launchies, Lauren, and Danny on Twitter!
🚨 FutureStack 2022 call for papers is now open!🚨
Sign up to share your successes and learnings in a hands-on lab, workshop, or deep-dive session to help your peers advance their observability game.
This season, we’re helping you level up your interviewing skills! Each week Lauren Lee, Danny Ramos, and industry experts will offer advice on navigating career progression within tech.
Launchies is a show for folks launching into tech and today we're kicking off this new season! Every new season, we plan to zoom into one specific topic and provide tangible resources and helpful advice for our listeners.
✨This season is going to be all about tech interviews and landing a job!✨
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
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Relicans host, Lauren Lee, talks to Styra’sPeter ONeill about being a digital nomad, working for Styra'sOpen Policy Agent, and learning to code via Coding Dojo, a coding bootcamp.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
Relicans host Lauren Lee talks to Technical Community Builder at Camunda’s, Kiran Oliver, about joining the field as a technology journalist and looking at Community Health Metrics. They also give bunches of great advice, wisdom, personal experiences, and tips on navigating this wild space that is tech!
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow**.
Do you have ideas about how we can make our show better? Or would you like to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Reach out to our #devrel team at devrel@newrelic.com**. We would LOVE to hear from you with any questions, curiosities, and/or feedback you have in hopes of making this the best show possible!
Relicans host Danny Ramos talks to Senior Software Engineer at PlanetScale, Iheanyi Ekechukwu **about how when breaking into tech and starting the interview process, everybody takes Ls over Ws at first, and that having a way to set yourself apart from other candidates is always good.
Additionally, he talks about learning and creativity and even about his own failure in trying to learn music, but that he also doesn’t necessarily consider it failure. He recommends keeping a log of your progress, so when you get frustrated with yourself, you can go back to early moments to see how you've grown.**
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Aisha Blake talks to Developer Educator at Apollo, Megan Sullivan, about her roundabout journey into tech, the difference between developer advocacy versus education versus experience, and how it is v. important to not underestimate your own expertise!
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Relicans host Danny Ramos talks to Community Manager, Katy Farmer about attending the Turing School of Software Design, coming into tech from a publishing and editing background, and gives advice for people who consider themselves introverts and doesn't really look at interviews as a fun or exciting process.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Aisha Blake interviews Early Career Software Developer, Danielle Thompson about moving from the hospitality industry into tech, being self-taught, Googling frequently, living with ADHD, and participating in weekly Code School Q&A with our very own, Jonan Scheffler!
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Danny Ramos talks to Lead Developer Advocate for Huawei AppGallery, Zachary Powell, about looking at failures as learning experiences and getting as much feedback as you possibly can to understand situations and improve them, wanting to go from being a developer to being a developer advocate, and encouraging people to persevere during interviews. You're not going to succeed the first time every time. It takes time. It will happen.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Pachi Parra talks with DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, Arisa Fukuzaki, about opportunities and resources to learn programming for Japanese folx, starting and keeping a coding school alive, and to find a mentor who you aim to be because if you have someone who is like a role model, you really can motivate yourself effectively.
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Relicans host Aaron Bassett talks to New Relic’s newest Relican, Lauren Lee, about being a “second career dev” after starting out as an English teacher, her experiences on going through the Ada Developers Academybootcamp, and finding her way into DevRel.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Pachi Parra talks to Developer Advocate at GitHub, Rizél Scarlett, about coming to America as an undocumented immigrant, the biggest barriers she encountered when getting into tech, and the learning curve when going from coder to DevRel.
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Relicans host, Aisha Blake talks to Product Leader, Advisor, and Consultant, Anne Griffin about being the only woman and Black person in the room, that one of the worst things you can do is give up your own power by thinking you don't have any, and helping people to leverage LinkedIn better.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host, Pachi Parra talks to Thuy Doan of Prodigy Education about imposter syndrome being a thing that you always have, but that you just become incrementally more comfortable with it, skills she developed in her first years that led to a promotion, and how she’ll never work onsite again. Remote, remote, remote! (But that Zoom fatigue, tho!)
Thuy also thinks that one of the biggest things that deter developers from building accessibly is if they don't know how to do it, it overwhelms them. They just think it's all or nothing, and that’s not the case! Tip: Use semantic HTML!
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Relicans host, Chris Sean Debatos talks to Senior Software Engineer at HOVER, Mannah Kallon**, about his journey from animation nerd to BBQ chef, to philosopher and mathematician, to getting a Master’s Degree in Education, to becoming a teacher for several years.
Eventually, Mannah went to work for an ed-tech company as a content creator writing math lessons and worked with developers for the first time. And that, friends, is how he ended up a full-time software developer and has not looked back since! Mannah also talks about overcoming impostor syndrome (while helping others do the same!), being a very product-focused engineer, and what makes a good developer a good developer.**
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host, Aisha Blake talks to back-end self-taught engineer, Ben Barten about breaking into the FinTech industry in Germany, Googling all the answers, finding a sponsor, promoting yourself through finding a network, and why focusing on a particular niche is very important in coding.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host, Aisha Blake talks to Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Streamer, and VC Scout, Lizzie Siegle, about her journey into Developer Relations and how having fabulous mentors has helped her see how others make the jump from academia to getting a full-time job and adulting in general.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host, Pachi Parra talks to Design Systems Engineer, Kedasha Kerr, about attending the Grace Hopper Conference with the intention of getting hired, thinking as a product engineer while also thinking like a Bootstrap engineer, and focusing on content creation on Instagram.
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Relicans host, Chris Sean Dabatos, talks to Freelance Frontend Developer, Janine Marsh about teaching herself to code by herself during the pandemic, getting over her impostor syndrome, and the communities that motivated her to keep going.
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Relicans host, Pachi Parra talks to creator and maintainer Bekah Hawrot Weigel of Virtual Coffee about the importance of leaning on others during learning, listening to your body: (Rest and recharge!), and letting others help hold you up during these days of Pandemic-life and the trauma, strife, and grief we are all suffering globally, collectively.
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Relicans host, Pachi Parra talks to Software Developer Julia Mathias about dropping out of college to attend a bootcamp, migrating from Ruby to Elixir, and managing life with ADHD.
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Relicans host, Aisha Blake talks to Coderslang about learning how to code by learning JavaScript and working in IDEs like Visual Studio Code.
Coderslang believes coding should be done in the same environment where the user will be working when they finish their education. This way, they'll have some pain in the very beginning when they have to learn how to install things and learn how to configure everything, but then be able to get that out of the way and move on fairly quickly.
As far as it talkes to learn how to code? It never ends. And even though you'll be able to get a job in maybe on average a year from your first lesson, he suggests never stopping to learning because it's fun!
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Relicans host, Pachi Parra talks to makeup artist turned software engineer at This Dot Labs, Star Richardson, about getting into tech via tutorials, contributing to open source, finding community during the pandemic, and searching and interviewing for her first job.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host, Aisha Blake interviews Founding Engineer at Traceable AI, Jayesh Ahire, about four easy ways to contribute to an open source project as a beginner dev**.
Jayesh suggests contributing to documentation, finding an issue you want to fix or a feature you want to add, evangelizing by sharing your experience using a particular open source project, and helping others by joining communities to answer questions or share your thoughts on open issues and feature ideas.**
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Interested in starting a career in IT? Founder of NewsIn.IT and Cloud Developer, Elyse Robinson shares with Relicans host Pachi Carlson **about how she did exactly that!
Elyse also talks about living and working between the United States and Mexico, researching opportunities and taking advantage of them for free or cheap, and then using her vast research skills and web development knowledge and turning NewsIn.IT into a business she shares with the world.**
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Pachi Carlson talks to Educator at hexdevs’, Stefanni Brasil, about making friends in tech, getting her start through Codecademy, and the importance of starting small and celebrating every tiny victory!
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Relicans host Chris Sean Debatos talks to Front-End Engineer at Programming Duck, Spyros Argalias, about being a front-end development kind of guy, his website and YouTube channel: Programming Duck, where he writes blog posts does videos for newbie programmers, and that even if you've never done programming before, it's very possible for you to start from zero and become a dev without a degree!
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: *@LaunchiesShow*.
Relicans host Pachi Carlson talks to Frontend Developer/Designer at Chec/Commerce.js, Jaeriah Tay, about engaging with the developer community, that in the beginning of your programming career, things are hard, and it’s okay to lean on Senior Devs for help, and the key is to dive in and start building.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Jonan Scheffler interviews Erin Claudio about working for groups Techqueria, an inclusive group with focus on the Latinx community wanting to be involved in any aspect of tech, and Ruby For Good, a volunteer-driven nonprofit that develops specialized technology and software solutions for nonprofit organizations to bolster their critical missions.
Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @LaunchiesShow.
Relicans host Pachi Carlson interviews Emi, The Code Pixi about when and why she decided to go to a code bootcamp, Twitter as her main source of networking, starting Code Café, how the pandemic has made things, especially attending conferences, more accessible, and that the biggest secret in programming is that nobody ever really knows what is going on!
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Relicans host Pachi Carlson interviews Rabbi on RailsYechiel Kalmenson about attending a bootcamp to learn how to code, taking advantage of free coding resources like Codecademy, and his top tips for people who are starting to learn how to code. (Hint: you don’t have to be a genius!!)
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Host Jonan Scheffler interviews Stephen Ajayi, co-founder of YearOne: a developer community supporting non-traditional engineers to succeed in their first year of engineering and how part of YearOne’s services includes that when a person lands a job, they support them for their first year with partner companies by doing check-ins with the candidate who got hired, making sure that everything's going well, and that they always have everything that they need.
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Relicans host Danny Ramos interviews Open Source Developer Nick DeJesus about gaming competitively, being an open-source maintainer, (Check out use-shopping-cart: a Hooks library that handles all of your shopping cart state and logic!) and how having passion and being pissed off drives him to do his best work!
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Relicans host Aisha Blake talks to DevRel Manager at Apollo GraphQL, Kurt Kemple about being formerly incarcerated and taking an (all caps) INTERMEDIATE WEB PAGE course, and now working in Developer Advocacy.
Kurt is also a proponent of the fact that people have lives outside of work and employers should give them time to educate themselves freely and urges everyone to check out The Marshall Project, which is a great project that is at the intersection of tech and criminal justice reform. This project uses data-driven insights to create really good reporting about issues with the prison industrial complex and criminal justice system, especially when it comes to racial issues as well, like how white supremacy is essentially a large driving factor of our current prison industrial complex.
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Relicans host Pachi Carlson interviews Rahat Chowdhury, Full Stack Serverless Developer and Co-Founder of Whimser, a cognitive behavioral therapy app, about being cool with asking for help– especially in the beginning, how taking care of his own mental health led to him co-found Whimser, balancing a full-time job with cofounding a startup, and how being active on Twitter has led to some really cool opportunities.
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Software Craftsperson at Red Squirrel Technologies, Jeremy Schuurmans talks to Relicans host Danny Ramos about his past as a chef in Portland, OR to taking on an apprenticeship with a mentor, to landing his ultimate dream career in software development.
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AWS Community Hero, Founder of AWS Newbies, and author of Freelance Finance, Hiroko Nishimura talks to Relicans host Pachi Carlson about being a “professional beginner,” focusing on teaching people with non-traditional backgrounds, and writing the book to help people start out correctly in setting up freelance finances – because learning the hard way can kind (legally) of suck.
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DEV.to Community Coordinator Michael Tharrington talks to Relicans Host Danny Ramos about what it means to be a community manager, especially for platforms as large as DEV and Forem, and how his previous role as a caregiver helped prepare him for his current role today.
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Full-Stack Software Engineer, Grace McGuire talks to Relicans HostDanny Ramos, about ditching the bar for a coding bootcamp, getting over her initial bout of impostor syndrome that she wasn’t meant to be in tech, and now teaching others and ultimately taking on an educator role within the field. Remember folx: learning to Google well is a muscle that you have to build, y’all.
(Oh, and make sure you stay tuned for Gracie and Danny’s Rock Band debut, The Curly Bois, coming soon to a music medium near you!)
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Chris Bowman is a force. Chris talks to Relicans Host Chris Sean about being Chris, meeting your heroes, and overcoming some pretty heavy sh to be where he is today.**
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Nicole Archambault of La Vie En Code, a coding community dedicated to the self-educated, talks with Relicans Host Pachi Carlson about the concept of programmatic problem-solving and how she was empowered by e-learning.
Nicole believes that learning programming isn’t just a process of learning to write code. Instead, she says programming is artistic and centered around evaluating problems the world faces; Enter the concept that teaching problem-solving skills is a must for newbies.
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The Relican’s Chris Sean talks to special guest Justin Chau about all things successful streaming and social media as a self-taught dev. If you’ve been thinking about getting into such business, this episode is a must-listen!
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Nikema Prophet, Community Manager at Armory, talks with host, Pachi Carlson about realizing she wanted to get into tech for a living, her first experiences working in tech, and she has kept herself motivated to keep learning new things.
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Developer Advocate at Auth0 and YouTuber, where he creates weekly videos on web development, James Q. Quick talks with host Chris Sean about working in DevRel, streaming as a great technique to connect with audiences and build a community, and creating content for your job while also creating content for yourself.
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Jorge Téllez, Entrepreneur in Residence at Turing School and Director General at Cerouno, talks about the early days of starting Turing, growing up in Mexico and getting into tech by gaining access to a Commodore 64, and using technology as a way to enact social change by working in international development and launching different projects in Latin America.
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In this episode, Developer Marketing Coordinator at CodeSandbox, Ceora Ford, talks about learning Python by sticking to the language, diving deep into concepts, and not jumping around – all while learning in public and building projects.
Ceora also talks about her job search experience: sharing out loud when she bombed an interview and recalling the support she received afterward on social media because let’s face it, it happens to all of us!
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In this episode, Aline Krebs, 2D/3D Game Artist at Voodoo Berlin, talks about knowing she wanted to work in the video game industry as a teenager, being the only woman on a team of developers, fighting impostor syndrome, and the importance of never giving up.
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In this episode, Vaidahi Joshi, Lead Product Engineering at Forem, and writer + creator of BaseCS, BaseDS, and the BaseCS Podcast, talks about becoming a programmer after being a writer who wrote A LOT of listicles!
She got her start by customizing websites by playing with HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript, and then attended a code school for a 12-week course. She then decided to “learn in public” by making videos explaining computer science concepts to others every Monday, for a year, while learning herself – and thus BaseCS was born!
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