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Ladybug Podcast Emma Bostian, Kelly Vaughn, and Ali Spittel
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We're Emma Bostian, Kelly Vaughn, and Ali Spittel - three seasoned software developers working in different sectors. Since there's a major lack of technical podcasts out there, we've decided to start one. Just kidding -- there's already a ton! But, we wanted to add our voices to the space and share our experiences and advice. We'll have great discussions around how to start coding, the hot technologies right now, how to get your first developer job, and more!
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Systems Design
Systems design interviews are becoming more and more prevalent and can indicate your ability to work with complex systems. Many engineers struggle with the systems design interviews as a result of their inexperience developing large-scale systems.
Today we’ll teach you some of the foundational elements of systems design so you can nail your next interview.
Show Notes
01:30 What is systems design
07:20 Key characteristics of a distributed system
13:24 Load balancing
17:48 Caching
31:05 Data partitioning
35:24 SQL vs. NoSQL
46:50 How to learn systems design
48:00 Shoutouts
Resources
Educative.io course
Free Code Camp article
Algo Expert Course
Tobias VanSchneider
Dev April Fools
How Stack Overflow Caches
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Testing 101
Have you ever written code to add a new feature that ended up breaking an existing feature? Or, have you ever written code that works in one scenario but breaks in a bunch of others? I think we can all admit to this as developers!
Well, this is where testing shines -- we write code to test our other code so we immediately get warned if our code breaks something else! OR doesn’t work in every scenario. In this episode, we’ll talk about a bunch of types of testing and why they’re helpful. Let’s dive in.
Show Notes
01:39 What is our experience with testing?
05:12 What types of code do you write tests for normally?
06:38 What different types of testing are there?
14:26 Why is testing important?
18:50 TDD vs adding tests after
23:33 What types of tools can you use?
Resources
Angie Jones
Test Automation University
Kent C. Dodds
Testing JavaScript
Knowing what to test
Types of Testing
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Mobile Development
One niche in development that we have no experience with is building mobile apps. Luckily, today we have an expert to teach us all about it: Timirah James who is the founder of TechniGal LA and a developer evangelist.
Show Notes
02:00 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
05:20 - What was your path to becoming a developer?
18:00 - What’s your day-to-day like?
21:00 - What technologies does an iOS dev work with?
33:19 - How do you get your app accepted into the App Store?
40:22 - What is the interview process like for an iOS developer?
50:50 - Shoutouts
Resources
Timirah's Twitter
TechniGal_LA
Timirah's Website
Timirah's LinkedIn
Stanford free 101 mobile dev course
React Native
Flutter
Dart
Objective C
Swift
XCode
Sublime Text
Apple Developer Program
Apple Design Guidelines
The Courage To Be Disliked
Web monetization API
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Micro-Interactions & Animation Libraries
Micro-interactions are small animations that delight our users and they are changing the way we design and build our applications. Micro-interactions have many benefits like enhancing perceived performance, indicating state change, and drawing users’ attention to something on the page. Today we’ll dive into micro-interactions and the animation libraries you can use to build them.
Show Notes
02:25 - What are micro-interactions?
05:48 - Why are they important?
10:55 - How do we build one?
29:07 - Animation libraries
33:16 - Shoutouts
Resources
CSS Animation Libraries
Eli Fitch’s Perceived Performance
UI Movement
Bad UI
Ladybug Performance
Scott Tolinski React Spring Course
Sarah Drasner
Hover.css
Greensock
React Spring
Framer Motion
Anime.js
Velocity
Three.js
Mo.js
Humble PI
Bon Appetit Test Kitchen
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Hiring a Diverse Workforce
We’ve talked a lot about interviewing and getting hired in tech from the engineering perspective, and today we’re going to build on that. We have a special guest, Hilliary Turnipseed, the founder of Hill Street Strategies to talk about hiring from the recruiting perspective. She specializes in hiring and maintaining diverse teams.
We also want to give a big shoutout to Black Girls Code, if you're able to, please donate!
Show Notes
01:13 - Tell us about yourself!
08:37 - Tell us about Hill Street Strategies
23:12 - What advice would you give to someone who is looking to get their first role in tech?
35:09 - You focus a lot on hiring a diverse tech workforce, what advice would you give to a company trying to diversify their hiring?
42:42 - You are super involved with the DC tech community, why is that involvement so important to you?
48:48 - Where can people find you online?
50:06 - Shoutouts
Resources from Hilliary
Mental Health
Rise by Jasmin Pierre & Jonathan Thompson
Aweh Support
Founder Mental Wealth
Workplace Culture
Work Bravely
Empower Work
Allyship Reads
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Support Black-Owned Businesses
In Common
Job Boards
Diversify Tech
Women2
Books
The Memo
Resilient Management
Hilliary's Contact Info
Hilliary's website
Hilliary's LinkedIn
Hilliary's Twitter
Mentioned in the Episode
Human Design Chart
Basic Concepts Explained of 4 Types
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Black Lives Matter
Shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020, Louisville police entered the apartment of Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker using a battering ram to force open the door. Breonna Taylor was shot at least eight times and pronounced dead at the scene. No drugs were found in the apartment. June 5th would have been Breonna’s 27th birthday.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while he was handcuffed face down in the street. And for the past week and a half protest have been held throughout the world demanding justice for not just George Floyd, but all Black people murdered from police brutality.
Police brutality is not new. It has been happening for many years as the result of systemic racism, and it must be stopped. Too many Black lives have been stolen at the hands of white police officers who walk away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
Today we’re joined by Jocelyn Harper, host of the Git Cute Podcast to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and to learn more about how you can get involved.
Customer Reviews
Awesome
I’m new to coding and came across the Ladybug Podcast. I enjoy listening to these women chat about various tech topics. I find them to be easy to listen to while also giving lots of valuable advice and resources. I will definitely be a continued listener!!
Educational Show
The hosts are like the Spice Girls of web development, nice voices, in sync and entertaining. They are also experienced in web development technologies, so they provide a blanket description of what’s out there, for listeners to further research. Worth the listen if you are into software development.
Fun and informative
A women in tech type podcast with the primary experiences of the hosts being on front end development. While that's not my jam, I find it really interesting hearing them talk about it and navigate the programming world through that lense. As a student in a CS program these talks are geared towards my level from what I've heard so far which is useful. The game development episode is my favorite so far, I think bringing more women in different fields to talk about their jobs and experiences would be really cool. Emma's experience as a programmer in a non English speaking country is really interesting and an episode on that experience could be fun too, but I will admit I have the ulterior motive of wanting to move to Germany after I graduate so I might be an outlier on that episode wish.
