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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
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
- Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
101: Developing Skills (Alex Fox, Jatin Bhandari)
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…
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100: Adequately Industrious (Aaron Patterson)
On our special 100th episode Aaron Patterson joins Ben from RailsConf to talk AdequateRecord, frustrations in software, bulk meat discounts, the finer nuances…
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99: You Are Not Alone (Greg Baugues)
From RailsConf, Ben & Greg Baugues of Twilio discuss how mental illness affects the development community and the importance of, as well as resources to…
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98: Memorization Techniques (Chris Hunt)
From RailsConf, Ben talks to Chris Hunt of Github about techniques for enhancing spacial memory, competitive personalities, the coffee infamy of the Pacific…
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97: Railing Against Rails (Ernie Miller)
Live from RailsConf Ben & Ernie Miller explore his "Curmudgeon" talk, modules and the importance of nuance. TDD is Dead Appriss: VINE Ernie on Twitter Support…
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96: Business is Hard (Jeff Casimir)
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…
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95: Making Time (Chas Emerick)
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…
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94: The Nature of Writing (Diana Zmuda, Jessie Young)
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…
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93: Diversity of Approach (David Nolen)
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…
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92: Program to the Machine You Have (Ryan Hoover)
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…
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91: Not Ruining Design (Rich Thornett)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben talks to Rich Thornett, Co-Founder of Dribbble, about the formation and criticisms of the company, the role of product design…
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90: Do One Thing Well (George Brocklehurst, Mike Burns)
Ben talks to George Brocklehurst & Mike Burns of thoughtbot's Stockholm office on creating and distributing gitsh, an interactive shell for Git, and why it…
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89: Moving Beyond The Wheel (Mahmoud Abdelkader)
This week on Giant Robots, Mahmoud Abdelkader of Balanced joins Ben to talk the priorities in ones career trajectory, the role of a successful CTO, and the…
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88: Prospering Communities (Kyle Bragger)
This week Ben Talks with Kyle Bragger of Elepath, Inc on the nature of online community building, advertising vs subscription revenue models and the importance…
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87: Monitoring the Bathrooms (Tony DiPasquale)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben chats with Tony DiPasquale on utilizing Arduino engineering to solve 0th world problems. Arduino Home Page Original Bathroom…
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86: Humility and Patience (Peter Reinhardt)
In this week's episode, we're joined by Peter Reinhardt, Co-founder and CEO of Segment.io. Ben and Peter discuss the product, their tech stack, the companies…
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85: I Want These Ideas To Be Free (Max Temkin)
This week, Ben is joined by Max Temkin, creator of Cards Against Humanity and Humans vs. Zombies. Max talks about his success with Cards Against Humanity and…
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84: The Bus Number (Harper Reed)
On this week's episode, Ben talks with Harper Reed, former CTO of Threadless, former CTO of Obama for America, and currently CEO of Modest. Harper talks about…
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83: Turning the Tables (Ben Orenstein)
On this week's special episode, Chad Pytel turns the tables and interviews host Ben Orenstein. They discuss the process of running the podcast and Ben's roots…
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82: Teach all the things (Matt Knox)
This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works…
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81: An Agent of Change (Seth Godin)
In this week's episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by best selling author, Seth Godin. Seth describes himself as an entrepreneur, a blogger, and an agent of…
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80: Growing Business (Josh Pigford)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein chats with Josh Pigford about time management, entrepreneurship and farming Josh Pigford's Website Josh Pigford's…
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79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Uncle Bob Martin about functional programming, ethics, and writing. Bob Martin's Twitter Clean Coder Bob…
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78: Fancy Pants (Chris Lindland)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Chris Lindland, CEO of Betabrand.com about online fashion, self-generating product and…
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77: A Beautiful Thing (Harold Giménez)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein speaks with Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, about postgres, data management, and beer brewing. Harold's…
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76: The Boutique Agency
Ben Orenstein speaks with Alex Kesler, founder and CEO of inSegment about digital marketing, GTD and productivity. inSegment inSegment's Twitter Support Giant…
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75: Embedding Democracy (Catherine Bracy)
This week Ben Orenstein interviews Catherine Bracy, Director of Community Organizing at Code for America. Catherine Bracy's Twitter Code for America Support…
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74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)
Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby. Sean Griffin's Twitter Understanding Computation Tom Stuart Scala Website…
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73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)
Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim. Vimcasts Practical Vim: Edit at the Speed of Thought…
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72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)
This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment. Nathan's Twitter Nathan's…
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71: The Power of the Truth
Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions. Ben Orenstein's Twitter Josh Clayton's Twitter Support Giant…
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70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent. Coding Horror StackExchange Discourse.org discourse.soylent.me Jeff…
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69: Geocoding in the Now
Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails. Geocoding on Rails Josh Clayton's Twitter Laila Winner's Github…
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68: Simplicity and Elegance
Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus. Paul Farnell's Twitter Litmus Support Giant Robots…
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67: The Data Optimist
Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers. rt.ly search engine OkCupid…
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66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats. dnsimple Anthony Eden's Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other…
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65: No! Videos Private!
On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia Wistia Chris Savage's Twitter Brendan Schwartz's Twitter Support Giant Robots…
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64: Wistfully Into the Air
In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach. Intercom Inside Intercom Blog…
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63: Knowledge Bomb!
Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ thoughtbot Code Review Guide Pair With Me Sandi Metz Rules Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other…
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62: Family Business
In this of episode of Giant Robots, Ben speaks with Natalie Nagele and Ilya Sabanin about Wildbit, Beanstalk, and work flow. Wildbit Beanstalk Ilya Sabanin's…
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61: Having the Craic with Paul
In this episode Paul and Ben talk about tito, funconf, and organizing conferences. Paul Campbell's Twitter Pabcas Hypertiny Tito Support Giant Robots Smashing…
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60: Deep Dive
In this week's episode Ben discusses effective business practices and advice for optimal page design with special guest Patrick McKenzie. Learn Prime Bingo…
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59: Nowhere to Hide
In this episode, Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris about the technical interview process at thoughtbot, and more. Flog tool complexity Flay…
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58: A Thousand Neckbeards
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. Real…
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57: Delayed Gratification
In this episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by Michael Klett, Co-founder and tech lead of Chargify. Ben and Michael discuss the evolution of Chargify and bumps…
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56: Code in a Bubble Bath
] In this episode Ben Orenstein is joined by Alex MacCaw, creator of Spine, formerly of Twitter, and now a developer at Stripe. Ben and Alex talk about travel…
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55: The Value of Flow
In this episode Ben Orenstein speaks with designer and founder of Authentic Jobs, Cameron Moll, about Authentic Jobs, design, the value of flow and family, and…
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54: Build your stuff on the side and have a good time
In this episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by 17 year old Jack Kaufman, author of The Found a Business Book. Ben and Jack discuss Jack's inspiration for the book…
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53: Not everything needs to be extracted
In this episode Ben Orenstein is joined by Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale from Tilde. They discuss bootstrapping a business and the model behind Tilde, their…
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52: You look really fancy in your tuxedo
In this special episode, number 52, and our 1 year anniversary episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Ruby and Rails core team member…
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51: I found a voice
On this week's show, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Sandi Metz, developer, author, podcaster, and recent Ruby Hero award winner. Ben…
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50: It's Monday today, let's change everything
In this week's episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Jeff Casimir and Katrina Owen from Jumpstart Lab and gSchool to discuss…
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49: The psychology of work
In this episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler from EnvyLabs and codeschool.com. Gregg shares what…
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48: Barista imposter syndrome
In this episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Jon Larkowski, closet hippie and developer at CareZone. Ben and Jon discuss being a…
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47: Two hours per minute
In this episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Ryan Bates of RailsCasts. Ben and Ryan discuss Ryan's transition to working on…
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46: We don't have a monopoly on being unhealthy
Ben Orenstein is joined by Joe Kutner, programmer and author of ‘The Healthy Programmer’. Ben and Joe discuss how the demands of a development job lead to…
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45: Tiny Robots Cuddling with other Tiny Robots
This week we try something a little different. Joe Ferris, Matt Jankowski, Ben Orenstein, and Chad Pytel get together and have a little fun, in what we're…
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44: I feel the opposite of burnt out
In this week's podcast, Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Fowler, author, speaker, and CTO of 6wunderkinder. Ben and Chad discuss Chad's recent move to Berlin…
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43: A good person by default
thoughtbot's Ben Orenstein is joined by Scott Orn, venture capitalist at Lighthouse Capital Partners by day, and co-founder of Ben's Friends by night. Ben and…
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42: Why were you suing a website?
This week, Ben Orenstein is joined by Peter Moldave, attorney at Gesmer Updegrove to discuss attorney client privilege, what not to do with email, the…