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Code[ish]

A podcast brought to you by the developer advocate team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer.

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Code[ish] • October 6th, 2020

Conversations around mental health are still difficult to have for many people. We are simultaneously afraid of admitting our weakness and scared that no one will be there when we do call for help. In this first half of a two-part episode, Dr. Mireille Reece, a practicing clinical psychologist, and Adam Stacoviak, founder and editor-in-chief of the Changelog, discuss why this is such a problem, and how to begin looking for help.

Hosted By:
Chris Castle
Chris Castle
Director, Developer Advocacy, Heroku
@crc
with Guests:
Dr. Mireille Reece
Dr. Mireille Reece
Co-host of Brain Science, Clinical Psychologist, Changelog
Adam Stacoviak
Adam Stacoviak
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Changelog Media
@adamstac

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  • DevLife
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • mental health
  • relationships

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Code[ish] • September 24th, 2020

The COVID pandemic has forever changed the way businesses operate; many shops have had to shut down, due to the lack of foot traffic. For the others who were fortunate enough to shift online, questions around distribution and logistics increased as visitor traffic spiked. Ryan Townsend, the CTO of SHIFT Commerce, discusses the ways in which his PaaS has helped online retailers manage higher order volumes efficiently.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • COVID
  • e-commerce
  • Kafka
  • online shopping
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • retail

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Code[ish] • September 29th, 2020

Access to proper medical care is an impossibility in many parts of the world. In this second half of a two-part episode, we continue the conversation with THINKMD, an online platform working to improve healthcare access. Alex Broussard, the CTO of THINKMD, explains how they built a mobile application that needs to run not only on low bandwidth environments, but also on older hardware, with localization support for over a dozen languages.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • data connectivity
  • localization
  • optimization
  • progressive web applications
  • review apps
  • sharding
  • Vue

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Code[ish] • September 22nd, 2020

Access to proper medical care is an impossibility in many parts of the world. In this first half of a two-part episode, Meg McLaughlin, Director of Research and Implementation at THINKMD, discusses her work with partners to build the next generation of clinical access for patients and doctors across a variety of languages, cultures, and regions.

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  • DevLife
  • analytics
  • artificial intelligence
  • community work
  • healthcare
  • syndromic surveillance

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Code[ish] • September 15th, 2020

Along with AI and machine learning, the Internet of Things is a recent evolution in software that has the power to change the way we interact with the world. More than just smart lightbulbs and thermostats, IoT devices are making their way into workplaces to collect data about how machines are operating. Yuri Oliveira and Brandon Stewart from GNAR, a software consultancy, join Corey Martin to talk about their work building tools for logistic companies.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • GPS
  • IoT
  • Kafka
  • networks
  • PostGIS
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • sensor data

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Code[ish] • September 8th, 2020

Digital nomads have the luxury of working remotely from anywhere in the world, but it's still a hassle to actually find an apartment to call one's (temporary) home. Landing is a service that provides fully furnished, lease-free apartments all across America. Daniel Klein, one of its software engineers, explains the appeal behind being able to roam.

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  • DevLife
  • digital nomad
  • startups
  • travel

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Code[ish] • September 1st, 2020

Evolving a startup into a business can be tough, even after you've raised funds and found a few customers. To get to the next level, you'll need strong product design, investments in marketing, and a strategy to execute it all. Dovetail is an Australian company which both invests in and works alongside early stage companies to meet those goals. We'll be chatting with Nick Frandsen, one of its founders, on how they set themselves up as a long-term partner for companies they're helping to grow.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • consulting
  • fintech
  • growth hacking
  • investing
  • startups
  • venture capitalists

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Code[ish] • August 25th, 2020

Even just ten years ago, frontend development wasn't really a thing. The web was predominantly powered by PHP and JavaScript was an immature language lacking tooling and best practices. Ben Vinegar saw an opportunity to immerse himself in the world of CSS and JavaScript development to become an expert. He and Charlie Gleason reflect on how frontend development evolved to be considered a real software discipline.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • Angular
  • Backbone
  • CSS
  • design
  • Ember
  • frontend development
  • JavaScript
  • React

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Code[ish] • August 18th, 2020

It's been nearly ten years since Salesforce acquired Heroku as a way to help enterprise corporations iterate more quickly in their software development lifecycle. In this episode, two engineers who have been with both companies since the acquisition share their thoughts on why Salesforce was interested in Heroku, and what Heroku brings to Salesforce.

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  • Deeply Technical
  • APIs
  • DevOps
  • infrastructure-as-a-service
  • platform-as-a-service
  • Salesforce
  • software-as-a-service

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Code[ish] • August 11th, 2020

SEO has become the digital nucleus around which websites are being developed. Far from being simply about search results, SEO work centers around accessibility, site performance, branding, and more. Increasingly, the gap between SEO work and frontend development is shrinking. Justin Abrams and Michael Rispoli from Cause of a Kind share how the two halves of marketing and programming are essential in helping websites stand apart from their competition.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • accessibility
  • frontend development
  • JavaScript
  • performance
  • SEO
  • static sites

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