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Don't Make Me Code

by Heavybit

Discussing DX design and the unique challenges of building dev-facing products.

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Episodes

  1. Ep. #13, Standing On The Shoulders Of A License

    In this episode, Steve and David are joined by Ilan Rabinovitch, Director of Technical Services and Evangelism at Datadog. They talk about the different ways companies are being built on open source software. Ilan shares his thoughts on how open source helps achieve business objectives. He also...

  2. Ep. #12, Security Ergonomics

    In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, David and Steve are joined by Guy Podjarny, CEO of Snyk. The group discusses the current state of developer experience within security tools, the importance of non-engineers on your developer tool team, and the challenges of selling security to developers...

  3. Ep. #11, Dogfooding

    In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, David and Steve have Liz Bennett in the studio. Liz is a Senior Software Engineer at Loggly, a SaaS based logging company. The three discuss the many benefits of dogfooding as well as some unique-to-developer-tools pitfalls of using your own product to build...

  4. Ep. #10, Environment Protection

    In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, Steve and David are joined by Sean Li, Lead Product Designer at Docker. Sean, Steve & David discuss Docker’s acquisition of Kitematic, the friction of attempting to replace a developer’s existing tool, and the increasingly prominent role of Design in…

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  5. Ep. #9, Getting Users To Give A Damn

    In this episode, David and Steve are joined by Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager at the Node.js Foundation. The three discuss how best to grow communities around open source software.

  6. Ep. #8, I Only Work On Ugly Products

    In this episode, Steve and David are joined by Dom Nguyen, Product Designer at Meteor. The group discuss why developer companies should hire designers, and why designers should want to work for developer companies.

  7. Ep. #7, You’re The Developer Of Your Developer Experience

    In this episode, David and Steve are joined by Matt Harris, Co-founder of Sendwithus. The three discuss the challenges of providing the same great developer experience across multiple different languages, how important DX is to building developer traction, and finally they cover what to look for…

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  8. Ep. #6, How To Train Your Developer

    In this episode David and Steve are joined by Gonçalo Borrêga of Outsystems. The group discusses different tips and techniques for training developers in your product, as well as making it easy for your users to show their own value to their superiors.

  9. Ep. #5, Developers are People Too

    In this episode David and Steve are joined by Justin Baker, Lead Product Designer at LaunchDarkly. The three discuss how developers are people too. You can follow the show on twitter @dontmakemecode and email Stephen and David at [email protected] to suggest a topic or guest for the show.

  10. Ep. #4, Affordances for Developers

    In this episode David and Steve are joined by Dustin Larimer from Keen IO. They discuss affordances – the visual cues or attributes of a thing that inform you how it works – for developers. You can follow the show on twitter @dontmakemecode and email Stephen and David at [email protected] to...

  11. Ep. #3, Developer Segments

    In this episode, Steve and David dive into listener Matthias Lübken’s topic suggestion of developer segments. David and Steve discuss all the different types of developers that are using dev tools, and the different ways they design tools with these segments in mind. You can follow the show on...

  12. Ep. #2, Onboarding Developers

    In this episode, David and Steve discuss the challenges faced when onboarding developers, and how you can make that experience better. Read more about DX from Steve in a great post published recently titled Let’s Talk About Developer Experience (DX) Design. Steve dives further into the unique...

  13. Ep. #1, Introducing Steve and David

    In this first episode, Steve and David discuss the origins of the term DX, they share their thoughts on what makes a great developer experience, and they talk about some of the challenges they face when designing developer facing products. Read more about DX from Steve in a great post published...

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Discussing DX design and the unique challenges of building dev-facing products.

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