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The Solo Coder Podcast

Sep 29, 2020

I spoke with the flamboyant Cassidy Williams. Cassidy is a Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. From a technical stand point, she does a lot of work with React, but her reach goes way beyond that. As a public speaker, she talks about topics such as Women in Tech and STEM education.

As many of us, she was directly...


Sep 22, 2020

What does a "Global Senior Vice President of Talent Transformation and Innovation" do? I have no clue! But I can tell you this: it has nothing to do with coding.

I spoke with Anthony Shaw. Anthony is a "Python Foundation Software Fellow". To become a Fellow, you need to contribute a lot to the Python ecosystem and be...


Sep 15, 2020

Imagine that you learn how to code in an expensive bootcamp (or college). Not everyone can afford thousands of dollars to learn how to code. So you decide that there should be a better way to support people starting to code. You create an online community to help new coders and unexpectedly it becomes your...


Sep 8, 2020

Moving to a new country. Looking for a new life. A new beginning. The difficulties with a new language. You cannot express yourself properly. You don't have friends and family close by anymore. So hard and at the same time so wonderful. So full of discoveries. Such an adventure!

That is what my guest in this episode...


Sep 1, 2020

You may have heard about open source. In simple terms, it's software, code, libraries, frameworks available for free to anyone who wants to use them.

But do you know that you can make money creating free software like that?? It sounds strange, doesn't it? "free" and "making money" in the same sentence?

Yes it is! That's...