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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.

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.

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 21:05 Day to day as a staff engineer 22:30 Resources for learning to be a staff engineer 23:50 Jr vs...

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 upcoming book on the Linux Command line for developers: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Developers-...

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.

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 Dave's worst mistake 27:45 Is job-hopping bad? 30:00 How much should you make? 32:25 Intan...

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 cool 26:41 How I learn a new programming language 30:30 Learning Projects

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 told us when we got started in System Administration and Software Development. Timestamps: 0:00 Intr...