Human Side of Dev Lindsay Wardell

Rho Oof is a developer who has spent most of her career exploring ways to make things work, sometimes in unexpected ways. We talk about how her interests have led to making different technologies work together, and how that has served her in her career. We also discuss ways that she has approached different programming languages in order to learn them, and exactly how many she has tried out. We wrap up discussing a tool Rho created for a client to help them better understand the differences between versions of their database.


https://www.npmjs.com/package/puresql
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/postgresql-typed
https://www.npmjs.com/package/erdiff

Rho:


https://oof.dev/
https://social.treehouse.systems/@rho

Lindsay:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Ben Myers is a web developer and accessibility advocate in the United States, and host of the Some Antics Dev channel on Twitch. We talk about how they began as a developer and got started in both documentation and accessibility, and why these topics matter to all developers. We also talk about the importance and impact of accessibility to users. Finally, we discuss finding a supportive community, and starting a Twitch channel dedicated to teaching viewers about technical topics.


https://www.twitch.tv/SomeAnticsDev
https://benmyers.dev/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/
https://www.learnwithjason.dev/

Ben:


https://twitter.com/BenDMyers
https://a11y.info/@ben

Lindsay:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Daniel Roe is a software engineer and maintainer of the Nuxt framework in England. He entered the world of open source by founding a startup and needing to build out the tools they used to support their clients, and ended up contributing to Nuxt and eventually being hired by them. We talk about open source, speaking at conferences, imposter syndrome, and how to approach contributing to open source projects as a contributor and maintainer.


https://nuxt.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeCOIcSHKp4
https://www.johnpapa.net/graphql-with-daniel-roe-on-real-talk-javascript-episode-94/
https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/views-on-vue/episodes/vov-126-vue-composition-api-and-nuxt-with-daniel-roe
https://laracasts.com/

Daniel:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielcroe
Mastodon: https://mastodon.roe.dev/@daniel

Lindsay:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Star Richardson is a senior software engineer in the United States, and began her journey as a developer during the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020. We talk about her journey into tech, what resources she used to learn the basics, what projects she worked on, and how she got her first job working as a software engineer. 


https://www.replicated.com/
https://www.w3schools.com/
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50s-web-programming-python-and-javascript
https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/demographics/
https://apprentice.thisdot.co/
https://twitter.com/dacey_nolan
https://alicenstar.notion.site/100-Days-of-Learning-to-Code-Template-de74b53c37f746bd84238865698ea0be

Star:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/alicenstar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicenstar/
Polywork: https://www.polywork.com/alicenstar

Lindsay:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Alex Anderson is a web developer in the United States, and developer of the space simulator Thorium and Thorium Nova. We talk about how Alex explores different technologies, learning about different topics and their applications, and uses that to determine what technology should be used for various projects both at work and for fun. We then explore how Thorium began, and see how this process was used to modernize an application used by space centers since the 90's.


https://thoriumsim.com
https://echobind.com/
https://trpc.io/
https://echobind.com/post/why-we-ditched-graphql-for-trpc
https://github.com/Thorium-Sim/thorium
https://discord.gg/BxwXaUB
https://github.com/Thorium-Sim/thorium-nova
https://github.com/bra1n/townsquare
https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/
https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/
https://starshiphorizons.com
https://dreamflightadventures.com

Alex:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/ralex1993

Lindsay:


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Luiz Oliveira is an engineer from Brazil and former game developer who has been working on creating resources for newer developers in Portuguese. We discuss how he entered the tech industry, his path through game development, and the resources he's made to help teach those interested in development. We also talk about the impact of social media on mental health, and how it can also be useful (or used well) to talk about current events such as the recent layoffs. We wrap up our conversation with tips for newer developers and talk about Luiz's favorite programming language.


https://www.lemeno.io/
https://www.lua.org/
https://www.codeftw.dev/

Luiz: 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/r_sensato

Lindsay: 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaykwardell
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lindsaykwardell

Music: Moments by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com