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/dev/hell
by Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler
Two angry web developers complain about life in development hell
Episodes
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Episode 100: The Final Rant
Hello friends. We have reached the end of the podcast. At least 100 times Ed and I got together to talk about our thoughts, mostly about technical things, sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was serious. But people change and decide to put their energies into other activities. It is neither good...
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Episode 99: Can I Keep Flexing (Extended Mix)
Ed: “Who do you think was our best guest over the years?” Chris (without hesitating): “Paul Reinheimer” Friend-of-the-podcast Paul Reinheimer has know Ed and Chris for many years and has shared many wonderful stories about himself and his side-gig-turned-primary-gig WonderNetwork both in person…
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Episode 98: No Hair, Don't Care
This was recorded way too long ago. We even lost the episode notes that had been so carefully curated. What do you want from us?!? BLINK TWICE IF YOU WANT MORE EPISODES. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3)...
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Episode 97: Hot For Teacher
As we slouch along towards episode 100, we do something we normally don’t do and have a guest on to try and sell a book they’ve written. This time out we spoke with Dane Hillard, who is in the process of finishing a book about Python programming for folks who are new to programming. Dane shared…
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Episode 96: Chimps and Snakes and Boots
Ed and Chris started talking to each other again over a series of tubes, with the end result being another episode of the podcast. This time around we discussed some weirdness we had been noticing with our episode announcement mailing list, TIOBE and popularity contests, building things for our...
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Episode 95: That Took Longer Than We Expected
It did, in fact, take longer than six months. This was recorded on June 20, 2018. Still here. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3)
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Episode 94: Shaking Off The Rust
It’s been a while since our last episode, but this time Chris and Ed go together in the same room down in Pawnee, Indiana to record an episode. Between Ed making faces at Chris while recording and Chris' totally messing up who wrote the testing blog post he went on and on, it was clear /dev/hell…
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Episode 93: 40 Attendees Enter, None Leave
Chris has finally moved his vast grumpy empire to it’s new location, so it was time to record an episode and get their hands on that sweet, sweet Patreon money. In this scintillating episode we talk about deliberate change in your life to achieve a new set of goals, along with upcoming conference...
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Episode 92: JSON and The Argonauts
“…and that’s why this podcast is rated M for mature” Chris and Ed talk about their thoughts on what might have to change once you become “internet famous” and a reminder that even if you have made mistakes in the past, you can choose to correct them in the future. We also include a new segment...
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Episode 91: Check the police blotter in Mountain View
Chris and Ed do an extremely rare daytime recording of the show on the American Memorial Day holiday. But why is a Canadian not working on an American Holiday? You’ll have to tune in to find out why along with some thoughts on mentoring and why the current crop of browser-centric testing tools…
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Episode 90: Same As It Ever Was
Chris and Ed talk about Ed’s new laptop and his decision to transition to do OSMI full-time. They also talked about their new Patreon that’s helping them find sponsors for the podcast. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us…
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Episode 89: Selling Out Never Felt So Good
Chris and Ed decided to push themselves out of their comfort zone and talked to Laravel community superstar Matt Stauffer. We talked about Matt’s experience writing a book for a major publish (with an animal on the cover and everything), asked the question “does consistency in code matter for OSS...
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Episode 88: Ocho Ocho
A short-ish episode this time out where our Dynamic Duo went guestless and talked about their recent conference experiences in Salt Lake City, Antwerp, and Miami. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on...
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Episode 87: Asking Questions Down Under
This time out we asked our listeners to submit some questions because we are tired of winning so much and wanted to let others get in on it. Along the way Ed talked about a recent computer-related purchase he made on eBay while Chris talked about one the earliest science fiction short stories he...
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Episode 86: Necromantic Spies and Imagined Corporate Friends
YOUR 2016 PHP PODCAST OF THE YEAR from simpleprogrammer.com Welcome to the very first episode of 2017! We’re back after a nice break for the holidays and ready to get back to being insightful and unfiltered. In this episode we talked about the concept of “programming as craft” with Chris and Ed...
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Episode 85: Brand Dilution As A Source Of Happiness
Welcome to our end-of-year episode! It has been probably the most gratifying year in a long time for both Chris and Ed. Chris' work at Mozilla has really changed his perspective on the value of the open web and his future. Ed finally got the chance to sink his teeth into a true leadership role at...
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Episode 84: Whiny Feedback Loops
Chris and Ed record a very quick show to talk about Ed’s latest conference adventure, the launch of some new stuff from OSMI, and Chris talks about feedback loops, hoodies that don’t fit, and the end of TrueNorthPHP. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy...
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Episode 83: Sasquatch Uses PHP
Pacific Northwest PHP co-organizer Tess Mero joins Ed and Chris to discuss her work organizing one of the newer regional conferences, Joomla, and what the hell does Cisco have to offer PHP developers. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at...
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Episode 82: Open 24 Hours, Just Not All In One Day
In this scintillating episode Chris and Ed shift gears and talk about their own experiences working “in the open”. Chris is very fortunate that everything he does at Mozilla gets open-sourced while Ed talks about his experiences back when he was running Spaz. Do these things! Check out our…
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Episode 81: It Feels Good To Be A D-List Internet Superstar
This time around Chris and Ed attempt to shame you with their D-lister activities and ability to purchase things they want but don’t need. We cover PyOhio, the long-anticipated php|cruise, and some useful gadgets they’ve incorporated into their work flows. Do these things! Check out our sponsors...
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Episode 80: Lifestyles of the Moderately Privileged and Internet Famous
This episode, Chris remembers his feline companion and Office Manager who passed away recently. Then we get into an insanely long discussion of travel tips and horror stories. Do these things! If you liked the Office Manager, please donate to http://omhs.ca/ Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork…
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Episode 79: Unlikely Hero Fails to Press Mute
This time out we spoke with Noelle Daley who shared her experiences at New Relic moving developer relations to being a developer via a programming bootcamp. We also discussed Ed’s latest round of work promoting OSMI and Noelle’s talk she gave at OSBridge in Portland. Do these things! Check out…
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Episode 78: Who Leaves Velveeta and No Beer In A Fridge?
It’s rare that we have some folks who work for the same employer back-to-back on the show, but this time out we spoke with Jessica Rose. Jessica is Tracy Osborne’s boss (Tracy was on the show in Episode 77) and talked about her own experiences creating a different kind of developer relations team...
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Episode 77: Escaping To The Canadian Hellscape
On the 77th episode of you favourite comedy podcast about technology and aging programmers, Chris and Ed spoke with Tracy Osborn about her new job in developer relations, living the sweet rent-free life in the Bay Area and how she is making the smart move of relocating with her Kanuckistanian...
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Episode 76: No, YOU'RE A Tool
Photo by Sira Sara - CC BY 2.0 Chris and Ed sit down to talk about their recent travels to conference both near and far and to also discuss what tools and languages they have been using at their day jobs. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off…
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Episode 75: Together But Alone
We’re three-quarters of the way through to The End! In this episode it was just Ed and Chris talking about two issues that are very important to them. We go over the early results from Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness survey and then have a very long discussion about the events surrounding...
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Episode 74: raise MentalHealthError
Photo by Kittenlive - CC BY-SA 3.0 In this episode we were extremely lucky to get Kenneth Reitz on the show to discuss his experiences when he had a mental health event that resulted in a stay in the hospital and some major life changes as a result. Normally we’re a comedy podcast that focusses…
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Episode 73: Old Guys Last Longer
This time out we had PHP community icon Cal “Doesn’t Follow Chris On Twitter” Evans on to discuss the traveling minstrel show known as NomadPHP, the awesomeness of Day Camp 4 Developers, his thoughts on how Mailchimp handled The Mandrill Issue, and helped trigger Chris in to an epic rant. Chris...
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Episode 72: Hermits and Horses
Jason Myers came on the show to talk about his experiences running not one but TWO conferences in the Nashville, Tennessee area, along with how he ended up writing a book about a popular Python database abstraction tool, and why he prefers the hermetic lifestyle. Along the way Chris and Jason…
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Episode 71: Bespoke Tokens
We really do appreciate our sponsors so when we get a chance to thank them in a way other than our awesome ad reads, we do it! On this episode you get twice the guest because we invited two of the three folks behind WonderNetworks to join us. Paul Reinheimer and Gemma Anible came on (and even did...
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Episode 70: Anti-Canuckite Leanings
Welcome to a new year and hopefully a more frequent podcasting schedule of recording on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. Can your favourite old-but-lazy duo maintain such a punishing pace? During the discussions for topics for this episode, Chris went to the bathroom for some quiet time....
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Episode 69: A Festivus Miracle, Part 2
After some airing of grievances and snarky emails, we managed to get our long- time personal friend Elizabeth Naramore to come on the show and talk about how she was scared for her life the first time she ever met Chris. We also got to continue to show how immature the three of us are with our...
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Episode 68: A Festivus Miracle, Part 1
In a great feat of strength we were lucky enough to have future Digital Prophet Samantha Quinones join us to talk about how she got involved with the PHP community and what it’s like to work for a company who’s office is constructed out of old CD’s. Along the way we talked about ways to discuss…
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Episode 67: Working for the Weekend
Super special guest Gary Hockin of JetBrains, and previously dog wrangler at Roave, joins us for much fun discussion and blame-taking. We babble about Slack vs IRC, the dev evangelism life, software subscription models, and video games. Also we make the say command in OS X utter profane phrases.…
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Episode 66: Aquinas on Customer Service
Episode 66 was recorded live right after the inaugural Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. We make fun of our sponsors, talk about smelly tests, Thomas Aquinas, remote pairing with juniors, and new stuff happening with OSMI. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy...
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Episode 65: Entrepremurder
Episode 65: slow roasted for sweet mesquite flavor! Derick Bailey of WatchMeCode fame joins us for an awesome discussion of the trials and tribulations of developer entrepreneurship. Derick talks about why Signal Leaf is going away, and we swap terrifying PayPal stories. Do these things! Check…
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Episode 64: Dogs Using iPads
We recorded this ep with special guest Joe Ferguson about a month ago, but all sorts of family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 63 (which we just released last week). On this episode we talk canine gold farming, bald eagles and beavers, how Joe secretly controls NomadPHP MC, NomadJS,...
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Episode 63: Made in Ontario
So we recorded this nearly two months ago, but some family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 64 (coming very soon). On this episode we talk about large developers, cars, Ed learning Java against his will, and Chris re-learning how to teach people. Do these things! Check out our...
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Episode 62: Talmudic Maxims for the Unwashed Masses (phptek 2015)
phptek 2015 featured an awesome live recording of Development Hell in front of a rowdy audience. Our special guest Yitzchok Willroth, aka coderabbi, drops Talmudic knowledge on us, and we have great discussions about “hard” and “soft” talks, tech vs personal skills, and had a great Q&A session…
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Episode 61: Double Vision
Two Chrises? God help us. Our guest this episode is Chris Fidao, creator of the ultra-successful and awesome Servers For Hackers web site and e-book. We talk about info products (because Chris has to talk about his money making schemes all the time), what devs should know about devops, Nginx vs....
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Episode 60: Welcome to the Shotgun Shack
This week on Development Hell we brag about how awesome we are via discussion about conference prep as a speaker. How much crap should go on your slides? How do we change our talks for different audiences? What’s our worst presenter experience? We also throw Paul Reinheimer under the bus. Did you...
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Episode 59: Ultimate Hardware Modz
We are joined by super special guest Arbi Arzoumani, PHP community vet and hardware modding expert. We talk about everything from the Amiga to the Raspberry Pi, with lots of console mods inbetween. Chris gets all excited about building a MAME cabinet, and we chat some about home theater PC stuff...
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Episode 58: I Have A Mouth Problem
So we kinda forgot we recorded this until a month after the fact. Whoops! This ep is all about side projects, kicking off with Chris and Ed talking about CBTTool, Ed’s electronic worksheet for folks with anxiety disorders. Then we discuss Chris' new book The Grumpy Little Book of Hack, and Ed’s...
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Episode 57: 57 Flavors of Hell
This episode we are joined by PHP whiz kid Anthony Ferrara to discuss recent happenings on PHP Internals, where a productive community member stepped away entirely. We discuss the merits of the proposals (particularly the controversial Scalar Type Hints RFC), and what the PHP community could be...
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Episode 56: Targeting the Amber Monochrome Market
The PHP Bard himself, Jeremy Lindblom, joins us for much discussion of fun things, like how PHP is used inside Amazon, the upcoming Pacific Northwest PHP Conference (PNWPHP), and what it’s like to be a bard in the age of automation. Also Ed bought a new TV and wrote some music once. Do these...
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Episode 55 REDUX: The Erotic Possibilities of the Holodeck
We’re republishing this episode to (hopefully) get the right episode out to listeners using feeds/podcasting tools. It was originally linked to Ep. 53’s audio, and some podcast aggregators may not get the updated version Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how...
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Episode 55: The Erotic Possibilities of the Holodeck
Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how rough it is to upgrade. Then we babble about WebOS, LuneOS, and Ed’s experiences running the Spaz open source project. Chris made some open source stuff once too. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and...
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Episode 54: Phil is Still Wrong
Our latest episode was special in two ways: we recorded video of it, and it was a simulcast with our friends at the PHP Town Hall podcast. What great people! They’re still wrong, but that’s okay. We talk about mouthing off in public, whether async features should be built into PHP, and the...
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Episode 53: Let's Get This Thing Over With
Guest-less and listless, Chris and Ed slouch their way back to their studios. Chris talks about the time he tried to murder a disabled woman with his new luxury sedan, we discuss artisanal PHP-Nuke sites, and how we got our local user groups started. Then It really goes off the rails with a...
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Episode 52: True North PHP 2014
On a cold winter’s night in the far north, Chris and Ed recorded a podcast at the True North PHP 2014 hackathon event. It was loud and fun! We’re joined by special guest Ben Ramsey and others to talk about organizing conferences and generally being awesome. Enjoy! Do these things! Check out our...
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