Origins.fm: Developer Origins

In this episode, I chat with a friend and former intern of mine, Samuel Robertson. He's had a pretty cool run working at various companies that you have definitely heard of and is now also working on the side to develop VideoTap an AI-powered video ingestion tool that helps content creators multiply the uses of their footage.

You can find Samuel on the internet on X (formerly Twitter) or you can check out VideoTap

In this interview, I sit down and talk with my coworker Katin Tran, who has a unique background of cross-cultural study and interdisciplinary experience. Listen as we discuss the differences in Korean higher education and her journey to become a front-end engineer

You can find Katin on the internet on LinkedIn

In this episode, I sit down with Marvellous, a developer I met online who built the Artisan UI component library and is still working his way through college. He shares his experiences building a web app for his mom, the challenges of open source, and making his way as a developer who is still in school.

You can find him online on X and GitHub.

In this episode, I sit down and chat with Sabine, the community-proclaimed Queen of OCaml. We trace her journey through academia, a sewing SaaS, and finally to her current work with OCaml.

You can find Sabine on the internet here:
- X (Twitter)
- Twitch
- GitHub

In this episode, I sit down and chat with Will King, a design engineer with a background in industrial design. We spend time talking through the journey to become a design engineer and the life principle of putting yourself out there and increasing your serendipity (also known as luck surface area).

You can find Will online in the following places:

• Website
• X profile

In this episode, I sat down with Dillon Mulroy to hear about his journey from a small state school to one of the most widely used and highly regarded deployment platforms for web apps.

You can find Dillon on the internet here:
- X
- Twitch
- GitHub

In this episode, I sat down and chatted with Angela DiSalvo, who was previously my manager and continues to work at Beyond Identity with me. She took a pretty non-traditional route into software development, and got to work on some pretty cool tech (even though she can't really say where in the episode).

Find her online here:
- LinkedIn

My very first interview! I sit down and chat with Jesse Leite to hear about his incredible journey from school to music to Laravel.

You can find Jesse on the internet or find him on X.

He's currently working on a podcast called Campfire Coders. As well as building custom keyboards in his free time at 1337 Keyboards.

If you or someone you love is a developer, let me know so that I can interview them as well!

In 2024, I went to a developer conference called Laracon and met a ton of cool people. Afterwards, I took a risk and invited some people to sit down and tell me their stories. They told me about how they became developers and some of their encounters along the way.

These are their stories.