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The Five-Minute Geek Show — 115 episodes

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115 | Look for those who need help (fixed audio)

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114 | Catching Up On Where I've Been

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113 | Your Online Presence Matters In Job Applications

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112 | Don't Make Me Throw Out Your Resumé!

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111 | Introducing Onramp, OMGPHP, and WhyPHP (ALL ALPHA!)

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110 | Figure out the values, then make the choice according to your values

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109 | Just break that overwhelming project up

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108 | Knowing, and Getting, What You Want

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107 | Enterpreneurial Survivorship Bias

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106 | How we picked our insurance provider (slash my guiding principle)

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105 | You can't make everyone happy

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104 | How we set our prices

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103 | Christmas 2017 with the kiddos

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102 | A few simple tricks for editing your blog posts

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101 | Your Top Idea, and Letting It Fester

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100 | Overlapping Communities

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99 | Take Care of Your People

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98 | Take care of yourself

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97 | Conducting reasonable, grown-up, discourse online

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96 | Direct communication and why passive aggression isn't what you might think but sucks anyway

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95 | Credit where credit's due

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94 | One easy tip to being in the top 2% of freelancers

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93 | If you don't know "why", you're not going to do the right "what"

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92 | Spoiling yourself to avoid burnout

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91 | Commitments, not (or and) goals

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90 | It's OK to specialize. We're a Laravel Shop. That's OK.

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89 | Start preparing now for what you need then

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88 | Somebody is going to have to do the hard work to bring equality

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87 | I don't think we mean the same thing when we say "remote"

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86 | Why source diving is an undersung skill

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85 | Planning makes better (meetings, podcasts, bizdev, interviews)

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84 | I don't think you have $10,000 to waste on that AWS token

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83 | Find your power

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82 | How Are You Getting Paid For Your Free Work?

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81 | What to Do When You Get Sick

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80 | Know why you're doing what you're doing

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79 | Quick thoughts on my new iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

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78 | Inbox Zero, Getting Things Done, and freeing your brain

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77 | Split Online Personality: race, ethnicity, justice, and "just stick to tech"

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76 | Write Code For Humans

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75 | Tips On Starting a User Group - Interview with Steven Wade

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74 | I can't feel my hands (when I'm overwhelmed with stress/anxiety)

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73 | Introducing Briefs.fm and the Three-Minute Geek Show

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72 | Statamic v2 beta (on Laravel), Craft, and the problem of syncing CMS schema

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71 | Tighten's Pull Request Culture

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70 | To Conclude, Startups Are Basically the Same as My Toddler

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69 | Convention over Configuration, Convenience over Complication

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68 | Programming on Twitch

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67 | Estimates are Bull****

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66 | Don't be a jerk

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65 | Pay money to stop wasting time

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64 | Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the DHH

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63 | Rapid Application Development and Testing Together Forever

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62 | Only Do What Only You Can Do

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61 | Everyone's A Little Bit (Different)

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60 | Learning How to Answer the Question, "What Code Should I Test?"

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59 | Being a Remote Employee Ain't Easy

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58 | Notifications, Procrastination, and Distraction

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57 | Open Source Imposter Syndrome

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56 | Dressing Up When You Don't Need To

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55 | Sometimes More Features & Toys Makes It Worse

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54 | Do You Need To "Protect" Clients & Developers From Each Other?

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53 | The Ultimate Recipe For Success and #Winning

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52 | You Don't Have the Luxury to Stagnate

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51 | The Ideal Project Management Tool, and What I Use Now

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50 | Why Communication is the Most Important Thing

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49 | When should an employer "force" employees to use a tool?

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48 | Soylent (Green is People)

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47 | All About Family (featuring special guest my 2-year-old son)

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46 | Decoupling all the Things with Queues - with Derick Bailey

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45 | When Generalizations and Stereotypes are Helpful vs. Hurtful

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44 | How you should pick your tools

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43 | Stop Lying About Your Motivations

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42 | When Microservices and SPAs Aren't the Right Answer

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41 | Asking Good Questions About Your Product/Project

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40 | Finding Inspiration In Predictability (and in Being Unpredictable)

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39 | Planners vs. Cowboys in Product Design (An Ode to #AnnoyingQuestions)

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38 | How to Make Remote Work Suck Less

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37 | Start your own podcast in under 5 minutes, take two

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36 | Getting Started with Passive Income -- Interview with Wes Bos

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35 | Just Use Your Dang Name

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34 | How to responsive-ize your web site AND Introducing Podcast Wars

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33 | Why the Slack haters are wrong and Slack > IRC

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32 | Integrity (and why it doesn't mean what most people think it does)

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31 | Keep It Simple (and short and not super indented and well named and lots of other stuff), Stupid

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30 | Why I Don't Work From Home

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29 | Introducing VitalSigns Because Otherwise It Won't Happen

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28 | Should You Tell Everyone About Your Next Best Idea?

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27 | Your Justification for Having a Non-Responsive Web Site Is Wrong

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26 | It's all about that schema

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25 | Which IDE/Code Editor is the Best?

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24 | How to Write Technical Blog Posts Quickly and Easily

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23 | 3 Ways to Give Back to Open Source & How to Write Good Pull Requests

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22 | "If You Don't Like It, Just Leave"

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21 | Why Tech Conferences Are Worth the Cost

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20 | How To Handle Your Code Breaking

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19 | What if _____ Gets Hit By a Bus?

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18 | Growth Hacking Without the Gross; Interviewing Mubashar Iqbal

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17 | Entrepreneurship Advice From a 30-year Business Veteran

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16 | The Twitter Experiment Part 2: Remaining Uncomfortable

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15 | The Twitter Experiment Part 1: Getting Uncomfortable

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14 | Where the Best Startup Ideas Come From

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13 | Http Status Codes And You

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12 | Create-a-Theme-Song

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11 | Make Great Coffee for Cheap

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10 | Where Do I Breakpoint?

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9 | To _blank or not to _blank

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8 | Start Your Own Show

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7 | Continuous Integration Etcetera

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6 | The Holy Grail of Content Management

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5 | CSS for Backend Devs (OOCSS)

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4 | To Docblock or Not to Docblock

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3 | Making Your SDK Play Nice

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2 | Rapid Application Development

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1 | Tabs vs. Spaces