Hello friends. We have reached the end of the podcast. At least 100 times Ed and I got together to talk about our thoughts, mostly about technical things, sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was serious. But people change and decide to put their energies into other activities. It is neither good nor bad, it is just how people grow and evolve. If E…

Ed: “Who do you think was our best guest over the years?”Chris (without hesitating): “Paul Reinheimer” Friend-of-the-podcast Paul Reinheimer has know Ed and Chris for many years and has shared many wonderful stories about himself and his side-gig-turned-primary-gig WonderNetwork both in person and on previous episodes. Who else could tell us about …

This was recorded way too long ago. We even lost the episode notes that had been so carefully curated. What do you want from us?!? BLINK TWICE IF YOU WANT MORE EPISODES. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Check out Ed’s musical project Dead Ag…

As we slouch along towards episode 100, we do something we normally don’t do and have a guest on to try and sell a book they’ve written. This time out we spoke with Dane Hillard, who is in the process of finishing a book about Python programming for folks who are new to programming. Dane shared his experiences writing the book and why he feels ther…

Ed and Chris started talking to each other again over a series of tubes,with the end result being another episode of the podcast. This time around we discussed some weirdness we had been noticing withour episode announcement mailing list, TIOBE and popularity contests,building things for our hobbies, and the never-ending street fight ofcomplexity v…

It did, in fact, take longer than six months. This was recorded on June 20, 2018. Still here. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3)By Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler

It’s been a while since our last episode, but this time Chris and Ed go together in the same room down in Pawnee, Indiana to record an episode. Between Ed making faces at Chris while recording and Chris' totally messing up who wrote the testing blog post he went on and on, it was clear /dev/hell is not in the groove. In this episode Ed talks about …

Chris has finally moved his vast grumpy empire to it’s newlocation, so it was time to record an episode and get theirhands on that sweet, sweet Patreon money. In this scintillating episode we talk about deliberatechange in your life to achieve a new set of goals, along withupcoming conference appearances. Chris also reveals a darksecret about his n…

“…and that’s why this podcast is rated M for mature” Chris and Ed talk about their thoughts on what might have to change once youbecome “internet famous” and a reminder that even if you have made mistakesin the past, you can choose to correct them in the future. We also include a new segment called “What toys did we buy?” to reflect howthe hosts nu…

Chris and Ed do an extremely rare daytime recording of the show on the American Memorial Day holiday. But why is a Canadian not working on an American Holiday? You’ll have to tune in to find out why along with some thoughts on mentoring and why the current crop of browser-centric testing tools are completely shit. Thanks to Ben Ramsey for his poetr…

Chris and Ed talk about Ed’s new laptop and his decision to transition todo OSMI full-time. They also talked about their new Patreon that’s helpingthem find sponsors for the podcast. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Note…

Chris and Ed decided to push themselves out of their comfort zone and talked to Laravel community superstar Matt Stauffer. We talked about Matt’s experience writing a book for a major publish (with an animal on the cover and everything), asked the question “does consistency in code matter for OSS projects” and Chris sadly muted his mic while Matt a…

A short-ish episode this time out where our Dynamic Duo went guestless andtalked about their recent conference experiences in Salt Lake City, Antwerp,and Miami. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes …

This time out we asked our listeners to submit some questions because we aretired of winning so much and wanted to let others get in on it. Along theway Ed talked about a recent computer-related purchase he made on eBay whileChris talked about one the earliest science fiction short stories he canremember while feeling incredibly old at the same tim…

YOUR 2016 PHP PODCAST OF THE YEAR from simpleprogrammer.com Welcome to the very first episode of 2017! We’re back after a nice break for the holidays and ready to get back to being insightful and unfiltered. In this episode we talked about the concept of “programming as craft” with Chris and Ed having a great discussion about what should follow aft…

Welcome to our end-of-year episode! It has been probably the most gratifyingyear in a long time for both Chris and Ed. Chris' work at Mozilla has reallychanged his perspective on the value of the open web and his future. Edfinally got the chance to sink his teeth into a true leadership role atGraphStory and with a lot of help OSMI became a non-prof…

Chris and Ed record a very quick show to talk about Ed’s latest conferenceadventure, the launch of some new stuff from OSMI, and Chris talks aboutfeedback loops, hoodies that don’t fit, and the end of TrueNorthPHP. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here R…

Pacific Northwest PHP co-organizer Tess Mero joins Ed and Chris to discuss her work organizing one of the newer regional conferences, Joomla, and what the hell does Cisco have to offer PHP developers. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTun…

In this scintillating episode Chris and Ed shift gears and talk about their ownexperiences working “in the open”. Chris is very fortunate that everything hedoes at Mozilla gets open-sourced while Ed talks about his experiences backwhen he was running Spaz. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at dev…

This time around Chris and Ed attempt to shame you with their D-lister activities and ability to purchase things they want but don’t need. We cover PyOhio, the long-anticipated php|cruise, and some useful gadgets they’ve incorporated into their work flows. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at dev…

This episode, Chris remembers his feline companion and Office Manager who passed away recently. Then we get into an insanely long discussion of travel tips and horror stories. Do these things! If you liked the Office Manager, please donate to http://omhs.ca/ Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop …

This time out we spoke with Noelle Daley who shared her experiences at New Relic moving developer relations to being a developer via a programming bootcamp. We also discussed Ed’s latest round of work promoting OSMI and Noelle’s talk she gave at OSBridge in Portland. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stic…

It’s rare that we have some folks who work for the same employer back-to-backon the show, but this time out we spoke with Jessica Rose. Jessica is Tracy Osborne’s boss (Tracy was on the show inEpisode 77) and talked about her own experiences creating a different kind ofdeveloper relations team at Dream Factory. Along the way we found out how much b…

On the 77th episode of you favourite comedy podcast about technology andaging programmers, Chris and Ed spoke with Tracy Osborn about her new jobin developer relations, living the sweet rent-free life in the Bay Areaand how she is making the smart move of relocating with her Kanuckistanianhusband to Toronto. Do these things! Check out our sponsors …

Photo by Sira Sara - CC BY 2.0 Chris and Ed sit down to talk about their recent travels to conference bothnear and far and to also discuss what tools and languages they have been usingat their day jobs. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code devhell Buy s…

We’re three-quarters of the way through to The End! In this episode it was just Ed and Chris talking about two issues that are very important to them. We go over the early results from Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness survey and then have a very long discussion about the events surrounding LambdaConf 2016. Do these things! Check out our sponsors B…

Photo by Kittenlive - CC BY-SA 3.0 In this episode we were extremely lucky to get Kenneth Reitzon the show to discuss his experiences when he had a mental health event thatresulted in a stay in the hospital and some major life changes as a result. Normally we’re a comedy podcast that focusses on technology, but issuessurrounding mental health are v…

This time out we had PHP community icon Cal “Doesn’t Follow Chris On Twitter”Evans on to discuss the traveling minstrel show known as NomadPHP, the awesomeness of Day Camp 4 Developers, his thoughts on how Mailchimp handled The Mandrill Issue, and helped trigger Chris in to an epic rant. Chris also hopes that Cal has not noticed he hadn’t finished …

Jason Myers came on the show to talk about his experiences running not one butTWO conferences in the Nashville, Tennessee area, along with how he ended upwriting a book about a popular Python database abstraction tool, and why heprefers the hermetic lifestyle. Along the way Chris and Jason also managed tobeat a dead horse for a few minutes. Special…

We really do appreciate our sponsors so when we get a chance to thank them in a way other than our awesome ad reads, we do it! On this episode you get twice the guest because we invited two of the three folks behind WonderNetworks to join us. Paul Reinheimer and Gemma Anible came on (and even did video via Skype so they could tell when we were gett…

Welcome to a new year and hopefully a more frequent podcasting schedule ofrecording on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. Can your favouriteold-but-lazy duo maintain such a punishing pace? During the discussions for topics for this episode, Chris went to the bathroomfor some quiet time. When he came back Ed had asked dedicatedgrumpy-Canadian h…

After some airing of grievances and snarky emails, we managed to get our long-time personal friend Elizabeth Naramore to come on the show and talk abouthow she was scared for her life the first time she ever met Chris. We also got to continue to show how immature the three of us are with our constantgiggling and inappropriate comments due to the in…

In a great feat of strength we were lucky enough to have future Digital Prophet Samantha Quinones join us totalk about how she got involved with the PHP community and what it’s like towork for a company who’s office is constructed out of old CD’s. Along the way we talked about ways to discuss AOL with your millenial, her closepersonal relationship …

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP.In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that …

Show Notes & Links Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netfl…

In this interview with Justin Searls, Co-Founder at development agency Test Double, we discuss issues in open source software and what we can do about them. Justin raises problems for both consumers and contributors - like managing hundreds of dependencies to security issues and burnt-out maintainers. We dive into the efforts being made to address …

In this interview with Ed Finkler, Lead Developer and Head of Developer Culture at Graph Story, we discuss soft skills that are important for developers. We dive into how things like humility and empathy impact your effectiveness as a developer, as well as ways to ensure you're always learning and how you can give back to the community.…

Super special guest Gary Hockin of JetBrains, and previously dog wrangler at Roave, joins us for much fun discussion and blame-taking. We babble about Slack vs IRC, the dev evangelism life, software subscription models, and video games. Also we make the say command in OS X utter profane phrases. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and Wo…

In this interview with Yitzchok Willroth, aka CodeRabbi, we discuss how he has applied Talmudic Maxims to improve Software Engineering practices at Grovo. We cover how in teaching others we can develop ourselves, the benefits of pair programming, how you can get product and engineering teams to work closely together and important metrics to focus e…

Show Notes & Links Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after b…

Episode 66 was recorded live right after the inaugural Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. We make fun of our sponsors, talk about smelly tests, Thomas Aquinas, remote pairing with juniors, and new stuff happening with OSMI. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Ra…

In this interview with Coraline Ada Ehmke, Lead Software Engineer at Instructure, we discuss data-driven refactoring and developer happiness teams. Coraline gives some great advice on the kinds of tests we should write for refactoring, tools to use and metrics to monitor, to make sure our refactoring is effective. We also learn about the role of re…

In this interview with Oren Ellenbogen, author of 'Leading Snowflakes', we discuss development team leadership. We dive into the things great engineering managers focus on, how to 'code review' management decisions, keep code quality high and developers happy, as well as work well with other teams.By Fog Creek

Episode 65: slow roasted for sweet mesquite flavor! Derick Bailey of WatchMeCode fame joins us for an awesome discussion of the trials and tribulations of developer entrepreneurship. Derick talks about why Signal Leaf is going away, and we swap terrifying PayPal stories. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers …

Show Notes & Links Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go & Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics. Highlights [00:00:…

We recorded this ep with special guest Joe Ferguson about a month ago, but all sorts of family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 63 (which we just released last week). On this episode we talk canine gold farming, bald eagles and beavers, how Joe secretly controls NomadPHP MC, NomadJS, and MemphisPHP, whether you’re supposed to drink Mag…

So we recorded this nearly two months ago, but some family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 64 (coming very soon). On this episode we talk about large developers, cars, Ed learning Java against his will, and Chris re-learning how to teach people. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.i…

Show Notes & Links Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came …

Show Notes & Links Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust. Highlights [00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik to the show [00:04:30] Learning C at age 12-ish [00:13:03] Dropped out of college and joined a startup [00:41…

phptek 2015 featured an awesome live recording of Development Hell in front of a rowdy audience. Our special guest Yitzchok Willroth, aka coderabbi, drops Talmudic knowledge on us, and we have great discussions about “hard” and “soft” talks, tech vs personal skills, and had a great Q&A session with the audience. Note that the audio quality isn’t qu…