7/22/2019BookBytes
27: Measure What Matters
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Jason read Measure What Matters, and Adam and Safia have a bunch of questions about what OKRs are and how they work.
BookBytes
A book club for developers.
BookBytes is a fortnightly (or biweekly) book club for developers. Each episode the hosts discuss part of a book they've been reading. And they also chat with authors about their books. The books are about development, design, ethics, history, and soft skills. Sometimes there are tangents (also known as footnotes).
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Adam Garrett-Harris
Safia Abdalla
Jen Luker
Jason Staten
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6/18/2019BookBytes
26: Ready Player One
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Jason talks about how close we are to the technology in the book, Safia interviews the parents about screen time with kids, and they talk about 80's references and old video games.
6/4/2019BookBytes
25: Code Girls: Part 3
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
They discuss how to pronounce The Bombe, Adam talks about Conway's Law, and Safia compares sexism in the workplace to warfare.
5/13/2019BookBytes
24: Code Girls: Part 2
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Safia has a new job, they talk about how much they know or don't know about WWII, Safia talks about the disposability of the women, and they talk about women's pockets and things that remind them of Computer Science.
4/18/2019BookBytes
23: Code Girls: Part I
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Safia compares the recruiting efforts to modern day, Jason looks at good qualities for cracking codes and did some research on Shakespeare authorship, Jen talks about the challenges women go through, and they talk about strategies for cracking codes.
3/27/2019BookBytes
22: Code Girls: Introduction
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Adam asks what they think about the title of the book, Safia is struck by the fact that women were disqualified because of ethnicity, Jen mentions how women's photos became a source of commentary, and Safia talks about what people value in men vs women.
2/25/2019BookBytes
21: Ara the Star Engineer: Author - Komal Singh
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Everyone chats with Komal Singh about her motivations, the creation process, and the illustrator. And Jason's daughter even gets a question answered.
2/11/2019BookBytes
20: Ara the Star Engineer
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Everyone geeks out over this children's picture book, Jason and Jen read it to their daughters, Adam and Safia overthink it a little bit, and they give advice on reading it to a child.
1/21/2019BookBytes
19: The Imposter's Handbook: Author - Rob Conery
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We talk with Rob about his book, how and why he wrote it, as well as the next book that's coming out.
12/17/2018BookBytes
18: The Imposter's Handbook: Testing and Essential Unix
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Safia compares test code to cake batter, Safia and Jen talk about testing culture, Jason says Rust makes testing easier, and Adam compares Unix to Eunuchs.
11/21/2018BookBytes
17: The Imposter's Handbook: Functional Programming and Databases
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Safia talks about the four themes of functional programming, Jason tells us the difference between currying and partial application, Jason finds out that third normal form is not the most normal form. And Adam found out that BASE is the opposite of ACID.
10/22/2018BookBytes
16: The Imposter's Handbook: Software Design Patterns and Software Design Principles
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Safia finds out that she already knew some of the design patterns, but not the name, Adam is confused about the fascade pattern, they talk about DRY, YAGNI, and they get into TDD, and a bit of the Unix philosophy.
9/17/2018BookBytes
15: The Imposter's Handbook: Advanced Algorithms and Compilation
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
They talk about some advanced algorithms, Safia goes on a tangent about Grace Hopper, and Jason made a compiler in Rust.
9/3/2018BookBytes
14: The Imposter's Handbook: Data Structures and Simple Algorithms
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
The hosts cover one algorithm each, after wrapping up the data structures chapter.
8/20/2018BookBytes
13: The Imposter's Handbook: Big O and Data Structures
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
They go over big O and data structures, Jason and Safia have a vulcan mind meld over Timsort, and Adam almost went down a rabbit trail of YouTube videos.
8/6/2018BookBytes
12: The Imposter's Handbook: Machinery (and the Turbo Button)
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
The hosts talk about various types of machines from finite-state machines, pushdown machines, and turing machines, and then get distracted by retro computing and the turbo button.
7/24/2018BookBytes
11: The Imposter's Handbook: Complexity and Lambda Calculus
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Adam and Jen have new jobs, they talk about complexity in the real world vs academia, and then Safia and Adam get some real-time learning in lambda calculus.
6/25/2018BookBytes
10: The Imposter's Handbook: Introduction and Computation
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
They talk about the first chapter, their computer science backgrounds, genetic algorithms, Star Trek, their first computers, and what they're looking forward to in the book.
6/18/2018BookBytes
9: Technically Wrong: Author - Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We talk with Sara about why she wrote the book and some of her thoughts about how to change the industry.
5/28/2018BookBytes
8: Technically Wrong: Part 2
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We get into a lively discussion about sexism and racism in the workplace and the interview process, and Safia puts Adam and Jason in the hot seat.
5/14/2018BookBytes
7: Technically Wrong: Part 1
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
Many apps and websites are sexist, racist, or marginalize people. In this episode, we talk about a lot of examples from the book about these apps.
4/30/2018BookBytes
6: Technically Wrong Intro
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We get some updates from Safia and talk about our expectations for the book.
4/23/2018BookBytes
5: Apprenticeship Patterns: Author - Dave Hoover
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We talked with one of the authors of Apprenticeship Patterns about the process of writing the book, reading, learning, career paths, and changes he would make to the book.
4/9/2018BookBytes
4: Apprenticeship Patterns Ch 5-7
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We talked about drinking from the firehose, practicing the craft, building breakable toys, and reading (coding books, Descartes, and Beowulf).
3/26/2018BookBytes
3: Apprenticeship Patterns Ch 3-4
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
We talk about mapping out our careers (or lack thereof), what titles mean at companies, craft vs art, being the worst, and getting mentors.
3/12/2018BookBytes
2: Apprenticeship Patterns Ch 1-2
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
How do you set yourself up for success in your career as a software engineer? How do you learn? How do you go from junior to senior?
3/5/2018BookBytes
1: Apprenticeship Patterns Intro
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Safia Abdalla, Jen Luker, and Jason Staten
In this episode, we introduce the hosts, the podcast, and the first book we'll be reading, Apprenticeship Patterns.
