All Episodes

Fireside Stories #20: That time I was told I must have known someone to get a job.

Why Work Hard at Work?

Blizzard and StarCraft 2

Entrepreneurialism

How to Migrate from a Legacy System

Reality

Cross Cutting Concerns

Documentation

Done

ChatGPT

Happiness

Crunch Culture

Should I Quit My Current Job Before Getting a New Job?

Quiet Quitting

Defining “Customer”- Part 2

Good Types of Product People

Crazy Ideas for a Better Future

Defining “Customer”

Contracting or Starting a Business

Bean Bag Chairs, Ping-Pong Tables, and Skipping Meetings for Massages

The Future of Work

Creativity

My Tech Stack

Fireside Stories #19: That time Andrew told me I had to cowboy up.

Tech Debt

Pay

Anxiety

Fireside Stories #18: That time I “wasn’t a good fit for the development team.”

MVC

Fireside Stories #17: That time I humbled an arrogant SVP.

MVP

Fireside Stories #16: That time I fired a client.

Answering r/ExperiencedDevs Questions #2

Fireside Stories #15: That time I rage-quit a meeting discussing my proposal for saving a project.

Career EDC

Fireside Stories #14: That time I got in trouble for critiquing code I did not write.

Unionization

Fireside Stories #13: That time I was presented UI requirements so bad I was speechless.

Opportunity

Fireside Stories #12: That time I witnessed a candidate get annihilated in an interview.

C.O.D.E. Pledge

Fireside Stories #11: That time I turned my antagonists against each other.

Software’s Intrinsic Value

Fireside Stories #10: That time I lost my cool in the middle of a big meeting in front of the CTO.

Reputation

Fireside Stories #9: That time I was pretty sure I wrote software for the mob.

Attention

Fireside Stories #8: That time I won over a hostile sales team.

Monoliths and Microservices

Fireside Stories #7: That time I built a high-performing team and then management split us up.

Learning

Fireside Stories #6: That time I realized a rockstar hire didn’t know how write software

Managerial Styles

Fireside Stories #5: That time I was made a team lead over my mentor

The Great Resignation

Fireside Stories #4: That time I learned how to write high performance software

Answering r/ExperiencedDevs Questions #1 (Bongoscout’s Question)

Fireside Stories #3: That time I argued the necessity of a MacBook Pro with a billionaire founder

The Joy of Coding

Fireside Stories #2: That time I was schooled on how to really find bugs

Cynicism

Fireside Stories #1: That time I was disrespected by a QA contractor who didn’t know that I ran the whole project

Hungarian Connection

Anyone Can Code

Social Media

Accountability

Bravery

Mental Health Day

Critical Thinking

Procrastination

Erik’s First Day

Hiring

The Hustler Mindset

How a Tech Lead Should Leave a Company

Churn

How to Take Over a Failing Software Project

Thoughts on “The Fatal Flaw of Free Market Capitalism”

Should Software Developers Return to the Office?

Should You Become a Manager?

Building a Software Development Career from a Third-World Country

Building Relationships

Remote Work’s Effect on American Innovation

How to Architect a Software Application

Building and Leading a Technical Team

Picking Technologies

Imposter Syndrome

F-35

Correct by Configuration

Recession Proofing

Retaining Top Performers

Social Anxiety

Flipping a House vs. Building a Home

Professionalism

Interviewing the Interviewer

Why Agile Is So Popular

Frontend Developers

Mentors

Fear

Bugs

Security