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Building Class Central: Dhawal Shah 03/23/2020

Building Class Central: Dhawal Shah Ever wonder what it's like building remote teams of folks who have never worked in the position you're offering them on your team? Dhawal Shah joins us to talk about what it's like running a portal on online education with a creative approach to hiring and management. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/13662359

Revisiting Dev.to: Jess Lee 11/26/2019

Revisiting Dev.to: Jess Lee We're taking a moment out of season 2 to return to one of our most popular episodes of season 1. We're joined by Jess Lee to look at what's been happening with the Dev.to team and community since we chatted to them last year. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/12186602

Founding Your Own Thing: Kemdi Ebi 10/01/2019

Founding Your Own Thing: Kemdi Ebi What if you're someplace that doesn't have the perfect tech job for you? Kemdi Ebi had an idea, saw a business opportunity and made his own dream job. Through Versus Africa Kemdi built a successful startup focused on supplying the world with African market intelligence. He joins us to talk startups, goals and more. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/11467952

Finding Remote Work: Moyinoluwa Adeyemi 08/13/2019

Finding Remote Work: Moyinoluwa Adeyemi Finding a remote job can be a massive challenge. Android developer Moyinoluwa Adeyemi joins us to talk about the challenges that many looking for remote work will encounter, with a deeper look at challenges technologists in Nigeria face. She offers practical, structured advice on how to land a remote job from Lagos that should be helpful for devs around the world. She also gives us some insight into why companies should be looking to hire Nigerian technical talent and how they might get started. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10871649

GDPR and Data Privacy: Gilbert Hill 08/06/2019

GDPR and Data Privacy: Gilbert Hill After last week's episode on data breaches, we probably scared you enough about protecting your users' data against bad actors. We're going to try and help you better understand your day to day responsibilities for user data in the context of GDPR, Europe's data privacy regulations. TapMyData's Gilbert Hill joins us to talk about what GDPR is, what you need to do to stay compliant and how to exercise your own rights as users. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10791698

Data breaches, Capital One and Security: Faster than Light 08/01/2019

Data breaches, Capital One and Security: Faster than Light We're bringing you a bonus episode fresh from the headlines. Elissa Shevinsky and Brett Thomas from theFasterThanLight.dev security startup join us to talk about breaches from the basics to the aftermath. We talk passwords, user security, what may have happened in the Capital One breach and more. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10745666

Software Testing: Richard Bradshaw 07/16/2019

Software Testing: Richard Bradshaw If you're writing code of any kind, you're probably already aware that there should be some testing involved. This week the Ministry of Test's Richard Bradshaw joins us to talk about embedding testing into your software development, the roles open to folks interested in testing and the future of how we test what we build. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10540427

Rooki Design: Edoardo Rainoldi 06/18/2019

Rooki Design: Edoardo Rainoldi What would a resource for junior designers look like if it were rendered as a beautiful online magazine? Edoardo Rainoldi was unsatisfied with the resources for budding developers and created rooki.design to find out. Interviews, tutorials and more make up this beautiful weekly-ish new publication. We'll learn more about this work, the future for Rooki and his advice for junior designers and for those looking to support them. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10193687

Mental Health in Tech: Julia Nguyen 06/04/2019

Mental Health in Tech: Julia Nguyen How do we talk about, treat and work with mental illness within the tech industry. Julia Nguyen joins us to talk about her personal experience, offering both valuable insights into her journey and advice for those who may be working to manage their own mental health. While this episode will be looking at mental health in technology, the advice offered here is not intended to replace medical advice. Please seek appropriate support if you think you may be facing a mental health issue. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/10041338

Mindful Design: Scott Riley 04/30/2019

Mindful Design: Scott Riley Are you working with designers as part of your daily life? Or you're a designer yourself? Or perhaps you're interested in getting into working in design? Today's guest Scott Riley is joining us to talk in detail about what it means to design for the diverse needs of a global user base. Scott will be talking to us about design, his new book and his approach to life in general. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/9586163

Design Communities: Namnso Ukpanah 03/05/2019

Design Communities: Namnso Ukpanah Looking to get into working with design or looking to level up your design skills? It can be rough out there to go it along. We're joined by design advocate and organizer of Figma Africa to learn more about the value of being part of a design community. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/8882396

Juniors in Tech: Keziyah Lewis 02/12/2019

Juniors in Tech: Keziyah Lewis Working in tech can be hard, but for folks just starting out the challenges are often compounded. How do you build a network? What advice can you trust? Keziyah Lewis joins us to talk about the challenges of being a junior technologist and the community she built to help them out. Check out juniorsintech.com to learn more /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/8614019

Contributing to Open Source: VM Brasseur 10/18/2018

Contributing to Open Source: VM Brasseur VM Brasseur is an international keynote speaker, renowned technologist and author of the newly released 'Forge Your Future With Open Source' joins us to talk about how open source can help you grow and grow into your career. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/7232696

Techtonica: Michelle Glauser 09/25/2018

Techtonica: Michelle Glauser After a long holiday break, we're joined by Michelle Glauser to talk about her project to take involved, ethically responsible steps to help women and nonbinary folks in the bay area move into software engineering roles. Techtonica offers six month, full time engineering apprenticeships to low income learners with a living stipend and laptop provided. We'll hear about what they've accomplished, what's next and how you can help. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/7089101

Vue: Sarah Drasner 08/27/2018

Vue: Sarah Drasner International speaker, writer and renowned technologist Sarah Drasner joins us to talk about Vue, picking a JavaScript framework and how to balance doing everything, all at once. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6973496

Hacking 101: Ian Coldwater 08/14/2018

Hacking 101: Ian Coldwater What is ethical hacking? And how can you best get started with it without risking it all? Ian Coldwater joins us to talk about hacking, hacker culture, capture the flag and more. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6924832

Online Communities: Ben Halpern 08/08/2018

Online Communities: Ben Halpern Ben Halpern knows a lot about founding and growing online communities responsibly. He joins us to share his knowledge and experience from turning a popular Twitter handle into the Dev.to online community platform. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6901887

Celebrating Contributions: Katie McLaughlin 08/02/2018

Celebrating Contributions: Katie McLaughlin For most open source projects to survive and thrive it takes contributions beyond just code. SRE, emoji maven and keeper of many hats Katie McLaughlin joins us to share how you can make acknowledgement of contributions part of your workflow. We also talk party parrots, emoji politics and ghosts in your machine. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6879905

Grumpy PHP: Chris Hartjes 07/27/2018

Grumpy PHP: Chris Hartjes Mozilla's Chris Hartjes joins us to talk about testing, language snobbery, PHP and what life is like as a (lovable) tech grump. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6856835

Serverless: Anthony Stanley 07/24/2018

Serverless: Anthony Stanley Serverless can't possibly mean there are no servers, right? Anthony Stanley joins us to unpick the unmagical magic of serverless and help us discover just who the hell Jeff is. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6845250

Learning Functional Programming: Abby Sassel 07/19/2018

Learning Functional Programming: Abby Sassel This week Clojurian and functional programming expert Abby Sassel joins us to teach you all about the joys of functional programming and point you at resources to learn yourself. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6827985

Working with Functional Programming: John Stevenson 07/17/2018

Working with Functional Programming: John Stevenson Wondering what functional programming is all about? Or just how to get paid for doing it? Clojurian and tech lead John Stevenson joins us to talk all about functional programming and work. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6820915

Justice Algorithms: Priscilla Guo 07/12/2018

Justice Algorithms: Priscilla Guo Algorithms are used across the American justice system as sentencing aids. As an undergraduate at Harvard Priscilla Guo examined the use of these algorithms, making stunning findings on their makeup and use. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6802149

Go and Learning in Tech: Ashley McNamara 07/09/2018

Go and Learning in Tech: Ashley McNamara Microsoft's Ashley McNamara joins us to talk about Go, adorable mascots, approaches to learning in tech and children's programming books. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6788621

Angel Investment and Pipeline Angels: Karla Fraguada 07/05/2018

Angel Investment and Pipeline Angels: Karla Fraguada Finding angel investment can be a mission for early stage startups. But what should you do if you want to be one of the investors? Karla Fraguada joins us to give tips on getting into angel investment and how to best pitch your project to angels. She also offers a guided tour of the Pipeline Angels program, designed to help women and femme nonbinary folks enter angel investment. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6776883

Tech For Extended Spaceflight: Rochelle Velho 07/03/2018

Tech For Extended Spaceflight: Rochelle Velho Humans have the will and desire for far space flight. But our fragile, fleshy bodies need technology to help us survive the journey. Rochelle Velho Academic Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine moonlights as a researcher into the medical technology we'll need to bring with us for the journey to Mars. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6771924

Remote Work: Katie Fenn 06/28/2018

Remote Work: Katie Fenn Web developer Katie Fenn joins us to look at how remote working is structured across the team bringing npm to the world. We discuss what you need to be a successful remote worker and what employers need to provide for great remote working experiences. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6754205

Operation Code: Conrad Hollomon 06/26/2018

Operation Code: Conrad Hollomon Operation Code is a nonprofit focused on helping veterans and military spouses transition into meaningful work in technology. Conrad Hollomon joins us to talk about the program, it's challenges and to look at ways the tech industry could better reach out to this pool of valuable talent. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6745346

Animation and Relocation: Rachel Nabors 06/21/2018

Animation and Relocation: Rachel Nabors Web animation specialist Rachel Nabors joins us to talk about the rules for getting started with animation for the web and sneaks in some valuable tips on international relocation, picked up through her recent move to Amsterdam. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6729113

Getting Paid for Open Source: Ola Gasidlo 06/19/2018

Getting Paid for Open Source: Ola Gasidlo Mozilla's Ola Gasidlo joins us to talk about her career path, offering tips and tricks for how you might be able to grow and leverage your skills to find sustainable paid work in open source. /episode/index/show/pursuitpod/id/6720583

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