Best Nadia Eghbal Podcasts (2024)

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Jessica Wilkins - Using Open Source to Create Connections 48:57

8M ago48:57

48:57

Join hosts Bekah and Dan as they engage in a captivating conversation with Jessica Wilkins, a prominent figure from freeCodeCamp. In this episode, Jessica shares her invaluable insights on nurturing and developing relationships within the open source community. Delve into the nuances of effective collaboration with maintainers, understand the signi…

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Open Source Licenses with Matt McInnis, Tom Cudd, and Ray Deck 49:18

9M ago49:18

49:18

Join hosts Bekah and Dan with guests Matt McInnis, Ray Deck, and Tom Cudd, as they chat about the complicated topic of open source software (OSS) licenses. They share insights into how to choose the appropriate license, how to understand licenses on other projects, and general guidelines for maintainers and contributors. Links: ChooseALicense.com b…

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OSS Book Review: Nadia Eghbal's Working in Public - The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software 44:48

10M ago44:48

44:48

Join hosts Bekah and Dan in this episode with Nadia Eghbal's "Working in Public" enthusiasts Jessica Wilkins and Brian Meeker. We discuss the nuances of open source collaboration highlighted in the book, the challenges and rewards of being both a contributor and a maintainer, and the profound impact of individual contributions in the open source co…

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Ayu & Dominic - Hacktoberfest is Coming, Preptember is Here! 39:10

10M ago39:10

39:10

Join hosts Bekah and Dan in this episode with monthly challenge Preptember leads, Dominic and Ayu. We talk about the importance of preparing both as a contributor and a maintainer, some of the challenges you might face as someone new to those roles during Hacktoberfest, and some of the benefits you'll receive by participating in open source. Links …

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Rafi - Exploring Side Projects and AI 45:32

11M ago45:32

45:32

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Taiwo Yusuf - The Importance of Having a Learning Mindset 47:26

12M ago47:26

47:26

Sponsor: LevelUP Financial Planning We're grateful to be sponsored by LevelUP Financial planning, who understands the importance of finding balance between having an awesome life today, and being confident and excited about your future possibilities. If you want to take your financial confidence to the next level, check out levelupfinancialplanning…

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Josh Goldberg - The Life of a Full Time Open Source Developer 51:33

12M ago51:33

51:33

Sponsor: LevelUP Financial Planning We're grateful to be sponsored by LevelUP Financial planning, who understands the importance of finding balance between having an awesome life today, and being confident and excited about your future possibilities. If you want to take your financial confidence to the next level, check out levelupfinancialplanning…

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From Maritime Engineer to Self-Taught Front-End Developer 44:29

12M ago44:29

44:29

Join Bekah and Dan in this week's episode, where they dive into the transformative journey of Reda, a self-taught developer. Hear about the unique challenges and victories Reda faced as he navigated the journey to becoming a front-end developer. Gain valuable advice on the ideal timing for job applications, as Reda shares advice he heard along his …

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Caitlin Floyd - Mentorship 49:55

1y ago49:55

49:55

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Caitlin Floyd, a front-end developer, to chat about the concept of collective learning and explore new possibilities in the evolving landscape of tech mentorship. Discover firsthand how Caitlin's experiences highlight the power of collaboration, breaking down silos, and leveraging collective knowledge to drive …

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Carmen - Tech Industry Friendships: Leveraging Connections for Growth, Challenges, and Opportunities and DevOps! 48:31

1y ago48:31

48:31

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Carmen Kohole, a DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, to chat about the benefits of collaboration and the valuable opportunities you can gain just by asking for help. We also discussed the benefits of fostering strong relationships in the tech industry, and what it means to be a DevOps engineer. About Car…

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Alex Curtis-Slep - Enriching Your Life as a Developer 51:15

1y ago51:15

51:15

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Alex Curtis-Slep, long time member and volunteer and self-taught developer, about documenting the small wins, falling in love with the process, and aligning your goals to maintain a healthy life while job searching and during your tech career. About Alex Alex Curtis-Slep is a self taught software developer. Aft…

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VC Maintainers - Importance of Culture Citizenship 58:12

1y ago58:12

58:12

We're starting the new season with a conversation with our maintainers, including our new maintainer, Julia Seidman! We share our thought process for adding a maintainer and walk through our culture citizenship statement to share how we intend to create a positive community. About Julia Julia Seidman is a developer education consultant based in the…

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Season Seven Finale - Live with Nick Taylor 1:06:55

1+ y ago1:06:55

1:06:55

Join Bekah, Dan, and Special Guest Nick Taylor for a live-streamed episode of the Season Seven Finale! Watch the video replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wj-zlORvm8 Sponsor Virtual Coffee! Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community. Please visit our sp…

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Ramón Huidobro - Thoughtful Learning 54:51

1+ y ago54:51

54:51

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Ramón Huidobro, a developer advocate and DevEd enthusiast, and chatted about the process of learning and growing and how asking questions and knowing what questions to ask is an important part of the tech experience. Check out Ramón's article about reaching out for help! About Ramón Ramón Huidobro is a develope…

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Dominic Duffin - Finding value in challenging ourselves 49:18

1+ y ago49:18

49:18

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Dominic Duffin, a Full-Stack Developer, Co-founder of ArtTechChat Twitter chat, Salon Host at The Interintellect, and Open Source contributor, and chatted about the the value gained in creating a learning environment wherever you go and the importance of participating in community experiences. Links: Pass the P…

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Arthur Doler - The Human Side of Tech 54:04

1+ y ago54:04

54:04

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Arthur Doler, a Software Engineer and Community and Culture Steward, and chatted about the human side of tech, the importance of recognizing our emotions, communication styles, and the dynamics of the environments we're working in. Links: Daniel Pink's Drive Arthur's talk: You're Not Just Tired: The Psychology …

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Rebecca Key - From PhD to Frontend 48:43

1+ y ago48:43

48:43

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Rebecca Key, a PhD in Organic Chemistry and now Software Engineer, and chatted about her career journey, Ham radios, being left-handed, taking notes, and the importance of consistency. About Rebecca Rebecca Key is a Software Engineer based out of Atlanta, GA. She is a first-generation college graduate that went…

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Aishwarya Mali - A Journey into Open Source 45:11

1+ y ago45:11

45:11

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Aishwarya, front-end developer from India, about her first open source contributions and how her perspective on open source changed after her fourth (of ten!) Pull Request during Hacktoberfest. One word to describe you - Dedicated One word to describe your developer journey - Evolving Me Before You by Jojo Moye…

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Kai Katschthaler - Technical Writing & Neurodiverse Learning 51:46

1+ y ago51:46

51:46

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Kai Katschthaler, a technical writer and content creator, about their creation process, finding learning approaches that work for them, and mentoring others. Links: Kai's appearance on the Coming Out Pod Kinesthetic Learning Freecodecamp Codecademy Flatironschool Exercism Kai Katschthaler Kai is a tech content …

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Joe Karow - Career Transitions and the ADHD Experience 51:25

1+ y ago51:25

51:25

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Joe Karow, the Lead Engineer at a nonprofit, about his career change from the hospitality industry, his experience with the online bootcamp, 100devs, and about the ADHD experience. Joe Karow Joe is the Lead Engineer at InReach, a 501(c)3 registered non-profit building world’s first tech platform matching LGBTQ+…

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Jörn Bernhardt - Becoming a Founder 1:00:49

1+ y ago1:00:49

1:00:49

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Jörn Bernhardt, a 2x founder in Germany, about his career path, the challenges of being a founder, and the key traits that have led to his success. About Jörn Jörn started developing web-based software in the last century when he was still in school. In 2018, he founded his second company compose.us where they …

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Season Six Finale - Talking Hacktoberfest with Bekah, Dan, and Kirk 1:03:55

1+ y ago1:03:55

1:03:55

It’s the final episode of season six of the podcast and we’re bringing it to you live with Bekah, Dan, and Kirk! We talked a lot about Hacktoberfest with many side-tracks and segues in between. Sponsor Virtual Coffee! Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community. P…

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Shelley McHardy: Junior Dev life 50:54

2y ago50:54

50:54

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Shelley McHardy, a former chemistry teacher turned front end developer at Rightpoint, and talked about the early career developer's journey. She gave insight into what her seven-month interview process looked like, forcing interviewers to interview you, the importance of finding "your people", and being picky i…

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Ryan Kahn - Building Better Teams 52:18

2y ago52:18

52:18

In today's episode, Bekah and Dan talk to Ryan Kahn, a developer experience and productivity consultant from New York City, about his work as a consultant helping companies to build better software teams. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing that teams are made up of individuals who have different needs and approaches. He also breaks down th…

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Everyone is "Protestant" Online (L.M. Sacasas) 50:15

2y ago50:15

50:15

How do we all act as protestants online? L.M. Sacasas joins Henry (4th time!?) to chat about material/digital culture, how we compensate for natural affordances in new digital interfaces, our inability to account for non-measurable losses, texture vs. frictionlessness, lofi, roguelikes, reality tv, ambient data capture, extracting our private life …

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Finding Hope Amid Burnout (Alex Kim) 43:50

2y ago43:50

43:50

Where can hope be found? Alex Kim joins again to open up questions of responsibility, and our place in relation to times of weariness. He speaks out his experiences growing up and also shepherding a local church body as a youth pastor. We speak amidst the burnout on notions of time, the work of Charles Taylor through Andrew Root, work/play, and liv…

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Julia Seidman - Embracing the Careen Over the Career 1:08:47

2y ago1:08:47

1:08:47

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Julia Seidman, a technical marketing consultant and developer in the Seattle area, and talked about her work writing about different technologies, learning by teaching, and embracing the careen over the career. She talks about her career journey from studying anthropology to financial analysis to teaching high …

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Chad Stewart - OSS and #TechisHiring 59:42

2y ago59:42

59:42

In today's episode, Bekah and Dan talk to Chad Stewart, a Software Engineer from Kingston, Jamaica, about his journey into contributing to Open Source projects like Open Sauced and how to find your way to your first contribution. He shares the inspiration behind his #TechIsHiring project, which helps to identify tech jobs and resources, but more im…

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Sadie Jay - Technical Interviews for Bootcamp Grads 52:09

2y ago52:09

52:09

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Sadie a frontend developer for a federal agency, to chat about her experience navigating the interview process and how she found success after giving tech a second shot. She shares tips on how to avoid burnout both during the interview process and while you're working in tech. Links: 18f Skill Crush Leet Code C…

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Digital Communion (Nick Ripatrazone) 52:05

2y ago52:05

52:05

Can our digitally mediated environment be spiritual? Nick Ripatrazone takes us through the lens of the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, focusing on his not well-known Catholic faith. McLuhan himself describes his testimony into the Church as, "I came in on my knees. That is the only way in." We discuss the topics around inter-textuality, the …

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History is Necromancy (David Cayley) 50:48

2y ago50:48

50:48

What is the place of history in our society? Who was Ivan Illich and how might he be a helpful voice, even in his passing? David Cayley shares about his new book, "Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey". It's not really a biography, and as Illich himself would say, "you can't capture me!" We talk about open source, big tech, and enclosure, history w…

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Reality is Personal (Esther Meek) 43:41

2y ago43:41

43:41

What is the nature of reality? Esther Lightcap Meek speaks of reality as interpersonal, saying yes to life, everyday knowing. We discuss hope as a person-ed affair, how life is a sort of scrabbling together of clues, gift economies, covenant epistemology, on commitment, consent, belonging. (Recorded in November 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsourc…

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The Dorean Principle (Conley Owens) 29:02

2y ago29:02

29:02

Why is Christianity so commercialized? Conley shares about The Dorean Principle, his new book which explains this biblical concept of the Gospel being "freely given". We talk about being a colaborer vs. a customer, reciprocity vs. gift, Bible translation, Christian music, copyright and creative commons, and how it all relates to an open source etho…

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50th Episode Special - Live at KCDC 2022 55:16

2y ago55:16

55:16

For the 50th episode of the podcast, Dan and Bekah are live at the Kansas City Developer Conference 2022 answering listener questions and practicing their accents. Check out the video version on YouTube! Listener questions: What time do you go to sleep? (2:19) How does a computer get drunk? (12:42) What's the hardest part of community? (22:20) Ayu …

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Seth Hall - From Film Production to Technical Product Owner: A Career Changer's Story 55:09

2y ago55:09

55:09

In today's episode, Dan and Bekah talk with Seth Hall about the importance of intimate collaboration, advocating for yourself, and transferable skills as part of his job as a Technical Product Owner at Uniform. He shares how his background as a creative producer informs how he guides demo initiatives, creates roadmaps, and collaborates with other d…

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Bogdan Covrig - Navigating Tech Career Paths 56:22

2y ago56:22

56:22

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Bogdan Covrig, a Software Engineer in the Netherlands who's into Typescript, React and Node, about navigating different learning and career paths in tech before landing a job that fulfills his interests to see the changes he's making and provides a dynamic work environment. He also drops his tips on the most im…

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David Alpert - On pairing and providing support 51:53

2y ago51:53

51:53

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with David Alpert, Director of Engineering at Northfield IT, about taking a personalized approach to helping others as they ask coding questions and navigate career paths. David shares the importance of bringing empathy to every situation and gives tips on how to handle challenging situations. Links: Logo (the progr…

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Season 5 Wrap-Up: Working to Empower the Virtual Coffee Community 57:25

2y ago57:25

57:25

In this episode of the podcast, Bekah, Kirk, and Dan discuss the decision to pause new membership and what the maintainers are doing to progress towards opening the community up again. We share what we think makes our community special, how we're working to preserve that, and some of the challenges we're figuring out as we take steps towards reopen…

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Matt McInnis - Go Make Stuff! 1:01:48

2y ago1:01:48

1:01:48

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Matt McInnis a former Math Professor, and current data scientist, full-stack engineer, and founder, about his journey through tech as a self-taught engineer. He shares his insight into building personal projects and creating value in the projects you work on, even if those projects are just for you. Links Malco…

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Meg Gutshall - Building accountability into Community 58:17

2y ago58:17

58:17

In today's episode, Bekah and Dan talk to Meg Gutshall, a Ruby on Rails Developer, and community volunteer at Virtual Coffee. She shared all things Philly and some memorable stories of how she's supported others--including Bekah--in their journeys into tech. Meg talks about her Accountabilibuddies group at Virtual Coffee and how she chose Ruby afte…

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Andrew Bush - Mobile Development and Giving Back to Community 53:54

2y ago53:54

53:54

In today's episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Andrew Bush, a Mobile Engineer Specializing in React Native. One of the updates we've made to our site is to have tags on our members page to indicate what volunteer roles they have. Andrew is one of our Monthly Challenge team leads, and he shared with us his experiences helping to facilitate the challenges…

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Special Kirk Day Bonus Episode (Live) 1:03:40

2y ago1:03:40

1:03:40

A special live episode of the Virtual Coffee Podcast - Bekah and Dan meet for the first time in real life, and get to hang out with Kirk on Kirk Day! Also Dan fires Bekah (for the first time). Watch the stream on YouTube! Sponsor Virtual Coffee! Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the…

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Roger Gentry - Perseverance and Problem Solving 50:19

2y ago50:19

50:19

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Roger Gentry, who has spent a lot of his career managing security and compliance for clients across the United States, about his passion for problem-solving and what to do when you get stuck. We're all going to run into frustrations during our tech journeys, but knowing how to navigate through them is one of th…

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Yolanda Haynes - Breaking into Tech: It Takes Time 54:16

2y ago54:16

54:16

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Yolanda Haynes, a career changer who went from working as a certified occupational therapy assistant to a Software Engineer, about the importance of finding community during your learning journey, and remembering that you shouldn’t judge your journey based on anyone else’s; focus on the learning journey, absorb…

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Helen Griffin - Multi-passionate in tech 59:10

2+ y ago59:10

59:10

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Helen Griffin, a full-stack developer and founder, about how the tech industry changed during the time she was a founder, how what she’s learned as a founder has helped her to have a broader perspective about the tech industry, and what she’s doing with her companies Jovial and State of Developers to support de…

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Amy Shackles - Finding a job you love 56:06

2+ y ago56:06

56:06

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Amy Shackles, a Senior Software Engineer at MURAL, about how she made her way from being a Psychology and Anthropology double major to being a Senior Software Engineer. She shares what’s made her experience at MURAL a great one and the importance of openness in communication. Links amyshackles.com Amy's regular…

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Brian Rinaldi - Developer Advocacy and Fostering Community 50:33

2+ y ago50:33

50:33

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Brian Rinaldi, a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years of experience as a developer for the web, about how Developer Relationships has changed over the years and why need not just remote community experiences but also in-person opportunities. We talk about the value of different types…

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Season 4 Wrap Up - Reviewing the year and celebrating our community 1:00:42

2+ y ago1:00:42

1:00:42

Kirk, Dan, and Bekah are back again to wrap up Season 4 of the podcast. We talk about Hacktoberfest and how proud we are of what our community did over the month of Hacktoberfest: 100 members signed up, 66 members merged at least 1 pr, 336 collectively we merged 336 PRs were merged by these members across 129 repos. On the virtualcoffee.io site: 81…

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Maeling Murphy - Transitioning to tech, and taking notes along the way 52:07

2+ y ago52:07

52:07

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Dr. Maeling Murphy, a software engineer who recently transitioned into tech. Maeling shared the importance of connecting with potential employers to see if they would fit her values, how contributing to open source projects can help prepare you for your first job, and the value of developing the connection to c…

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Jessica Wilkins - Growing your tech career through writing 54:47

2+ y ago54:47

54:47

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Jessica Wilkins, a self-taught developer and a staff author for the freeCodeCamp News publication. Jessica talks about how to get started with tech writing, how to differentiate between constructive criticism and negative feedback, and how to avoid gatekeeping by eliminating assumptions from your writing, avoid…

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