S1:E2 - How to Make Remote Work, Work

05/20/20 • 45 min

More companies are considering going fully distributed, and with the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are experiencing working remote for the first time. Although there are a lot of benefits to remote work, it's not all flowers and sunshine. We speak with Sophie DeBenedetto, senior software engineer at GitHub, and Mac Siri, senior software engineer at DEV, about how to make being distributed work for you.

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DevNews (sponsor)
CodeNewbie (sponsor)
DataStax (sponsor)
Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Stellar (sponsor)
GitHub
My Long Distance Relationship With GitHub Transitioning to Remote, Async Work
Flatiron School
GitHub Insights
Zoom
Parks and Recreation
WeWork
Trello
Pivotal
RemoteRetro
Stickies.io
Slack
Notion
Dynalist

Sophie DeBenedetto

Sophie is an engineer at GitHub where she works with a super talented group of people to build the tools that power the development cycles of teams around the world. She is a former graduate of and teacher at The Flatiron School and has a passion for coding education. That passion, plus her love of Elixir, has also led her to become a maintainer of Elixir School, a free, open-source Elixir curriculum. Historically she is a cat person but will admit to owning a dog.

Mac Siri

Mac Siri is a Senior Software Engineer/Open source maintainer at DEV Community. He enjoys maintaining, improving, and expanding DEV's Editor experience and functionality.

Show Notes

DevNews (sponsor)
CodeNewbie (sponsor)
DataStax (sponsor)
Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Stellar (sponsor)
GitHub
My Long Distance Relationship With GitHub Transitioning to Remote, Async Work
Flatiron School
GitHub Insights
Zoom
Parks and Recreation
WeWork
Trello
Pivotal
RemoteRetro
Stickies.io
Slack
Notion
Dynalist

Sophie DeBenedetto

Mac Siri

Mac Siri is a Senior Software Engineer/Open source maintainer at DEV Community. He enjoys maintaining, improving, and expanding DEV's Editor experience and functionality.

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S1:E1 - Why Tech's Deadnaming Problem Matters

As an industry, tech is not well equipped to accept when people change their names. This problem effects a range of people, including those who have a change of marital status. However, it can especially effect the security of those who are survivors of domestic violence, and those who are trans, who have to suffer through deadnaming by their tech accounts. This constant barrage of deadnaming can be very psychologically and emotionally harmful. We speak with Penelope Phippen, director at Ruby Central, and author of the DEV post, "Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science," about this issue and what can be done to make it better.

Show Notes

DevNews (sponsor)
CodeNewbie (sponsor)
DataStax (sponsor)
Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
Stellar (sponsor)
Ruby
RSpec
Rails
Ruby Central
RubyConf
RailsConf
RuboCop
Go Format
Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
GitHub
One Medical
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
GLAD
SheCodes
LivingSocial
Rubyfmt

Penelope Phippen

Penelope Phippen (she/her) is a multifaceted Rubyist who works as a Director at Ruby Central, is the creator of Rubyfmt, and was formerly a lead maintainer of the RSpec project. She frequently writes and speaks about about complex aspects of the Ruby grammar, and issues of social justice for trans people in computer science. She's sad that she can't hug every cat.

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S1:E3 - Unpopular Opinions in Software Development

Developers can have pretty strong opinions about their industry, and we wanted to air out our most unpopular ones, your most unpopular ones, as well as Kelsey Hightower's, staff developer advocate at Google.

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