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Coffee with Developers

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Welcome to Coffee with Developers, an exclusive series hosted by WeAreDevelopers, Europe's leading developer community. Dive into 1-on-1 chats with world-class tech minds, as they share their anecdotes, career highs and lows, and everything in between. Grab a cup of coffee and tune in for insightful conversations that will inspire, educate, and entertain. Subscribe now to never miss a new episode. About WeAreDevelopers WeAreDevelopers is Europe's leading developer community, your go-to spot for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career professional advice to boost your career. Stay in th...

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Build Real Things: Real-World Problems That Blockchain Actually Solves - Marco Podien 08.08.2025 49:04

Marco Podien, Senior Developer Advocate at Algorand Foundation, joined us to discuss the real-world uses for blockchain, why the hype is over and that's a good thing, and some of the exciting uses of blockchain going on around the world that developers need to know about. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your o...

COBOL to Cloud, Legacy Code and AI Copilots - Julia Kordick 06.08.2025 59:26

On this edition of WeAreDevelopers, we're joined by Julia Kordick, Global Black Belt at Microsoft, to discuss how her team has been migrating COBOL to the cloud, legacy codebases and working with AI copilots. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and...

Rendering Design Software in the Browser at Penpot - Elena Torró 01.08.2025 52:22

On this episode of Coffee with Developers we welcome Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot, to discuss the challenges faced by their team of engineers building complex design and development prototype software for the browser and a whole lot more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the...

I'm a Developer Working in Marketing... Here's Why - Tim Cadenbach 30.07.2025 14:54

Tim Cadenbach, Head of Community at DeepL, delivers his lightning talk from the World Congress 2025 all about what it's like to be a developer working in the marketing department, and why developers are so wary of marketing. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights...

Developers vs. Marketing, NLP Uses - Tim Cadenbach 30.07.2025 53:24

On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by Tim Cadenbach, Head of Community at DeepL. Tim's talk was unfortunately rained off at the World Congress (and can be found on our feed or on our website), and discusses why developers are different when it comes to marketing, and the uses of Natural Language Processing. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelo...

What Digital Sovereignty Means for Developers - Julien Blanchez 25.07.2025 50:00

On this episode we welcome Julien Blanchez, Digital Sovereignity Solution Lead at Google to talk about the impact of digital sovereignty on developers and all of the ways that Google Cloud is empowering its users with greater controls over their data. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for th...

AI vs Recruiters and Applicants, Turmoil in the Games Industry, What to Put on a CV - Alla Pavlova 23.07.2025 1:15:27

On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE, we're joined by Anna Pavlova, Recruiter at Riot Games to talk about what it's like to recruit engineers, turmoil in the industry and what to put on your CV. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and caree...

Solving Real-world Problems with Blockchain at the Algorand Foundation - Brian Whippo 18.07.2025 50:54

On this episode of Coffee with Developers we spoke to Head of Developer Relations at the Algorand Foundation, Brian Whippo to talk blockchain after the hype, the problems can be solved by decentralised technology, the future of the sector and much more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for...

Is Software Ever Truly Accessible? - LIVE at the World Congress with GrahamTheDev 17.07.2025 38:58

Recorded live in Berlin at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025, Chris and Dan were joined for this episode by GrahamTheDev, Accessibility Consultant and W3C Invited Expert to discuss whether software can ever really be called accessible, and a lot more a11y-related topics. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your o...

Our World Congress 2025 & CODE100 Highlights with Jack Barber and Marco Podien 17.07.2025 56:52

On our first weekly live stream since the World Congress 2025 we're joined by CODE100 Challenger Jack Barber and Algorand's Senior Developer Relations Advocate, Marco Podien to talk about our highlights from the congress, and how we would tackle the CODE100 puzzles. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your on...

Inside Mercedes-Benz: How CIO Katrin Lehmann is Empowering 5,000 Developers and Driving Digital Change 04.07.2025 41:45

This episode is a unique edition — filmed inside the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart , surrounded by 150 years of automotive history and innovation. From the first-ever automobil to the future of AI-driven engineering, we explore how Mercedes-Benz is bridging its legacy with cutting-edge tech. Katrin Lehmann , CIO of Mercedes-Benz, shares how her team is enabling 5,000+ developers with GitHub Co...

Google Gemma and Open Source AI Models - Clement Farabet 27.06.2025 47:45

We’re back for another episode of Coffee with Developers, and this time we sat down with Clement Farabet, VP of Research at Google DeepMind to take a deep dive into the topics of open source AI models including Google Gemma, and much more. This episode is packed with fascinating tech talk, so without further ado let’s get into it. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers...

Did AI or JS Kill the Web - Peter Cooper 26.06.2025 1:04:23

On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by the curator of JavaScript Weekly (and many others), Peter Cooper, to talk about what killed the web, how AI has changed engineering and lots more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and caree...

Rendering in the Browser, The State of CSS and Accessibility and more - Elena Torró 18.06.2025 1:02:33

On this episode of our weekly LIVE stream, we're joined by Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot. We talk about the challenges of rendering on a browser, the state of CSS, look back at the old web and lots more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorial...

What’s New with Google Gemini? - Logan Kilpatrick 16.06.2025 1:01:02

On this edition of Coffee with Developers, we're joined by Logan Kilpatrick, Group Product Manager at Google DeepMind, to discuss the latest updates to Google Gemini, which tasks it really exceeds at, and how developers can get started with their models today. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop des...

Blockchain After the Hype, Vibing All the Things? and more - Brian Whippo, Algorand 11.06.2025 1:01:43

On this week's live stream we welcomed Brian Whippo, Head of Developer Relations at Algorand - the proof-of-stake blockchain and cryptocurrency - to talk about how there's more to blockchain than hype, what vibe coding means for developers, whether AI is good for documentation and a lot more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community...

Building Open Source Tools for Developers and Designers - Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz 06.06.2025 56:46

On this episode of Coffee with Developers we met with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, CEO of Penpot, web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers to discuss the pain-points between design teams and devs, and how open source software can offer up innovative solutions. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in E...

The Environmental Impact of Software Development - Bjorna Kalaja (CodeCrafts 2025) 05.06.2025 19:14

On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Bjorna Kalaja, Software Engineer at foryouandyourcustomers to talk about sustainability create software in the age of AI, and much more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and car...

Your Code as Crime Scene - Adam Tornhill (CodeCrafts 2025) 05.06.2025 20:40

On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Adam Tornhill, Founder of Code Scene, to talk about how criminal forensics and psychological techniques can be applied to your codebase, and what happens when you view your code like a crime scene. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop...

What the Hack is Web App Sec? - Jackie (CodeCrafts 2025) 05.06.2025 24:23

On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Jackie, open source engineer and coding lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna about what developers can do to make their web applications more secure, what vibe coding means for security and more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is yo...

Performance and AI, Social Media Decline, Developer Events and more 04.06.2025 53:24

On this edition, Chris and Dan talk about the latest news from the world of tech, including what AI means for performance on the web, whether social media is in decline, developer events and lots more. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the latest tech insights, tutorials, and career advi...

Developer Productivity Using AI Tools and Services - Ryan J. Salva 30.05.2025 59:38

On this episode we sit down with Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product for Gemini Code Assist at Google about Developer productivity using AI tools and services. We learn how to get the most out of Gemini and lots more fascinating insights. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destination for the lates...

Moving into DevRel, The Death of Search APIs, Building with Empathy - Dayana Mick 28.05.2025 59:26

On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by Dayana Mick, a wonderful Web Developer and Consultant looking to lean into Developer Relations. We discuss the death of search APIs and the dominance of chat bots, and how having empathy for our users means we make better software. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe!...

EU Startups, How Important is Tech Regulation & Why AI Reverse Image Search is Scary - Matthias Neumayer and Dima Rubanov 28.05.2025 51:17

On this episode we sat down with the co-founders of OscarStories and IntelliPaper.ai to talk about the latest news from the world of tech, what it's like running a startup in the EU, why tech regulation is important and why AI reverse image search is scary. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer community in Europe! This is your one-stop destina...

Should We Respect LLMs? What's the Fuss Around Rust? - Francesco Ciulla 14.05.2025 1:06:52

On this week's live stream we were joined by Francesco Ciulla - Developer Advocate at daily.dev and speaker at this years' WeAreDevelopers World Congress - to talk about why vibe coding isn't all bad, why developers seem to love Rust, and tips for Developers looking to do more public speaking. ---------------------------------------- Welcome to WeAreDevelopers , the #1 developer com...