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114. Open Source Sustainability and Ethical Advertising with Eric Holscher

Our guest today on The Rabbit Hole is Eric Holscher, who is the co-founder of Read the Docs and Write the Docs.

113. The DRY Principal is Misunderstood with Steven Solomon

Today on the show we are joined by the one and only Steven Solomon! We are going to talk about The DRY Principle and how and when it can be useful.

112. Senior Engineer Interviews

Today on the show we are looking at the contestation that senior developers are being shut out of jobs in the interviewing process.

111. Refactoring: Quotes and Experiences

On the show today we welcome back our great host, Michael Nunez, from his baby leave! We are talking about refactoring, something that Mike is easing back into after his break.

110. Stop DDoS'ing Yourself

Welcome back to The Rabbit Hole Podcast. Today on the show, we dive into part five in the “Stop Doing Stuff” series. Our aim is to help programs to stop DDoS’ing themselves with the hope that if you stop doing the wrong thing, you’ll become a better developer and engineer in your organization.

109. Cross Team Collaboration

Welcome back to the Rabbit Hole, the definitive developers podcast. Today on the show we'll be talking about cross-team collaboration, understanding why it hurts and why you should do it in the first place.

108. Overseas Assignments

On today’s episode, we discuss overseas assignments, which is a fitting as William is departing to India for a four-month assignment.

107. Lessons from Marie Kondo w/ Meredith

Joining us today on the show is Meredith Edwards, a software development consultant who wrote a blog post on what Marie Kondo taught her about software consulting.

106. Centring & Entering

On today’s show, Dave and William are once again joined by Emmanuel Genard to discuss the idea of centring and entering.

105. BDD [Behavior-driven Development]

On today's episode, our host Dave Anderson and producer William Jeffries discuss end to end testing.

104. Steering a Kubernetes Migration with Chris Grande

We are joined by Chris Grande, a business analyst at 2U, an edtech company that partners with top universities to make higher education more accessible.

103. Art of Programming with Sumana Harihareswara

On today’s episode, multi-talented Sumana Harihareswara returns; this time to talk about how art and programming can work together.

102. Digging Into JavaScript w/ Jonathan Wexler

On today’s episode, we are joined by Jonathan Wexler, a software engineer who specializes in web development and teaching concepts related to development.

101. Sustainability in Open Source with Sumana Harihareswara

On today’s episode we are joined by Sumana Harihareswara, a programmer, technology executive, and open source expert.

100. 9 Roles for Creating Results or Growing a Team w/ Esther Derby

Welcome to the 100th episode of The Rabbit Hole! We never would have made it this far without the support of our colleagues, guests, listeners and of course our fearless leader and host, Michael Nunez.

99. Salaries and Skills in 2019 with Steve Thompson

In today’s episode we get hyped up about the creative possibilities of The Art of Python as a mini art festival at PyCon US 2019.

98. Code Formatting Standards Knife Fight (Linters)

Welcome back to The Rabbit Hole Podcast. Today on the show we are addressing the topic of linting your code.

97. Mocks vs Classical with Jacob O’Donnell

On the show today we are welcoming back our friend Jacob O’Donnell to talk about some different approaches to testing.

96. Health Check

On today’s show we talk about team health checks. You have to check on the team, see how they’re doing and multiple squads throughout your organization.

95. The Shackles of Frameworks

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we welcome our friend Jacob O’Donnell to help us talk about the shackles of frameworks.

94. Editor Picks 2018 + Mailbag

Welcome back to another episode of the Rabbit Hole, the definitive developer’s podcast. Today on the show we are talking about the top editor picks of 2018, meaning the top picks we chose here on the Rabbit Hole.

93. Stop Eating Al Desko

Welcome back to the Rabbit Hole. Today we are here to tell you all to stop eating al desko! What even is “eating al desko”? Well, simply put, it’s eating at your desk. Now although it sounds delicious and appealing, it’s actually a thing you should never do.

92. The Death of the Object with Jacob O'Donnell

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we welcome our friend Jacob O’Donnell to help us talk about the decline of object oriented programming.

91. Stop Preassigning Tickets

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole Podcast. Today we are talking about the evils of preassigning tickets!

90. GraphQL Takeover with Azat Mardan

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole, everybody! Today on the show we are talking about one of our favorite recent subjects, GraphQL.

89. Dealing with Third Party Software

On today’s show we are going to be talking about the software we didn’t write and using third party services. We are developers and we do not like writing software — so why is that? The only thing better than deleting code is just not writing it in the first place.