Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

About the show

A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot's Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.

Episodes

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    73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)

    November 3rd, 2013  |  Season 2  |  33 mins 3 secs

    Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim.

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    72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)

    October 27th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 39 secs

    This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.

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    71: The Power of the Truth

    October 20th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  39 mins 53 secs

    Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions.

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    70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly

    October 13th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 17 secs

    Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent.

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    69: Geocoding in the Now

    October 6th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  14 mins 50 secs

    Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails.

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    68: Simplicity and Elegance

    September 29th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 10 secs

    Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus.

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    67: The Data Optimist

    September 22nd, 2013  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 41 secs

    Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers.

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    66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

    September 15th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 18 secs

    Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats.

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    65: No! Videos Private!

    September 8th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 25 secs

    On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia

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    64: Wistfully Into the Air

    September 1st, 2013  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 18 secs

    In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach.

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    63: Knowledge Bomb!

    August 25th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  48 mins 37 secs

    Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ

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    62: Family Business

    August 18th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 39 secs

    In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow.

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    61: Having the Craic with Paul

    August 11th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 56 secs

    In this episode Paul and Ben talk about tito, funconf, and organizing conferences.

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    60: Deep Dive

    August 4th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 1 sec

    In this week's episode Ben discusses effective business practices and advice for optimal page design with special guest Patrick McKenzie.

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    59: Nowhere to Hide

    July 28th, 2013  |  Season 2  |  25 mins 52 secs

    In this episode, Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris about the technical interview process at thoughtbot, and more.

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    58: A Thousand Neckbeards

    July 21st, 2013  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 12 secs

    This week Ben Orenstein, Pat Brisbin, and Mike Burns talk about Haskell, Linux, functional and dynamic programming, Conway's Game of Life, and much more.