Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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583: Solid Queue with Rosa Gutierrez from 37Signals
July 17th, 2025 | Season 15 | 41 mins 37 secs
Sami goes behind the scenes of Ruby on Rails with Rosa Gutierrez, principle programer at 37Signals, to discover what its like to work on one of the most widely used frameworks out there.
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582: Product market fit is the hardest thing with Jon Gamble
July 10th, 2025 | Season 15 | 28 mins 18 secs
Chad dives into a different kind of development with Jon Gamble, CTO of Fordje, as they talk all things city code and construction.
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581: Crafting Community & Code: Henrique Cardoso on Euruko 2025 & BSPK
July 3rd, 2025 | Season 15 | 40 mins 7 secs
Sami talks with Henrique Cardoso about his unified commerce platform BSPK and the challenges of organising a large scale developer conference.
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580: Taking the complexity out of toddler's nutrition with Kay Lim
June 26th, 2025 | Season 15 | 35 mins 6 secs
Will gets to grips with nutrition as he talks with Kay Lim, founder of Heartful Sprout, about the importance of feeding our kids right.
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579: Products you don't want to build with Sami and Chad
June 19th, 2025 | Season 15 | 47 mins 22 secs
Chad and Sami get creative as they discuss the product ideas they would like to develop.
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578: We need to understand how it works with Luisa Herrmann
June 12th, 2025 | Season 15 | 32 mins 46 secs
Chad and Luisa Herrmann, founder of AINovva, sit down and attempt to demystify the “magic” of AI.
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577: Driving Innovation: Jack Burrows on Cars, Tech, and the Future of Carwow
June 5th, 2025 | Season 15 | 40 mins 13 secs
It’s time to start your engines as Sami talks with Jack Burrows, product director at CarWow, about the tricky world of buying and selling cars.
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576: I never get bored with John Nunemaker
May 29th, 2025 | Season 15 | 43 mins 51 secs
Chad catches up with John Nunemaker, self-employed programer on a plethora of products, on all things technical to gain insight into life as a self-employed developer.
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575: I might have to get dressed for these with Chad, Sami and Will
May 22nd, 2025 | Season 15 | 39 mins 30 secs
The Giant Robots hosts are back together for more off the wall discussion about construction, movies and a special announcement!
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574: Developer Life After Design Systems with Kathryn Grayson Nanz
May 15th, 2025 | Season 15 | 36 mins 32 secs
Will talks with Kathryn Grayson Nanz about the influence and power design has when developing new software.
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573: Mocking the Future: Tom Akehurst on WireMock and API Testing
May 8th, 2025 | Season 15 | 39 mins 30 secs
Sami talks with Tom Akehurst, Co-Founder of WireMock, about the delay and disconnect between front and back end development and how WireMock set out to bridge the two together.
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572: Close To Your Customers with Sarah Merlin
May 1st, 2025 | Season 15 | 35 mins 8 secs
Chad talks with Sarah Merlin of IndiMade about what goes into revitalising an e-commerce platform and how they’re staying true to their customers.
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571: Space, Software, and Surprises with Rémy Hannequin
April 24th, 2025 | Season 15 | 43 mins 11 secs
Sami and fellow thoughtboter Rémy look to the stars as they talk all things astronomical.
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570: Rolling for Initiative with Chad, Will and Sami
April 17th, 2025 | Season 15 | 50 mins 10 secs
Chad, Will and Sami discuss life outside of thoughtbot and the hobbies that occupy them in their down time.
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569: Automation is king with Karen King
April 10th, 2025 | Season 15 | 32 mins 40 secs
Chad talks with Karen King, Found of Gold Star Pro, about her drive to help small business owners reach their full potential.
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568: What does Carbon even mean? With Polly and Otto from True
April 3rd, 2025 | Season 15 | 42 mins 38 secs
Sami goes back to school as he asks Otto Terrell and Polly Gupta from True the key questions around the environmental buzz words of 2025.