Greater Than Code
For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.
Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript.
We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2022
Special Edition: COVID-19
Content warnings for discussion of pandemic and sickness, American politics, and mental health issues.
In this special episode of Greater Than Code, several of our panelists have a candid conversati…
177: Source Docs and People with Chris Stead
00:56 - Chris’ Superpower: Not Knowing In Public
- Asking Questions
02:53 - Source Documents and Their Relation To People
- Grace Hopper
- Maintaining Code to Give People Context (Writing Code For Pe…
176: Career Karma with Ruben Harris
01:44 - Ruben’s Superpower: Believing in people more than they believe in themselves and helping people to meet their potential.
03:00 - How Ruben Developed His Superpower
- Natural Belief In Self
- F…
175: Developing for the Long Term with Eric A. Meyer
00:57 - Eric’s Superpower: The Ability To Explain Things In A Way That Makes Sense To Most People
02:37 - Legacy Capability Of The Web
- Web Technologies Are Long Term
- Frameworks
- Lynx
- Y2K
11:30 - …
174: Resilience
01:38 - What Does Resilience Mean To The Panelists?
- John - [It’s] Like A Flexible Tree That Can Bend With The Wind Or Environment - It Does Not Resist Or Break
- Chanté - Tenacity And Grit And Being …
173: The Ethical Open Source Movement
02:22 - Coraline Talks About Her Work With The Open Source Movement
- Seth Vargo: @sethvargo
- The Open Source License - The Hippocratic License
- Bruce Perens
08:14 - Who Wrote The Open Source License
…
172: Limitations of Human Knowledge with Miko Matsumura
02:12 - Miko’s Superpower: Not Knowing Things.
03:30 - Coming To Your Senses
- Breaking Out Of Thinking
- Detecting - Venture Capitalism
- Pattern Making And Pattern Matching
06:45 - Understand The Li…
171: Web Accessibility with Chris DeMars
01:14 - Chris’s Superpower: His Ability to Sleep.
01:50 - Why Chris Wants To Talk About Web Accessibility
- Top 3 Priorities When Building on the Web
- Accessibility
- Performance
- Security
02:45 - …
170: The Case for Vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi
00:53 - Chris’s Superpower: Derailing conversations and having a knack for taking complex tasks and breaking them down into smaller, simpler parts that people find easy to understand.
01:44 - The Pi…
169: Career Elbows
01:49 - Rein Talks About His Recent Career Transition From Being a Consultant to a Full-Time Employee
03:52 - Jamey Talks About the Decision to Leave Their Job
- Making The Decision To Leave Your C…
168: Appolition with Dr. Kortney Ziegler
01:06 - Kortney’s Superpower: Being a visionary. Seeing things that aren’t necessarily there.
01:50 - How Appolition Came to Be
- Grassroots Company Crowdfunding Money for Incarcerated Black Mothers …
167: Clarity of Thought with Ted M. Young
01:20 - Ted’s Superpower: Translating things for people to understand better.
02:49 - Coding on a Live Stream
- Curiosity is Useful and Dangerous
- Comparing Coding to Puzzles
07:13 - Research is a …
166: From Software Engineer to Management with Phil Wheeler
01:10 - Phil’s Superpower: Putting Himself in Others’ Shoes.
02:03/09:14 From Software Engineer to Management
- Empathy Through The Career Shift
- The Learning Curve
- Making a Conscious Choice To Switc…
Fast & Furious with Penelope Phippen
Please enjoy this mini-episode of Greater Than Code featuring guest Penelope Phippen as we begin to pivot to our new podcast theme, the Fast & Furious. *
( * Just kidding, we are still a tech podcas…
165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.
03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming
05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is
- Were An…
164: Psychological Balance with Dr. Mireille Reece
01:14 - Mireille’s Superpower: Being just herself. The sense of respect around the individuality of every person.
02:30 - Being Different From Others is a Good Thing
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Epigenetics …
163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton
01:24 - Kim’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman in Tech with a Strategy and a Platform.
02:21 - Continuously Validating Your Space as a Black Woman
- Technical vs. Technology
- Kamala Harris Suspending …
162: Glue Work with Denise Yu
00:58 - Denise’s Superpower: She is a classically trained musician and is good at transcribing music in her head.
03:30 - Glue Work
- Tanya Reilly
- Doing Tasks That Are Adjacent to Coding
- Scheduling
- …
161: Making Space with Bärí A. Williams
01:48 - Bärí’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman
05:20/22:50 - Admitting and Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Intersectionality and Culture
10:00 - Born and Raised in Oakland
- Gentrification
- What is t…
160: Thermodynamics of the Twitterverse
01:50 - Getting Sucked into Twitter Vortexes
03:06 - Dynamics of Human Emotion
05:36 - Creating Safe Spaces for Emotionally Charged Conversations
07:57 -…