Code[ish]

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Code[ish] • April 16th, 2020

Special Episode: Enabling a New Generation with Technology and Hawaiian Cultural Values

Hosted by Blaine Kaho'onei, David Pickett, Jennifer Hooper

There are many challenges facing young students who want to learn tech skills for future opportunities. Those difficulties are compounded in remote regions such as Hawai`i. Native Hawaiians must choose between leaving their home for boot camps and businesses on the mainland, or working with tools that aren't aligned with their values. The Purple Mai`a Foundation is an education nonprofit whose mission is to inspire and educate the next generation of builders — the makers of cultural, social and enterprise technologies. Join Blaine Kaho`onei, David Pickett, and Jennifer Hooper as they discuss Purple Mai`a’s learning platform and what working with the organization means for them.

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Code[ish] • April 9th, 2020

Special Episode: Books, Art, and Zombies: How to Survive in Today’s World

Hosted by Charlie Gleason, Margaret Francis

As shelter-in-place orders increase around the world, the challenges in keeping yourself safe in quarantine are becoming more apparent. There are disruptions to all of our routines, whether you're a child missing your friends from school or an adult balancing work with household responsibilities. Charlie Gleason and Margaret Francis discuss the ways in which they're keeping hope and happiness alive with their families.

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Code[ish] • May 12th, 2020

69. Designing a Better 2FA Mobile App

Hosted by Chris Castle, Evan Grim

These days, passwords aren't enough to keep you secure. More and more websites are relying on two-factor authentication, coupling traditional login forms with an additional component, such as a security code texted to your phone. There's quite a lot of innovation occurring in the space between security and user experience. Evan Grim is a software architect at Salesforce, and he's in charge of their Salesforce Authenticator mobile app. He's joined by Chris Castle to talk about how the app works and what they're doing to make security practices even easier.

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Code[ish] • May 5th, 2020

68. Performance Tuning Critical Rendering Path

Hosted by Charlie Gleason, Ben Harding

In modern web development, there are two key factors which dictate how quickly your page loads. The first is part depends on the server--how quickly data can be fetched and sent down the wire. The second part depends on the browser, to render your website's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Although this latter portion is considered "client-side" work, it's still the responsibility of web developers to construct their front end pages in such a way as to less the work the browser has to do and speed up what the user sees. Ben Harding, a developer at Raygun, is in conversation with Charlie Gleason, a designer and developer at Heroku, to talk about how to analyze and fine tune these critical rendering paths.

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Code[ish] • April 28th, 2020

67. Launching a Startup in a Regulated Industry

Hosted by Corey Martin, Bryan Woods

Rhino is a new start-up with a unique take on an old idea. Often, when renting an apartment, landlords requiring an upfront deposit of several times the monthly rent, to cover any damage a renter may cause. This can be a prohibitive entry for people looking for a place to live. By working with property holders and insurance companies, Rhino charges renters a monthly fee in lieu of a lump sum. Rather than technical challenges, however, this disrupts decades of norms for how communities operates. Learn all about the platform from Bryan Woods, its CTO.

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Code[ish] • April 21st, 2020

66. From Idea to Beta

Hosted by Erin Allard, Philippe Vanderstigel

Philippe Vanderstigel has launched several start-ups, but not all of them have been successful. Then, one summer, he landed on an idea for a budgeting app which his users loved. Suddenly, he had a new problem: how to maintain an app that people continued to use. Erin Allard talks with Philippe about his years of experience founding companies, and the lessons he learned along the way about how to turn your idea into a functional beta.

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Code[ish] • April 14th, 2020

65. Scaling Tech for Teachers

Hosted by Sandy Lai, Ben Small, Mitch Peabody

Panorama Education is a platform that helps educators use data to support student’s needs, and helps communities build great schools. Rather than a one-size-fits-all SaaS model, Panorama tailors its offerings to match the level of digital architecture which a school district has in-place. Ben Small, a software engineer, and Mitch Peabody, an engineering manager, join Sandy Lai in conversation to discuss how they achieve their goals of improving student success.

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Code[ish] • April 7th, 2020

64. From Internship to Job Placement

Hosted by Charlie Gleason, Luis Alvarez

Year Up is an organization which unites highly motivated young adults with companies that have job opportunities available. It does so by offering a year-long course for qualified students: six months of training followed by a six month internship placement. Luis Alvarez is a recent graduate who was placed onto Heroku's Branding and Content team. Charlie Gleason interviews him about his experience going through the Year Up program and how he was able to land a contract at Salesforce.

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Code[ish] • March 31st, 2020

63. Streaming Music to Livestreamers

Hosted by Julián Duque, Nate Beck

Over the past few years, the popularity of livestreaming has taken off immensely. All over the world, viewers tune in to services like Twitch to watch people do everything from play video games to knitting to programming. Often, these streams are accompanied by music; but due to licensing issues, streamers can't play any song they want, or else they'll be hit by fees. Pretzel Rocks aims to fix that. By making it easier to access licensed music, viewers and streamers can enjoy the same tunes simultaneously. Julián Duque discusses the technical and legal challenges of the platform with Nate Beck, the service's founder and principal architect.

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Code[ish] • March 24th, 2020

62. Crowdsourcing Code Translation

Hosted by Julián Duque, Parker Phinney

Many online platforms rely on crowdsourced content, and Interview Cake is no different. Their goal is to teach users how to succeed in program interviews. To do so, they make their help resources available in over ten programming languages. They were able to accomplish this feat by hiring experts in each language to translate the content into various languages. Parker Phinney, creator of Interview Cake, shares with us how they managed this team and ensured that the work was correct.

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