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An interview podcast discussing mental health in software development, with your host, James Brooks.

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An interview podcast discussing mental health in software development, with your host, James Brooks.

    Alex Bowers

    Alex Bowers

    This week I speak to a good friend of mine, Alex Bowers.

    We discuss Alex's stammer and how that has impacted his mental health and both his personal and professional life.

    • 49 min
    Freek Van der Herten

    Freek Van der Herten

    This week I speak with Freek Van der Herten of open source PHP fame at Spatie.

    We talk about making open source a culture, time management, turning off distractions and more!

    This episode contains a couple of expletives!

    • 46 min
    Caleb Porzio

    Caleb Porzio

    I speak to Caleb Porzio.

    We discuss dealing with general anxiety, Caleb's life-crippling phobia, the struggles of having many passion projects, conquering public speaking and more!

    • 43 min
    Jason McCreary

    Jason McCreary

    This episode I speak to Jason McCreary.

    JMac has been a developer for twenty years and in that time has created many projects including Shift, authored BaseCode - for practises on improving the code you write. He also produces the video course, Confident Laravel.

    We discuss working handling stresses when writing code, YAGNI, identifying burn out and more!

    • 31 min
    Happy Birthday Robin

    Happy Birthday Robin

    Happy Birthday to my brother, Robin.

    See the show notes for support numbers.

    • 43 sec
    Jess Archer

    Jess Archer

    This episode I speak to Jess Archer.

    Jess has worked with PHP and Javascript professionally for the last 15 years and is currently working as a contractor.

    We discuss being a woman in tech, imposter syndrome, how being public about your mental health can affect employment opportunities and more.

    • 38 min

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