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The Five-Minute Geek Show — 115 episodes
115 | Look for those who need help (fixed audio)
114 | Catching Up On Where I've Been
113 | Your Online Presence Matters In Job Applications
112 | Don't Make Me Throw Out Your Resumé!
111 | Introducing Onramp, OMGPHP, and WhyPHP (ALL ALPHA!)
110 | Figure out the values, then make the choice according to your values
109 | Just break that overwhelming project up
108 | Knowing, and Getting, What You Want
107 | Enterpreneurial Survivorship Bias
106 | How we picked our insurance provider (slash my guiding principle)
105 | You can't make everyone happy
104 | How we set our prices
103 | Christmas 2017 with the kiddos
102 | A few simple tricks for editing your blog posts
101 | Your Top Idea, and Letting It Fester
100 | Overlapping Communities
99 | Take Care of Your People
98 | Take care of yourself
97 | Conducting reasonable, grown-up, discourse online
96 | Direct communication and why passive aggression isn't what you might think but sucks anyway
95 | Credit where credit's due
94 | One easy tip to being in the top 2% of freelancers
93 | If you don't know "why", you're not going to do the right "what"
92 | Spoiling yourself to avoid burnout
91 | Commitments, not (or and) goals
90 | It's OK to specialize. We're a Laravel Shop. That's OK.
89 | Start preparing now for what you need then
88 | Somebody is going to have to do the hard work to bring equality
87 | I don't think we mean the same thing when we say "remote"
86 | Why source diving is an undersung skill
85 | Planning makes better (meetings, podcasts, bizdev, interviews)
84 | I don't think you have $10,000 to waste on that AWS token
83 | Find your power
82 | How Are You Getting Paid For Your Free Work?
81 | What to Do When You Get Sick
80 | Know why you're doing what you're doing
79 | Quick thoughts on my new iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
78 | Inbox Zero, Getting Things Done, and freeing your brain
77 | Split Online Personality: race, ethnicity, justice, and "just stick to tech"
76 | Write Code For Humans
75 | Tips On Starting a User Group - Interview with Steven Wade
74 | I can't feel my hands (when I'm overwhelmed with stress/anxiety)
73 | Introducing Briefs.fm and the Three-Minute Geek Show
72 | Statamic v2 beta (on Laravel), Craft, and the problem of syncing CMS schema
71 | Tighten's Pull Request Culture
70 | To Conclude, Startups Are Basically the Same as My Toddler
69 | Convention over Configuration, Convenience over Complication
68 | Programming on Twitch
67 | Estimates are Bull****
66 | Don't be a jerk
65 | Pay money to stop wasting time
64 | Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the DHH
63 | Rapid Application Development and Testing Together Forever
62 | Only Do What Only You Can Do
61 | Everyone's A Little Bit (Different)
60 | Learning How to Answer the Question, "What Code Should I Test?"
59 | Being a Remote Employee Ain't Easy
58 | Notifications, Procrastination, and Distraction
57 | Open Source Imposter Syndrome
56 | Dressing Up When You Don't Need To
55 | Sometimes More Features & Toys Makes It Worse
54 | Do You Need To "Protect" Clients & Developers From Each Other?
53 | The Ultimate Recipe For Success and #Winning
52 | You Don't Have the Luxury to Stagnate
51 | The Ideal Project Management Tool, and What I Use Now
50 | Why Communication is the Most Important Thing
49 | When should an employer "force" employees to use a tool?
48 | Soylent (Green is People)
47 | All About Family (featuring special guest my 2-year-old son)
46 | Decoupling all the Things with Queues - with Derick Bailey
45 | When Generalizations and Stereotypes are Helpful vs. Hurtful
44 | How you should pick your tools
43 | Stop Lying About Your Motivations
42 | When Microservices and SPAs Aren't the Right Answer
41 | Asking Good Questions About Your Product/Project
40 | Finding Inspiration In Predictability (and in Being Unpredictable)
39 | Planners vs. Cowboys in Product Design (An Ode to #AnnoyingQuestions)
38 | How to Make Remote Work Suck Less
37 | Start your own podcast in under 5 minutes, take two
36 | Getting Started with Passive Income -- Interview with Wes Bos
35 | Just Use Your Dang Name
34 | How to responsive-ize your web site AND Introducing Podcast Wars
33 | Why the Slack haters are wrong and Slack > IRC
32 | Integrity (and why it doesn't mean what most people think it does)
31 | Keep It Simple (and short and not super indented and well named and lots of other stuff), Stupid
30 | Why I Don't Work From Home
29 | Introducing VitalSigns Because Otherwise It Won't Happen
28 | Should You Tell Everyone About Your Next Best Idea?
27 | Your Justification for Having a Non-Responsive Web Site Is Wrong
26 | It's all about that schema
25 | Which IDE/Code Editor is the Best?
24 | How to Write Technical Blog Posts Quickly and Easily
23 | 3 Ways to Give Back to Open Source & How to Write Good Pull Requests
22 | "If You Don't Like It, Just Leave"
21 | Why Tech Conferences Are Worth the Cost
20 | How To Handle Your Code Breaking
19 | What if _____ Gets Hit By a Bus?
18 | Growth Hacking Without the Gross; Interviewing Mubashar Iqbal
17 | Entrepreneurship Advice From a 30-year Business Veteran
16 | The Twitter Experiment Part 2: Remaining Uncomfortable
15 | The Twitter Experiment Part 1: Getting Uncomfortable
14 | Where the Best Startup Ideas Come From
13 | Http Status Codes And You
12 | Create-a-Theme-Song
11 | Make Great Coffee for Cheap
10 | Where Do I Breakpoint?
9 | To _blank or not to _blank
8 | Start Your Own Show
7 | Continuous Integration Etcetera
6 | The Holy Grail of Content Management
5 | CSS for Backend Devs (OOCSS)
4 | To Docblock or Not to Docblock
3 | Making Your SDK Play Nice
2 | Rapid Application Development
1 | Tabs vs. Spaces