Developer Tea
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.
With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 1268
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Creating Obvious Systems: Why Mental Models Justify Simplicity, and When to Utilize Surprise and Delight
In today's episode, I discuss the importance of relying on obviousness when designing software and user interfaces, and when you should be utilizing surprise.
Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalO…
Answering Listener Questions: Matt asks about the feasibility of finding remote work, online education, and the order of learning
Matt is a beginner developer who is making a shift to support his new life situation, in which he is unable to work a normal 9-to-5 job in an office. Matt sent me an email asking a few questions abou…
Inspiration Episode: Brian Eno Teaches Us To Limit Our Options
In this week's inspiration episode starts with a quote from Brian Eno, a highly influential musician and audio engineer, about limiting options in order to better take advantage of our efforts.
Scott Belsky, Part Two
Scott Belsky (@ScottBelsky) is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber.
Scott and I talk …
Scott Belsky, Part One
Scott Belsky is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber.
Scott and I talk about the funda…
Answering Front-end Developer Interview Questions: Explaining the Importance of Standards for the Web
In today's episode, we discuss the importance of standards and standards bodies for web technologies, specifically for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript specs.
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Answering Listener Questions: Devin, a Non-Developer, Asks About Grasping Things That Go Over His Head, and Finding Starting Points
In this episode, long-time listener Devin asks about how to grasp things that go over his head. You're not alone, Devin! In this episode, I give you (and others just like you) encouragement in the mi…
Hampton Catlin, Part Two: Speedy Sass with libsass, Wordset.org and Open-Sourcing Our Words
In today's episode, I talk with Hampton Catlin about fast Sass compilation with libsass, and then we discuss his latest project, Wordset, and why we need a truly open source dictionary.
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Weekly Inspiration - Happiness and Doing Our Best Work: 3 Practical Steps to Getting The Right Things Done and Finding Focus State Faster
In today's inspiration episode, I discuss the importance of removing barriers between you and your most important work, and why that is such an important thing to do. I then discuss 3 practical steps…
Part Two: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers
Pamela Vickers and I sat down at Ancient City Ruby to talk about culture, conferences, and ping pong. And it was awesome.
Part One: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers
Pamela Vickers and I sat down at Ancient City Ruby to talk about culture, conferences, and ping pong. And it was awesome.
Answering Listener Questions - Clyde Asks About Learning to Code while on the Road
In today's episode, Clyde asks about learning to code while on the road. If you've ever tried to focus in a new environment, or if you are learning to code while changing locations, this episode is f…
Part 2: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, foc…
Part 1: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, foc…
How We Spend Our Days, How We Spend Our Lives, and One Way To Get a Better Grasp On Time
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. But how can we get a better grasp on time? In this episode, I share a simple tip that exploits our brain's natural tendency to take shortc…
Taking Best Practices and Advice with a Grain of Salt
In this episode, we talk about "best practices" and advice, and what you should do with those things in your day to day life.
Today's episode sponsored by Intuit! Head over to http://intuit.me/DevTea…
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part Two (at Ancient City Ruby)
I had the pleasure of attending Ancient City Ruby and interviewing a few folks while I was there. Ernie Miller was a speaker at ACR, and also sat down with me to talk about agile, humane development,…
Estimating Sandwiches: Why the Gut Doesn't Work, and How Small Is Better
This episode is all about estimation, and how important it is to focus on estimating small things, and understand the implications of scale on your estimations.
This episode is sponsored by Digital O…
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part One (at Ancient City Ruby)
I had the pleasure of attending Ancient City Ruby and interviewing a few folks while I was there. Ernie Miller was a speaker at ACR, and also sat down with me to talk about agile, humane development,…