Jonathan Cutrell

Developer Tea

Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com

Author

Jonathan Cutrell

Category

Technology

Podcast website

www.developertea.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects 17.08.2020

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover...

The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner 13.08.2020

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover...

Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests 10.08.2020

Find. Cheap. Tests. When you face situation with infinite possibilities, it's important to break those options down into easy to digest components.  How can you better validate your direction as early as possible and cheap?  📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.  🧡 Leave a Review If you'...

The Critical Importance of Labels 05.08.2020

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover...

Using Your Brain Without Thinking 04.08.2020

In today's episode, we're talking about the limits of our brain and mind shifting strategies to solve problems faster.  📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.    🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps...

Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2) 29.07.2020

🎧 Part 1  Interview w/ Aaron Upright Part 1  🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from...

Interview w/ Aaron Upright 28.07.2020

🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.  🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you....

Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible? 22.07.2020

Can you operate under a different circumstance and best practice when your job changes? Where can you be flexible in your career and where are the exceptions? 📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.    🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over t...

Future Focused Feedback 20.07.2020

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: th...

Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions 17.07.2020

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the discomfort of silence and stillness, and how to face the quiet part of ourselves.  Can you stay still without any distractions today for 1 minute and just listen to your own thoughts?  📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.    🧡...

Small Problems and Principled Engineering 14.07.2020

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th,  in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: th...

The Stories Your Code Tells 08.07.2020

What does your code explain both in the code and outside of it?  In today's episode, we're talking about the reason for making  the coding decisions that we choose to make.    📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.    🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the co...

Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies 06.07.2020

In code we are trying to construct, but we often leave out the consumers, machines and co-workers who are using the code we're writing.   How can we think in terms of human realities in our code?  🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your...

Your Present is Soon Your Past 01.07.2020

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the concept of time. We'll linger on the idea that moments have a timeline: future, present, and past.  How do our moment timelines help us become better developers and coworkers?    🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology f...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity 29.06.2020

Just like many of the other distortions that our brains trick us into believing, the idea that we have two selves, good and bad, hides away our complex ego.  In today's episode, we're talking about ego and how to get outside of our self-perception when we make a mistake in order to grow and learn.  📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have...

Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher 26.06.2020

In today's episode, we're talking about an environment of learning that you can create on your own.  How can we create an environment that puts us in a state of discomfort in order to keep us growing?   🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to tak...

Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements 25.06.2020

If you think about most achievements awarded, they are handed out over a period of time when the dues are paid and effort put in.  In today's episode, we're talking about pictures of achievement and taking a moment to reflect on what it means to live a full and satisfying life as a developer.    🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and l...

Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career 22.06.2020

Aside from the fact that we're making a living being engineers, what is it that keeps us coming back into work every day?  At some point in your career, the initial things that brought you into engineering will shift, and when those things change, what is left?  What keeps you going?  Today, we talk about what motivations drive us and how to keep our motivations relevant when the career changes....

Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks 20.06.2020

What do you do when you hit a mental block and don't know how to solve a problem?  Today we'll dig into what we can do about this blocked scenario and how can we better deal with negative emotions that follow.    🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you n...

What Will You Say When You Don't know? 18.06.2020

In today's episode, we're  talking to early engineers and challenging all new engineers to think about how they will handle the pressure of not knowing the answer to a question asked by a co-worker.    🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https...

Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge 15.06.2020

In this short episode, we're digging into the relationship between our belief and knowledge and how we form our beliefs based on knowledge.    🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your hands on the hottest #JavaScript tech? Reserve a spot at #JSNationLive happening on June 18-19 , and see speakers / instructors like Tobias Koppers (Webpack), Orta Therox (TypeScript), Minko Gechev (Angular), Matteo Collina (...

Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers? 12.06.2020

In today's episode, we dive into Saul's question by recounting past experience and providing tools to approach this situation at a human level and from your employers expectation.    📮 Ask a Question  If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop a message over at: developertea.com.    🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether yo...

How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions 10.06.2020

In today's episode we're talking about problems and how we involve questions into our day-to-day tasks as developers.  We'll cover question framing techniques and practices to boost collaboration with your co-workers on problem solving. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start sho...

4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers 08.06.2020

  As someone who was a self-taught developer, I have an affinity for people eager to become a developer.  In today's episode, we'll offer four different pain points that you're likely to experience in your career and give tips on how to use those moments to continue your growth and develop your skills.    🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only take...

What Does It Take To Change Your Mind? 03.06.2020

Changing our minds on a belief or issue that we stand by is not easy and as humans but is required of us to grow as people and as professionals. In this episode of Developer Tea, we're walking through three different visualizations to help us better understand and become more comfortable with when and why we decide to change our minds. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up yo...

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