PODCAST · technology
tutorialinux
by David Cohen
Finally, an honest glimpse at the realities of the tech industry. Dave (tutorialinux on YouTube) covers what's interesting in tech and picks his friends' brains about their careers, skills, and advice/ideas they've found useful.You'll hear from people who are deeply involved in the worlds of Software Development, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and the human/management/entrepreneurship side of the tech industry.Warning: may contain sudden philosophizing, occasional doses of salt, and frequent marveling at brilliant technology and computer science from years past.
Episodes
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Dave and Matthew Rant About Tech
This is what it sounds like when Matthew and I have a few beers and start talking about the tech industry. I humbly apologize to all tech people who are offended by this and all who celebrate.
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From Linguistics to Devops: Scarlett Interview
I sit down with my friend Scarlett to learn about her journey from linguistics to DevOps, job searching in 2025, things she wishes she'd learned earlier, and a whole lot of valuable advice from her experience in the tech industry.
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Staff Engineer Promo, Observability, and Cloud Rants
00:00 Intros 02:45 Dave's book, Linux for Software Engineers 03:00 Why we wrote the book 06:10 Office Space Movie 09:00 Apple and the AI movement 12:00 How Companies change 14:14 Slow down to speed up 16:00 Slowing down - testing a hobby project 18:20 Promo from Staff Engineer to Staff Engineer...
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Getting a Tech Job in 2024, Using ChatGPT, Learning Elixir
A conversation with fellow Dev/DevOps/SRE/tech person Matthew Sanabria, where we discuss the process of getting a software development job in the 2023-2024 job market. We also discuss using chat GPT and other LLMs as a software developer, and what it's like to start learning Elixir. Check out my...
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The Evolution of Tech Infrastructure
A quick solo episode where I cover the changes to infrastructure and architecture I've seen while working in the tech industry. I specifically focus on what my day-to-day work looked like at each phase, and which problems we faced that led to the next evolutionary step.
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Q&A: What Senior Engineers Want (from Juniors)
In this episode, I talk with Matthew and Justin about tech salaries and what makes great engineers (including more Junior people). 0:00 Intro 1:15 Tech Salaries 2:30 Information Asymmetry 4:05 Dave's Salaries 11:40 Matthew's Salaries 16:00 Job-hopping and salary bumps 17:45 Negotiation Tips 24:00...
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Switching to Neovim, Programming in Elixir
Switching from VSCode to neovim: how it's going. Also, I'm learning Elixir, and I'll tell you why. 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Editor Wars 5:35 Kickstart.nvim and my nvim setup 10:40 Should you learn vim? 13:30 Elixir: What makes a language good? 17:15 My impression of Elixir (so far) 19:00 Erlang is...
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Realities of the Tech Industry: an interview (now with 20% more spice)
An interview with Matthew Sanabria about his path through (and continued life in) the tech industry. Matthew and I met working at Hashicorp when it was a much smaller company than it is today. In this episode, we spend a lot of time discussing things we've learned and things we wish someone had...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Finally, an honest glimpse at the realities of the tech industry. Dave (tutorialinux on YouTube) covers what's interesting in tech and picks his friends' brains about their careers, skills, and advice/ideas they've found useful.You'll hear from people who are deeply involved in the worlds of Software Development, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and the human/management/entrepreneurship side of the tech industry.Warning: may contain sudden philosophizing, occasional doses of salt, and frequent marveling at brilliant technology and computer science from years past.
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David Cohen
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