

Coffee and Open Source
Isaac Levin
Join host Isaac Levin as he has great conversations with folks in the technology and Open Source Community
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Jan 23, 2024 • 1h 5min
Brian Ketelsen
The podcast discusses Brian Ketelsen's journey from army veteran to co-founding GopherCon and contributing to major internet projects. Topics include extreme weightlifting, tech job fundamentals, programming preferences, and the Bluefin Linux distribution.

Jan 16, 2024 • 1h 1min
Brit Meyers
Brit is a technology leader with over a decade of experience scaling high-performing engineering teams. Prior to System Initiative, she was a member of the executive team at Hyland Software where she led global engineering teams responsible for building multiple cloud product lines. Brit was most recently Head of Cloud Engineering at Firebolt Analytics, where she was responsible for designing and executing the strategic direction of DevOps at Firebolt. Brit recently completed her Executive MBA from the University of Michigan.
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System Initiative
Systems Initiative GitHub
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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h
Angie Jones
Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 1h 3min
Jim Bennett
Jim is a Principal Developer Advocate at liblab focusing on skilling and inspiring developers, especially helping API developers deliver high-quality SDKs. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organised meetup groups and communities, and written books on mobile development and IoT.He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 10-year-old who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.
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liblab
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Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 5min
Rob Conery
My name is Rob Conery and I help developers of all sorts learn what’s new with technology. I work at Microsoft as a Developer Advocate and I am fortunate to get invited to speak at global conferences from time to time. I have been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. My original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. In addition I co-founded Tekpub.com (acquired by Pluralsight) with James Avery and co-host This Developer’s Life with my friend, Scott Hanselman. I currently create videos for Pluralsight and build open source things as I can.
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Medium
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This Developer's Life
The Imposter's Handbook: 2nd Edition
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Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 20min
James Jackson-South
James Jackson-South is the brains? behind ImageSharp, the cutting-edge image processing library that has become indispensable in the modern .NET developer's toolkit.His contribution to the open-source community through ImageSharp has revolutionized the way developers handle image processing, offering a powerful and flexible API that caters to a myriad of image-related tasks.With a passion for clean code and innovative problem-solving, James continues to lead and inspire, pushing the boundaries of digital image manipulation.
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Six Labors
ImageSharp
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Oct 31, 2023 • 1h 3min
Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post-production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.
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.NET Rocks
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Oct 17, 2023 • 1h 1min
Sarah Guthals
Sarah Guthals is the Director of Developer Relations at Sentry. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, her passion is to design content, software, and companies that focus on engaging developers in learning new skills, technologies, and tools to improve their developer workflow.
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Polywork
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Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 5min
Corey Weathers
Corey Weathers is a software developer who loves using technology to make the impossible possible! In his current role as a Developer Evangelist, Corey serves the interests and needs of the Microsoft developer community as well as underrepresented groups in technology. His passion lies in solving human problems through technology.Prior to Auth0, Corey has worked in a variety of software development and program management roles at Howard University, the Internal Revenue Service, and Microsoft before transitioning to application development consulting. His focus on building the customer focused solutions led him to lead performance engineering for Intapp, a Silicon Valley based software firm building software -based application for the legal and financial service industries. After spending time supporting customers, Corey pivoted his focus to empowering developers to build software applications, supporting them in buildingCorey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems & Computer Science from Howard University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives with his wife and two children in State College, Pennsylvania
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Okta Online
Oktane Conference
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Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 5min
Josh Goldberg
Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer. He works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O’Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and an active conference speaker. His personal projects range from static analysis to meta-languages to recreating retro games in the browser. Also cats.
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Josh's Book
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