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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.
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Dec 23, 2013 • 28min
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 Twitter
Tiny Farmstead
Baremetrics
Popsurvey
Temper
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Dec 16, 2013 • 38min
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 Martin's Blog
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Dec 9, 2013 • 28min
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 dress-pant-sweatpants.
Chris Lindland's Twitte
Betabrand
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Dec 2, 2013 • 51min
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 Twitter
Harold's Blog
Heroku
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Nov 25, 2013 • 41min
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
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Nov 18, 2013 • 31min
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
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Nov 11, 2013 • 32min
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
Martin Odersky's Free Class
Programming Scala
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Nov 4, 2013 • 33min
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
Drew Neil's Twitter
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Oct 28, 2013 • 33min
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 Website
The App Design Handbook
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Oct 21, 2013 • 40min
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
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