Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer. What makes a good 1:1 (IC perspective)? JP a manager who listens JP clear action items for problems What makes a good 1:1 (Manager perspective)? John When reports are honest about motivations (I want more money, etc) John Clear feedback about my management What makes a bad 1:1? JP when 1:1s just become another medium for standup updates JP when 1:1s become a way for ..read more

Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer. Context: John ran an agency for a couple years with a few developers + Designers, now runs a team of 12(ish) developers + Designers Few Topics IC vs Manager Code on the side only to show things Not coding for production Code outside of your core code Right sizing a team Systems Thinking "Stocks + Flows" (Slack) Mythical Man Month False premise: More heads = faster re ..read more

Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design John has been asked: When I perform a google search, what happens? Be as specific and accurate as possible including every layer of technology. Can you tell me what Indexes are and what they do? What is CORS? Questions JP has been asked: What is the difference between something like SQL and Mongo - what are the trade offs? How does the JS bridge work in React Native? Describe what Redux is for and how you'd implement it in a React project Maybe some from our own? If you could add one feature or change to the Rails ..read more

NOTE THIS IS A RE-UPLOAD AS THERE WAS ISSUES WITH OUR PREVIOUS UPLOAD    > Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design.   * John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. * JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer.   # Questions   * What is your testing philosophy? * Why work on that team specifically? Why are you interested in this job? * What kind of problems he like's to work on? * What are some challenges with maintaining a public api? * If I was your manager, what can I do t ..read more

Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. https://www.planview.com/resources/guide/introduction-to-kanban/kanban-vs-scrum/ AGILE!!! SCRUM!!! KANBAN!!! Different Tools Jira Trello John Asana John Github (issues + projects) John Zenhub John Pivotal Tracker Notion John Special mention: Canny.io → https://main-street.canny.io/admin New Blood Linear App: https://linear.app/ Height App: https://height.app/ (private beta) Monday? I always see ads for this on youtube: https://monday.com/ BASECAMP Picks JP: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.ht ..read more

E-commerce Episode John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer. What is e-commerce? Build vs. Buy (roll your own vs. e-commerce software) Nitty-Gritty How to model purchases Model Payments How to test payments Gotchas when building e-commerce Discounts Sales Coupons Refunds Inventory vs digital goods Headless vs “full stack” Stacks / Services Inventory and More (full stack) Shopify BigCommerce Magneto Solid ..read more

Approaches to Building Apps Severless (Lambda functions) PWA (progressive web apps) Headless (Ecom / cms) Contentful Shopify Tech Trending Upwards E-commerce (up 37% from last year) Artificial Intelligence (AWS sagemaker, GPT-3) Voice search 66million smart speakers - 1/3 27% of mobile searches are voice based AMP'd Apps will continue to ruin the internet Chatbots JP: I personally hate these things. Just get me to a customer service rep ASAP Picks JP: https://baratza.com/grinder/encore/ John: A conversation with GPT-3 ..read more

John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup Our 2020 Goals Episode → Link ✅ 2020 Developer Goals 2020 Review JP Goal 1 (JP): Build Elixir App: (C+) I did build a really quick proof of concept Rust API that spits out some JSON I also followed a tutorial for a full stack Golang app Goal 2 (JP): System Design (F) Did not read the books that I wanted to read Goal 3 (JP): Algorit ..read more

John: Welcome to Iteration, a podcast about programming, development, and design. John Intro — My name is John and I am a software developer for a home services startup. JP Intro — Hi, I'm JP and I am a software developer at a small analytics startup https://macwright.com/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html Topics / Guiding Questions What's a SPA? From the article The main UI is built & updated in JavaScript using React or something similar. The backend is an API that that application makes requests against. The more techincal one: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/SPA ..read more

In this episode we dive deep on tech stack choices, why they matter, how to choose one, when tech stack doesn't matter and when it makes all the difference in the world ..read more