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88. Testing Pitfalls and Blunders

On the show today, we’ll be talking about testing pitfalls and avoiding common testing blunders. We wanted to get a word that felt like the things we deal with in testing. “Blunders” is that word! Blunders are those common mistakes we find ourselves making when we are testing.

87. Developer vs Engineer

On today’s show we discuss whether we can call developers engineers! For a long time, the term software engineer has been thrown around but there has also been some debate about its accuracy and whether it is appropriate to use these titles so interchangeably.

86. Building a Personal Brand as a Developer

Welcome to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we’ll be diving into the topic of building your brand as a developer, where we are going to help you build up your own brand.

85. Introducing a new podcast - Evil Geniuses

Today, we have a special episode with some special guests. We welcome our Rabbit Hole Veteran, Emmanuel Genard and our previous guest and friend, Meredith Edwards. Today we are shedding some light on a secret new podcast that aims to take over the entire podcasting empire.

84. Volunteering as a Software Engineer

Welcome back to the podcast everyone! Today we will be talking about the idea of volunteering as a software engineer and the jumping off point for this discussion is our producer extraordinaire’s recent travels to Mozambique.

83. Remote Only

This episode of The Rabbit Hole is wholly concerned with remote work and to help us unpack this issue we welcome back our friend Jonathan Belcher from Automaticc.

82. Seven Wastes of Software Development

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we are unpacking the The Seven Wastes of Software Development! Dave and Michael break down the seven points as they appear in the book Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and chat about their experience and thoughts on each.

81. More Books

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we are continuing our conversation on the books we’ve read within the last couple of months. This episode of books is a little different, because none of the books that we’ve currently read were programming books!

80. Building a scrum team

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today we welcome Blake Deboer, also from Stride, to help us unpack the topic of Scrum! Scrum is an Agile framework, a topic we have covered at length previously on the podcast and we get down to what exactly Scrum is and what it consists of.

79. GraphQL in Python with Patrick Arminio - Pycon Italia Part 3

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we have another interview from Dave’s time at PyCon Italia, the last of a three part series.

78. Realtime Applications With Django w/ Iacopo Spalletti PyCon Italia

Today on The Rabbit Hole we give you Part 2 of Dave’s adventures to PyCon Italia. While over there giving his speech, Dave interviewed Iacopo Spalletti, the Founder and CTO of Nephila, an open source and Django web company based in Florence, London, and Zürich.

77. Make The Lightbulb Want To Change with Mikey Ariel - Pycon Italia

Today’s episode is a field recording all the way from Florence, Italy where our very own Dave Anderson interviewed Mikey Ariel about her presentation at PyCon Italia.

76. Stop talking about Tech Debt with Dane O'Connor

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole! On today’s show we welcome our friend Dane O’Connor, who is here to tell us why we need to stop using the term ‘tech debt’.

75. GraphQL Hot Takes with Stephen Meriwether

On today’s episode of the The Rabbit Hole we are talking GraphQL and getting some hot takes from our guest Stephen Meriwether!

74. Authorization with Roberto

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we are joined by Roberto Pedroso, and we’ll be talking about authorization and how to keep people out of our websites.

73. Front End Build Systems

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we tackle the world of front end build systems. The field has come along very quickly and things have developed at an almost breakneck space with new systems and frameworks popping up all around us.

72. Feedback with Meredith and Madelyn

On the episode today we welcome our colleagues and friends Meredith Edwards and Madelyn Freed to help us discuss feedback and how to do it properly.

71. Common Mistakes Tech Leads Make with Kelly Wu

Today on the show, we welcome special guest, Kelly Wu. Kelly is a software consultant and as a consultant has worked with many different tech leads and teams throughout her career.

70. Mentorship with Kimberly Suazo and Avielle Wolfe

On this episode of The Rabbit Hole we delve into the subject of mentorship! To help us along the path we welcome Avielle Wolfe and Kimberly Suazo who are both developers at Stride.

69. Becoming a Manager with Kyle Rush from Casper

On today’s episode of The Rabbit Hole we welcome our friend Kyle Rush, VP of Engineering at Casper to help us discuss becoming a manager.

68. Why Not Use Elixir?

On today’s show we welcome back our special and esteemed guest Steven Nuñez, as we ask, ‘Why not use Elixir?”

67. Tech Debt and Trust

On today’s episode we welcome two guests, Madelyn Freed and Sam Handler to help us discuss the topics of tech debt and trust.

66. AGILE Principles

On today’s episode we welcome back Kevin Thomas to help us as we unpack the principles of Agile!

65. Extreme Programming (XP) with Kevin Thomas

Today on The Rabbit Hole we are talking about extreme programming and to help us with this we welcome our very own Kevin Thomas.

64. Learning Culture

On today’s episode of the Rabbit Hole we are talking about learning culture and just how vital it is to a functioning and successful organization.

63. Monoliths

On today’s episode we are talking about monoliths! That’s right, they’re back. Not quite from the dead but definitely from a deep sleep and the unfavored sock drawer.