Developer Tea

What does your code explain both in the code and outside of it? 

In today's episode, we're talking about the reason for making  the coding decisions that we choose to make. 

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In code we are trying to construct, but we often leave out the consumers, machines and co-workers who are using the code we're writing.  

How can we think in terms of human realities in our code? 

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In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the concept of time. We'll linger on the idea that moments have a timeline: future, present, and past. 

How do our moment timelines help us bec…

Just like many of the other distortions that our brains trick us into believing, the idea that we have two selves, good and bad, hides away our complex ego. 

In today's episode, we're talking about eg…

In today's episode, we're talking about an environment of learning that you can create on your own. 

How can we create an environment that puts us in a state of discomfort in order to keep us growing?

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If you think about most achievements awarded, they are handed out over a period of time when the dues are paid and effort put in. 

In today's episode, we're talking about pictures of achievement and t…

Aside from the fact that we're making a living being engineers, what is it that keeps us coming back into work every day? 

At some point in your career, the initial things that brought you into engine…

What do you do when you hit a mental block and don't know how to solve a problem? 

Today we'll dig into what we can do about this blocked scenario and how can we better deal with negative emotions tha…

In today's episode, we're  talking to early engineers and challenging all new engineers to think about how they will handle the pressure of not knowing the answer to a question asked by a co-worker. 

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In this short episode, we're digging into the relationship between our belief and knowledge and how we form our beliefs based on knowledge. 

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In today's episode, we dive into Saul's question by recounting past experience and providing tools to approach this situation at a human level and from your employers expectation. 

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In today's episode we're talking about problems and how we involve questions into our day-to-day tasks as developers. 

We'll cover question framing techniques and practices to boost collaboration with…

As someone who was a self-taught developer, I have an affinity for people eager to become a developer. 

In today's episode, we'll offer four different pain points that you're likely to experience in …

Changing our minds on a belief or issue that we stand by is not easy and as humans but is required of us to grow as people and as professionals.

In this episode of Developer Tea, we're walking through…

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In today's episode, we're talking about goals and what we tend to give up in order to reach those goals. We'll cover how to define goals, and how to keep going toward your goals when motivations run…

In today's episode, we're talking about balance as it relates to decision making. We'll dig into two models of thinking that can help us understand the nuance of balance as it relates to daily decisi…

A useful default is an action you can take on a regular basis that you expect to provide some level of utility.

In today's episode, we're talking about the fine line between useful default behaviors …

How can you write a pull request that's productive?

in today's episode, we're talking about how to be a better PR author by offering three guidelines to writing productive pull requests so that PR re…

What does it mean to collaborate as an engineer with other engineers? In today's episode, we're talking about the pull request process and the lack of attention it seems to get from engineers.

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