This week Matt sits down with Brian Faber. Brian is the CTO & Co-Founder of Mayday. In this episode, we discuss how Brian went from getting his first computer at the age of seven and teaching himself to program, to skipping university and getti
This week Matt sits down with Mark Prince. Mark is a software engineer at Quantum Mob, where he works with big name clients building web sites. When Mark turned 30, he made the decision to make a career change, and reignite his childhood love o
This week Matt sits down with Josh Cunningham, technical lead at Auth0. Josh started his 15-year programming career while studying chemistry and quickly moved into freelancing and agency work before joining Auth0. We discuss the learning curve
This week Matt sits down with Andrew Knight. You likely know Andy from his blog AutomationPanda.com or from one of his many talks at Tech Conferences spanning across the globe. In this episode Andy discusses how the TI-83 got him hooked on prog
This week Matt sits down with Landy Simpson, engineer. Landy discusses the first talk she gave for Power to Fly & what she learned from that experience. We also cover why Landy took up writing, including a very successful Elastic Search Engine
This week Matt sits down with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb. Charity discusses the dangers of aging code in pre-production, what it takes to lead an engineering organization, from on-call, to management, to hiring.Some other topics discusse
This week Matt sits down with Nora, a junior developer at a digital consultancy, to discuss having success in theprofessional world of programming despite not having a University Degree. Noratalks about the confidence that graduating from a pro
This week Matt sits down with Sameer to talk about excelling in your first role and using it as a stepping stone, establishing a personal knowledgebase, and the importance of staying organized. We dive into how Sameer got started building contr
This week Matt sits down with Thom Lamb to speak about the pros and cons of Freelancing vs Agencies vs Product Companies. We discuss the importance of budgeting your time & finances as a freelancer as well as best practices to consider when
In this week’s episode Matt sits down with Dan Moore. Dan is currently working at FusionAuth as a Developer Advocate. I spoke to Dan about his origins of creating an automated mailing system for his parents’ Insurance Company, how even your “we
This week I caught up with an old friend, Ivan Aimufua. We talked about why he left his job as a plumber to find his passion, and found himself gorging on everything he could find related to code. Over the course of the next year, he taught him
Arunoda is a prolific open source contributor, having built Storybook, and being a core contributor to MeteorJS and NextJS. He and I talk about how he started his career in open source, which led to him freelancing, then building Kadira (an per
Kadi talks to me about her React Native course on Frontend Masters, and her career as an engineer. Kadi is a senior engineer and engineering manager at Formidable Labs.Find Kadi on Twitter — https://twitter.com/kadikramanHow to publish an NPM
This week, I spoke with Guillermo Rauch, the CEO of Vercel (formerly Zeit) and co-creator of NextJS, and long-term member of the open source community. We spoke about:• New features in ReactJS and NExtJS 9.4 like hot refresh, incremental st
This week on Work In Programming Matt sat down with Jesse Herlitz, the General Manager of CastroFM about how he approaches business experiments and customer feedback, how he uses no-code tools to build out new features quickly, and his advice f
This week, I spoke with Riegie Jeyaranchen about his transition from startup founder, to building his own agency, and finally to working for a company. We discuss everything from how to learn, how teams and processes can bolster one another, k
Mike Moll is a serial entrepreneur who has worked remote for the greater part of the last decade. He worked in the corporate world for some time, but currently runs Social Media House, where he helps companies and individuals learn to develop t
This week I spoke with Thom Lamb, a fellow team lead and senior software developer at Quantum Mob. He is a larger than life character, with some great ideas on how to do anything from learning new skills, to teaching, to managing a team, solvin
This week I spoke with Jonathan Lorimer the host and organizer of the Toronto Haskell Meetup, a past graduate and mentor for LightHouse Labs, and a full-stack engineer at Ecobee.
This week, Matthew Weeks has a conversation with Alex Hess. We talked about all things design, from Atomic Design principles, to accessibility, Ui vs UX, Neumorphism, and how building a real world community is the best way to become successful
This week on Work in Programming, Matthew Weeks interviews Aditya Murray, a lead backend engineer at Ready Makers. Aditya has worked in all sorts of development teams, from tech giants like Blackberry and IBM, to startups and remote teams. He i
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