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Code CafeteriaEpisode 16 - We are back!"Tok Tok! Tok! Is this thing still on?"
As you might have noticed, we took an extended break for a while and dealt with life and things.
In this episode the team is finally back in the recording studio (as always remotely...) to catch up with the audience and warm up for a new season of content.
This episode doesn't have a particular theme and we ended up chatting about our life changes and other news since the previous episode, including random tech topics like UPSs, backends and solar panels.2021-08-0343 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 15 - Mathematics for Developers"Mathematics. Oh?"
Yeah... math. Remember? That subject from back in school and/or uni that you loved or hated or maybe just got along with ok-ish. And mathematics for developers - what is this? This episode is actually Kai's fault. He clearly likes mathematics and even studied it full time at university.
We start as usual by going through a few things we've found online and talk about what we've been doing over the last few days and weeks. There's some exciting stuff in there, but you'll need to listen to the episode to get a...2020-09-221h 15
Code CafeteriaEpisode 14 - Mechanical KeyboardsIn this episode we talk about mechanical keyboards. A lot. We love mechanical keyboards!
But before we get into the depths of how they work and why we like them so much, we introduce two new sections to our podcast: "Personal News" and "Community News". The first one should be self-explanatory and in the community news section we specifically want to talk about recent developments and news in the Android, Flutter and CFML communities - the places were we mostly hang out.
When we eventually launch into the topic, we start off by talking about...2020-07-271h 24
Code CafeteriaEpisode 13 - We talk about CVs, Resumes and Lebensläufe in tech with Raquel MossIn this episode we talk about CVs in tech with our friend Raquel Moss. She's is a software engineer from New Zealand, currently living in Krakow in Poland. She works for ConvertKit, mostly on web applications with Ruby and Javascript and is a very avid knitter.
The hiring process in the tech industry regularly gets pushed into the spotlight for inappropriate processes, inconsistent interview standards, whiteboard interviews or recruiters who only look for keywords in a CV without looking at the person behind the application. It's probably fair to say that these complaints are quite often being r...2020-07-051h 09
Code CafeteriaEpisode 12 - The Talk (slides and delivery)In this fourth and final episode of our mini-series on public speaking we're covering the final few meters on your road to a successful first conference talk: creating your slide deck and delivering the talk itself.
We start with talking about the slides and how to create the content of your talk. There are a few fundamental rules such as avoiding walls of text and just reading everything that's on your slides. But outside these extreme situations, the content and structure of your slides depends a lot on your personal style and the content and type of...2020-06-281h 12
Code CafeteriaEpisode 11 - Writing your abstractIn the third part of our mini-series on public speaking we're talking about coming up with an idea, a title and actually writing an abstract for your talk. The common problem first-time speakers and submitters face is: "Where do I even start?".
It turns out that you don't necessarily start with a title. Often ideas are born out of some experience. You might have struggled with some tech, you might have learned a new framework or want to share something else you're passionate about. From an idea, sometimes you will progress to a working title. But don't w...2020-06-211h 02
Code CafeteriaEpisode 10 - Submitting a talk and the selection processThis is the second part of our mini-series on public speaking and we're talking about the selection process. All three of us have been on both sides of the table. We've submitted talks to a lot of conferences ourselves, but we also have been part of the selection processes of tech conferences.
When it comes to being a speaker, we're covering the typical steps of a submission process. What is a call for papers (or proposals)? How do you deal with submission systems? What can and should you expect from an event and what are potential red...2020-06-081h 02
Code CafeteriaEpisode 9 - Getting started with public speakingWelcome back to Code Cafeteria. We decided to take a few weeks off, but are now back with a new episode. This week we're launching into a mini-series on public speaking and how to get into public speaking. This first of a couple of planned episodes around the topic is about how we got started, what appeals to us about preparing and delivering technical talks and some fundamental ideas that might help you to get out there yourself:
Your first talk doesn't have to be a 60 minutes slot at a global event - start with a local meetup.
Y...2020-05-2445 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 8 - Dead TechWe're back from our Bunny Day break (to stay in Animal Crossing New Horizons lingo) and talked about (perceived) dead technologies.
We recorded this episode already about a week ago and it was due to me (Kai) stressing around giving a virtual conference talk and then getting on with life in general that it just is being published now, sorry for that, peeps!
Why did we decide to talk about what people perceived as dead tech? The topic got kind of triggered by the recent demand in COBOL developers due to a wide range of...2020-04-2753 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 7A - Animal Crossing with our friendsThere's a new Nintendo Switch game that is keeping our minds busy in these difficult times. A game that couldn’t have come at a better time. Of course we are still talking about Animal Crossing!
Today’s episode 7A is the second episode about this game. This time we tried doing something different though: We invited a whole lot of our friends that also play the game to an online meeting room and we had a bit of chat about their experiences with the game and cover some extra topics like the bunny day event, sharing an is...2020-04-0547 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 7 - Crossing all the animals?The pandemic is - not to anyone's surprise - still not over. As more countries go into lockdowns, at least there's now a game for the Nintendo Switch that seems to have captured everyone's hearts. It offers the perfect storm of Kawaii cuteness and escapism into an alternative reality in which you live with lovely animals on an island building civilisation from scratch. Which - hmm - sounds a bit awkward.
We're obviously talking about Animal Crossing New Horizons. Depending on one's count and if one included spin-off titles like Pocket Camp on Android and iOS in...2020-03-291h 06
Code CafeteriaEpisode 6B - Views on the struggles of large organisations dealing with remote work and business continuityAfter last week's episode about how things change in the tech industry in these pandemic times, we thought it'd be interesting to get some other people's views on remote work and business continuity planning. Let's face it: Lara, Miguel and I have very clear views on why we prefer remote work and at the same time have less experience from working in *really large* organisations. Also - our respective business setups are rather small, family-sized operations and we don't face challenges that come with being responsible for employees.
This is episode 6B, the second interview we did...2020-03-2331 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 6A - Chatting about moving to remote work at Raygun with John-Daniel TraskOk, we've done that weird thing again and went off the main line of the podcast to sneakily injected an interview.
After last week's episode about how things change in the tech industry in these pandemic times, we thought it'd be interesting to get some other people's views on remote work and business continuity planning. Let's face it: Lara, Miguel and I have very clear views on why we prefer remote work and at the same time have less experience from working in *really large* organisations. Also - our respective business setups are rather small, family-sized operations...2020-03-2040 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 6 - Changes in the tech industry in a pandemic worldThis week's topic is a deviation from our normal plan. Due to the rapid developments around the novel coronavirus and the Covid-19 illness we decided to talk about some implications for the tech industry in regards to work setups and events or conferences.
Please note: Neither of us are doctors or epidemiologists. Lara has a background in biology and we’ve been very closely following the statistical and mathematical modelling around the epidemic clusters, but we are no experts when it comes to the pandemic. We have added some useful and trustworthy links to the show notes th...2020-03-151h 11
Code CafeteriaEpisode 5 - Pets as co-workersWe're back in the main line of Code Cafeteria this week and spend some time to talk about our pets and other animals and how they influence us in our home and work lives.
While Lara works from an office most days of the week, Miguel and Kai both work remotely from home and have their respective animals around. But Lara's company allows dogs at work and we talk about what the pros and cons of that can be. Particularly in a shared, open plan office, bringing your animals to work can be great, but can also...2020-02-2947 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 3A - Talking BSD with Lenz GschwendtnerEpisode 3AAAWHAT???
Yes, dear listeners - we went back to episode 3 about operating systems for developers. And then we branched off from master into a special feature episode 3A to talk about BSD.
For this special feature episode, we reached out to Lenz Gschwendtner, who's been using BSD for server and infrastructure hosting as well as his main daily driver on his laptop for years.
Miguel and Kai spent about 30 minutes to talk with Lenz about his background and how he ended up in the BSD ecosystem and what makes it interesting and...2020-02-2234 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 4 - Nintendo Switch GamesThe Nintendo Switch and video gaming in general are important parts of our lives. In this episode we talk about how we got into the current Nintendo platform, how it's relevant to how we met and cover games we love and look forward to being released in 2020.
We also share our tips and tricks for interacting with the Nintendo ecosystem, we talk about pricing and micro-transactions and cover some general aspects of gaming culture along the way.
External sources being mentioned:
Nintendo Pulse Podcast (@dasme and @stephenthemunn)
Der Nintendo Podcast (from G...2020-02-151h 04
Code CafeteriaEpisode 3 - Operating Systems for Developers "Developers, Developers, Developers!!!" - anyone remembering a slightly weird behaving Steve Ballmer running up and down the stage at a Windows 2000 developer conference, chanting these words? At the time he wanted to make clear how Microsoft would focus on developers now and that developers were such an important audience of Microsoft.
Let's see how that holds up in 2020. In this episode we’re getting a bit more technical and talk about operating systems for developers. The discussion about what the best OS for a developer is has been going on for years. But is there a best oper...2020-02-0259 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 2 - Past work experiencesThis is Episode 2, and today we talk about our past job experiences. Miguel talks about what he learned about the gaming industry when he worked there, Kai shares his experience working in Germany and New Zealand before becoming a freelancer, and Lara talks about my time as QA before becoming a developer.
Music by Chillhop: https://chillhop.com/listen2020-01-1848 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 1 - Developer CommunitiesIn this episode we're talking about developer communities.
We're starting off by trying to define what different types and categories of communities there are. It's quite interesting how many different angles there are to look at communities from: online vs. offline, people- or technology-centric, vendor-driven and many others.
All three of us have been part of different communities over time and we talk a bit about how each of us got involved with developer communities in the wider sense and what we currently do.
In a lot of ways, developer communities reflect life...2020-01-0443 min
Code CafeteriaEpisode 0 - This is us!"Tock tock! Can you hear us? Anyone here?"
Welcome to Code Cafeteria, a new podcast about developer life, technologies, games and occasional random other topics.
We are Lara, Miguel and Kai and in this mini-episode 0 you're going to learn about our backgrounds and we'll give you some context around who we are and what we do. Have fun and make sure to be back for episode 1!
2020-01-0408 min