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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107: The Best Secrets Kept (Sara Haider)
July 13th, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 58 secs
Ben talks to Sarah Haider, Android lead at Secret, about anonymity in social media, her work with Girls Who Code and Android Development.
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106: Sprinting Thru Design (Alex Baldwin & Galen Frechette)
July 6th, 2014 | Season 3 | 28 mins 10 secs
Ben is joined by fellow thoughtbotters Alex & Galen to break down their product design sprint workflow.
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105: Use Your Info-magination (Marc-André Cournoyer)
June 29th, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 32 secs
Ben welcomes Marc-André Cournoyer of Coded Inc. to discuss self-marketing and sustaining info-product platforms.
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104: Maintaining The Meat Machines (Adam Wiggins)
June 22nd, 2014 | Season 3 | 40 mins 30 secs
On this weeks Giant Robots Ben welcomes Adam Wiggins, Heroku co-founder and former CTO, to join as more of a guest host than guest. They discuss team size/structure, project scalability, the benefits of working abroad & self-maintenance best practices.
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103: Consulting the Consultants (Adam Wathan, Chris Keithlin)
June 15th, 2014 | Season 3 | 36 mins 30 secs
Giant Robots welcome Adam & Chris of Vehikl who inquire about project selection / scheduling, portfolio building & customer-facing.
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102: Put It Out To The World (Peter Cooper)
June 8th, 2014 | Season 3 | 28 mins 21 secs
Ben sits down with Peter Cooper, of Cooper Press, on his evolution from blogger to published author and publisher.
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101: Developing Skills (Alex Fox, Jatin Bhandari)
June 1st, 2014 | Season 3 | 38 mins 48 secs
Ben is joined by Alex & Jatin, recent graduates of the first thoughtbot / Metis Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, to talk about the process, experience and feedback on their path to becoming junior developers.
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100: Adequately Industrious (Aaron Patterson)
May 25th, 2014 | Season 2 | 45 mins 31 secs
On our special 100th episode Aaron Patterson joins Ben from RailsConf to talk AdequateRecord, frustrations in software, bulk meat discounts, the finer nuances of cat-naming and the importance of scientific thinking in web development.
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99: You Are Not Alone (Greg Baugues)
May 18th, 2014 | Season 2 | 19 mins 30 secs
From RailsConf, Ben & Greg Baugues of Twilio discuss how mental illness affects the development community and the importance of, as well as resources to, proper treatment.
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98: Memorization Techniques (Chris Hunt)
May 11th, 2014 | Season 2 | 19 mins 51 secs
From RailsConf, Ben talks to Chris Hunt of Github about techniques for enhancing spacial memory, competitive personalities, the coffee infamy of the Pacific Northwest and Clojure testing.
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97: Railing Against Rails (Ernie Miller)
May 4th, 2014 | Season 2 | 25 mins 38 secs
Live from RailsConf Ben & Ernie Miller explore his "Curmudgeon" talk, modules and the importance of nuance.
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96: Business is Hard (Jeff Casimir)
April 27th, 2014 | Season 2 | 35 mins 12 secs
Live from RailsConf, Ben talks to Executive Director of The Turing School Jeff Casimir on Conf-stress, the lack of jobs in open source and the challenges of learning to run a business.
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95: Making Time (Chas Emerick)
April 20th, 2014 | Season 2 | 41 mins 55 secs
This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management.
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94: The Nature of Writing (Diana Zmuda, Jessie Young)
April 13th, 2014 | Season 2 | 36 mins 24 secs
Ben is joined by Diana & Jessie of thoughtbot San Francisco to discuss their latest book, iOS on Rails, the concept of releasing a book in Beta and the importance of apprenticeships to emerging junior developers.
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93: Diversity of Approach (David Nolen)
April 6th, 2014 | Season 2 | 41 mins 38 secs
On this weeks show Ben talks to David Nolen, Rails & JavaScript developer for the NY Times, about being a steward of ClojureScript, functional programming, the advantages of immutable values and Om.
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92: Program to the Machine You Have (Ryan Hoover)
March 30th, 2014 | Season 2 | 32 mins 32 secs
Ben and Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt, talk revenue models, the value of blogging, diversification of skills, and tiny steps towards major change.