Tech Done Right

Tech Done Right

The Tech Done Right podcast is a show by and for people who care about what they build. We don't just build software, we build teams, companies, careers, and communities. Each episode features host Noel Rappin talking to interesting people in the tech community about building something the right way. We’re not just going to give you our thoughts on the topic, but tools, processes, or references that you can use immediately to build better software and communities.

Episodes

October 9, 2019 49 mins
Teaching Testing and Design Guests Betsy Haibel (https://twitter.com/betsythemuffin): CTO at Cohere (https://twitter.com/wecohere). Blogs at betsyhaibel.com (https://betsyhaibel.com/). Avdi Grimm (https://twitter.com/avdi): Head Chef at RubyTapas (https://www.rubytapas.com/). Blogs at avdi.codes (https://avdi.codes/). Penelope Phippen (https://twitter.com/penelope_zone): Works at Google, makes Rubyfmt (https://github.com/samphippen...
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Supporting Innovation With Mike Todasco Guest Mike Todasco (https://twitter.com/Todasco): Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal (https://paypal.com) Summary Today on the show we have Mike Todasco, the Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal. We talk about what innovation means at a company, and how to encourage innovation both if you are a PayPal sized company and if you aren’t. Mike also shares some information about PayPal’s i...
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How To Buy Software With Ashley Quinto Powell Guest Ashley Quinto Powell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyquinto/): Director of Business Development at Table XI (https://www.tablexi.com/). Summary Today on the show, we have Ashley Quinto Powell. Ashley and I have run a workshop together called How to Buy Software aimed at people who want to buy custom software but aren't sure what the process will be like. In this episode, we try...
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Teaching and Learning with Sandi Metz Guest Sandi Metz: (https://twitter.com/sandimetz): Author of Practical Object-Oriented Development in Ruby (http://www.informit.com/store/practical-object-oriented-design-an-agile-primer-using-9780134456478?ranMID=24808) and 99 Bottles of OOP (https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles). sandimetz.com (https://www.sandimetz.com/) Summary Today on the show we have Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object...
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Pragmatic Programmer at 20 with Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt Guests Dave Thomas (https://twitter.com/pragdave) and Andy Hunt (https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy): Authors of The Pragmatic Programmer (https://pragprog.com/book/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition) and publishers of The Pragmatic Bookshelf (https://pragprog.com/). Summary I’m very excited to have Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt on the show today. Dave and An...
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Civic Software with Alex Pedersen and Abhi Nemani Guests Alex Pedersen: Co-founder of Polco (https://info.polco.us/). Abhi Nemani (https://twitter.com/abhinemani) Founder of EthosLabs (https://ethoslabs.us/). Summary This week, we have Alex Pedersen of Polco and Abhi Nemani of EthosLabs. They're both involved in various uses of technology to increase civic engagement. We'll talk about how technology can improve the public sector an...
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Stories and Community with Ariel Caplan Guest Ariel Caplan (https://twitter.com/amcaplan): Co-Host of Dev Empathy Book Club (https://devempathybook.club/), Backend Developer at Cloudinary (https://cloudinary.com/), and Flatiron School (https://flatironschool.com/) Alum. Personal Site (https://amcaplan.ninja) Summary Our guest this week is Ariel Caplan. Ariel is a developer at Cloudinary and the Founder of the Dev Empathy Book Club....
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Managing Pain and Suffering at Work with Amy Newell Guest Amy Newell: (https://twitter.com/amynewell): Director of Engineering at Wistia. Previous Director of Engineering at PatientsLikeMe (https://www.patientslikeme.com/). RailsConf 2019 - Failure, Risk, and Shame: Approaching Suffering at Work by Amy Newell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRG6uIkHH8c) Summary Our guest this week is Amy Newell. Amy is the Director of Engineering ...
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AI and Privacy with Bärí A. Williams Guest Bärí A. Williams (https://twitter.com/BariAWilliams): VP of Legal, Business, and Policy Affairs at All Turtles (https://www.all-turtles.com/), a startup advisor in the tech industry, and a published author in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, and Fast Company. Bärí writes at bariawilliams.com (https://www.bariawilliams.com/). Summary Our guest this week is Bärí A. Williams, the VP of Leg...
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Software Consulting With Chad Pytel Guest Chad Pytel (https://twitter.com/cpytel): CEO, Co-Founder, and Developer of thoughtbot (https://thoughtbot.com/). Summary Our guest this week is Chad Pytel. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, which is a design and development firm known in the world for its support of open source projects like paperclip and shoulda. Chad and I talk about how to make short consulting projects work, the importance...
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May 22, 2019 37 mins
Food and Design Thinking TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guests Rex Chekal (https://twitter.com/rexerr): Director of Digital Strategy and Product Designer at Table XI (https://www.tablexi.com/). Jessie Shternshus (https://twitter.com/TheImprovEffect): Founder and Owner of the Improv Effect (https://improveffect.com/). Chemia Davis: Innovation Methods ...
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Tech For Good With Andrew Means and Sean Marcia TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guests Andrew Means (https://twitter.com/meansandrew): Data Analysts 4 Social Good (https://t.co/dWOGuNxRiP), The Good Tech Fest (https://www.goodtechfest.com/), Big Elephant Studios (https://www.bigelephant.io/). Sean Marcia (https://twitter.com/seanmarcia): Ruby For Good (...
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Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest Dicko Sow (https://www.yodinaturals.com/): Founder of Yodi Naturals (https://www.yodinaturals.com/). Summary Our guest this week is Dicko Sow. Dicko is a software developer at a technical consultancy, but recently she has been spending her time building out a side projec...
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Building Git With James Coglan TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest James Coglan (https://twitter.com/mountain_ghosts): Author of Building Git (https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/) and JavaScript Testing Recipes (https://shop.jcoglan.com/javascript-testing-recipes/). More at jcoglan.com/ (http://jcoglan.com/). Summary Our guest today is James Cogl...
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Agriculture And Technology with Orlando Saez TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest Orlando Saez (https://twitter.com/saezmatter): Co-founder and CEO of Aker Technologies (https://www.aker.ag/). Summary Our guest today is Orlando Saez. Orlando is the co-founder and CEO of Aker, a precision crop diagnostic data and service company. We're going to talk ab...
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March 13, 2019 39 mins
Unlearn With Barry O'Reilly TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Summary Our guest today is Barry O’Reilly, author of the book “Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results”. In it, he sets out a process for defining outcomes, identifying behaviors that might help or hinder reaching the outcomes, and then unlearning existing behaviors and...
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February 27, 2019 44 mins
Developer Hiring TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com or find us at http://tablexi.com.workshops Today on the show, we're talking about hiring with Jennifer Tu and Zee Spencer of Cohere, Thayer Prime of Team Prime, and software consultant Matt Patterson. We talk about the entire developer hiring process from how to advertise your company to potential candidat...
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Engineering Management With Allison McMillan TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com or visit the web at http://tablexi.com/workshops. Guest Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p): Engineering Manager at GitHub (https://github.com/); Atom (https://atom.io/); Creator of the Parent Driven Development Podcast (https://www.parentdrivendevelopment.com/). Blog...
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Code Style and Community with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com or visit http://www.tablexi.com/workshops. Guests Sam Phippen (https://twitter.com/samphippen): Developer Advocate at Google and member of the RSpec (https://github.com/rspec) Core Team Justin Searls (https://twitter.com/searls): Cofounder of Test Double (http://...
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Tribal Knowledge and On-boarding with Annie Sexton TableXI offers training for developers and product teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest Annie Sexton (https://twitter.com/anniethesexton): Core Support Engineer at Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/). Traveler. Amateur graphic novelist. More at momotarocomic.com/ (http://momotarocomic.com/). Summary Developers and teams build up a lot of knowledge about their code...
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