iteration

John Jacob & JP Sio - Web Developers

A podcast about development and design. We do our best to be code-agnostic but we talk a lot about Rails, JavaScript, React, React Native, design, business and startups.

  1. 10/05/2021

    ➡️ One on One's ⬅️

    Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.What makes a good 1:1 (IC perspective)?JP a manager who listensJP clear action items for problemsWhat makes a good 1:1 (Manager perspective)?John When reports are honest about motivations (I want more money, etc)John Clear feedback about my managementWhat makes a bad 1:1?JP when 1:1s just become another medium for standup updatesJP when 1:1s become a way for your manager to micromanageFormatWhat do you talk about?Basic framework John follows: private running doc between manager and report, either party can always add to it, reviewed on a regular cadence. I've found every 2 weeks to be really effective.This meeting is for building trust, context, sharing progress on goals, professional development things like that.Principles / conceptsFocus on the report — 1:1's are primarily for the report, the employee, not for the manager or the company.70/30 — Manager should be 70% listening less than 30% talking.Honesty — be direct. Forbidden conversations.Objective — Do the work to find objective examples, provide numbers and letter grades.Flexible — Don't overthink or over structure, let it flow, let report guide conversationMoneyball firing clipPicksJohn: https://www.chia.net/JP: Tailwind is coming out with official React support!

    42 min

  2. 03/05/2021

    Engineering Management 🔨

    Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.Context: John ran an agency for a couple years with a few developers + Designers, now runs a team of 12(ish) developers + Designers Few Topics IC vs Manager Code on the side only to show thingsNot coding for productionCode outside of your core codeRight sizing a team Systems Thinking "Stocks + Flows" (Slack)Mythical Man Month False premise: More heads = faster resultsRemove bottlenecks Break up the workKitchen MetaphorContext + DocumentationSafety + Empowerment Permission + TrustAccessLeading by example "Law of the lid"Don't scar on the first cut Forbidden Conversations / honesty PicksJohn: https://handmirror.app/JP: https://freezingcam.com/

    51 min

  3. 27/04/2021

    💬 Technical Interviews

    Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and designJohn has been asked: When I perform a google search, what happens? Be as specific and accurate as possible including every layer of technology.Can you tell me what Indexes are and what they do?What is CORS?Questions JP has been asked: What is the difference between something like SQL and Mongo - what are the trade offs?How does the JS bridge work in React Native?Describe what Redux is for and how you'd implement it in a React projectMaybe some from our own? If you could add one feature or change to the Rails framework what would it be?How do feel about testing? How do you think about testing? When does it make sense to write tests?If I have a really huge model, let's say 500+ lines, how would you go about refactoring it? Example link: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/post.rbPicksJP: https://tuple.app/ I used this to pair with Joe and it was SICKJohn: YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com/) Different approach to budgeting that sucks less

    50 min

  4. 15/02/2021

    💬 Interview Screeners: Questions and Answers

    NOTE THIS IS A RE-UPLOAD AS THERE WAS ISSUES WITH OUR PREVIOUS UPLOAD    > Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.   * John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. * JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.   # Questions   * What is your testing philosophy? * Why work on that team specifically? Why are you interested in this job? * What kind of problems he like's to work on? * What are some challenges with maintaining a public api? * If I was your manager, what can I do to get the most out of your contribution? What do you need from me to succeed as a developer?   ### Picks   * John M1 MacBook — So throughly impressed * JP - [https://github.com/procore/handcuffs](https://github.com/procore/handcuffs)

    46 min

  5. 01/02/2021

    Agile Methodologies and Tools

    Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. https://www.planview.com/resources/guide/introduction-to-kanban/kanban-vs-scrum/ AGILE!!! SCRUM!!! KANBAN!!! Different ToolsJiraTrello JohnAsana JohnGithub (issues + projects) JohnZenhub JohnPivotal TrackerNotion JohnSpecial mention: Canny.io → https://main-street.canny.io/adminNew Blood Linear App: https://linear.app/Height App: https://height.app/ (private beta)Monday? I always see ads for this on youtube: https://monday.com/BASECAMPPicksJP: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.htmlJohn: https://supabase.io/ (Open Source Firebase)https://elainewherry.com/2012/06/26/the-recruiter-honeypot/

    52 min

  6. 25/01/2021

    All About eCommerce Development 🤑

    E-commerce EpisodeJohn: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.What is e-commerce?Build vs. Buy (roll your own vs. e-commerce software)Nitty-GrittyHow to model purchasesModel PaymentsHow to test paymentsGotchas when building e-commerceDiscountsSalesCouponsRefundsInventory vs digital goodsHeadless vs “full stack”Stacks / ServicesInventory and More (full stack) ShopifyBigCommerceMagnetoSolidusSpreeSimple / digital onlyInstagram + PaypalGum roadSaas Solutions Stripe CheckoutPaddleFast SpringChargifyhttps://recurly.com/PicksJP: https://hotwire.dev/ (hehe)John: https://linear.app/References Acts as shoping cart gemPay gemFoundation

    49 min

  7. 11/01/2021

    🎉2021 Predictions + Trends

    Approaches to Building AppsSeverless (Lambda functions)PWA (progressive web apps)Headless (Ecom / cms)ContentfulShopifyTech Trending UpwardsE-commerce (up 37% from last year)Artificial Intelligence(AWS sagemaker, GPT-3)Voice search66million smart speakers - 1/3 27% of mobile searches are voice basedAMP'dApps will continue to ruin the internetChatbotsJP: I personally hate these things. Just get me to a customer service rep ASAPPicksJP: https://baratza.com/grinder/encore/ John: A conversation with GPT-3

    41 min

  8. 28/12/2020

    2020 Look-back Top Development Trends + Goals

    John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup.JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startupOur 2020 Goals Episode → Link✅ 2020 Developer Goals 2020 ReviewJP Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+)I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSONI also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang appGoal 2 (JP): System Design (F)Did not read the books that I wanted to readGoal 3 (JP): Algorithms - (C+)Just haven't had the time - but I have reviewed some array based algorithms FWIWJohn Goal 1 (John): Blog More (C+) (12+ posts)Goal 2 (John): (F) System Design (Nope)Goal 3 (John): JavaScript (B+) 2 Courses, built way more shit in JS Stimulus MainlyGoal 4 (John): Focus 💯 (Closed agency, no more clients, doubled down on what I am good at)Top 2020 Trends (From John)Remote Work 😷Remote jobs used to have a requirement of having remote experience... now everyone has this experienceCommercialization of Open source 🤑"Open source" that's also a product / companyhttps://www.gatsbyjs.com/https://nextjs.org/ (Vercel)https://www.cypress.io/https://www.sanity.io/https://github.com/mperham/sidekiqEven Microsoft acquisition of Github and continued changes there VS Code → Atom"Niche" frameworks 🍾https://svelte.dev/https://github.com/alpinejs/alpineThis is Tailwinds' go-to for a JS solutionbridgetown"Hey" made server rendered sexy again 👋JavaScript continued to eat the world 🍽️Vue 3 added a composition API that's very similar to React HooksLow Code / No Code ✨https://bubble.io/https://pipedream.com/https://stacker.app/Data warehousing 🤓https://www.tableau.com/https://mode.com/https://looker.com/Picks JP: https://www.rrauction.com/preview_gallery.cfm?Category=449 John: Rails starters:  https://jumpstartrails.com/ — https://bullettrain.co/

    36 min
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A podcast about development and design. We do our best to be code-agnostic but we talk a lot about Rails, JavaScript, React, React Native, design, business and startups.

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  • Creator
    John Jacob & JP Sio - Web Developers
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2021
  • Episodes
    78
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    iteration