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podcast April 5, 2022

Episode 430: The new version of React, great tools for learning CSS, and the double standard for female engineers

The home team discusses React’s major version upgrade, how women in software engineering are often shunted into marketing or project management roles, and the brilliant analogy Cassidy used to explain to her parents how software engineers still have jobs after they’re done building the app.

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newsletter April 1, 2022

The Overflow #119: Silicon Valley accurately reflects Silicon Valley

This week: developers’ favorite movies and music, surviving a SOC 2 audit, and how much time developers actually spend writing code.

Eira May and Cassidy Williams

podcast April 1, 2022

Embracing ambiguity in software with one of YouTube’s UX engineers (Ep. 429)

The home team sits down with Mattaniah Aytenfsu, a UX Engineer at YouTube, up-and-coming TikTok influencer, and creative technologist. They talk about our unfortunate tendency to divide kids into “science kids” and “art kids,” the difference between being a software engineer and a UX engineer, and why it’s important to be gracious with yourself when you lose focus on a project.

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podcast March 25, 2022

Human laziness is the ultimate security threat (Ep. 427)

The home team talks with Guillermo Rauch, CEO and cofounder of Vercel and cocreator of Next.js, and Sam Lambert, formerly VP of Engineering at Github and now CEO of PlanetScale. They cover how Vercel and PlanetScale are making the web more accessible to developers, the future of web development for professional programmers, and why human laziness is the ultimate security threat.

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podcast March 22, 2022

Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity (Ep. 425)

The home team chats with Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow. They discuss GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, the people paying millions for virtual real estate, and the downsides of microservices and CI/CD for developer productivity.

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podcast March 18, 2022

McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Ep. 424)

Ceora, Ben, and Matt talk with Danielle Man, Director of Engineering at Apollo GraphQL, about how an MIT program for high school girls helped kick off her career, her path from IC to engineering manager, and how Apollo became what it is today.

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podcast March 15, 2022

Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs (Ep. 423)

The new home team—Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy—discuss Visual Studio’s 25th birthday, how to create a sustainable revenue source for open-source frameworks, why open-source business models contribute to a lack of diversity, and why NFTs are so unpopular with K-pop fans.

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podcast March 11, 2022

Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Ep. 422)

Ben talks with entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Pakman, who recently left his longtime role as a partner at veteran VC firm Venrock to become managing partner at CoinFund.

Eira May Content Writer