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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79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin)
December 15th, 2013 | Season 2 | 37 mins 59 secs
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Uncle Bob Martin about functional programming, ethics, and writing.
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78: Fancy Pants (Chris Lindland)
December 8th, 2013 | Season 2 | 28 mins 6 secs
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Chris Lindland, CEO of Betabrand.com about online fashion, self-generating product and dress-pant-sweatpants.
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77: A Beautiful Thing (Harold Giménez)
December 1st, 2013 | Season 2 | 51 mins 16 secs
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein speaks with Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, about postgres, data management, and beer brewing.
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76: The Boutique Agency
November 24th, 2013 | Season 2 | 40 mins 51 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with Alex Kesler, founder and CEO of inSegment about digital marketing, GTD and productivity.
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75: Embedding Democracy (Catherine Bracy)
November 17th, 2013 | Season 2 | 31 mins 21 secs
This week Ben Orenstein interviews Catherine Bracy, Director of Community Organizing at Code for America.
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74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)
November 10th, 2013 | Season 2 | 32 mins 5 secs
Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby.
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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.