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CodeNewbieS18:E9 - DevNews: Potential Effects of a Cyberwar Between Russia and Ukraine, a Coding Bootcamp Stands Strong In Afghanistan, and More (Josh Puetz, Jamshid Hashimi, Hector X. Monsegur)In this featured episode of DevNews, hosts Saron Yitbarek and Josh Puetz talk about The New York Time’s Wordle acquisition, and Apple App Stores new unlisted apps option. Then we speak with Hector Monsegur, director of research at Alacrinet and former black hat hacker about what a cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine would look like and what its effects could be. Finally, we speak with Jamshid Hashimi, founder of CodeWeekend, a coding bootcamp that is still providing education and hope within the chaos caused by the US pullout from Afghanistan and the new Taliban regime. Show Li...
2022-02-0352 minCodeNewbieS15:E10 - DevNews: Platforms as Utilities, Archiving Yahoo Answers, and Companies Rescinding Accepted Offers (Josh Puetz, Nikolas Guggenberger, Jason Scott)In this episode of DevNews, we cover companies rescinding job offers after they have been accepted. Then we speak with Nikolas Guggenberger, executive director of the Yale Information Society Project, about Justice Clarence Thomas arguing for categorizing some digital platforms as utilities and why this is a huge deal for the tech world. Finally, we chat with Jason Scott, co-founder of Archive Team, about their efforts to archive Yahoo Answers which is shutting down after 16 years. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Blind: Rescind Justice Clarence Thomas' Argument For Regulating Some Digital Platforms As Utilities...
2021-04-1653 min
Parent Driven Development062: 3-Year Anniversary - Episode HighlightsParent Driven Development
062: Celebrating Our Favorite Episodes from the past 3 Years!
Episode Highlights
KWu, Chris, Josh, and Allison reflect on the past 3-years of podcasting. They touch on their favorite episodes and guests over the years, as well as some favorite parenting genius and fail moments!
1:30 Episode 43 - Managing parents on your team with Nick Means
3:10 Episode 19 - Being Adults, Live from Ruby Conf with Jonan Scheffler
7:25 Episode 11 - Being a Trans-Parent with Jess Szmajda
10:35 Episode 26 - Breastfeeding with Allison, Mandy, and KWu
13:06...
2021-01-2037 min
Golf Talk WashingtonGolf Talk Washington Holiday & Winter Weather Shopping GuideHappy Holidays! In this special edition of Golf Talk Washington Josh Kerns travels to Santa's Workshop aka Puetz Golf Superstore in North Seattle to visit with head elf (Manager Chris Johnson) to come up with the ultimate holiday gift guide and how to outfit for yourself for the cold and wet ahead.And speaking of great holiday gifts, how about a custom green guide for your favorite course, just like pros use?! Josh visits with Pete Charleston, President and Co-Founder of GolfLogix to talk about the latest in green guides and app technology.Looking for som...
2020-11-2954 minCodeNewbieS14:E3 - Introducing DevNews (Joseph Cox)In this episode of DevNews, hosts Saron Yitbarek and Josh Puetz, cover how Apple server problems caused slowdowns and crashes for app launching in all versions of MacOS, the rise of school districts being the targets of ransomware attacks, and GitHub reinstating youtube-dl, a program to download videos from YouTube and other video sites, after a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown. And then they chat with Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, Joseph Cox, whose piece titled, “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps,” shines a spotlight on the location data industry, and who is being targ...
2020-11-1933 min
DevNewsS1:E0 - Season 1 TrailerDevNews is the second original podcast by DEV, a global community of software developers of all backgrounds and experience levels. DevNews is the news show for developers by developers, hosted by Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie, and DEV senior engineers Josh Puetz and Vaidehi Joshi. Each season these experienced devs cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks. Show Notes DevDiscuss (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) Avalanche (sponsor)
2020-07-2901 min
DevDiscussS1:E6 - Little-Known Productivity Tools; Big Productivity GainsIn this episode, we go through our favorite hardware and software that allows us to be the best developers and designers we can be. We invite DEV Principal Software Engineer, Josh Puetz, and DEV Lead Product Designer, Lisa Sy, to talk about their favorite desk setup, organizational, and efficiency tools.Show Notes DevNews (sponsor) CodeNewbie (sponsor) DataStax (sponsor) Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor) Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor) Stellar (sponsor) Rails Zoom Slack Back-end engineering Java Jarvis Laminate Standing Desk Apple Watch LG UltraFine 5K Display Magic Trackpad 2 Magic Keyboard Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro 12.9‑inch (4th generation) Wacom Ci...
2020-06-1742 minParent Driven Development043: Managing Parents on Your TeamParent Driven Development
Episode 043: Pressure and Considerations Around Leaving a Job for Ethical Reasons.
Welcome, Nick Means!
Nickolas Means loves nothing more than a story of engineering triumph (except maybe a story of engineering disaster). When he's not stuck in a Wikipedia loop reading about plane crashes, he spends his days as a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub working on Security and Compliance tooling for our users. He's also a co-host of the Managing Up podcast, a show about leading and managing in the world of technology. He works remotely from Austin, TX, and...
2020-04-2948 minParent Driven Development039: Parenting Roles and Gender EqualityParent Driven Development
Episode 039: Parenting Roles and Gender Equality with Richard Schneeman
Welcome Richard Schneeman!
Schneems writes Ruby at Heroku, and maintains CodeTriage.com, a tool for helping people contribute to Open Source. He is in the top 50 Rails contributors and is an accidental maintainer of Sprockets and Puma. When he isn't obsessively compulsively refactoring code for performance, he writes such gems as Wicked, and derailed_benchmarks.
00:30 Welcome, Richard Schneeman!
01:00 All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership
The book: All the Rage: Mothers Fathers...
2020-02-1245 minParent Driven Development038: Women Mentorship with Kari ClarkParent Driven Development
Episode 038: Women Mentorship with Kari Clark from Uplift Parents
Welcome, Kari Clark! Kari is the founder Uplift Parents, a coaching service for working moms. She previously worked at Google for 8 years, invented their live case product, and co-created many other products. Kari has two kids and believes that they both made her a better at her job! Interviewing over 100 women, all at the top of their field, Kari breaks down the common threads in successful working moms and how we all can amplify our lives. These are the best tips for working...
2020-01-2251 minParent Driven Development035: Summer VacationParent Driven Development
Episode 035: Summer Vacations
Welcome!
00:35 Summer vacationing as a kid vs. adult
The hosts reflect back on their experience of summer vacation as a child vs. what their kids experience now.
How much do kids actually remember on these family vacations?
Loads and loads of driving!!
06:52 Flying vs. driving
The views!
You can either see more of the places in between or more of the place you’re going to
What does your family value more?
Is the classic road trip only nostalgic?
10:20 KWu's travels
2019-11-2043 minParent Driven Development034: Extracurricular ActivitiesParent Driven Development
Episode 034: Back to School and Extracurricular Activities for Kids
00:59 Welcome, Barrett Clark
Barrett Clark is a data programmer, speaker and author of Data Visualization ToolKit. He is a longtime member of the Ruby community and a co-organizer of RailCamp South. Married for 22 years, Barrett and his wife have two teenage boys and a new dog.
Ruby community
Family: 2 highschool teenage sons (senior / sophomore) both in band.
Parent advisors and past president to children’s band team
01:46 Extra curricular activities for kids
Ba...
2019-10-3056 minParent Driven Development029: Organizing ConferencesParent Driven Development
Episode 029: Organizing Conferences
00:57 Balancing Conferencing with Parenting
Andy has organized RedDotRubyConf, still organizes Brighton Ruby, and has spoken the past few years at RubyConf.
Andy also puts out an email newsletter, with one Ruby/Rails technique delivered with a ‘why?’ and a ‘how?’ every two weeks. It’s deliberately brief, focussed & opinionated, and called One Ruby Thing.
Chris helps to co-organize Ruby For Good.
Systems, systems, systems.
Staying in the speaker hotel during crunch time.
Getting paid helps.
Having no co-organizers = no extra communication challenges.
Relying on your partner.
Staying local helps.
Hav...
2019-05-1544 minParent Driven Development028: Primary CaregivingParent Driven Development
Episode 028: Primary Caregiving
00:17 Introducing Guest, Nick Gauthier! Becoming a Full-time Parent
Nick is currently the CTO and Co-founder at Nomics. Before co-founding Nomics, Nick created MeetSpace, a video conferencing application for distributed teams. Before that, Nick worked at Codeship on the Codeship Pro Continuous Delivery platform, as well as various other web application consulting projects in Ruby on Rails, Go, and JavaScript.
03:55 Being a Full-Time Parent as a Man
"Aww, you're babysitting!" 🙄
Experiences with "Mommy and Me" groups and Meetups.
Feeling instrusive in Mom spaces.
Breaking into a "...
2019-05-0139 minParent Driven Development024: Teaching Kids to CodeParent Driven Development
Episode 024: Teaching Kids to Code
01:29 Winding up in a developer evangelist role and teaching coding
02:58 Teaching younger vs older audiences
03:52 Getting kids motivated in the coding space
Scratch
05:13 The benefits for kids who know coding literacy
The Hour of Code
08:16 Kevin's background in coding
08:45 Using Twilio (and real-world technology and tools) in teaching kids to code
13:31 Resources & Tools
Glitch
CodeCombat
15:24 Is Minecraft useful?
18:11 Next level resources
Codecademy
Learn Python the Hard Way
TwilioQuest
19:46 Helping...
2019-02-2731 minParent Driven Development019: Being AdultsParent Driven Development
Episode 019: Being Adults
00:25 Welcome, Jonan Scheffler!
Jonan is a free-range computer sciencer at Heroku and cheerleader for hire (all major hugs accepted). He is also a board member of RubyTogether and all-around swell human being!
We recorded this episode live and in-person at this year's RubyConf in Los Angeles.
01:09 Catching Up On Sleep, Spending Time with Friends, and Spending Spousal Points
Conferences are NOT vacations, y'all!
Traveling as a job.
Being present at home.
Partying is WORK.
11:16 Communicating to Loved Ones at Home
...
2018-12-1943 minParent Driven Development018: Designing Apps/Digital Products for Parents with Anne Halsall and Sara Mauskopf of WinnieParent Driven Development
Episode 018: Designing Apps/Digital Products for Parents
00:24 Welcome, Anne Halsall and Sara Mauskopf!
Anne is the co-founder & head of product of at Winnie. Sara is the CEO.
01:12 Coming Up With Winnie: Providing Local Information for People With Children
Great app to use for travel!
Gives parents child-friendly reccomendations for activities, places to eat, things to see.
03:12 Content Moderation and Quality
Winnie is a crowdsourced platform similar to Yelp or Quora where you can both ask questions or give advice.
You can post under a pseudonym...
2018-12-0535 minParent Driven Development017: Work and Family BoundariesParent Driven Development
Episode 017: Work and Family Boundaries
00:16 Welcome, Chris Arcand!
Chris is a Software Engineer at HashiCorp where he works on Terraform Enterprise, a product that adds collaboration and governance features to the popular open source infrastructure tool, Terraform. As an advocate of distributed teams and open source, he’s spent the majority of his career at other distributed, open source companies such as Red Hat. He calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota his home where he organizes the local Ruby users group, RubyMN, as well as moderates th...
2018-11-2836 minParent Driven Development016: Media Picks! Great Apps, Books, Shows, Etc. For KidsParent Driven Development
Episode 016: Media Picks! Great Apps, Books, Shows, Etc. For Kids
01:15 T.V. Shows / Binge Watching Discussion
The Good Place (Josh)
05:56 Music
Avoid "Kids" Music!!
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Allison)
Apple Music (Chris)
08:54 Games
A great bluffing game is Sheriff of Nottingham (Chris)
Go Fish (Allison)
Chutes and Ladders (Allison)
Fish Stix (Allison)
How to make Candy Land tolerable (even fun) (Josh)
What Are the Odds? Chutes and Ladders (Josh)
BoardGameGeek (Josh)
Survive: Escape from Atlantis (Chris)
Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle (Josh)
PBS Kids App...
2018-11-2143 minParent Driven Development015: On-Call SchedulesParent Driven Development
Episode 015: On-Call Schedules
00:20 Welcome, Alyson van Hardenberg!
Alyson is a Software Engineer at Honeycomb and the mother of two boys.
02:41 Pager or Baby? Which do you choose?
It was a non-issue for Alyson. One of Honeycomb's managers, before even hiring Alyson, said that she'd take Alyson's pager during "off-duty" hours as an added responsibility. They'll check in and reevaluate when her son is one.
Equal does not mean fair across teams.
05:07 Having On-Call Schedule Discussions
Special Accommodations
Scheduling Around On-Call Time
On-Call Parenting...
2018-11-1444 minParent Driven Development012: Traveling with KidsParent Driven Development
Episode 012: Traveling with Kids
00:48 The Great Screen Debate
Today's particular panelists are all about screens while traveling as long as it's not detracting from the travel experience. Everyone agrees that screens are a great way to keep kids occupied and quiet.
08:09 Transportation Challenges, Woes, and Genius Tips
When your kid gets flagged on her first plane ride...
TSA Pre√ (Worth its weight in gold!!)
Download shows to devices in advance
Have a variety of activities (besides screens)
Hotel Paper & Pens
Books
Cheerios
... and a Walkman?
Building Up Go...
2018-10-2450 minParent Driven Development011: Being a Trans ParentParent Driven Development
Episode 011: Being a Trans Parent
00:30 We're joined by our friend Jess today
We've been soliciting questions from our audience which will help guide our conversation today
02:00 How do you help young children who want to categorize everything in to boys and girls?
How do we talk about boy parts and girl parts and gender identity especially with young children?
It's a complex topic. Different children classify in different ways. Does it talk to how we socialize children? It changes when your children interact with other...
2018-09-1154 minParent Driven Development008: Remote Work with KidsParent Driven Development
Episode 008: Remote working with kids
00:37 Who all works remotely?
02:30 Working remotely with kids at home
Lifestyle choice
Nursing and alternate schedules
Spouses working from home as well
06:00 Working remotely before and after having a child
The difference between working from home with a spouse also working from home vs. not
Hard starts and stops to your day
10:00 JC forgets pickup
11:00 Dealing with interruptions
This classic example
Interruptions from your spouse vs. the kid(s)
2018-06-2054 minParent Driven Development007: Learning After KidsParent Driven Development
Episode 007: Keeping up to date with tech
00:27 Welcome back Allison
01:00 Today topic: Learning during the work day
02:47 It's ok if learning doesn't happen when your kids are little
04:14 Learning if you're a single parent is more difficult
It's more difficult if you don't have a partner to hand things off to
Real talk: you will always just have less time
7:15 Choices and Bringing your laptop along
Being efficient and aware of the time you have
But don't burn...
2018-05-2354 minParent Driven Development006: Screen TimeParent Driven Development
Episode 006: Screen Time
00:17 Today topic: Screen Time
03:10 Screen time limits
How do we set limits for our children and their devices
06:59 Other people's screen time policies
Negotiating our screen time policies versus other parents opinions
09:16 Is all screen time the same?
Does it matter what types of activities our children are engaging in on their screens? How do we teach our children the different between good content and bad content?
21:00 Explaining our own relationships to devices
...
2018-04-1848 minParent Driven Development005: Net Neutrality00:32 Meet our guest Jonathan Wallace
He is a mentor, speaker, organizer, developer and open source contributor. Married with three kids and a dog. He's also been a Georgia state legislator since January.
01:07 Net neutrality
We start off talking about net neutrality and how it affects our children. How the repeal affects who regulates the infrastructure companies. How does it affect the internet content builders, how might it affect free speech, and how the internet is becoming the civic square. Are rules being put in place ahead of time or coming up and cleaning...
2018-03-2141 minParent Driven Development003: Internet Privacy and Kids0:31
First Guest!
Heidi Waterhouse - Parent of two. Developer evangelist for LaunchDarkly. Volunteers teaching sex ed to teenagers. She likes to sew her own conference dresses and ride her bike.
1:00 Internet privacy and safety and how it is adaptable to kids of all ages.
How should kids protect themselves online, have manners, and use their time wisely. Online behavior is permanent these days, so kids should also consider using obfuscated names online. Pseudonyms are personas you can discard if necessary while keeping you safe. Online predation is possible, but you are more...
2018-02-2144 minParent Driven Development002: Travel Guilt, Playing Hooky, and Getting Judged as Parents00:34 - Combating Burnout
Mandy was on “vacation” and has to make an appearance at another conference. Her daughter doesn’t want her to go and Mandy feels really bad about it. She’s been on the road a lot the past six months and is feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. JC says it’s important to learn to say no and recharge by doing hobbies. Chris says it comes down to priorities.
06:12 - Playing Activity Hooky: AS A PARENT!
Mandy also feels bad because she knowingly skipped her daughter’s gymnastics practice because after returning fr...
2018-02-0747 minParent Driven Development001: Greetings & Salutations01:40 - Allison Intro
Allison talks a bit about kids being curious, asking questions, and how they somehow sneakily get past some safety measures we try to put in place. The older ones blatantly just write us notes and leave the house.
04:53 - Andy Intro
Andy introduces us to parenting multiples and how he’s been “leading a small team!” We also comment on how our children always seem to plot against us.
08:17 - Sarah Intro
Sarah goes into how she’s navigating being the parent of a gymnast and how kids...
2018-01-2559 min