Kodsnack in English

Tobias, Amanda and Fredrik discuss impostor syndrome with Wendi Dunford, LCSW. Impostor syndrome affects all three of us and so many others, so we thought it was time to talk to someone who really knows the subject. Our discussion covers defining impostor syndrome, how we all experience it, various types of impostor syndrome and things both we and others can do to combat it. Spoiler: the secret to impostor syndrome is your ego! Five types or aspects of impostor syndrome: The perfectionist - I’m never good enough The superwoman or superman - workaholics to compensate The natural genius - I freak out if I can’t get it right the first time The individualist - I go at it alone, and I don’t ask for help The expert - I somehow tricked everybody, it was a glitch If you have tips on how you’ve dealt with impostor syndrome, or have found a great resource on the subject, please let us know! Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Impostor syndrome Wendi Dunford Code review 360-degree feedback - the review system in use by Plex (discussed in episode 233) Curling parenting Jantelagen - “The law of Jante” The morning stream Therapy Thursdays Advent of code Share your solutions in Kodsnack’s Github repo! Titles You’re never enough You’re a real psychologist, right? The feeling that you don’t belong An inability to internalize your accomplishments The persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud It was just luck Oops, I just won! More eyes makes it more stressful Throw someone off, confidence-wise I don’t deserve this anyway That’s not a reason to not take a job The story you tell yourself I don’t have to perform for friends The work of children is to play I don’t have to buy into it Try the compliment trick Being wrong doesn’t make you fake Reveal yourself as the fraud you are

Fredrik chats with Craig Muth, creator of the more than slightly mind-bending Xiki about the past, present and future of this weird and wonderful evolution of the command line. Seeing Xiki in action is probably the best way to begin to grasp it, and Craig has created several great videos and screencasts. We go all the way from Xiki’s beginnings as a framework inside of Emacs to its current state as a standalone companion to your normal command line, and its just launched Kickstarter to take the next step and become social by making it super simple to share and find commands. We also look further into the future, entering completely free-form speculation about where things could go both for command lines and user-extendable interfaces. (Yes, Hyper card and Opendoc both come up.) Don’t assume things you want will happen - back things you want to succeed! Cheer up the autumn: on October 3rd Suse is sponsoring a live pod and after work in Stockholm! We’ll occupy Hobo at Brunkebergstorg 4. Doors open at 17, the pod commences somewhere around 18, and then we talk code, life, the universe, and everything and have some nice drinks for as long as we like. We hope to see you there, and that you bring along a friend or two! The number of seats are limited, so send an email as soon as possible to livepodd@gmail.com with your name, company and if you’re bringing anyone along. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Craig on Github Xiki The 2014 Xiki Kickstarter The current (2017) Kickstarter - includes the videos we talk about The older screencasts Quicksilver Xikihub Riverdance The talks are also on the screencasts page Emacs Elisp - Emacs Lisp Bash Z shell The Medium post - Xiki: one developer’s quest to turbocharge the command line interface Made to stick React native EJB CORBA JSON CSON YAML AWS - Amazon web services Xpath Fish shell Oh my zsh Hyper D3 Ward Cunningham Smallest federated wiki The Xiki tutorial Roads and bridges: the unseen labor behind our digital infrastructure - the paper Fredrik read Hypercard Mac LC computers Opendoc Steve Jobs explaining why he’s shutting down Opendoc Titles The command line is awesome when you know exactly what to type All right, now I get it Lost, but in a really exciting way Make the command line work like a search engine A missing piece in the command line Making all the search results myself It doesn’t take that many people Riverdance with the horse and the banana Now I get the one thing, but I don’t care An idea whose time has come Hey, that’s like a command line Way back in Ohio The power you get when you do remember the commands The germ of Xiki I’ve never been able to stop working on it Users are so key I could add something here! Hey, this doesn’t exist yet! In Ohio working at boring banks This better work! My friend Keith thinks I should move to San Francisco Feeling comfortable in my skin for the first time Escape gets you into more trouble! People will fill in the gaps Do for commands what Github did for code Utterly freeform This neat open thing

Recorded at Gothenburg startup hack 2017, a little celebration of being social around coding. Fredrik chats to first Erik Thorelli of the Gothenburg Sketch & design meetup, then Erik Larkö of the Bring your own project Gothenburg group. Topics stretch from what Sketch is and what it can do for you, over group recommendations, to side projects, where to find ideas and how to get over whichever obstacles we put up in our minds to playing with new things. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! 02:19: Sketch & design with Erik Thorelli 22:01: Bring your own project with Erik Larkö Links Gothenburg startup hack The startup panel discussion Erik Thorelli Erik Larkö The Sketch & design meetup Sketch Bionote Moom Invision Airbnb’s tool to render React components to Sketch Got UX The React meetup Dan Abramov Bring your own project Gothenburg John Carmack Gothenburg lounge hackers Helen V. Holmes - critique is terrifying Purple shopper - the purple things buyer Robopong Purple scout Dark web The Docker meetup Got.λ - the functional programming group Papers we love Titles Two Eriks Not so cluttered as an Adobe app Visualizing what the heck you’re trying to build I spend ten minutes adjusting the battery level DevUX Can I use it for something? Maybe you’ve never designed anything before Appealing, even for me Faster than fiddling around with CSS It helps reduce waste A caricature of a designer and a developer Asymmetrical pair programming and designing A compiler for design Feels weird, but in a good way Semi-empty Github projects I want my Github page to be cool Why do you want to be John Cleese? Dare to fail Be a good person I don’t think I’ve ever finished a project Where do you get your ideas from? I steal them Expose yourself to ideas The world doesn’t need another Pong game, but you need to write a Pong game Developing as a developer

This episode is presented in English. We chat with Diego Rodriguez-Losada about the C and C++ package manager Conan. Where did it come from, where is it going, the philosophy behind it (very, very pragmatic) and how Tobias has put it to use at Plex. We also move on to package managers and build systems in general. Also: the interesting topic of being magical versus not. Thanks to Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be mailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything sent. If you like Kodsnack, we would love a review on iTunes! Links Diego Conan Jfrog Pypi npm Maven biicode - a precursor, sort of, to Conan Modules in C++ - still under active discussion Cargo - the Rust package manager Conda - Python package manager Automake and autotools zlib qmake Youcompleteme pkg-config brew - package manager for macos Kristoffer’s talk on package managers RPM Nix and Nixos Electric fence YAML Conan Titles I was loooking for alternatives We decided to try again The perfect academic solution Usually it’s a bash script We know what kind of pain they go through The community won’t move We wanted to be hackable When I wrote my own dependency system A beautiful concept you can implement with generators We all hate the syntax of cmake Just an abuse of the system The full devops world has to change We know how to automate all the parts A mistake by design We are betting on that this is going to help us in the long run We had four build systems One of the reasons we wanted to switch is that it was horrible I remember the gnashing of teeth The pain is bigger than the investment Being very magical The magic eventually becomes a pain point I’m opposed to magic Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot The biggest gun to shoot yourself The domain was available

Fredrik talks to Pete Hunt about monoliths, breaking them up and when not to. And of course React, how it came about and how the introduction to the world looked from the inside. How to handle releases of software and working with communication around it. What happens when you go from underdog to being the safe choice? This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Pete gave presentations on monolith-first apps with Node and building React backends. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Pete Hunt Kubernetes Lee Byron and his talk on Graphql The Graphql introduction talk from React Europe 2015 Smyte - where Pete currently works Pete’s talk from JSconf EU - Rethinking best practises The future of Javascript MVC frameworks React-motion Titles Everyone has a monolith Follow the hype train HTML in my Javascript! It’s let me leave work earlier

From the podcaster’s corner at Devsum 16, Fredrik talks to Basia Fusinska about data science, R and data analysis. We discuss the ethics and science around data science and analysis. All of us are giving out a lot of data all the time, and there are so many aspects worth considering around what and how we give our data away. Briefly, we talk about what impressions we have of the .NET community, an impression which is changing even as we speak. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! The Kodsnack book club is coming back! Our next book is the short story Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. It is a short and sweet read and can be found in many places, like this and this. Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Basia Fusinska PAAS - Platform as a service SAAS - Software as a service IAAS - Infrastructure as a service Study on gender and code quality on Github - raises questions Github data archive how-old.net Our talk after the Devsum 16 keynote is in its own episode Karl-Henrik Nilsson’s IOT presentation is unfortunately not available online R programming language Linear reduction algorithms Titles Data solutions architects - whatever that means I’m still figuring out what that means Adding up numbers As scientific as can be You’re part of the sample Once you have this Stockholm syndrome

Fredrik talks to James Turnbull of Kickstarter, Docker and several other companies. Topics range from switching between types of companies and solutions to writing books, documentation and contributing to software in ways other than code. Of course, we also discuss Docker, whether it’s succeeded in various ways and where it might be going. Who should be thinking about Docker? How to start thinking about it? Where do you start picking on your monolith to start bringing it into the container future? This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where James gave a presentation on Orchestrating Docker. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links James Turnbull Docker - the company and the software solution Puppet labs Public-benefit corporation Immutable infrastructure Docker swarm Docker compose Kubernetes Mesos Mesosphere Elasticsearch Memcached Redis Amazon cloudformation James' books William Gibson Dennis Ritchie Daniel Friedman Vagrant Jekyll Titles A lot of similar paralells The unit of the container A unit of compute I want my code to run somewhere where it makes me money A new way of thinking about architecture On the periphery of the monolith Useful information trapped in the heads of smart people My commits tend to be more documentation than code Aspects of being an engineer A higher level of tolerance and precision

Live on stage at Startup arena 2016 in Gothenburg, Fredrik talks to Bob Jelica, Johannes Tveitan and Magnus Gudmundsson and try to nail down just what a startup is and what working for one means. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Länkar Bob Jelica Football addicts Johannes Tveitan Monocl Gothenburg startup hack Magnus Gudmundsson Cyberdada Startup - on Wikipedia TPS reports Jamie Zawinski Netscape The Netscape dorm E.T. - the video game Titlar I don’t do coding anymore I have no idea what a startup is A small company trying to do something Spending someone else’s money Does everyone have to disrupt shit? Pivot, come on, pivot Infinite hours for minimum wage You should have started by then We need to burn some people You have passion for this now Real passion is contagious Riding the unicorn Watch out for the unicorn riders The luxury of chasing the dream Suddenly we did know shit Stop disrupting shit

Fredrik talks to Aaron Gustafson about web standards. His origin story, how he got into web standards. How the standards work and who should get involved. The problems with prefixes and how we use them. This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Aaron gave two talks. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Frameset Quark Dreamweaver Fetch Eric Meyer DOM level 0 A list apart Jeffrey Zeldman XHTML COMDEX Molly Holzschlag South by southwest Filemaker Jeff Veen Jen Robbins - Web design in a nutshell Jeremy Keith Andy Budd Richard Rutter Clearleft The web standards project Glenda Simms Derek Featherstone W3C TPAC Indesign Pagemaker CSS shapes Web platform incubator community group SVG Network information API - seems to have been shut down Vendor prefixes Edge - Microsoft’s successor to Internet explorer Alex Russell on vendor prefixes and their problems WHATWG - Web hypertext application technology working group Web SQL Firefox phones did not last Zork Basecamp Harvest Adaptive web design, second edition Aaron’s two talks Titles You’re the web standards guy Who falls into web standards and how does it happen? Between midnight and 5 a.m. Things were starting to stabilize a bit on the web The only way to build a solid foundation The web standards bug Before coming to the web In the trenches every day making web pages Help make other specs better Vendor prefixes have bitten us in the ass We don’t experience the web the way everyone else does I can’t believe I want them to make their ads more accessible

Fredrik talks to Sallyann Freudenberg - “Agile/Lean coach and practitioner, psychology of software development researcher, neuro-diversity advocate, ageing punk-rocker.” - about her research into pair programming, offices for everyone and how people actually (do not) split work when pair programming. We also discuss what makes an expert an expert? What are lists and verbalization really good for? Research versus practise and how and what each side can learn from the other. And why the rift is there in the first place. The goals and methods of the two groups are pretty different. We talked ina surprisingly noisy hotel lobby, so apologies for all the background noise. The conversation is clear enough that further filtering mostly made everything sound worse. This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Sallyann gave a keynote presentation. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send. If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! Links Understanding and supporting neurodiversity in software development - Sallyann’s keynote at Øredev 2015 Sallyann’s research Etnographic studies Legitimate peripheral participation Laura Plonka Neurodiversity The art of thought - Graham Wallas in 1926 on the four stages of creativity Daniel Friedman Ivan Moore - tea-driven development Micki Chi Verbal overshadowing Cognitive offload Laurent Bossavit - The leprechauns of software engineering Titles More about everything Commercial pair programmers The softer, broader stuff The benefits of pair programming We end up with everybody being better Knocking down all the offices with sledge hammers What I’d like to see is a blended environment 14500 pieces of pair programmer dialogue We want to think we’re so structured Everybody needs a quiet space from time to time My sample size of one