Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

563 episodes of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots since the first episode, which aired on June 11th, 2012.

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    131: The Human-Computer Interaction Umbrella (Irene Ros)

    January 26th, 2015  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 24 secs

    Chad talks with Irene Ros, data visualization practice lead at Bocoup, about her pursuit of making data visualization function in a social context.

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    130: Counting all the F-Words (Joanne Cheng)

    January 19th, 2015  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 48 secs

    Chad & developer Joanne Cheng break down thoughtbot's statistical year in review!

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    129: The Engineering of Payments (Ian Logan)

    January 13th, 2015  |  Season 3  |  35 mins 34 secs

    Chad talks with Ian Logan, an Engineering Manager at Airbnb, on the challenges, ideology, implementation, and future of their payments system.

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    128: To Attract and Retain (Dan Croak)

    January 4th, 2015  |  Season 3  |  47 mins 44 secs

    Chad talks with thoughtbot CMO Dan Croak about our content marketing strategy, managing the flow of new media, and the origin of our growth team.

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    127: Merging Worlds (Meng To)

    December 22nd, 2014  |  Season 3  |  39 mins 40 secs

    Jeff Smith talks to Meng To, author of Design + Code about the blurring line between developers and designers, learning tools to better communicate, and the difficulties of planing a world-wide workshop tour.

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    126: Log In to Your Space (Zach Dunn)

    December 15th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  47 mins 21 secs

    Chad talks to Zach Dunn, CPO of Robin, about the future of smart spaces, working with family, and when to shift your company's scope.

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    125: Rebooting (Adarsh Pandit)

    December 7th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  43 mins 51 secs

    Chad talks to Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot SF Managing Director & host of the Reboot podcast, about his personal journey which inspired our newest show.

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    124: Maintaining Your Legacy (Scott Ford)

    November 23rd, 2014  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 57 secs

    Chad talks to Scott Ford, founder & COO of Corgibytes, about the business of software remodeling/retrofitting, and finding value and beauty in old code.

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    123: Don't Call It a Codecation (Chris Hunt)

    November 18th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 49 secs

    Ben & Chris Hunt catch up on their latest conference talks, podcasts, and things accomplished on their recent coding retreat.

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    122: Ruby, the Weird Way (Britt Ballard, Caleb Thompson, Richard Schneeman, Terence Lee)

    November 10th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  50 mins 18 secs

    Britt Ballard leads this roundtable discussion on home-growing your own conference and their experiences, from theme and logo selection to scheduling guests and venues, turning Keep Ruby Weird from a dream into a reality.

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    121: Prolificness (Allison House)

    November 2nd, 2014  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 30 secs

    Guest-Ben Chad Pytel talks with Allison House about maintaining personal growth while freelancing, and her approach to harnessing your capacity to learn.

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    120: Open Your World For Commentary (Tom Lehman)

    October 27th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  54 mins 19 secs

    Ben talks with Tom Lehman, creator of Genius, about the power of honesty in corporate culture, and navigating the mores of discussing salary.

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    119: Create Value or Create Technology? (Pete Hunt)

    October 19th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 52 secs

    Ben talks with Pete Hunt, formerly of Facebook & Instagram, on React and what makes this unique JavaScript library tick, as well as shifting from a technical to a business focused mindset.

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    118: Scare Yourself (Dan Martell)

    October 12th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 46 secs

    Ben talks with Dan Martell, CEO and founder of Clarity, about self-actualization in business, how life is affected by those around which one surrounds themselves and the value of staying outside one's comfort zone.

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    117: Designing Quality (Will Sulinski)

    September 21st, 2014  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 27 secs

    Ben talks with Will Sulinski, founder of Pistol Lake, on translating lessons learned from the tech sector into success in the fashion industry.

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    116: A Model Jellyfish (Carl Smith)

    September 14th, 2014  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 51 secs

    Ben talks with nGen Works founder Carl Smith about alternatives to a "flat" structure, remote management & community building.