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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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Get A Start With HTML
Today we’re talking about everyone’s favorite programming language: HTML! Hypertext Markup Language is the structure of a web page and while it’s not necessarily the hardest syntax to learn, it’s vital to your web applications.
Show Notes
01:20 What is HTML?
06:44 How did we learn HTML?
09:54 Elements
12:10 Attributes
21:59 Formatting
27:17 Semantic elements
33:04 Styles
38:28 CORS
44:57 Shoutouts
Resources
CSS episode
CORS
HTML & CSS Book
Egghead
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The Traveling Dev: Move and Work Anywhere
Have you ever dreamed about selling everything you owned and moving across the world to begin a new life? In this episode we’re chatting with Rachel Nabors, an American abroad on the React Core team in London. We’ll chat about the pros and cons of moving abroad as well as the logistics. Let’s get started!
Show Notes
01:25 Our experiences moving
06:44 Immigrant vs. Expat vs. Digital Nomad
11:04 Pros of moving abroad
35:21 Cons of moving abroad
53:57 Logistics of moving abroad
01:02:39 Questions to ask
01:07:48 Shoutouts
Resources
Rachel's Twitter
Animation at Work
Lingoda
Deepl.com
Rosetta Stone
DuoLingo
Babbel
The Culture Map
Ali's Accountant
LinkedIn
XING
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How the Internet Works
There’s a classic interview question: what happens when you type a URL into the browser? To answer this question, we need to explore how the internet works. In this episode, our first of season 4, we’ll dive into URLs, DNS, basic networking, and how the browser works.
Show Notes
02:08 Life updates!
04:19 How much do we know about the internet?
06:11 Servers
12:08 DNS lookup
19:04 Request/Response Cycle
27:48 TCP/IP
28:46 The browser
33:13 Internet history
36:09 Shoutouts
Resources
How the internet works
Systems Design Episode
Put vs. Post
How the Browser Works
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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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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.