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“By the time I joined, people were already starting to have this microservice fatigue.” Continue reading… The post OpenGov with Andrew Clark appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“This is a group of people who largely have been told their entire life that they’re failures - we’re going in and we’re saying ‘Hey this is just about the most complex thing that humanity has ever done, why don’t you give it a try?’ ” Continue reading… The post Teaching Inmates to Code with Wes Bailey appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“When we say a ‘21st century government’, what we're seeing is that people are using their smartphones, they’re online, and we have the potential to actually deliver better services to our people at dramatically lower costs.” Continue reading… The post Digital Transformation of Government with Sarah Allen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“The BitTorrent DHT is an amazing engineering feat and one of the coolest ideas in computer science, I think, because it works without any central coordination.” Continue reading… The post WebTorrent with Feross Aboukhadijeh appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“We saw a really great opportunity to build a food company that takes technology seriously from the ground up, and have that be our competitive advantage as we grow and scale.” Continue reading… The post Soylent Engineering with John Coogan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of what you want to do, and that feeds back into better practice.” Continue reading… The post Language Design with Brian Kernighan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. This episode is republished from The Quoracast. Questions: What will the world look like in 5 years? What are the biggest problems associated with rapid spread and development of the Internet? Does blockchain technology present The post Internet Future with Vint Cerf...

“It’s a classic case where you have to be contrarian. It seems like the worst idea in the world to start a cloud hosting business. We didn’t know any better.” Moisey Uretsky is the cofounder of Digital Ocean, a leading cloud hosting provider based in New York. “It’s the usual immigrant story. My parents moved The post Founding Digital Ocean with Moisey Uretsky appeared first on Software Engineerin...

“The main motivation for me was to gain more perspective on the world and my place in it.” Michael Rosenthal is a traveling programmer who gave up school and full-time job prospects in the U.S. to travel and freelance. This episode is a Christmas special because Michael is my younger brother, and his journey as The post Digital Nomadism with Michael Rosenthal appeared first on Software...

“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.” Continue reading… The post Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Software engineering projects don’t fail because of a lack of technical ability, they fail because of a lack of communication.” Continue reading… The post Teaching Kids to Code with Rebecca Garcia appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“I would say that the vast majority of people see programming more as a science. But to get the best work out of yourself, you have to be thinking from an artistic perspective. So it makes sense to make your north star, as an engineer, some sort of artistic goal.” Continue reading… The post GeekWire Podcast with Software Engineering Daily appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of stratification is good for your job and for your employers, but it's not necessarily good for you as an individual trying to grow in the field of software.” Continue reading… The post Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan appeared first on Software Engineering...

“We are at this moment where states and corporations are trying to restrict so much of what we can do on the internet because we have centralized the internet.” Popcorn Time was a free, open-source application that allowed for streaming of movie and television show torrents. Continue reading… The post Popcorn Time with Niv Sardi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? And so we decided, lets make a game so that the engagement is there from the first moment.” Continue reading… The post CodeCombat with Nick Winter appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"There was a need to create a space where mothers felt welcome, because our challenges - they're very different from people who are learning who don't have these types of caregiving responsibilities." Continue reading… The post MotherCoders with Tina Lee appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"Anyone who is really concerned about correctness should think twice about programming in a kind of free-thread model where everyone has to be very disciplined and put all the locks in the right place to make things work well." Continue reading… The post Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.” Continue reading… The post Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Turing School of Software and Design is a seven-month program that teaches software development in Denver. Steve Kinney is the co-director of academics at Turing School of Software and Design. Continue reading… The post Turing School with Steve Kinney appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“The official motto that we have in our help manual is ‘Losing is fun!’ ” Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer game set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, and attempts to construct a successful underground fortress. Continue reading… The post Dwarf Fortress with Tarn Adams appeared first on Software E...

Designing software and toolkits with accessibility in mind is important to ensure that everyone has equal access to the internet. Léonie Watson is an accessibility engineer and a director at the British Computer Association of the Blind. Continue reading… The post Accessibility Engineering with Léonie Watson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Creativity never comes to you – she will only meet you halfway.” Derek Sivers is a programmer, musician, and writer. He has created several companies and products, including CD Baby, which became the largest seller of independent music online. Continue reading… The post Creativity and Engineering with Derek Sivers appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Everything has changed around our lives -- the way we connect with each other, the way we communicate, the way we work, even the way we fall in love – except the way we govern ourselves, as a society.” DemocracyOS is an open-source application for online decision making. Continue reading… The post Responsive Government with Santiago Siri appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

"If you focus on improving the developer experience, it will naturally translate into good documentation." ReadMe is simplifying the process of writing documentation. The platform provides a readymade developer hub with the ability to integrate API endpoints into documentation. Continue reading… The post Rethinking Documentation with Greg Koberger appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Robots sometimes need help from humans when solving complex problems. Successfully solving a problem often demands a strong model for communication and well-trained robots. Stefanie Tellex is an assistant professor at Brown University whose research focuses on constructing robots that use natural language to communicate with humans. Continue reading… The post Robot-Human Interaction with Stefanie...